Professor of the Faculty of History of the European University at St. Petersburg; Professor of the I.E. Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (Academy of Arts); Visiting Professor of the Brown University (USA), the Albert Ludwig University (Freiburg, Germany) and the Venice International University.
Area of expertise — perception of foreign art in Russia, pictorial art and Russian philology, history of Art History. Author-compiler of a critical anthology 'Russian and Soviet Views of Modern Western Art, 1890s to Mid-1930s' (University of California Press, 2009).