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Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

• Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Program
• PhD Candidate (ABD)
• Started in 2018 - expected completion in summer, 2024
• Dissertation: The Gorky Literary Institute: Creative Writing under Socialism

M.A.

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

• Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Program

M.A.

National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

• Program in Comparative Studies: Russian Literature in the Cross-Cultural Perspective
• Magna cum laude
• Thesis: The Higher Institute of Literature and Art in the Historical and Cultural Context of the 1920s.

M.Sc.

Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris School of Economics, Paris, France, and National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

• Program in Theoretical and Empirical Economics
• Double Degree
• Thesis: Central Bank Transparency and Public Information Acquisition

B.Sc.

National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

• Program in Business Informatics
• Thesis: The Development of the Procedures of Client Database Checks

The Gorky Literary Institute: Creative Writing under Socialism

• This project examines questions of mutual influence among formalized education, creative processes, and literary evolution in the socialist world. By analyzing the educational activities of the Gorky Literary Institute (1933-) which produced (or sometimes failed to produce) socialist writers, this project shows how socialist creative writing institutions impacted the formation of the transnational “Soviet Republic of Letters.”

• “The Instruction of Non-Soviet Writers at the Gorky Literary Institute: Gaoussou Diawara and Malian Literature.” In: The Soviet Cosmopolis: A Project of World Literature and its Global Impact. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2024. Forthcoming.

• “Незаменимые помощники или убийцы вдохновения: сравнительный анализ руководств по литературному мастерству 1920-х годов” [“Irreplaceable Assistants or Killers of Inspiration: A Comparative Analysis of Creative Writing Textbooks in the 1920s”]. In: Творческое письмо в России: сюжеты, подходы, проблемы [Creative Writing in Russia: Topics, Approaches, and Problems]. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2023. P. 72–92.
• “Брюсов-педагог: античная литература и класс поэзии в ВЛХИ” [“Briusov as a Teacher: Classical Literature and Poetry Class at VLKhI”]. In: Cluster of articles “Creative Writing Studies: исследования в области литературного мастерства.” Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, No. 183, 2023. P. 84–95.
• “От составителей” [“From the Compilers”] (co-authored with Maya Kucherskaya). In: Cluster of articles “Creative Writing Studies: исследования в области литературного мастерства.” Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, No. 183, 2023. P. 76–83.
• “Высший литературно-художественный институт им. В. Я. Брюсова (ВЛХИ)” [“Briusov Higher Institute of Literature and Art (VLKhI)”.] In: “Литературные институции как классы литературной школы: материалы к словарю” (eds. Oleg Lekmanov, Mikhail Sverdlov). Зборник матице српске за славистику, No. 103, 2023. P. 389—405.

• Soviet Literature
• Socialist Realism
• Socialist Internationalism
• Sociology of Literature
• Digital Humanities
• Soviet Education
• Creative Writing
• Postcolonial Literature
• Indigenous Studies
• Modernism

• “The School for Aspiring Authors: Briusov on Creative Writing Instruction.” Briusov Readings 2023. Yerevan, Armenia. Online. Forthcoming.
• Participant in roundtable “The GDR in Slavic and East European Studies: East Germany as a Point of Contact during the Cold War.” American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Conference. Las Vegas, NV. Forthcoming.

• “„Zwischen Moskau und Leipzig“: Exchange Programs between the Gorky Literary Institute and the Becher Literary Institute in the 1970s-1980s.” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Convention. Philadelphia, PA.
• Participant in roundtable “Centering Indigeneity in Russian Studies II: Transdisciplinary Possibilities of Critical Indigenous Theory.” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Convention. Philadelphia, PA.
• “The Gorky Literary Institute and African Writers: Gaoussou Diawara and Atukwei Okai.” Inaugural Conference of the African Humanities Association (AHA). Cape Town, South Africa. Online.
• “Atukwei Okai, Ghanaian Poetry, and Soviet Education.” Red World Literature. University of Iceland. Reykjavík, Iceland.
• “Formalism and Creative Writing: Viktor Shklovsky at the Gorky Literary Institute in the 1950s.” Research Colloquium. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Berlin, Germany.
• “The Gorky Literary Institute as a Network.” American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Conference. Online.
• “The Soviet Literatures of Dagestan and the Gorky Literary Institute.” American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Conference. Online.
• Participant in roundtable “Indigeneity in Post-Russia-Centric Pedagogy.” American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Conference. Online.
• “Ivan Kharabarov and Iurii Pankratov at the Crossroads.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. Online.

• “Digital Humanities and Soviet Cultural Institutions: the Case of the Gorky Literary Institute.” Gazeta: Russian, East European, and Eurasian Press History Workshop. Online.
• “Networks, Coalitions, and Factions at the Gorky Literary Institute: a Digital Humanities Analysis.” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Convention. Chicago, IL.
• “The Gorky Literary Institute: Teaching Creative Writing under Socialism.” Schlegeltag Colloquium. Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies. Freie Universität. Berlin, Germany.
• ““The Little Library of a Young Writer”: an Attempt to Transfer Literary Experience Between Generations.” Theories and Practices of Literary Craft. National Research University Higher School of Economics. Moscow, Russia (online).
• “The Gorky Literary Institute, Gaoussou Diawara, and Malian Literature.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Meeting. Online.
• “Vasilii Zakharchenko - Introducing the World to the Soviet Youth.” The Red Globe: Writing the World in Eastern European Travel Literature. Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research. Berlin, Germany (online).
• “Soviet Creative Writing Textbooks on Versification: Alexander Kovalenkov against Ilia Selvinskii.” Princeton University Graduate Conference. Princeton, N.J.
• “The Intergenerational Exchange and Its Failures in the Gorky Literary Institute During the Thaw.” The Northeast Corridor Russian History and Culture Workshop. Rutgers University. New Brunswick, N.J.
• Keynote speach “The Gorky Literary Institute: Teaching Creative Writing under Socialism.” Slavic Bazaar. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA.
• Participant in roundtable “Digital Humanities - Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature in Translation.” American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Conference. Philadelphia, PA.

• “The Instruction of Non-Soviet Writers at the Gorky Literary Institute: Gaoussou Diawara and Malian Literature.” (Post-)Soviet Cosmopolis: The Soviet Project of World Literature and its Legacies. Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research. Berlin, Germany.
• “For Party-Mindedness and Against “Peaceful Coexistence of Ideology”: the Gorky Literary Institute During the Thaw.” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Convention. New Orleans, LA.
• “Viktor Shklovsky’s Formalism: Creative Writing vs. Creative Reading.” Theories and Practices of Literary Craft. National Research University Higher School of Economics. Moscow, Russia (online).
• “Write or Translate: Cultural Transfers at the Gorky Literary Institute.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Meeting. Online.

• “Socialist Content, (Inter)National Form: the Gorky Literary Institute and Non-Russian Writers.” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Convention. Online.
• “Style and Stylization in Literary Studies: The Experience of Twentieth-Century Russian and French Writers.” Theories and Practices of Literary Craft. National Research University Higher School of Economics. Moscow, Russia (online).
• “Teaching Creative Writing in the Soviet Union in the 1920s.” Constructivist Criticism Workshop for Graduate Students in the Social Sciences and Humanities Studying Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. New York University and Columbia University in the City of New York. New York, NY.
• “The Gorky Literary Institute: on the Emergence of a New Class of Soviet Writers in the 1930s—Early 1940s.” American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Conference. San Diego, CA.

• “Creative Writing Programs in the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1930s: From Briusov’s Writers Institute to Gorky Literary Institute.” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Convention. San Francisco, CA.

• “Literary Canon in Russia in the 1920s: the Role Models for Aspiring Writers.” Russian Literature in Comparative Perspective. National Research University Higher School of Economics. Moscow, Russia.
• “The Writer’s Profession: Literary Educational Institutions in Russia in the 1920s.” Tradition and Innovation in Historical Perspectives. Central European University. Budapest, Hungary.

• “The GDR in Slavic and East European Studies: East Germany as a Point of Contact during the Cold War.” Roundtable organizer. American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Conference. Las Vegas, NV. Forthcoming.

• “Literature, Art, and Education Across Borders: Soviet-Eastern European Cultural Exchanges during the Cold War.” Panel organizer. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Convention. Philadelphia, PA. Forthcoming.
• “Theories and Practices of Literary Craft.” Conference co-organizer. National Research University Higher School of Economics. Moscow, Russia. Forthcoming.
• “Network Analysis of Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature.” Panel organizer. American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Conference. Online.
• “Indigenous Possibilities in Post-Russian Spaces.” Stream co-organizer. American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Conference. Online.

• “Soviet Literature as a Network: Institutions, Languages, People.” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Convention. Chicago, IL.

• “Theories and Practices of Literary Craft.” Conference co-organizer. National Research University Higher School of Economics. Moscow, Russia (online).

• “Cultural Transfers: How Discourses, Forms, and Literature Moved within the Soviet Union and across Its Borders.” Panel organizer. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Convention. Online.
• “Constructivist Criticism.” Workshop for Graduate Students in the Social Sciences and Humanities Studying Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. Workshop co-organizer. New York University and Columbia University in the City of New York. New York, NY.
• “Soviet Literary Institutions.” Stream co-organizer. American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Conference. San Diego, CA.

• “Tradition and Innovation in the Soviet Literary Education: Who and How Taught Literature and Writing in the 1920s-1970s.” Panel organizer. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Convention. California, CA.
• “Constructivist Criticism.” Workshop for Graduate Students in the Social Sciences and Humanities Studying Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. Workshop co-organizer. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA.

• “Russian Literature in Comparative Perspective.” Conference co-organizer. National Research University Higher School of Economics. Moscow, Russia.
• “Effects of Verisimilitude: Modes of Russian Realism.” Conference co-organizer. National Research University Higher School of Economics. Moscow, Russia.

• “World Literature as a Soviet Cultural Project.” Conference co-organizer. National Research University Higher School of Economics. Moscow, Russia.

• Visiting Instructor. RUSS 004 Intermediate Intensive Russian. Swarthmore College. Swarthmore, PA.

• Instructor (co-taught with Tom Dolack and Julia Katsnelson). Enhanced Intermediate Russian. Middlebury College, Middlebury Language Schools. Middlebury, VT.

• Instructor (co-taught with Maria Alley). Advanced Russian II Russian Society Today (Independent Study). University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA.

• Instructor. RUSS 002 Elementary Russian II. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA.

• Instructor (co-taught with Maria Alley). RUSS 001 Elementary Russian I. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA.

• Instructor. REES 145 Masterpieces of 19C Russian Literature. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA.

• TA. REES 155 Masterpieces of 20C Russian Literature. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA.

• TA. RUSS 145 Masterpieces of 19C Russian Literature. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA.

• TA. War in 20C European Literature. National Research University Higher School of Economics. Moscow, Russia.
• Lecturer. Russian Language in Literature and Media. National Research University Higher School of Economics. Moscow, Russia.

• Instructor. Introduction to Macroeconomics. National Research University Higher School of Economics. Moscow, Russia.
• B.Sc. Term Paper Advisor. International College of Economics and Finance. National Research University Higher School of Economics. Moscow, Russia.

• International Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council (IDRF SSRC): for dissertation work abroad in Germany, Lithuania, Ghana, Mali, and Russia
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) One-Year Research Grant
• Dissertation Research Award from the University of Pennsylvania

• Mellon Mid-Doctoral Fellowship from the Price Lab for Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania

• Benjamin Franklin Fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania

• French Government Scholarship (Bourse du gouvernement français)

• DH Project “Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature in Translation.” University of Pennsylvania.
• Research Project “19C and 20C Literary Circles: History of Literary Education.” National Research University Higher School of Economics.
• The Graduate Initiative on Indigenous Studies in Russia.

• Research Group “The Questions of the Translation of Style.” National Research University Higher School of Economics.

• Volunteer for the Prospectus Workshop for third-year students of the Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Program. University of Pennsylvania.

• Representative of the Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Program at SASGov – a student government body for graduate students of Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences. University of Pennsylvania.

• Research Assistant, Eugenia Kelbert. National Research University Higher School of Economics.
• Assistant to the editors of the School of Philology’s website. National Research University Higher School of Economics.

• The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Teaching Certificate, University of Pennsylvania, October 6, 2022.
• “Digital Humanities in the Classroom,” Dream Lab, Price Lab for Digital Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, taught by Roberto Vargas and Dorothy Berry, June 13-16, 2022

• “Text Analysis,” Dream Lab, Price Lab for Digital Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, taught by Katie Rawson and Scott Enderle, June 14-17, 2021
• “Price Lab Summer Projects,” Price Lab for Digital Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, taught by Cassandra Hradil and J.D. Porter, June 14 – August 9, 2021

• “Creating Community in the Remote Literature Classroom,” Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Pennsylvania, taught by Jo Park and D. Brian Kim, August 11, 2020
• “Creating Community in Your Online Class,” Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Pennsylvania, taught by Ian Petrie, August 5, 2020
• “Incorporating Theory into Undergraduate Courses,” Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Pennsylvania, taught by Emily Steinlight, February 25, 2020
• “Russian Language Pedagogy,” University of Pennsylvania, taught by Maria Alley, January 21-May 26, 2020

• “Teaching in Translation: Using Translated Works and the Practice of Translation in the Classroom,” Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Pennsylvania, taught by Emily Wilson, February 11, 2019

• “How to Teach in the Contemporary Political Moment,” Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Pennsylvania, taught by Kevin Platt, November 5, 2018

• Humboldt University of Berlin. Berlin, Germany
• Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies. Freie Universität. Berlin, Germany

• American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL)
• American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
• Modern Language Association (MLA)

• Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)