About
Her dissertation, Inhabiting Socialist Realism, studies Uzbek literature as it adapted the demands of Socialist Realism throughout the 20th century.
She has authored several articles on Russian, Uzbek, and Kazakh literature for journal publications and collected volumes. Her latest interest takes her to Thaw period-literature in Uzbekistan, and she studies how literature and literary politics reflected on the Thaw as it was experienced both locally and in Moscow.
Her literary translations from Uzbek include Abdulhamid Cho'lpon's Night and Day and Isajon Sulton's The Eternal Wanderer. She is now searching for a publisher for her recently completed translation of Abdulla Qahhor's Tales from the Past.
She is interested in postcolonial thought and literature, gender and queer studies, socialism and post-socialism, and nationalities studies.
