His research interests include Ukrainian-Russian literary relations in the nineteenth century, the shaping of modern Ukrainian cultural and national identity, and the text of Kyiv: constructions of the city in the Ukrainian, Russian, Jewish, and Polish literary and cultural imaginations, 1800s-2000s. His recent work includes articles on the representation of the Jews in Ukraine through the eyes of Russian travelers in the first decades of the 19th century and on Khmelnytsky in historical imagination. His current manuscript projects examine the working of ethno-cultural stereotypes of Ukrainians and Russians in the shaping of Gogol's literary career, and the blood libel trial of Beilis as a battle of political and cultural imaginations as played out in the press of the time.