Academia
2023–2026
Goethe University, Frankfurt
Institut für deutsche Literatur und ihre Didaktik
Researcher
taught a graduate level course on The Aesthetics of Repetition in Mass Culture, supervised 6 term papers
finished a book on the technological history of popular song lyrics to come out in Bloomsbury in mid-2026
2009–2022
School of Philology, Moscow State
Department of Communication and Discourse Studies
Junior Lecturer → Assistant Professor
developed and taught selective courses in sociology, academic writing, media theory and sound studies for students of philology (8 courses)
developed the first Russian curriculum in sound studies
developed an undergraduate curriculum in song lyrics analysis based on Russian and English language songs (the only such curriculum in Russia)
lectured on literary history, general linguistics, language teaching methodology, English academic writing
took part in the development of and taught the department’s mandatory course in Theory and Practice of Communication
supervised 50+ graduation papers and more than 200 term papers
organized conferences and round tables on an international level
Selected Conference Papers
“A Magical Piece of Code”: A Note on the Sentimental / Sedimental Condition of Contemporary Repetition / From Loops to Streams: Repetition and Attention in the Recording Age. Goethe University Frankfurt, November 14, 2025.
A Medium in a State of Shock: The Ghost of Human Listening / States of Shock. University of Lille (France), June 5, 2025.
Resonant Traces: Time, Space, and the Materiality of Sound in Beckett and Lucier / Embodied Modernism. Beijing, May 16, 2025 (online)
The Traditional Internet: Ideology and the Form of Media in Contemporary Russia / Concepts of Contemporary Russian Politics: Their Influence in Germany and France. EHESS / SciencePo, Paris. December 1—2, 2024.
Sonic Insulation: Urban Landscapes During the Pandemic / ECHOES Festival, ZIL Cultural Center, Moscow, August 28, 2020
The Spell of the Voice in “Leaves of Grass” / International Conference on Walt Whitman, Moscow, October 2020
Anthology As a Vehicle of Institualization: Rock Poetry in Russian Academia / Canon? Practice? Commodity? The past, present and future of the literary anthology, London, UK, June 15, 2019
«We see him only in parts»: American Identity in the «Songs and stories from Moby Dick» by Laurie Anderson / The Sixth Zverev Conference in American Studies, Russian University for Humanities, Moscow, May 16, 2019
Giving Voice to Sound / Sound and music in the prism of sound studies, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, January 26, 2019.
Editorial Work
Studies in East European Thought. Special Issue on War and Contemporary Philosophy. 2025. Co-editor.
Society and Intellectual Life in Russia: The Impact of the Ukraine Invasion. Bloomsbury, 2026. Co-editor.
Conference Committees
November 13—14, 2025. From Loops to Streams: Repetition and Attention in the Recording Age. Goethe University Frankfurt. Head of Committee.
October 16—20, 2025. Facing the Future: Russian Language Humanities in Exile. Athens, Greece. Independent Institute of Philosophy, Paris. Member of Committee.
October 14—20, 2024. War and Contemporary Philosophy. Budva, Montenegro. Independent Institute of Philosophy, Paris. Member of Committee.
April 17, 2019. Rock Poetry as an Object of Philology. Moscow State. Head of Committee.
December 7—8, 2018. Silent Music: Silence As a Subject of Artistic and Scholarly Reflection. Moscow State. Head of Committee.
March 6, 2018. Inside the Sound Body of Language: Speech, Poetry, Performance //Au corps sonore de la langue: discours, poésie, performance. Moscow State. Head of Committee.
February 26—March 26, 2017 Word of Sound: The Pragmatics of Auditory Discourse. Moscow State. Head of Committee.
September 25—26, 2015 Voice and the Literary Imagination. Moscow State. Head of Committee.