Columbia University, Ph.D. (2006), M.Phil. (2004), M.A. (1998) in Slavic Languages and Literatures
The Harriman Institute at Columbia University, Certificate in Russian Area Studies (2006)
Amherst College, B.A. magna cum laude (1994) in Russian Literature

• Russian Silver-Age Poetry and Prose
• Russian Theater and Drama
• Polish Literature and Culture

• Language pedagogy, second-language acquisition, and instructional technology.
• Russian cultural history
• The literature and visual arts of the Young Poland movement.
• Russian and Polish experimental and animated films of the 1950s and 1960s.

The Russian Modernist Masquerade radically redefines the fin-de-siecle phenomenon of masquerade as an artistic medium used for creative expression and polemical persuasion. In the context of Russian cultural history, it examines masquerade as a social experience and as a literary representation, mobilizing anthropological, psychological and political perspectives on masking and identity.

“Sanctity or Sanctimony in Wyspianski's Akropolis: On Bondary Oppositions, Subverted Expectations and Irony." Sarmatian Review, January 2009 (forthcoming).

“Czeslaw Milosz.” The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest. (Ed. Emmanuel Ness). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd (forthcoming 2009).

Poems by Anna Frajlich. Contemporary Writers of Poland. Ed. Danuta Blaszak. Trans. Colleen McQuillen.  Lulu Press [Dreammee Little City], 2005.  28, 35.

“The Dionysian Roots of the Symbolist Masquerade Ball in Petersburg and Poem without a Hero.”Ulbandus, The Slavic Review of Columbia University. Issue 8 (2004). 106-118.

“Private Pleasures Made Public: Voyeurism in Pan Tadeusz.”  Polish Review XLIII:4 (1998).  419-428.