Slavic Languages and Literatures
Andrei Platonov, the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky and Rustam Khamdamov, literary theory (Bakhtin and Shklovsky in particular), Moscow conceptualism (Ilya Kabakov, Vladimir Sorokin and Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Prigov), intersections between the textual and the visual, and the Soviet 'Orient'