Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford; holds a doctorate from Oxford, where she completed a DPhil on Vladimir Nabokov and the Aesthetics of Disgust; she is the co-translator, with Thomas Karshan, of Nabokov's neo-Shakespearean blank verse drama The Tragedy of Mister Morn ; b. 1984 in Moscow; raised in England; great-great-great grand-daughter of Russian author, Leo Tolstoy