My academic interests are Russian literature from different eras. In classic Russian literature, my main interests are Nikolai Gogol and Fyodor Dostoevsky, but I have also worked with Lev Tolstoi and Anton Chekhov. In Soviet Russian literature I am especially interested in Andrei Platonov, but also in other authors from its early period, such as Mikhail Bulgakov and, recently, Varlam Shalamov. As far as Post-Soviet literature is concerned, main interests are Viktor Pelevin and Pavel Krusanov. More lately, I have also been interested in indigenous Russian literature, Iurii Rytkheu in particular.
Within the field of literary theory, I am interested in Bakhtin’s genre theory, chronotope, and Lotman’s semiotic analyses of literary spaces. Lately I have also been interested in analyses of literary texts in the light of Modernism and Post-Modernism.