Zachary Deming is a Ph.D. candidate with the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University, and an L.P. candidate at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. He has received an M.Phil. and an M.A. in Slavic Languages from Columbia, and a B.A. in Literature and Russian Studies from Hamilton College. His research examines the Russian literature and culture of the 19th century, with a focus on the style and semiotics of early Romantic lyric poetry.