Research and Publications (DOI)

All publications listed below constitute the canonical research output of Darya Spiridonov and are available through DOI-indexed repositories (Zenodo) and affiliated academic platforms. The work is organized thematically to reflect the internal structure of her research program.

Social Theory, Vulnerability, and Modern Life

• Suffering at a Distance: Moral Judgment and Social Indifference in Chekhov’s Ward No. 6 (2026)

• Poverty as a Social Phenomenon: From Russian Classical Literature to Contemporary Forms of Vulnerability in Western Societies

• The Price of a Myth: The American Dream, Rising Life-Cycle Costs, and the Sociological Crisis of Middle-Class Modernity

• Social Determinism and the Formation of the Individual: Class, Nation, and Biological Constraint

• Tocqueville’s America Revisited: The Enduring Influence of Democracy in America on Contemporary United States Society, Politics, and Economic Governance (1835–2025)

Violence, Power, and Asymmetry

• Domestic Violence as a Rational Practice: A Criminological Account of Power, Asymmetry, and Injury (with Andrey Spiridonov)

• Unveiling the Illusions: Domestic Violence and the Manipulation of Social Realities

• The Familiar Face of Harm: Intimacy, Violence and the Enduring Legacy of Classical Literature

Literature as Analytical Framework

• Movement, Fraud, and the Economy of Intimacy: The Man without a Biography in The Twelve Chairs and Nights of Cabiria

• Literature and Documentary Film as Criteria of Reality: Observation, Memory, and the Social Archive

• Environment as Regime: Duration, Saturation, and the Inscription of Human Form in Realist Literature

Language, Cognition, and Sociolinguistics

• Language as Social Regime: Sociolinguistics and the Formation of Knowledge at Georgetown University

• Quarter-Educated Minds Revisited: Functional Literacy, Fragmented Attention, and the Social Psychology of Reading in High-Stimulus Environments

• L’influenza dei dialetti italiani sull’italiano standard: storia linguistica, impoverimento lessicale e analfabetismo funzionale

Culture, Perception, and Contemporary Experience

• Memory Against History: Collective Amnesia and the Logic of Recurrence

• Between Ruin and Emergence: The Existential Meaning of Observing Urban Construction

• Losers with Passports: Travel as a Mask for Emptiness in Literature and Late Modern Life

Joint and Collaborative Research

• Domestic Violence as a Rational Practice: A Criminological Account of Power, Asymmetry, and Injury (with Andrey Spiridonov)

• The Structural Foundations of Marital Stability: Social Origin, Cultural Compatibility, and Ethnocultural Divergence in Contemporary Geopolitical Reality (with Andrey Spiridonov)