#  Teaching 

 



## Visiting Lecturer / Russian Department, Wellesley College

**Fall term 2018–2019**  
Russian 286: "Vladimir Nabokov's Novels in English" (writing intensive course; course head)  
Russian 386: "Vladimir Nabokov's Short Stories in the Original" (Russian) (course head)

## College Fellow / Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

**Spring term 2016–2017**  
Slavic 187: "Global Voices: Russian Literature Today" (course head)

**Fall term 2016–2017**  
Slavic 158: "Narrative Strategies in Nikolai Gogol's Short Fiction"/ Slavic 98A: "Junior Tutorial for Slavic Concentrators in Russian" (course head)  
Slavic 145: "Russian Literature in Translation: The 19th Century Tradition" (course head)

**Spring term 2015–2016**  
Slavic 97: "Introduction to Slavic Literatures and Cultures" / Sophomore Tutorial for Slavic Concentrators (course head**)**

**Fall term 2015–2016**  
Slavic 158: "Narrative Strategies in Nikolai Gogol's Short Fiction"/ Slavic 98A: "Junior Tutorial for Slavic Concentrators in Russian" (course head)  
Slavic 187: "Global Voices: Russian Literature Today" (course head)

## Instructor, Harvard Summer School

**June-August 2015:** Language Course "Introduction to German for Reading Knowledge," an intensive language course for credit, designed primarily for graduate students seeking to fulfill their language requirements at home institution.

## Teaching Fellow, Harvard University

**Spring term 2013–2014**: Joint course in General Education at Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Ethical Reasoning 20 / LAW 2392 "Self, Serenity, and Vulnerability: West and East" (discussion section component, with Prof. Roberto Unger (Harvard Law School), Prof. Michael Puett (Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations)

**Fall term 2013–2014**: Language Course “German A: Beginning German I” (all components) (Course Head: Dr. Lisa Parkes, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures)

**Spring term 2012–2013**: Advanced Russian Language Course (third year Russian, grammar component) “Slavic 103: Reading, Composition, and Conversation” (Course Head: Dr. Natalia Reed, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures)

**Spring term 2011–2012**: Course in General Education at Harvard College: “Slavic 148: Strange Russian Writers” (discussion section component, with Prof. Stephanie Sandler, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures)

**Fall term 2011–2012**: Course in General Education at Harvard College: “Ethical Reasoning 28: Moral Inquiry in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky” (discussion section component, with Prof. Justin Weir, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures)

**Fall and Spring terms 2010–2011**: Intermediate Russian Language Course (second year Russian, grammar component) “Slavic B” (Course Head: Dr. Natalia Reed, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures)

## Invited Lectures

**July 2016, Ukrainian Summer Institute, Harvard University:** Poetry workshop titled "On Poetry and Poets: Oleh Lysheha and His Creative Cricle" (see a participant's response [here](http://www.huri.harvard.edu/husi/husi-blog/262-oleh-lysheha-and-his-creative-circle-a-response-to-oleh-kotsyuba-s-talk-by-anatole-sykley.html))

**July 2014, Ukrainian Summer Institute, Harvard University:** Lecture and workshop titled "The Secret of Success: Contemporary Ukrainian Literature in European Perspective"  
  
**February 2012, Harvard University**: Guest lecture on film adaptations of Leo Tolstoy’s*War and Peace*, with introduction to tools of text vs. film analysis; frame, composition, and camera technique analysis.

**December 2011, Harvard University**: Guest lecture on psychology and psychologism in F. Dostoevsky’s works, Freudian interpretations, and stylistic aspects of Dostoevsky’s writing.

**March 2010, Shevchenko Scientific Society in America** (New York, NY): Invited lecture on Russian travel literature of the late 18th and early 19th century and its connection to the work of Taras Shevchenko.



 

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