My research interests include Russian, corpus linguistics, genitive of negation, syntax, and pedagogy. I also enjoy translation.

I am currently working on a paper on word order and genitive of negation. Timberlake (1975) proposes that individuation plays a role in determining whether the genitive or accusative will be assigned to the direct object of negated verbs. Given that individuation is realized syntactically by fronting, his proposal suggests that direct objects that occur before negated verbs should predominantly be in the accusative. However, based on my quantitative study using data from the Russian National Corpus, I find that the genitive is overwhelmingly prefered in this context. Thus it appears that fronting may not be as important as previously thought in triggering the genitive of negation.

Teaching is one of my favorite things about being a graduate student. I have taught primarily Russian language courses and I look forward to teaching many other courses in different areas such as literature, culture, pedagogy, and my other research interests.