On leave Spring 2012

Teaching and Research Interests

19th and 20th century Russian prose and poetry, literary translation; general humanities (Core humanities courses)

Selected Publications

Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Marguerita (translated with Diana Burgin); Sergei Dovlatov’s “Somebody’s Death” (translated with Diana Burgin), The New Yorker (9/29/81); Boris Pasternak’s ‘My Sister-Life’: The Illusion of Narrative (1989); “Rereading Lolita, Reconsidering Nabokov’s Relationship with Dostoevsky,” Slavic and East European Journal (Vol.33, no 1, 1989); “Chekhov’s Death: His Textual Past Recaptured,” Studies in Poetics (1995); “Chekhov’s Letter to Lermontov,” Essays in Poetics (Autumn 2006); “Writing in English with a Chekhov Muse,” Chekhov the Immigrant: Translating a Cultural Icon (forthcoming).

Work in Progress

Monograph on Chekhov’s letters

Honors, Grants, and Awards

• Woodrow Wilson Fellow
• Ford Foundation Foreign Area Fellowships
• NDFL Grants
• Honorary Phi Beta Kappa, Radcliffe College
• Metcalf Teaching Award, Boston University