I have been been involved in research projects on culture and new media for more than seven years by now. At the beginning of my career I mainly worked on developing new forms of presenting scientific content in times of Internet / TV convergence.

2002 my thesis "‘World Wide Resistance. On the traces of Obstinacy in the Age of the Internet‘‘ was published.

At present, I am a researcher in the department of Sociology at the University of Münster, which is the third largest in Germany. Currently, about 44,000 students are enrolled.

As a literary scholar I discovered the Internet "by accident" and got rapidly more and more fascinated by the complex relationship between culture and media. I started by studying Russian literary sites and digital poetry and soon got aware that these may be analysed not only with regard to their aesthetics but with a focus on their social and political potential as well. A lot of genuinely literary topics and techniques are provoked and challenged by the Internet as for example the metaphors and narratives used for describing the Web or the problematics of fiction and "faction".

My thesis (2000) was dedicated to intermedial conceptions of poetic language in Russian poetry of the 20th century. The intermedial and experimental approach of this work encouraged me a lot in my encounter with the (Russian) Internet.

Recently I am working at the Institute of Russian and Soviet Culture at the University of Bochum (Germany). The university is a very young one, it has been founded in the 1960 as a consequence of the first coal crisis in order to keep young people in a economically decreasing region. Today the university has about 30.000 students.

Having received my first degree on Language and Literature, I tried to combine my interest in contemporary culture with the merits of my education by doing research on "the Past representation in film". This area is still the research topic I am engaged with.

I have been involved in teaching and researching on contemporary culture subjects for 6 years, since obtaining my second diploma in Culturology, which is methodologically vague, but quite promising interdisciplinary field.

My thesis (2002) was on "Arthurian legend in Film and Advertising" and most of my publications have been dedicated to the problems of history reconstruction in media. So-called "Medievalism" is my favorite direction of Popular Culture studies, as it gives me a fat opportunity to visit international conferences.

At present, I am a professor in Russian State University for the Humanities (history and theory of culture department) and a tutor in the Institute for the European Cultures. I deliver courses on film studies, media studies and sociology, " The History of World Cinema", "The History of Russian Cinema"," Sociology of Culture", "Theory of Mass Communication" are among them.