1. Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Bristol in the UK, specializes in the study of metadiscourse, that is to say debates about language, language use, and the role and character which a language has or which its speakers think it should have.
2. Research Professor in Russian at the University of Bristol, has published books on the Russian revolutionary movement, early Russian liberalism, Russian travel writing, and the broader history of Russian thought, as well as two books on contemporary grammar and usage.
3. Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Moscow, has co-authored and co-edited a two-volume biographical dictionary on the French in Russia during the Enlightenment and has co-edited two volumes on the French tutor in Europe (17th-19th c.).