She received her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Brown University in 2003. Her recent publications include articles “Forward to the Past or Two Radical Views on Russian Nationalist Future: Pyotr Krasnov’s Behind the Thistle and Vladimir Sorokin’s Day of Oprichnik” (SEEJ), and “Kabbalah, Judeo-Masonic Conspiracy and Post-Soviet Literary Discourse: from Political Tool to Virtual Reality” (The Russian Review).