Position
University of Oklahoma, Fall 2019–
Assistant Professor of Russian, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Affiliated Faculty Member, Department of Film and Media Studies
Education
Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University, June 2018
M.A., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University, June 2003
B.A., Germanic and Slavic Languages & Theatre and Media Arts (Directing), Brigham Young University, 2001
Publications
“Odd and Even: Eisenstein and Unrealised Work,” in The Eisenstein Universe, eds. Ian Christie and Julia Vassilieva. London: Bloomsbury, 2021, 15–25.
“Sub’’ektiv: Eizenshtein i ozhivlenie veshchei,” in Eizenshtein dlia XXIogo veka, ed. Naum Kleiman. Moscow: Garage, 2020, 96–111.
Foreword to The Gospel in Brief by Leo Tolstoy. New York: HarperCollins, 2011, vii–xiii.
“Tolpa/Chern’,” Crowds, eds. Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Matthew Tiews. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2006, 328–30.
Translations
Sergei Eisenstein, The Primal Phenomenon | Art. Edited by Oksana Bulgakowa and Dietmar Hochmuth. Berlin: Potemkin Press, 2017.
Sergei Eisenstein, Disney. Edited by Oksana Bulgakowa and Dietmar Hochmuth. Berlin: Potemkin Press, 2013.
Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief. New York: HarperCollins, 2011.
Reviews
Review of John Etty, Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union: Krokodil’s Political Cartoons in Slavic & East European Journal, 64.2, 2020: 327–29.
Review of Zoe Beloff, Glass House in [in]Transition Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, 6.4, 2019.
Presentations and panels
“Sergei Eisenstein, Fragment, Oeuvre,” ASEEES Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 18 November 2021.
“Peering Inside the Process with Eisenstein.” Globus Books Events, San Francisco, virtual, 7 April 2021.
“The Author Inside His Theme: Eisenstein and the Intangible Oeuvre.” Eisenstein International Network Conference 2, virtual, 12 March 2021.
“Sounds of Glass: Architectural Sonics in Eisenstein and Zamyatin.” ASEEES Annual Conference, virtual, 14 November 2020.
“Understanding the Balkans.” Panel chair. Neustadt Lit Festival, virtual (Norman, OK), 19 October 2020.
“Body Actor Image Statue: Nikandrov, Shtraukh, Eisenstein, Mayakovsky and the Question of an Onscreen Lenin.” AATSEEL Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, 7 February 2020.
“Every Sound is Shrill: Sergei Eisenstein, Adaptation, the American Landscape.” ASEEES Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, 23 November 2019.
“‘In Signs of Blood and Fire’: Solutions and Dissolutions in Eisenstein’s Historical Time.” Eisenstein International Network Conference 1, Paris, France, October 2019.
“Le subjectif: Eisenstein, Disney and the Animation of objects.” Sergei Eisenstein and the Play of Objects, Brandenburg Centre for Media Studies (ZeM), Potsdam, Germany, November 2018.
“Odd or Even: Eisenstein and Unfinished Work.” Eisenstein for the Twenty-first Century, Monash Centre, Prato, Italy, June, 2018.
“Notes Toward an Untimely Soviet Comedy.” Stanford Film and Media Studies Conference, Stanford University, April 2018.
"'Legends are Forgotten But Songs Remain': Montage Beyond the Frame in Eisenstein’s American Film Projects." Society for Cinema & Media Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 2018.
“'Is This Reality or a Dream?': Eisenstein's Precariously Comedic MMM.” AATSEEL Annual Conference, Washington DC, February 2018.
Teaching
Film Thinking / Film Making, University of Oklahoma (Fall 2021)
Russian Literature to 1917, University of Oklahoma (Fall 2021, 2019)
Tolstoy, University of Oklahoma (Spring 2021)
Advanced Russian Reading and Composition, University of Oklahoma (Spring 2021)
Nabokov, University of Oklahoma (Fall 2020)
Interpreting the Russian Media, University of Oklahoma (Fall 2020)
Topics in 20th and Post-20th Century Russian Literature, University of Oklahoma (Spring 2020)
Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema, University of Oklahoma (Spring 2020)
Topics in Nineteenth-century Russian Literature and Culture, University of Oklahoma (Fall 2019)
Accelerated First Year Russian, Stanford University (Winter–Spring 2018–19)
Second-year Russian, Stanford University (Fall–Spring 2018–19)
Russian Formalism: Key Texts, guest lecturer, Stanford University (Fall 2018)
Cinemato-graph, co-taught with Nariman Skakov, Stanford University (Fall 2018)
The Photographic Portrait, Parsons School of Design CE, New York (2016)
Beginning Russian, ABC Language Institute, New York (2008–09)
First-Year Russian, Stanford University (2002–04, 2007)
Professional affiliations and memberships
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Languages
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Languages
English (native), Russian (near-native), Polish (advanced), German (advanced), Old Church Slavonic (reading), French (reading)