Position: Assistant Professor with joint appointment in the Jewish Studies Program.
Teaching and research interests: Yiddish and Slavic morphosyntax and pragmatics, general and Jewish folklore, Jewish culture
Selected recent publications
2008 article: The Language of Dream Reports and Dostoevsky's The Double. Slavic and East European Journal 52/1: 55–86.
2006 article: [with O. Gurevich, J. MacAnallen, E. Morabito, J. Platt, J. Nichols, and A. Timberlake] Lexicon and Context in Feminization in Russian. Russian Linguistics 30/2: 175–212.
2005 article: The Choice of Genitive/Nominative in Russian Absence Constructions. Russian Linguistics 29/3: 319–346.
Languages
Fluent: English, Hebrew, Russian (native), and Ukrainian
Advanced level knowledge: Yiddish (heritage), Bulgarian, Czech, and Polish
Reading knowledge: French, German, Old Church Slavic, Old Russian, Ruthenian, Old Norse, Middle Welsh
