Areas of Expertise:
Russian literature and culture (19th and 20th centuries), Polish literature and culture (19th and 20th centuries), literature and the market, women’s writing and performance, Slavic emigre culture

Recent Publications:
Author of Women’s Works in Stalin’s Time: On Lidiia Chukovskaia and Nadezhda Mandelstam (1993); Rewriting Capitalism: Literature and the Market in Late Tsarist Russia and the Kingdom of Poland (1998).  Co-editor and translator (with Helena Goscilo) of Anastasiia Verbitskaia’s Keys to Happiness (1999).  Editor of The Russian Memoir: History and Literature (2003).  Co-editor (with Helena Goscilo) of Russia.Women.Culture (1996) and Poles Apart: Women in Modern Polish Culture (forthcoming).  My recent articles focus on the work of post-revolutionary Russian emigres in American film and children’s book illustration, and on the career, public life, and legacy of the great Polish actress Helena Modrzejewska, who starred on the American stage as Helena Modjeska from 1877-1907.