Dmitrii Bresler is an independent researcher, focusing on the literature and culture of the Soviet epoch, particularly the modernist tradition in Leningrad of the 1920s and 30s and the "underground" cultural movement of the postwar period. He has taught courses at the Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg, Russia), at the Department of Art at Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic) and at the Department of Humanities at the University of Macerata (Macerata, Italy).

Research project at EXC 2020: Soviet Unofficial Culture in the Perestroika (1986–1991): Pragmatics and Aesthetics