He previously studied at the University of Oxford and the Polish Academy of Sciences, before completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2014. He subsequently worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the universities in Oxford, Warsaw, and the Freie Universität Berlin. In 2018, he received a research scholarship from the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the Module Temporary Positions for Principal Investigators for a project at the Institut für Slavistik, University of Potsdam. His research interests include memory studies, postcolonialism, and comparative literature with a focus on the written and visual cultures of Belarus, Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine.