I am a scholar who works on early-20th-century Russian literature, with a special focus on gender studies and mass literature. I graduated in 2005 from the Faculty of History and Philology of the Russian State University for the Humanities. My specialization was History, Literature and Culture of Russia and France. From 2005 to 2008, I was a postgraduate student at the A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature (IWL) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. In 2008, I defended my thesis “Mass literature in the Structure of Russian Women’s Magazines of the 1910s”.

Furthermore, I studied at the French University College of Moscow, where I received the French diploma “Master 1” in History in 2007.

From 2011 to 2022, my academic activity was connected with the A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature. I worked as a Senior Researcher at the Department of Manuscripts of the IWL. I wrote scholarly articles, participated in conferences, was one of the organizers of conferences, and I was a coeditor of books published by the IWL.

Since 2022, I have been working at the University of Turku, School of History, Culture and Art Studies. From 2022 to 2025, I was a Collegium Researcher at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies. Currently, I am leading a research project "Revealing Official and Alternative Gender Discourses: Women’s (Self) Representations in Russia’s Wars, 1914–2024": Project Description | Women’s (Self) Representations in Russia’s Wars, 1914–2024

In my research, I focus on the way the war theme is connected with women images in fictional and non-fictional texts. I study strategies of constructing female images in fiction and in ego-documents about war. The study works with texts of Russian literature about the World War I and the Russian Civil War, written by both men and women: the well-known Soviet authors Boris Lavrenev, Boris Pilnyak, Pavel Blyakhin, Eduard Bagritsky; the “forgotten” writers Sofia Fedorchenko, Lusia Argutinskaya. Moreover, I look at memoirs by Anna Saksaganskaya, Natalia Sukhogorskaya, and by nameless Sisters of Mercy. The research methodology is based on methods in gender studies and literary analysis of texts. I also work with methods from history and memory studies.