Michael Gorham is a Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Florida and currently Archie K. Davis Fellow at the National Humanities Center. He received his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Stanford University and served for 12 years as Associate Editor in charge of literature and culture at The Russian Review. Gorham is the author of two award-winning books on language culture and politics and co-editor of Digital Russia: The Language, Culture, and Politics of New Media Communication (with Ingunn Lunde and Martin Paulsen, Routledge, 2014) as well as a special issue of Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie dedicated to “The Culture and Politics of Verbal Prohibition in Putin’s Russia.” His most recent scholarship has focused on matters relating to language culture and political communication on digitally mediated communications systems (the internet and social media in particular), including the book manuscript he is currently completing at the National Humanities Center, bearing the working title, Networking Putinism: The Rhetoric of Power in the Internet Age.
