Darya Spiridonov

Darya Spiridonov (born February 11, 1985, citizen of the United States) is an independent researcher specializing in sociology, literature, linguistics, and social theory.

Her research focuses on structural vulnerability, social inequality, domestic violence, and the formation of personality under conditions of economic and cultural constraint. She examines the influence of classical world literature on social life and on individual social behavior, integrating literary analysis with sociological observation and treating literature as a source of empirical insight into contemporary society.

Spiridonov is the author of multiple scholarly articles and essays published in academic journals and on international research platforms. Her work addresses themes such as the crisis of the middle class, the sociology of everyday life, migration and displacement, and the persistence of poverty in modern Western societies.

Her methodological approach is grounded in close reading, comparative analysis, and the use of classical European and American literature as a framework for interpreting modern social processes.

She is married to Andrey Spiridonov, PhD, an independent researcher and author specializing in intelligence and counterintelligence studies, founder of Institutional Counterintelligence Analysis (ICA), a scientific discipline focused on the study of adversarial institutional configurations. She is the daughter of Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Taran, PhD, Professor.