I am a scholar of twentieth century Russian literature and a specialist in the fields of Russian and Czech literary theory, folklore theory, and Russian and Czech modernisms. My book The Origins of Russian Literary Theory: Folklore, Philology, Form (Northwestern University Press, July 2022) is an intellectual history that reconstructs contexts for thinking about literary form from the 1840s to 1950s. This contextualization enables a reinterpretation of central Russian Formalist concepts and reveals lost paths in the history of literary theory. See here for an interview about the book.

My current book project, Circling in Time and Space: Modern Temporalities and the Narration of Experience, brings together research on the history of Russian literature, narrative theory, and folklore studies. I am researching the use of a particular narrative chronotope (cyclical time and bounded space) to articulate the experience of time in several case studies. These include Russian decadent and symbolist fiction, Soviet science fiction, and contemporary personal narratives communicated orally and online.