He specializes in 19th-century Russian literature and culture and has wider interests including 20th-century Russian literature, media, and mass culture, and Russian philosophy. His research takes an interdisciplinary approach to the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, incorporating Russian and European trends in literature, psychology, and the history of ideas. Dr. Harrison's book Archetypes from Underground: Notes on the Dostoevskian Self was published in May 2016 by the Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Other teaching and research interests are Russian cinema, translation studies, and technology-enhanced language learning.