Dr. Casper-McFadden’s present research focuses on the Russian novel written throughout the turn of the twentieth century and redirects scholarly attention on important novels and novellas showcasing queer relationships and identities that are often overlooked in traditional academic inquiry. These queer narratives exude broader social and political concerns and anxieties existing in Russia during this centennial period and manifest alternative, equalizing realities that counter traditional heteronormativity and challenge official politics. At UVM, she teaches Queering the Russian Novel, Graphic Novels and Memory, Not Your Mother’s Fairytales, and The Ideological War in Ukraine.