Teaching is one of my greatest sources of inspiration, and I am grateful to have taught hundreds of students over the years at the University of Pittsburgh and, before that, The Ohio State University and the Russian State Humanities University. This page lists the formal courses that I have taught.

Language Courses

• First-year (Beginning) Russian
• Second-Year (Intermediate) Russian
• Third-Year (Advanced) Russian
• Fourth-Year Russian
• The Sounds of Russian (phonetics course)
• Russian Conversation
• Intensive Second-Year Russian

• First-Year Czech
• English Academic Writing
• Russian Through Singing

Literature & Culture Courses

• The Russian Short Story in Context
• Masterpieces of 19th-Century Russian Literature
• Masterpieces of 20th-Century Russian Literature
• 18th-Century Russian Literature
• Tolstoy
• Gogol
• Contemporary Cultures of Eastern Europe
• Early Russian Culture
• Forbidden Love on Page and Screen
• Madness and Madmen in Russian Literature
• ​Russian Literature in Musical Adaptation