My main research topic is Russian modernism, and I have particularly studied the poetry and poetics of Marina Tsvetaeva's, and Andrey Platonov's particular understanding of the Russian Revolution. I have also done research on avant-garde, Soviet culture and post-Soviet literature, and in connection with that I have written on totalitarianism, memory culture, literature and politics. My research in Russian literature spans several academic fields. A central interest has been to find points of contact and parallels between Russian literature, culture and theory and European literary, cultural and philosophical tradition. Although I primarily write about Russian literature, I approach them in a dialogue with aesthetic and philosophical theories from Romanticism to the present day, which, in my eyes, makes it possible to broaden the understanding of important issues in their works. I have participated in several projects funded by the Baltic Sea Foundation such as Loss of grounds as common ground: an interdisciplinary investigation of the common beyond liberal and communitarian claims (2011-2013); "Man builds and gets destroyed himself": Aesthetics of the sublime in Soviet Russian Literature (2014-2016); Traces of oblivion: Identity, Heritage and Memory in the Wake of a Nationalistic Turn (2019-2022); Writing and Thinking at the Margins: A Philosophical Strategy to Resist Totalitarianism in Post-War Eastern Europe (2023-)