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 minor in Slavic 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. Prior to her master's studies, she earned a B.A. in Scandinavian Studies with an additional curriculum in Slavic Studies from the University of Vienna (2017–2021). She also spent an Erasmus year at Vilnius University (2019–2020), where she studied Baltic and Slavic philology, focusing on Lithuanian, Latvian, and Russian.

Until March 2025, she was a research associate at the Chair of Slavic Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Regensburg (Prof. Mirja Lecke) and an associate 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 (IOS) and at the University of Regensburg.

Currently, she is pursuing a PhD with the dissertation project The Space of Abkhazia in Transnational Georgian Literature and the Visual Arts after 2008 (working title). Her research delves into the dynamic (de)construction of the space of Abkhazia in multilingual and multimedia works by ethnic Georgians who were forced to leave the region after the civil war of 1992-93. By relying on a mixed methodology that stems from the geohumanities, post-humanism and post- and decolonial theory, her project seeks to define the social and conceptual space of the region as a relational concept and deepen the understanding of (post)colonial experiences in the post-1991 Russian sphere of influence.