Elisa Mucciarelli

Elisa Mucciarelli is a Scientific Associate and Research Assistant at the Chair of Slavic Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Regensburg since March 2024, working under Prof. Dr. Mirja Lecke. She also serves as a Lecturer of German as a Foreign Language at the Department of Economics within the same university as part of the DAAD project "Ukraine digital." Her academic foundation includes an MA in East-West Studies from the University of Regensburg (2021-2024) with focus on Slavic cultural studies and linguistics, and a BA in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Vienna (2017-2021) with extension in Slavic Studies.

Her research centers on Russian-language literature from the North Caucasus, particularly Ingush and Chechen literary production, Russian-Georgian literary interrelations, and post/decolonial approaches to space construction in literature. Her doctoral dissertation "Writing Abkhazia. Literature and Space in the (Post-)Soviet Realm" analyzes literary works about Abkhazia through Doreen Massey's spatial theory, examining how space is produced through human and non-human interactions in contexts of conflict and multiethnic coexistence. She employs decolonial frameworks to investigate knowledge production from local perspectives rather than urban centers.

Mucciarelli's scholarly output demonstrates strong engagement with spatial literary theory and postcolonial critique across the Caucasus region. Her recent presentations at academic conferences in 2024 reveal consistent focus on Abkhazia as a case study for examining space, decoloniality, and literary production in post-Soviet contexts. Her work bridges literary analysis with human geography, political science, and postcolonial studies.

As an emerging scholar, Mucciarelli has presented her research at multiple academic venues including the SMIR colloquium (Salzburg, Munich, Innsbruck, Regensburg), the Graduate School for Eastern and Southeastern European Studies, and the University of Regensburg's early career researcher day. She has taught academic writing workshops focused on Slavic literary and cultural studies and will teach "Multinational Soviet Literature" in the upcoming winter semester.