My academic interests are in the field of cultural and religious history, early modern and medieval literary and linguistic culture, and the history of ideas. My publications are concerned with the cultural space of eastern, central, and southern medieval and early modern Europe, particularly, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Bohemia, Poland, and Croatia. In research and teaching, I deal with topics that include the history of and approaches to language, writing, and literacy; pre-modern historical writing and historical methods; Slavic (Cyrillic, Glagolitic, and Latin) and Greek paleography and cryptography; projects and theories of universal language; and Russian medieval and modern literature and culture. My undergraduate courses examine medieval literary and historical topics in the context of modern society and reveal their importance in the development of contemporary culture, politics, and social norms. In literature courses I focus on the study of reading strategies of imaginative texts that leads to the advanced understanding of literature as part of cultural history.