She specializes in nineteenth-century century Russian prose. She received her PhD from Harvard University, where she was also a junior fellow at the Society of Fellows and a lecturer in Slavic languages and literatures. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Russian Review, Slavic and East European Journal, and Canadian Slavonic Papers. She has given numerous presentations, most recently at the conferences of the American Comparative Literature Association and of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled "Imperial Nationalism and Russian Culture."