Areas of Expertise:
Russian poetry, modernism, comparative poetics, music

Publications and Awards:
Author of Toward a Definition of Acmeism; Russian Vocal Music; Semantic Functions in Zaum; and Petersburgian Poetics of Viacheslav Ivanov: Apolliny (forthcoming). Founding director of Yale Russian Chorus. Award winner, Yale School of Music, 2003. Recipient of medal "In Commemoration of St. Petersburg's 300th Anniversary" 2004, for his contribution in the field of American-Russian cultural relations, particularly for teaching, performing, and presenting Russian music. Medal awarded by the Ambassador of Russia, Yuri Ushakov, on behalf of President Vladimir Putin and the Mayor of St. Petersburg.