I studied in Moscow, Paris, Pisa and Oxford, where I completed my DPhil on the language of Greek prose of theĀ 2nd century CE, focusing onĀ linguistic variation and its sociohistorical background. My current interests are: Greek and Latin literature and sociolinguistic history of Greek and Latin of the imperial period (between 2nd and 5th centuries CE), ancient grammatical and rhetorical theory, and Graeco-Arabica.