I
came to Keene State College in 2001, to teach courses in Comparative
and Russian literature. I received my B.A. in Germanic philology
(with concentration in English literature) from Leningrad (now St.
Petersburg) State University, Russia, and my Ph.D. in Comparative
Literature from the University of California, Davis. My
thesis, Reformed Characters: The Nineteenth-Century English
and Russian Novel and the Discourse on Penal Reformation, examines
the twin projects of making and remaking characters as they were
carried out in the novel by novelists and in the prison by prison
reformers. I
am currently revising and expanding this study in book form.
My
teaching and research interests include 19th-century Russian and
British Victorian literature and culture, law and literature, 19th-century
penology and the novel; also Soviet literature and film, and Comparative
literature.
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