Biography

At Cambridge, I plan to research Russian émigré literature in Europe between 1917 and the beginning of World War II, concentrating on the prose of Vladimir Nabokov and the poetry of Vladislav Khodasevich. I am interested in the transformation of frontiers throughout Nabokov’s novels as they relate to the autonomy and mobility of characters within his texts. Born in Western Massachusetts, I graduated from Wellesley College in 2005 with a major in Russian Language and Literature. I spent the following year on a Fulbright grant in northern Russia, where I worked for the Atlantic Salmon Reserve on the Rynda and Kharlovka Rivers and participated in mountaineering expeditions in the Khibini Mountains and the Pre-Polar Urals.