Areas of interest:

• Russian verbal semantics
• Cognitive linguistics
• SLA/language pedagogy

Courses taught (at UK and previously):

• Language and Culture
• Semantics and Pragmatics
• Cognitive Linguistics
• Russian language
• Russian Folklore

• Village Values: Negotiating Identity, Gender and Resistance in Contemporary Urban Russian Life-Cycle Rituals, Bloomington: Slavica, forthcoming.
• "The Contemporary Urban Russian Funeral: Folk Tradition and Innovation," Folklorica XII, (2007): 109-128.
• Russian Religious Folk Imagination (www.rch.uky.edu/RFRI/), web-based critical edition of Russian legends, song, rituals, icons in collaboration with Vera Kuznetsova (Institute of Philology) and Yelena Minyonok (Institute of World Literature). Published one commentary on a legend and one commentary on the Easter ritual on the site. Wrote linguistic commentary on the legend.
• "Folk Dance” and “Folk Costume," articles co-authored with Yelena Minyonok, Encyclopedia of Russian Culture, (2006): 214-215.
• "Игра в современной городской русской свадьбе [Play in the Contemporary Urban Russian Wedding]," in the volume Traditsionnaia kul’tura. Poiski. Interpretatsii. Materialy, (2006): 71-80.
• "Russian Birth Customs: Ancient Traditions in Modern Guise," Slavic and East European Journal 47:2, 227-250, 2003.
• "Good Practices of Language Teaching," NewsNet 43:5, 17-19, October 2003.
• "Victory Day Celebrations: Memory and Validation," Folklorica VIII:2, 24-34, Fall 2003.
• "Do Not Send me to a Strange Land. Funerary Aspects of the 19th Century Northern Russian Wedding Through the Eyes of an American Researcher", Siberian Philological Journal, No. 2: 13-23, 2003.
• "Play in the Contemporary Urban Russian Wedding," proceedings of the conference "Play and Performance in Russian Traditional Culture," Saint Petersburg, Russia, to appear in 2005.
• "Play in the Contemporary Urban Russian Wedding," in the volume Traditsionnaia kul'tura. Poiski. Interpretatsii. Materialy. pp. 71-80, 2006.
• "Folk Dance" and "Folk Costume," articles co-authored with Yelena Minyonok, Encyclopedia of Russian Culture, 2006.
• "The Contemporary Urban Russian Funeral: Folk Tradition and Innovation," to appear in Folklorica XII, Fall 2007.