[4] Her academic interests include Russian popular culture, 20th-century and contemporary prose, the 19th century writer Nikolai Leskov, and the mythology of mass consciousness.

[4] From 1992 to 1995, she studied in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures in UCLA, and in 1999, she defended her dissertation, titled "Grand Duke Constantine Romanov in Russian Cultural Mythology".

[4] Dr. Kucherskaya has published multiple Russian-language bestsellers, including Современный Патерик (literally, Modern Paterikon) in 2005, translated into English and published as Faith and Humor in 2011 by Alexei Bayer;[8] and a reworking of her doctoral thesis, titled Бог дождя (The Rain God) in 2006.

[9] In 2014, she took part in a recording of theatrical readings of "Karinena", and published a collection of short stories titled Lamentations for the Departed Art Teacher.

"[10] In 2016, she published an article in the journal The Russian Review, titled "Literary Borrowing in the Work of N. S. Leskov".