(Click here for information on my current research and works in progress, and here for a copy of my full CV.)

Books

• Gorham, Michael S. 2014.  After Newspeak: Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin (Cornell University Press 2014). Awarded “Outstanding Academic Book” (2014) by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.
  • Selected reviews: Slavic Review (Review essay by Mark Lipovetsky); Digital Icons (Robert Saunders), New Literary Review (НЛО) (Gasan Gusejnov — in Russian); Slavic and East European Journal (Thomas J. Garza); Slavonic and East European Review (Stephen Lovell); Nationalities Papers (Aziz Burkhanov)
• ———. 2003. Speaking in Soviet Tongues: Language Culture and the Politics of Voice in Early Soviet Russia. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press. Awarded “Best Book in Literary and Cultural Studies” prize (2004) from the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) and “Outstanding Academic Book” (2003) by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.

Edited Volumes

• Gorham, Michael S. and Daniel Weiss. 2016 (Special Issue). “The Culture and Politics of Verbal Prohibition in Putin’s Russia,” Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie 72:2 & 73:1. (Published May 2017).
• Gorham, Michael S., Ingunn Lunde, and Martin Paulsen, eds. 2014. Digital Russia: The Language, Culture, and Politics of New Media Communication. London: Routledge.

Peer-review Articles and Book Chapters (since 2006)

• Gorham, M. S. 2023. “Political Discourse Analysis.” In M. L. Greenberg (ed.), Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_036318.
• Gorham, Michael S. 2021. “‘Тьфу на тебя, Алексей Навальный!’: Границы публичной политической интернет-дискуссии в путинской России” (“‘Curse you, Alexey Navalny’: The Boundaries of Civic Debate in the Networked Public Sphere of Putin’s Russia.” In Nesovershennaia publichnaia sfera: Istoriia rezhimov publichnosti v Rossii (Imperfect Public Sphere: The History of Regimes of Public-ness in Russia), 683-717. Еd. Tat’iana Vaiser, Timur Atnashev, and Mikhail Velizhev. Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie/Routledge: Moscow. (See the web-based journal, Colta, for an abbreviated version of this piece, published as a “sneak preview” of the volume in which it appeared.)

• ———. 2020. “Trolling, vlast’ i politicheskaia kommunikatsiia v putinskoi Rossii” (“Trolling, Power, and Political Communication in Putin’s Russia”). Neprikosnovennyi Zapas, no. 123 H3 (4): 23–42.
• ———. 2019. “Beyond a World with One Master: The Rhetorical Dimensions of Putin’s ‘Sovereign Internet.” In Transnational Russian Studies, ed. Andy Byford, Connor Doak, and Stephen Hutchings, 266–82. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press.
• ———. 2019. “When Soft Power Hardens: The Formation and Fracturing of Putin’s “Russian World.” In Global Russian Cultures, ed. Kevin M. F. Platt, 185–206. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
• ———. 2017. “Humpty Dumpty and the Troll Factory: Varieties of Verbal Subversion on the Russian-Language Internet,” Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie 73:1, 79–103.
• Gorham, Michael S. and Daniel Weiss. 2016. “Introduction.” In Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie 73 (1): 247–253. Special double issue on “The Culture and Politics of Verbal Prohibition in Putin’s Russia,” guest edited with Daniel Weiss (Published May 2017)
• Gorham, Michael S. 2014. “О ‘падонках’ и ‘кибердружинниках’: Виртуальные источники порчи языка” (“From ‘Scumbags’ to ‘Cyberpatrols’: Digital Sources of Discursive Contamination”). In Настройка языка: Управление коммуникациями на постсоветском пространстве (Tuning Language: Communication Management in Post-Soviet Space), ed. E. G. Lapina-Kratasyuk, O. V. Moroz, and E. G. Nim, 240–258. Moscow: NLO Press.
• ———. 2014. “Politicians Online: Prospects and Perils of ‘Direct Internet Democracy.’” In Digital Russia: The Language, Culture, and Politics of New Media Communication, ed. Michael S. Gorham, Ingunn Lunde and Martin Paulsen, 233–50. London, UK: Routledge Press.
• ———. 2012. “Medvedev’s New Media Gambit: The Language of Power in 140 Characters or Less.” In Power and Legitimacy: Challenges from Russia, ed. Per-Arne Bodin, Stefan Hedlund and Elena Namli, 199–219. London: Routledge.
• ———. 2012. “Putin’s Language.” In Putin as Celebrity and Cultural Icon, ed. Helena Goscilo, 82–104. New York: Routledge.
• ———. 2012. “Language Culture and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia: Economies of Mat [Obscenity].” In Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities, ed. Mark Bassin and Catriona Kelly, 237–253. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• ———. 2011. “Virtual Rusophonia: Language Policy as ‘Soft Power’ in the New Media Age,” Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media 5: 23–48.
• ———. 2011. “Rusofonía virtual: La lingüistica como soft power,” Infoamérica: Iberoamerican Communication Review 6 [2011]: 115–135 (translation into Spanish of “Virtual Rusophonia…” [2011]).
• ———. 2010. “Language Ideology and the Evolution of Kul’tura iazyka (“Speech Culture”) in Soviet Russia.” In Politics and the Theory of Language in the USSR 1917-1938, ed. C. Brandist and Katya Chown, 137-149. London: Anthem Press.
• ———. 2009. “Linguistic Ideologies, Economies, and Technologies in the Language Culture of Contemporary Russia (1987–2008),” Journal of Slavic Linguistics 17:1–2: 163-192.
• ———. 2009. “‘Let’s Speak Russian!’ Monitoring and Norm Negotiation in the Electronic Media.” In From Poets to Padonki: Linguistic Authority and Norm Negotiation in Modern Russian Culture, (Slavica Bergensia, vol. 9), ed. Ingunn Lunde and Martin Paulsen, 315-335. Bergen, Norway: Slavica Bergensia.
• ———. 2009. “Writers at the Front: Language of State in the Civil War Narratives of Isaac Babel and Dmitrii Furmanov.” In The Enigma of Isaac Babel: Biography, History, Context, ed. Gregory Freidin, 100-115. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
• ———. 2006. “Language Culture and National Identity in Post-Soviet Russia.” In Landslide of the Norm: Language Culture in Post-Soviet Russia (Slavica Bergensia, vol. 6), ed. Ingunn Lunde and Tine Roesen, 18–30. Bergen, Norway.
• ———. 2006. “Vladimir Putin and the Rise of the New Russian Vulgate,” Groniek: Historisch Tijdschrift (Netherlands) 39 (no. 172).