Education

  • Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA, 2021
  • Dissertation: “Soviet Translations of Latin American Literature, 1956–1991”

 

  • M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA, 2014
  • B.S. in Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 2012

Research

  • Translation studies
  • Soviet translation theory and practice
  • Russophone poetry
  • Polish literature

Publications

Textbooks

  • Beginner’s Russian, 2nd ed. New York: Hippocrene, 2022. Co-authored with Olga Kagan, Frank Miller, and Anna Kudyma.

Reference Articles

  • “Kazimierz Wierzyński.” The Literary Encyclopedia, vol. 1.8.3: Polish Writing and Culture. Roman Koropeckyj (ed.). Web. 2018.
  • “Cyprian Norwid: Klaskaniem mając obrzękłe prawice…” Co-authored with Dane Reighard, Aliaksandra Razor, and Yelena Severina. The Literary Encyclopedia, vol. 1.8.3: Polish Writing and Culture. Roman Koropeckyj (ed.). Web. 2018.

Book Reviews

  • Maxim Amelin, The Joyous Science: Selected Poems, translated by Derek Mong and Anne O. Fisher. Pavel Arseniev, Reported Speech, edited by Anastasiya Osipova. Slavic Review 79, no. 1 (Spring 2020): 249–251.

Translations

  • Mikhail Gasparov, “Boris Yarkho’s Works on Literary Theory.” Translated with Marina Tarlinskaja. Studia Metrica et Poetica 3, no. 2 (2016): 130–150.
  • Boris Yarkho, “The Elementary Foundations of Formal Analysis.” Translated with Igor Pilshchikov. Studia Metrica et Poetica 3, no. 2 (2016): 151–174.

Courses

  • First-year Russian
  • Intensive Intermediate Russian
  • Fiat Lux Seminar: Language, Identity & Power in the Post-Communist World (co-taught)