Valeria Z. Nollan is the L. Palmer Brown Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Associate Professor of Russian. Her areas of specialization are Russian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, critical theory, Russian language, Russian music (especially Rachmaninoff). She is a trained classical pianist and published poet and has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Indiana University, Oberlin College, and Rhodes. She offers courses that, in addition to the aforementioned, include readings in Russian medieval literature, Russian religious philosophy/Russian Orthodoxy, and music history. She currently is working on a new biography of Rachmaninoff.