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 (past 5 years)

  • (invited lecture) “Wartime Runet and Prigozhin’s Mediated Mutiny: A Cautionary Tale.” Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY, 3 April 2025.
  • (Discussant) “Politics and Identity in the Soviet Arts.” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS), Lexington, KY, 1 March 2025.
  • “Telegramming Mutiny: The Socially Mediated Rise of Evgeny Prigozhin.” Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Boston, MA, 23 November 2024.
  • (invited lecture) “Mediated Navalny: A Rhetorical Analysis of Russia’s First Digitally Networked Politician,”
    • The Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC, 9 April 2024.
    • Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Duke University. Durham, NC, 3 April 2024.
  • “Navalny as Mediated Opposition: The Rhetorical Strategies of a YouTube Politician.” Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Philadelphia, PA, 1 December 2023.
  • (Discussant) “Linguistic Analysis of Slavic Media Discourse.” Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), Philadelphia, PA, 2 December 2023.
  • “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.

Publications in progress

  • (Book) Networking Putinism: The Rhetoric of Power in the Digital Age (at press, Cornell University Press; anticipated January 2026).