My research within Slavic languages and literatures is motivated and sustained by an attendance to the voices that have been excluded from the canon both by the academy and in the broader cultural conversation. This allegiance to the margins has taken on different manifestations over the course of my professional career — whether it be in the form of excavating forgotten and ignored authors and texts or the uncovering of latent motifs within well-known works. At each turn, my scholarship is compelled by the ethical imperative to expand the conversation, the community, and the canon both to include and appreciate that which has slipped through the cracks. Rather than seeking to establish myself as a scholar of one era or tradition, I aim to chart a research path that explores the margins of culture, society, and textuality across diverse forms and formations, with particular attention paid to Russia, Ukraine, and the former Yugoslavia from the medieval period through the present day.