B.A., Wesleyan University (2000)
M.F.A., University of Virginia (2010)
“As a master’s student in the English Department at UVa, I was well aware of the Jefferson Fellowship and the prestige of being nominated for the program. So I was thrilled when I received one of the nominations from UVa’s Slavic Languages and Literature program, to which I’d applied as a Ph.D candidate. The decision to study at Virginia was, for me, an easy one to make. The Jefferson Fellowship was certainly the deciding factor. But just as important to me was the quality of my future department. The most compelling advantage of the Jefferson Fellowship is the degree to which it fosters cross-disciplinary dialog. Here, bridging the gap between disciplines is not an abstraction: fellows come together to plan conferences, invite guest lecturers-and sometimes just chat over coffee, with the new Fellows Center fast becoming the locus of all these activities.”
