Research interests
My research interests lie in the intersection between literary studies and cultural history in the context of the early Soviet Union, and particularly in the relationship between culture and ideology.

I am currently working on a dissertation that analyses the representation of blood in a variety of literary texts, artworks, scientific writings, and ideological and philosophical tracts produced in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, with a focus on conceptualising blood as a creative and productive substance. I use a close-reading approach to argue for the significance of blood as both material and metaphor in Bolshevik ideology, art, and politics, and ask how blood was understood and portrayed during a time of mechanistic conceptualisations of the human body. This work is interdisciplinary and, by targeting a wide range of Russian-language primary sources, aims to produce a detailed understanding of what blood meant in this period of history - a time which was characterised by violence, yes, but also by immense creativity and utopian experimentation.

This work is funded by a Faculty of Arts scholarship from the University of Bristol.

Prior education
Before beginning my PhD, I completed a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages (French and Russian, 2017-2021) and an MPhil in European Literatures and Cultures (Russian, 2021-2022) at Trinity College, Cambridge, where I was also granted an MA in 2024. During my undergraduate degree I studied for one year at Kazan Federal University, Russia. 

Editing
As of December 2025 I have joined the team at MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities as its second postgraduate editor. The next issue on 'Disgust' will be published in Autumn 2026.

Teaching
In 2025 I supervised a foundation degree student on an extended project that addressed aspects of Ukrainian cinema in the 1960s.

I am teaching on both of The Brilliant Club's widening participation programmes: for 'Join the Dots' I coach first year undergraduates at the University of Bristol in academic skills and provide pastoral support; for 'The Scholars Programme' I teach the course 'Reimagining Reality: Documentary Approaches in Art' to two small groups of secondary school students.

Research culture
I convene a peer-to-peer feedback workshop for postgraduate students in the Russian department here at Bristol. We meet fortnightly to discuss each other's work in an encouraging and intellectually curious environment. This workshop series is supported by UoB's 'Enhancing Research Environment and Culture Reactive Fund'.