I am a Postdoctoral Fellow on the Shrinking the Planet project. The project aims to compare how the middle classes in China, India, and Russia develop their subjectivities through learning psychotherapy. I conducted participant observation at a training centre in Russia. It is timely to study psychotherapy in Russia at this particular moment, when its students and practitioners are finding themselves in the centre of wider public debates about trauma, moral responsibility, guilt, self-care, and personal boundaries.
Research interests
Topics: Expertise, knowledge production, psychotherapy, media production, Hollywood, social class.
Regional interests: USA, Russia.
Background
Before embarking on this project, I received my PhD in sociology from the University of Cambridge, where I studied another expertise-based cultural industry, namely the production of television series in the USA, focusing on the consultants in social and political issues working in Hollywood. Prior to that, I received a BA and a PhD in philosophy focusing on models of mind in the 18th century philosophy and literature, an MA in cultural studies, and taught philosophy and cultural studies in Moscow.
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2011–2016: Teaching Fellow, School of Cultural Studies, Higher School of Economics, Moscow.
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2008–2009: Teaching Associate, School of Cultural Studies, Higher School of Economics, Moscow.
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2006–2007: Teaching Associate, Institute for Cultural Studies, State University of the Humanities, Moscow.
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2021: PhD in sociology from University of Cambridge • 2009: PhD in philosophy from Moscow State University.