Major interests: Medieval Slavic literature, history, and languages.

Selected publications:

• "The House of Rogvolod." In Imenoslov: Istoricheskaia semantika imeni, vol. 2: 189-204. Moscow: Indrik, 2007.
• "Edward Keenan,Vladimir Dal´, and the Slovo o polku Igoreve." Russian History/Histoire Russe 33: 2-4 (2006) (=Festschrift for Norman W. Ingham): 217-33.
• "Russian vurdalak ‘vampire’ and related forms in Slavic." Journal of Slavic Linguistics 13 (2005): 237-50.
• "The Autumn Saint George's Day (Iur´ev Den´), the Date of the Codex Assemanianus, and the Dedication of Iaroslav's Kievan Church of St. George in the East Slavic Tradition." Palaeoslavica 12 (2005): 2: 37-47.
• "A Woman of Words: Olga's Pagan Period in Comparative Context." Slavic Review 64 (2004): 771-93.
• "Wenceslas: The Saint and His Name in Kievan Rus." Slavic and East European Journal 48 (2004): 63-78.
• "Vladimir, Saint." Encyclopedia of Russian History, vol. 4. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2004.
• Enlightener of Rus': The Image of Vladimir Sviatoslavich across the Centuries. Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica, 2002.