He works on the intersection of philosophy and literature, and his current project focuses on the philosophical implications of Dostoevsky’s fiction. He recently worked with Katia Bowers to create @YakovGolyadkin, a twitter version of Golyakdin who tweeted his experience in the Double and live-tweeted his viewing of Richard Ayoade’s film adaptation; this was part of #TheDoubleEvent. He also teaches a variety of courses, including an Introduction to Philosophy centered on Crime and Punishment and a World Humanities course centered on seven different ways of life established in antiquity and still practiced today. His blog post on tweeting Part 4 of the novel can be found here.