Irina Reyfman’s research interests focus on Russian literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; cultural history; the semiotics of culture; censorship; state service, system of ranks and the status of the writer in Russia. She is co-translator, with Andrew Kahn, of Alexander Radishchev’s Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow (Columbia University Press, 2020). She is one of the four co-authors of the monumental A History of Russian Literature (Oxford University Press, 2018).