Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
FIELDS OF INTEREST
visual rhetoric; semiotics; comparative modernisms; literary and film theory; essay film; advertisement and
propaganda; architecture and spatiality; and exile, migr, and refugee narratives
EDUCATION
Ph. D. Emory University (2016)
Department of Comparative Literature
Ph.D. Certificate in Film and Media Studies1
Dissertation: Taking Place: Rhetoric of Abstract Space and the Construction of Literary
Architectures
Chair: Prof. Geoffrey Bennington
Advisors: Prof. Karla Oeler and Prof. Elena Glazov-Corrigan
M.A.
B.A.
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
Ruin Lust: Totalitarian Remnants. Allegory and Political Representation. Ed. Jacques Lezra. Spec. issue of
The Yearbook of Comparative Literature. Bloomington: Indiana University, forthcoming.
Essay Film. Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies. Ed. Krin Gabbard. New York: Oxford
University Press, forthcoming.
Certificate in Film and Media Studies work completed: 5 graduate courses, 1 exam list, 2 semesters as T.A.
1
Book Chapters
Green Agoraphobia: Architectural Cures in Baudelaire and Kafka. Modernism in the Green. Ed. Julia
Daniel and Margaret Konkol. Burlington: Ashgate. Forthcoming.
Irony behind the Iron Curtain: Internal Escape from Totalitarianism in Nabokovs Invitation to a
Beheading. The Goalkeeper: The Nabokov Almanac. Ed. Yuri Leving. Boston: Academic Studies Press,
2010. 48-59.
CONFERENCES
Papers
Ruin Lust: Totalitarian Remnants in Nabokovs Invitation to a Beheading
ACLA Meeting, University of Washington
Panel Organizer
Dont Tell Me to Do the Math: Geometrical False Starts and Non-Linear Logics in Literature
ACLA Meeting, University of Toronto
April 4-7, 2013
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
The Virtual Agora in Vertovs A Sixth Part of the World
Mellon Graduate Teaching Fellow Colloquium, Emory University
Jan 2016
March 2016
September 2015
April 2014, 2013, 2012
April 2013
2003 2007
March 2002
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA
ENG250: World Literature
Fall 2015, Spring 2016
Survey course on canonized texts, with an emphasis on non-Western literature, art, and philosophy.
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Teaching Posts
IDS Writing Lab, co-taught two sections
Fall 2013
Intensive English grammar study; requirement for Institute of Liberal Arts writing courses.
RUS101 Elementary Russian I
Fall 2013
Introduction to spoken and written Russian language. Multimedia exercises and drills.
CPLT110 Literary Architectures
Spring 2013
Writing-intensive seminar on spatio-political anxieties: cosmopolitanism, border crossing, territory,
hospitality, exile, and war. Treatment of architectures, city planning, and reconstruction as
analogous to acts of writing.
CPLT203 Art of Persuasion
Fall 2012
Writing-intensive seminar on pop culture's interest in advertisement and marketing as a resurgence
of classic literary and semiotic questions about language. Several genres addressed: fiction, ad copy,
essay, theater, cinema, and propaganda.
CPLT110 Free Reigns, Reading Desires of Escape
Fall 2011
Writing-intensive seminar on literature's complicated relationship with the term freedom.
Examines literature as a space for dissidence, yet also a place to express pleasures of constraint and
a struggle with the prison-house of language.
Teaching Assistant Posts
FILM372 History of Film after 1954
Spring 2015
Part two of survey course. Focus on world cinemas: Bengali, Bollywood, Post-Colonial Africa, Iran,
China, Hong Kong, Japan. Focus on media globalization and digital art cinema.
FILM371 History of Film to 1954
Fall 2014
Part one of survey course. Focus on film technologies, Western cinemas, and international film
festivals.
Guest Posts
Guest lecturer, FILM372 History of Film after 1954
Two lecture sessions on European modernism and the auteur
Feb 2015
Dec 2014
Sept 2014
April 2014
Mentorship
Graduate Mentor, Undergraduate Theory Reading Group
Graduate Mentor, Undergraduate Coffee Hour
Berkeley College, New York, NY
BUS220 Career Business Writing
(two sections quarterly)
University at Buffalo, CADS (EOP Program), Buffalo, NY
ENG101 Composition, Teaching Assistant
Writing Tutor
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
Emory University
Organizer, Undergraduate Colloquium
Orientation Graduate Advisor, Undergraduate Freshman Orientation
Graduate Advisor, Undergraduate Majors Fair
Moderator, Annual Graduate Colloquium
Treasurer, Comparative Literature Seminar Series
Organizer, Graduate Theory Reading Group
Berkeley College
Orientation Coordinator, Undergraduate Freshman Orientation
Coordinator, Student Activities Fair
Summer 2006
May 2006 Dec 2006
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant for Dr. David Schmid, English Department, U at Buffalo
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
Decatur Book Festival, Atlanta, GA, Freelance Editor and Program Designer
Arkansas Literary Review, U of Arkansas, Advisory Board Reviewer
Anamesa Journal, N.Y.U., Assistant Editor
LANGUAGES
English:
Russian:
French:
Fluency
Native fluency
Reading knowledge