Welcome Elisa Mucciarelli - ScienceCampus Predoctoral Researcher

The ScienceCampus is delighted to welcome Elisa Mucciarelli to our team as a Pre-Doctoral Researcher starting from 1 April for one year.

Elisa Mucciarelli is a researcher specialising in Russian-language literature from the North Caucasus, particularly Ingush and Chechen literature, as well as Russian-Georgian literary entanglements. Her research incorporates postcolonial, decolonial, and ecocritical approaches to Russian-language literature, with a focus on literary constructions of space.

She holds an M.A. in East-West Studies: Europe in Discourse, with a focus on Slavic cultural and linguistic studies, from the University of Regensburg. Her master's thesis, Ingushetia’s Vernacular Landscape and the Colonial Encounter in Idris Bazorkin’s "Iz T’my Vekov" (1968), was published in a shortened version in ForAP, the journal of the University of Regensburg, in July 2024.

Until March 2025, she has been a research associate at the Chair of Slavic Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Regensburg (Prof. Mirja Lecke) and a lecturer for German as a Foreign Language at the Chair of Economics as part of the DAAD project Ukraine Digital. She previously worked as a student assistant at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies and at the University of Regensburg.

Currently, she is pursuing a PhD with the dissertation project Writing Abkhazia: Literature and Space in the (Post-)Soviet Realm. Her research explores the literary representation of Abkhazia by Abkhaz, Russian, and Georgian authors from the 1960s to the present, analysing space as a dynamic and relational concept. Using post- and decolonial perspectives, her work seeks to deepen the understanding of (post)colonial experiences in the Russian sphere of influence. Her thesis is supervised by Prof. Mirja Lecke.