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) “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.
  • “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.

Publications in progress

  • (Book manuscript) “Networking Putinism: The Rhetoric of Power in the Digital Age” (under review for publication).
  • (article) “Prime-time Solov’ev: Rhetorical Strategies of a Wartime Propagandist” (under review for publication)