In February of last year, one of the biggest “lifestyle” magazines in Russia, Afisha, published a “gay” issue featuring interviews with 27 people from all…
My other title, in addition to subject specialist for Slavic and East European Studies and Linguistics, is Instruction Coordinator for the graduate research library (for…
Here I am unexpectedly getting started with Day of DH 2014 from home. Walking the few minutes from the bus to my house last night…
Last March-April (2013) I participated in a free, online course offered through the Peer 2 Peer University School of Open on “Writing Wikipedia Articles: The…
In part 1, I tried to summarize the origins and objectives of my course on “Amerika Through Russian Eyes.” In this continuation, I’m including a…
The original iteration of “Amerika Through Russian Eyes” was a short, intensive course on Russian literature and culture that was also intended to help Russian…
Before I went to Leningrad during my junior year of college, I suppose I thought mostly that Russians saw America and Americans through nuclear-colored glasses. …
Vehement likes: wit, bioluminescence, when a band sounds better live than on CD, climbing flowers, masterfully constructed plots (mostly, but not exclusively, literary), public schools,…
1. 99.9% of the time, I don’t recognize anyone or anywhere in my dreams – they’re all people I don’t know/have never met in waking…
