Research interests

I am joining the Institute of Slavic Philology at LMU, after receiving my PhD in Comparative Literature and Slavic Studies at New York University in 2023. I have previously studied literary and Slavic studies at the University of Toronto and, more recently, have been a guest lecturer at Bard College Berlin.

My dissertation, The Evolutionary Imaginary. Liberal Modernity and Otechestvennye zapiski in Russia’s Post-Reform Period, built a comparative framework between biological sciences, European liberal modernity, and Victorian and Russian literatures. It explored how the semantically ambiguous evolutionary discourse entered Russian literary works not only as a set of ideologically charged ideas to critique, but also as a unique set of metaphors and narrative forms shaped under local social imaginaries and concerns.

• Russian literature in comparative perspectives
• Interrelationship between biology, politics, and literature in the nineteenth century, although I plan to expand my temporal horizons
• Theories of the novel, but also short fictional genres and periodical studies
• Theories of modern power and their relation to literary form
• Borderlessness in Russian social imaginaries