education
M.S., Library and Information Science (2008) – Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Beta Phi Mu, inducted 2008
- Jane B. and Robert B. Downs Professional Promise Award
- Lucile Huntington Wilkinson Fellowship
- ALA Spectrum Scholar
- ARL Diversity Fellow
- Digital Libraries Fellowship
- Illinois Library Association Sylvia Murphy Williams Scholarship
Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures (2003) – Yale University
- Major concentration: 19th-century and 20th-century Russian narrative fiction and Russian poetry
- Minor concentration: 19th-century American Literature
- Dissertation: “Poetry in Perpetuity: Desire, Death, and the Beloved in Afanasy Fet’s Lyrics to Mariia Lazich” (abstract)
- Committee: Vladimir Alexandrov, Susan Amert (adviser), John McKay
A.B., Russian Language and Literature (1984) – Mount Holyoke College
- Minor: English Literature
- Thesis: “Love, the Muse, and Mandel’shtam: A Study of the Addressee in Anna Akhmatova’s Poetry”
- Committee: Edwina Cruise, Dale Peterson, Stephanie Sandler (adviser)
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When I was studying Russian literature as a doctoral student, I had the chance to teach a couple of undergraduate seminars on the works of Lev Tolstoy in translation. I have read Tolstoy’s War and Peace five times – once in Russian. My record is nothing, however, compared to those of my friends and mentors still active in the field! |
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