Areas of Expertise:
Russian language, nineteenth-century Russian literature, translation and theory of translation.

Publications:
Author of numerous scholarly articles on Russian literature, primarily on Dostoevsky and Chekhov; pedagogical materials for the Russian language classroom; translator of Intimacy and Terror: Soviet Diaries of the 1930s; and Labor-Camp Socialism: The Gulag in the Soviet Totalitarian System by Galina Ivanova, (from the Russian), and of two books by Satoko Kizaki (from the Japanese). Her translation of The Phoenix Tree and Other Stories was awarded the Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature; Conference Interpreter of Russian. Current work in progress is a book on Dostoevsky's novels, Reading Between the Lines: Dostoevesky's Sacraments and Secrets.