About Me

Professional/Research Interests​

I am a third-year PhD student in the Penn State English Department studying Shakespeare's cultural legacy via literary, cinematic, and dramatic adaptations of his works. I am especially interested in exploring the ways in which Russian literary and dramatic figures have engaged with Shakespeare's plays to complicate the notion of the “original” text and its subsequent iterations by self-consciously presenting their works as both instances of Shakespeare and as distinct, original texts.

​

At Penn State, I teach ENGL 15: Rhetoric and Composition, in which I encourage students to engage critically with the media they encounter in their daily lives, interrogate the origins and foundations of their values and beliefs, and articulate their positions on issues they feel strongly about in respectful and productive ways that encourage collaboration, compromise, and creative solutions.