Her subproject: Eternal Deviation: Digression in Russian Allegorical Opposition examines digression as a discourse of political subversion. Based on textual analysis of selected Russian fictional texts, the project contributes insights into the oppositional and political qualities of digression. Russian classics from Pushkin to Chekhov employ several well-researched examples of digression as narrative strategy. Under Soviet totalitarian repression, the Russian intelligentsia refined the literary technique of Aesopian fable or fabulation, or the art of being indirect, which became an escape strategy within academic communication. But a current tendency toward an alternative re-telling of Soviet history, as a digression within the grand narrative of Imperial Russia, may also be observed.