Tim Harte received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2001, joining the faculty at Bryn Mawr a year later. His research interests center on 20th-century Russian literature, film, and culture, and he is currently completing The Aesthetics of Speed: Modern Motion and Russian Avant-Garde Culture, 1910-1930 , a book that explores the modernist “cult of speed” that emerged in Russian avant-garde painting, poetry, and cinema. He has also published articles on the Aleksandr Sokurov film Russian Ark, the “ferroconcrete poetry” of Vasilii Kamensky, and the treatment of modern athletics in the verse of Osip Mandel’stam. His teaching interests include courses on 20th-century Russian literature (Nabokov), avant-garde culture, contemporary Russian culture, Soviet and Eastern European cinema, and also Russian language courses. In his spare time, Tim enjoys long distance running, soccer and basketball (despite his conspicuous lack of talent), playing with his dog (Oliver) and two cats (Phinneas and Thaddeus), and going to the movies.