This is the website of Mark Marchenko. I am a researcher and a writer with degrees in Linguistics, Cultural studies and Literature, including  the MSc degree from the University of Edinburgh. My academic and professional interests are closely interlinked and include: language acquisition, heroism, Western history and literature, classical and renaissance philosophy, mediaeval military history, modern hybrid warfare and intelligence. Moreover, I write fiction in both English and Russian. My professional activities also include client work: market research, talent mapping, and executive search. 

Below you will find the updated collection of my articles and fiction work. For information about my writing style, this site’s philosophy, structure, and technical details see the Site page; for information about myself, my professional path, see About Me page. You can also follow me on Twitter and on Instagram.

Fiction

• ‘All the Beautiful Souls there are’, published in Roi Fainéant magazine
• ‘The View from the Window of the House on the Embankment’, published in New Pop Lit magazine
• ‘You see, I am perfectly fine’, published in 3:AM Magazine
• The Feast, published in Zeenith issue of New Pop Lit magazine
• Written and published in Russian: One, Two, Three, Four and Five

Essays: Academic & General

• How to Choose a Foreign Language to Learn
• Moral Duality of Civilian, Philosophical, and Political Heroism
  
• ‘Here lies Arthur, king once, king to be.’ The Character of Sir Thomas Malory’s King Arthur through the Prism of the Heroic Leadership Dynamic
  
• The Concise Guide to Sleeping Well
• Everest Death Zone as a Metaphor, and Why You shouldn’t Go there Alone