The article analyzes the research program of Lucas Schulz, a professor at the University of Manchester (Great Britain). This program is based on the principle of transnationalism. Lukas Schulz believes that it is unacceptable to conduct cultural research on the principle of analyzing the scope of cultural phenomena of a particular nation-state. He believes that transnationalism is at the core of cultural studies. The main approaches of transnationalism: radical contextualism, reliance on comparative studies and dewesternization of academic cultural studies. A critical study of the position of Lukas Schulz shows that some of his principles can be mastered in Russian cultural studies, but at the same time it is necessary to avoid those practices that Professor Schulz calls for and which are based on the method of positive discrimination. It is hardly possible to achieve an adequate scientific model if, at the same time, one or another of its creators is discriminated against.