Research (he/they)
Sociolinguistics • Queer and Trans Linguistics • Language and Identity • Language and Gender • Multilingualism • Post-Soviet / East Slavic Studies • Online / Digital Discourse • Critical Pedagogy
Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) • Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA / DHA) • Stance Analysis • Sociophonetics • Ethnography
We investigate a 1-million-token corpus of private peer chats from mid-2010s to track how Russian-speaking teenagers use queer identity labels under Russia’s 2013 “gay propaganda” law.
In this study, I analyze 27,300 comments under 54 Instagram Reels participating in an early 2026 viral trend that reacts to a male content creator receiving bouquets of red roses. I examine how Russian-speaking audiences enforce normative masculinity in online discourse, particularly by tracking the marked term muzhik (”real/masculine man”).
In this study, we look at how birth-assignment labels become tools of intracommunity policing. Through a 17,519-token X corpus and a 1,608-token Reddit corpus, we analyze the change of pragmatic meaning of the term theyfab.
My Master’s thesis focuses on sociopolitical indexicality among post-2022 displaced Russophone Ukrainians in Alaska. In this mixed-methods sociophonetic project, I plan to observe whether Ukrainian diaspora speakers retain non-reduced vowel realizations when speaking Russian varieties, testing how vowel (non)reduction indexes post-2022 sociopolitical stance and regional identification.
Explore my ESL instruction background and pedagogical philosophy.