18th century Russian literature, 19th century Russian fiction,  Russian-American cultural intersections,  Russian-Jewish literature,  technology and bioethics in literature, literary theory, aesthetic theory.

BOOK

Wonderlands of the Avant-Garde: Technology and the Arts in Russia of the 1920s (Forthcoming from Northwestern University Press).

SELECTED ARTICLES

“Human Machines and the Pains of Penmanship in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We.”  Forthcoming in Cultural Critique, Vol. 80 (April, 2012).

“Unfair Use: Parody, Plagiarism, and Other Suspicious Practices in and around Lolita.”  NOJ: Nabokov Online Journal, vol. 5, 2011.

"The Anatomy of a Space Flight: Rockets and Other Mechanical Eggs in Russian Modernism."  Russian Literature, Fall 2011.

"Indelible Inscriptions: Rewriting the Self in The Egyptian Stamp."  The Effect of Palimpsest (New York: Peter Lang, 2011).

“Poetry of Labor and Labor of Poetry:  The Universal Language of Alexei Gastev’s Biomechanics.”  The Russian Review, April 2008.

“Base Superstructures and Technical Difficulties in Mayakovsky’s America.”   The Harriman Review 12:4  (November 2000) 5-11.