Publications
“Vladislav Mamyshev-Monro, Frog-Princess of Neoacademism.” Essay in forthcoming Beauty without Taboo: Saint Petersburg’s New Academy of Fine Arts (1980s-2000s), ed. Helena Goscilo and Vlad Strukov.
“Persian Cargo on a Russian Ark: The Role of Iran in Sokurov’s Russian Ark.” Article co-written with Leyla Rouhi, forthcoming in 2017 in the International Journal of Persian Literature.
“Glamazons en travesti: Drag Queens in Putin’s Russia.” Contribution to forthcoming Russian Performances, co-edited with Julie Buckler and Boris Wolfson.
“Kool-Aid,” “Popsicle,” and “Sitophilia.” Entries in The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, ed. Darra Goldstein (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), 384-385, 551, and 614-615.
“Why Stalinist Cinema Had No Detective Films, or How Three Becomes Two in Engineer Kochin’s Mistake.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 31, no. 1 (Jan. 2014): 56-73.
“Post-Soviet Pop Goes Gay: Russia’s Trajectory to Eurovision Victory.” The Russian Review 73:1 (Jan. 2014): 1-23.
“A Personality Cult for the Post-modern Age: Reading Vladimir Putin’s Public Persona.” Chapter co-authored with Emily Johnson in Putin as Celebrity and Cultural Icon, edited by Helena Goscilo (London: Routledge, 2012), 37-64.
“The Rise of the Actress in Early Nineteenth-Century Russia.” Chapter in Women in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Lives and Culture, edited by Wendy Rosslyn and Alessandra (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2012), 137-159.
“Rural Renaissance.” Short article co-authored with Leyla Rouhi in Gastronomica 11, no. 2 (Summer 2011): 1-3.
“Putin, Putiniana and the Question of a Post-Soviet Cult of Personality.” Article co-authored with Emily Johnson. Slavonic and East European Review 88, no. 4 (Oct. 2010): 681-707. Reprinted in Stephen White and Cerywn Moore, eds., Post-Soviet Politics, Vol. II: Citizens and Politics (Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2012), 379-400.
“Of Dandies, Flirts, and Cockatoos: Shakhovskoi’s Antitheatrical Lesson to Coquettes.” The Russian Review 65, no. 3 (July 2006): 393-416.
“Kirov and Death in The Great Citizen: The Fatal Consequences of Linguistic Mediation.” Slavic Review 64, no. 4 (Winter 2005): 799-822.
“Alcohol is Our Enemy! Soviet Temperance Melodramas of the 1920s.” In Louise McReynolds and Joan Neuberger, eds., Imitations of Life: Two Centuries of Melodrama in Russia (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002), 152-177.
The Enemy on Trial: Early Soviet Courts on Stage and Screen. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000.
“Northern Poetry for a Northern People: Text and Context in Ozerov’s Fingal.” Slavonic and East European Review 78 (April 2000): 1-27.
“From Nevskii Prospekt to Zoia’s Apartment: Trials of the Russian Procuress.” Article co-authored with Leyla Rouhi. The Russian Review 58 (July 1999): 413-31.
“Marble Columns and Jupiter Lights: Theatrical and Cinematic Modeling of the Soviet Show Trial in the 1920s.” Slavic and East European Journal 42, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 640-60. Reprinted in Marit Paasche and Judy Radul, eds., A Thousand Eyes: Media Technology, Law, and Aesthetics (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2011), 39-62.
“Flash Floods, Bedbugs, and Saunas: Social Hygiene in Maiakovskii’s Theatrical Satires of the Twenties.” The Slavonic and East European Review 76, no. 4 (October 1998): 643-57. Reprinted in Janet G. Tucker, ed., Against the Grain: Parody, Satire, and Intertextuality in Russian Literature (Bloomington: Slavica, 2002).
