PhD

Education:
2021 PhD: University of Tartu
2017 Master's degree: Saint Petersburg State University, specialty “Russian Language and Literature”
2015 Bachelor's degree: Saint Petersburg State University, specialty “Russian Language and Literature”

PhD:
M.A. Kuzmin's Writing Strategy and Literary Reputation in the Early Soviet Period (1917–1924) (2021)

Research interests:
Russian literature of the 20th century, Russian avant-garde, textual criticism of Russian literature of the 20th century, Mikhail Kuzmin, Konstantin Vaginov, Russian folklore, heroic epos, cultural anthropology

Teaching activity:
Senior Lecturer, National Research University “Higher School of Economics” (St. Petersburg)

Academic publications (10 in total, including 2 monographs):

Monographs:

  • The Uninvited Alien: Mikhail Kuzmin. From the Silver Age to Informal Culture. Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., 2025. 576 с.
  • Literary Criticism and Literary Reputation: Strategies, Techniques, Authors. St. Petersburg: Rostock, 2024. 430, [1] p. (Co-authored with A.S. Alexandrov, E.K. Alexandrova, T.V. Varfalameeva, S.A. Ipatova, A.E. Kozlov, V.N. Krylov, T.V. Misnikevich, Yu.B. Orlitsky, A.V. Fedorova, V.V. Filicheva, A.A. Chaban)

Articles:

  • The Poetry Collection Zvukopodobie and the Reception of Konstanitn Vaginov’s Work in the Second Half of the 20th Century. Literaturnyi fakt, no. 2 (36), 2025, pp. 274–297.(In Russ.) https://doi. org/10.22455/2541-8297-2025-36-274-297.
  • Discipline and Comment: Reception and Pragmatics of M. Kuzmin’s Diary. Slověne, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 172–199. DOI: 10.31168/2305-6754.2024.1.06
  • From the Revolution to Gnosticism: Mikhail Kuzmin in the Autumn of 1917. Studia Religiosa Rossica: Russian Journal of Religion, no. 1, 2023, pp. 52–66, DOI: 10.28995/2658-4158-2023-1-52-66
  • Whither Drifted “The Sailors of Marseilles” in 1917?, Literaturnyi fakt, no 1 (19), 2021, pp. 181–199. https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2021-19-181-199
  • M.A. Kuzmin’s the Thawed Trail: A Failed Attempt at Writing a Novel About Current Events. Russkaia literatura, no. 3, 2022, pp. 74–86. https://doi.org/10.31860/0131-6095-2022-3-74-86
  • Toward the Reinterpretation of Mikhail Kuzmin’s “War Stories”. Slavica Revalensia, vol. 8, 2021, pp. 56–79. https://doi.org/10.22601/SR.2021.08.03
  • Mikhail Kuzmin’s Literary Reputation: Canon, Reception, Strategy. Tomsk State University Journal, no. 458, 2020, pp. 51–59. DOI: 10.17223/15617793/458/6
  • Poetics and Context of Mikhail Kuzmin's Ode “The Hostile Sea” (1917). Slavica Revalensia, vol. 7, 2020, pp. 9–36. https://doi.org/10.22601/SR.2020.07.01