In 2003 I completed a PhD in Slavic Languages (specialising in Russian literature) and since then I have worked as a researcher and lecturer in Russian and the history of Russian literature and culture here at SOL. In 2007, within the framework of a project on the role of memory and the autobiography in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union, I organised an international conference on “The Poetics of Memory in Post-Totalitarian Narration”, which led to an anthology of the same title (2008).

From 2011 to 2015 I am working on the research project “The memory of Chernobyl in witness and fiction literature from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia”, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ).

I have also translated two, contemporary Russian novels into Swedish and continuously publish articles on Russian literature and culture in Sydsvenskan and Svenska Dagbladet.