Elisa Mucciarelli

Seit November 2025: Promotionsstipendiatin der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

10.2025 – heute

Lehrbeauftragte am Europaeum/Ost-West-Zentrum der Universität Regensburg

4.2025 – heute

Assoziiertes Mitglied der Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropastudien UR

4.2025 – 10.2025

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Predoc) am Leibniz Wissenschaftscampus ‚Europa und Amerika in der modernen Welt‘, Regensburg

3.2024 – 2.2025

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für slavische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft der Universität Regensburg (Prof. Dr. Mirja Lecke)

3.2024 – 4.2025

Lehrbeauftragte für DaF am Lehrstuhl für VWL der Universität Regensburg (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Jerger) im Rahmen des DAAD-Projekts ‚Ukraine digital. Studienerfolg in Krisenzeiten sichern‘

5.2022 – 9.2023

Studentische Hilfskraft im Bereich Bibliothek und elektronische Forschungsinfrastruktur am Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung, Regensburg

2.2022 – 2.2024

Studentische Hilfskraft am Lehrstuhl für slavische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft der Universität Regensburg (Prof. Dr. Mirja Lecke)

10.2021 – 2.2024

M.A. Ost-West-Studien: Europa im Diskurs, Schwerpunkt slavische Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft (Russistik, Bohemistik) an der Universität Regensburg.

Meine Masterarbeit ‚Ingushetia’s Vernacular Landscape and the Colonial Encounter in Idris Bazorkin’s Iz T’my Vekov (1968)‘ ist im Juli 2024 in gekürzter Fassung in der Zeitschrift der Universität Regensburg ForAP erschienen.

6.2019 – 6.2020

Erasmusjahr an der Universität Vilnius, Institut für Baltistik (litauische und lettische Philologie) und Institut für Slavistik (russische Philologie)

10.2017 – 2.2021

BA Skandinavistik (Schwerpunkt Literaturwissenschaft) mit Erweiterungscurriculum Slawistik an der Universität Wien

Laufendes Promotionsprojekt: 

Precarious Pluralism: Cosmopolitanism and its Aftermath in the Russophone Literatures of Georgia and Azerbaijan after 1994 

On the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the republics in its southern borderlands saw a sharp increase in interethnic tensions. In Sukhumi, the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia on the Georgian Black Sea coast, riots ensued after the opening of a local branch of Tbilisi State University was announced in 1989, jeopardizing Abkhazia’s autonomy. In Azerbaijan, starting from 1988, the secessionist demands of Nagorno-Karabakh in the southwest triggered widespread violence against the Armenian minority living in the republic. During the perestroika, such conflicts turned into, respectively, the War in Abkhazia (1989, 1992-1993) and the First Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988-1994). The instability of the Caucasus from the 1990s onward has been studied extensively from political, legal, historical and anthropological standpoints, often in comparative Eurasian perspective. What is lacking, however, is a bottom-up analysis of how literary works from the region view these conflicts, remember them, and weave them into broader (counter-)narratives. This project seeks to engage with this knowledge gap by grappling with the entanglements of cosmopolitanism and violence in post-1994 Russophone literature from Georgia and Azerbaijan that looks back at, respectively, the War in Abkhazia and the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflicts that include the First Nagorno-Karabakh War and the Baku pogrom of 1990. In concentrating on literature from the region, the project mobilises local post- and decolonial methodologies and aims to bring to the fore historically marginalised perspectives and local forms of knowledge production. The focus on Russophone literature—that is, literature written by non-Russian authors in the Russian language—situates the project as part of the broader tendency to decentre metropolitan Russia in Russian literary studies. Such framework shifts the focus to, among others, the experiences of ‘non-Russian Russians’ and their nuanced engagement with Russian cultural and political narratives. Building on studies of cosmopolitanism and its remembrance in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, as well as theories of nostalgia and post-Socialist memory in the former USSR, the project incorporates perspectives from the field of memory studies to show how authors of varying ethnic background from the South Caucasus navigate remembrance between precarious multicultural cohabitation, affect, and the threat of violence and conflict. Altogether, the project aims to contribute to research in Russian literary studies by analysing a corpus of hitherto little-known russophone texts by Georgian, Abkhazian, and Azerbaijani authors, and further developing theories at the crossroads of decoloniality, Russophonia, (post-) cosmopolitanism and memory studies, which allow for a more nuanced understanding of conflict, coexistence, and practices of remembrance in the region.

VORTRÄGE

11.9.2025 „Raumentwürfe Abchasiens in der russischsprachigen Prosa von G. Odisharia und G. Chkvanava“ Junges Forum slavische Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Gießen
30.7.2025: „Remembering the Deportation of 1944 in Early Post-Soviet Fiction Across the North Caucasus“ ICLA World Congress, Dongguk University, Seoul
22.7.2025: „Abkhazia and the North Caucasus in F. Iskander's Pshada (1993) and Mal'chik i voina (1997)“ IX ICCEES World Congress, University College London
9.7.2025: „Sukhum/i in the Russian-language Prose of Gela Chkvanava“ Workshop: Writing Back from the Periphery? Russophone Literary Diversity, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3.7.2025: „The Art of (De-)Construction. The Post War Space of Sukhum/i in the Works of Andro Wekua“ Tagung der jungen Osteuropa-Expert:innen (JOE), TU Dresden
3.7.2024: „Ökokritische Zugänge zu Literatur und Film aus dem Kaukasus nach 1991“ Kolloquium der slavischen Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, UR
28.6.2024: „Chancen und Herausforderungen einer transterritorialen Literaturtheorie: Der Fall Abchasien“ Tag des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses, UR
29.5.2024: „Narrating Soviet History from the Periphery: The Case of Idris Bazorkin” Summer Workshop Narrating History: History in Literature – Literature in Historiography, GS OSES/UR
26.4.2024: „Abkhazia in Contemporary Georgian Film“ SMIR, Kolloquium der Promovierenden und Postdocs der slavischen Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft Salzburg, München, Innsbruck, Regensburg, UR

Wintersemester 2025/2026
OWS-PR-M01: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten und Methodenkompetenz im Masterstudium (am Europaeum/Ost-West-Zentrum)

Sommersemester 2024
36309 – Übung wissenschaftliches Arbeiten (Schwerpunkt slavische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft)

Wintersemester 2024/2025
36310 – Multinational Soviet Literature (Übung)