PhD – University of Kansas (USA), 2022, Department of Slavic, German and Eurasian Languages and Literatures  

Candidate of Science – Saint Petersburg State University (Russian Federation), 2009, Faculty of History, Department of Medieval History  

I was born in Saint Petersburg and received the degree of the Candidate of Science in History from Saint Petersburg State University in 2009. My research at Saint Petersburg State University was focused on Byzantine culture and the means of embodied engagement with the viewer and the reader that developed in the XIVth century Byzantine painting and literature. In 2022 I received PhD from the University of Kansas (USA). My PhD dissertation, titled “Visceral Narratives: Constructing Bodily Awareness as a Moral Value in Thaw and Post-Thaw Soviet Literature and Cinema,” explores how some Soviet writers and filmmakers of the Soviet long Thaw (1960s – 1970s) established new means of embodied engagement with the reader and the viewer that were intended to convey the silenced experiences of physical and mental illness, as well as the experiences of interaction between the sick people and the paternalistic system of medical care.  

At the moment I have several research interests. One of my current research interests is the contemporary Orientalism in the Russian cinema and literature and the construction of the Orientalist model of feminism and female empowerment that does not fit into Western models of feminism.  

My other research interest is the horror genre in XIXth century Russian and Western European culture and its Medieval and Renaissance roots. One of my most recent articles explores the engagement of the Russian XIXth century writer Alexander Pushkin with Medieval and Renaissance grotesque. 

Orientalism in the Russian culture, Orientalist models of feminism in contemporary Russophone cinema and literature 

Horror genre in the XIXth century Western European and Russian culture and the horror writers’ and artists’ engagement with Medieval and Renaissance grotesque 

Cinematic and literary means of conveying embodied experiences of the sick, problems of medical ethics in cinema and literature 

“Free Emotional Expression as a Strategy for Trauma Resistance in Kalatozov’s The Cranes Are Flying (1957) and Zarkhi’s Anna Karenina (1967).” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema (April 2020). Article ID: RRSC 1743907 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17503132.2020.1743907 

“Христианская женская проза сегодня: неудавшаяся попытка поиска новой женской субъективности?” (Christian women’s prose today: a failed quest for a new female subjectivity?) Voprosy Literatury (№1 2020) DOI: 10.31425/0042-8795-2020-1-132-149 https://voplit.ru/article/hristianskaya-zhenskaya-proza-segodnya-neudavshayasya-popytka-poiska-novoj-zhenskoj-subektivnosti 

“Staying Imperturbable in the Face of Fate: Alexander Pushkin’s Gothic Stories Conveying the Code of Honor in the Face of the Supernatural,” Russian Literature and Cognitive Science, ed. by Thomas Dolack, Lexington Press, November 2024, pp. 95-114 

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666941708/Russian-Literature-and-Cognitive-Science 

“Fierce Motherhood: Framing Empowered Femininity in Socialist Ideas in the Popular Series Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes (2020) in the Context of the Contemporary Russian Identity Quest,” under review

Worlds of History 

Europe Since 1870  

Women’s History