EDUCATION

2023 - Present Ph.D. in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory

Program in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania

2024 M.A. in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory

Program in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory, University of Pennsylvania

2023 - Present M.A. in Russian

Middlebury Language Schools

2022 B.A. in Russian & Eastern European Studies and Anthropology

Department of Anthropology and Department of German & Russian, Pomona College

LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE

French, German, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian

Only reading: Polish, Spanish, Ukrainian

RECENT FELLOWSHIPS AND RELATED OPPORTUNITIES

2024 National Centre for Writing Emerging Translator Mentorship

2024 Vanderbilt University Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship in Brazil

2023 - 2024 University of Pennsylvania Gregorian Humanities Graduate Fellow

2023 University of Pennsylvania Fontaine Fellowship

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION & LECTURES

2024 “U.S. Slavic Graduate training today: new directions, new challenges, and how to apply”

Invited lecture at the University of São Paulo

2024 “Nova Lituania and the Possibility of Ironic Colonialism”

Yale European and Eurasian Studies Graduate Student Conference

2024 “Reading Brazilian Concrete Poetry in an Eastern European Futurist Tempo”

Crossing the Slavic Atlantic: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Ibero-Slavic Encounter at the University of Exeter

2023 “Antanas Škėma as Creative Martyr and the Neurasthenia of Survival(s)” 

Princeton Slavic Graduate Conference 2023: The Art of Self-Obsession?