My position at LSE involves both co-ordinating Literature Courses, as well as coordinating Russian Language provision. I am the  Programme Director for our BSc Language, Culture and Society programme.

I specialise in Comparative Literature (British-French-Russian) with particular reference to Modernism and British-Russian cultural relations, reflected in my monographs From Orientalism to Cultural Capital: the Myth of Russia in British Literature in the 1920s (2017); G. B. Shaw in Russia; and The Silver Mask (on the Russian Symbolist poetry).  I have published extensively on the reception of British authors in Russia, Anglo-Russian intercultural communication and on Russian literature (nineteenth, twentieth and twenty first century). At present, I am researching the reception of Russian performance arts in Britain, and I am involved in a multi-university project looking at the social function of the Russian intelligentsia.

In addition to my position at LSE, I am an external examiner to the Foreign Commonwealth Office.

My most recent publication is Film Adaptations of Russian Classics Dialogism and Authorship. Edited by Alexandra Smith, Olga Sobolev. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.