My research focuses on intersections between nineteenth-century fiction and other spheres of culture, including painting, science, and religion. I have written articles on topics ranging from the visual arts in Dostoevsky to the poetics of disease in Chekhov. My publications also include the co-edited volume "Alter Icons: The Russian Icon and Modernity" (Penn State Press, 2010). Most recently, I have been revising a book manuscript on representations of the historical Jesus in nineteenth-century fiction and painting.