Education

Ph.D. Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, 
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, December 2000
Dissertation: "The Stranger in the City: Genre and Place in the Works of Nikolai Gogol and 
Liudmila Petrushevskaia" 

Advisers: Angela Brintlinger (Slavic) and Sabra Webber (Comparative Studies)

 

Master of Arts Literature and Linguistics, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures,
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, June 1995
Thesis: "The Crimson Flower: A Tale Revisited"

 

Bachelor of Arts

 

German and Russian, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures,
Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, May 1991
Exchange Program Kuban State University, Krasnodar, Russia, Autumn 1989