Current Research

Here (below) are some projects that are either in progress or at press. Click here to see a list of my published works, and here for a full CV.

Recent conference papers, public talks and invited lectures

  • “Prime-time Solov’ev: Rhetorical Strategies of a Wartime Propagandist,” for international conference on “Language, Media, Culture, Literature, and the War: Constructions, Representations, and Responses,” sponsored by the VW foundation, University of Hildesheim and the University of Alberta, Hannover, Germany, 22 February 2023.
  • “Navalny, FBK, and the Digitally-mediated Rhetoric of Political Opposition in Putin’s Russia.” (Virtual) Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), 1 October 2022.
  • “Rhetorical Strategies of the Networked Navalny: A Case-study of Digitally Mediated Communication.” British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES), Annual Meeting, Cambridge, UK (9 April 2022).
  • (Discussant) “The Evolution and Diversity of Russian Online Trolling: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Internet as Battlefield.” (Virtual) Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), 3 December 2021.
  • “Sovereignty and Circumvention in Russia’s Digital Information Sphere.” Roundtable organizer and participant for (Virtual) Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, 7 November 2020.
  • “Trolling, Power, and Political Communication in Putin’s Russia.” Invited paper for international workshop, “Political Rhetoric in Post-Soviet Russia,” Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, 11 July 2019.
  • “‘Тьфу на тебя, Алексей Навальный!’ (‘Curse You, Alexey Navalny!’): YouTube and the Boundaries of Civic Debate in Putin’s Russia.” Conference paper for British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES), Annual Meeting, Cambridge, UK, 13 April 2019.
  • Mediated Performances II: Authoritarian Rein in and over New Media Environments in Russia.” Roundtable organizer and participant for Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 8 December 2018.
  • “Mediated Performances I: Assessing RT’s Impact.” Roundtable organizer and chair for ASEEES Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 8 December 2018.
  • “Varieties of Russian Cyber Aggression.” Invited lecture to summer-school seminar devoted to “Hybrid Threats,” Jyväskylä University, Jyväskylä, Finland, 15 August 2018.

Publications at press

  • “Russian Political Discourse.” Submitted to Brill’s Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Literatures (7300-word encyclopedia article; accepted, at press).

Publications in progress

  • (Book manuscript) “Networking Putinism: The Rhetoric of Power in the Internet Age” (anticipated 2024).