Although born and raised near Chicago, Professor Richards has lived in Rome for nearly a decade, where she teaches literature at John Cabot. After completing her Bachelor’s degree in English at Hunter College in New York, Professor Richards pursued her passion for Russian literature by living in Moscow for nearly three years of cultural immersion in preparation for graduate studies. She received her PhD from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016. With over fifteen years of teaching language and literature classes at higher education institutions in both the United States and Italy (University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Texas at Austin, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”), she is happy to call John Cabot her home. Having completed her dissertation on Alexander Pushkin’s engagement with world history in 2016, Professor Richards has continued to publish primarily on his work. Professor Richards maintains membership in both the American and Italian professional associations for Slavic studies, and collaborates with various Italian Slavic studies journals in the capacity of English language editor. At John Cabot Professor Richards has had the opportunity to teach a variety of courses, ranging from Shakespeare to Radicalism in Literature to English Romanticism to The Russian Novel.