Music Industry Studies and Musicology

  • Taylor Swift: Theory and Practice

  • Music Industry Forum

  • Apprenticeships in the Music Industry

  • The History of Rock n Roll

  • Storytelling and Business (listed at Anderson School of Business, UCLA)

  • History of the Recording Industry

  • American Popular Song before Rock n Roll

  • Music and the Internet

  • Music and Web3 (Mellon Social Justice Initiative)

  • Music, AI, and the Law (forthcoming)

Eastern Europe and Beyond: Cultural Studies / Social Technology

  • History of Russian Cinema

  • Russian Contemporary Audiovisual Culture

  • History of Animation (Los Angeles, Moscow, and Tokyo)

  • Animation and Literature

  • Global Sex (co-taught with Anjali Arondekar, UCSC)

  • Race, Gender, and Sexuality (co-taught with Anjali Arondekar, UCSC)

  • Social Networks and Storytelling

  • Health Humanities (seminar, co-taught with Rachel Lee)

  • Coding for Humanities

  • Digital Analysis of Literature: Tools and Techniques

Eastern Europe: Literary Foci

  • Russian Culture under the Czars

  • Survey of Russian Literature

  • Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

  • The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel

  • Tolstoy’s Novels

  • The Russian Heroine

  • Dostoevsky and the Russian Idea

  • Dostoevsky and the West

  • Gogol

  • Chekhov and Turgenev

  • History of Russian Theatre

  • Literature and Revolution

  • Twentieth-Century Russian Civilization

  • Twentieth-Century Russian Literature

  • Nabokov

  • Post-Stalinist Literature

  • Contemporary Russian Literature

  • Russian Language (all levels)

Global Contexts: Literary/Media History

  • World Literature: Antiquity to Middle Ages

  • World Literature: Middle Ages to 1700s

  • World Literature: Enlightenment to Modernity

  • Great Books of the World at Large (non-European texts)

  • Comparative Media Studies

Professionalization

  • Careers in the Humanities

  • Careers in Music (forthcoming) 

Classes