Elisa Mucciarelli

3.2024 – heute

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

3.2024 – heute

Lehrbeauftragte für DaF am Lehrstuhl für VWL der Universit?t 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 Universit?t Regensburg (Prof. Dr. Mirja Lecke)

10.2021 – 2.2024

M.A. Ost-West-Studien: Europa im Diskurs, Schwerpunkt slavische Kultur- und Sprachwissenschaft (Russistik, Bohemistik) an der Universit?t 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 Universit?t Regensburg ForAP erschienen.

6.2019 – 6.2020

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

10.2017 – 2.2021

BA Skandinavistik (Schwerpunkt Literaturwissenschaft und Altnordistik) mit Erweiterungscurriculum Slawistik an der Universit?t Wien

Forschungsinteressen: Russischsprachige Literatur aus dem Nordkaukasus, insbesondere inguschische und tschetschenische Literatur; Russisch-georgische literarische Verflechtungen; post- und dekoloniale sowie ?kokritische Zug?nge zur russischsprachigen Literatur; Literarische Konstruktionen von Raum

Laufendes Promotionsprojekt: Writing Abkhazia. Literature and Space in the (Post-)Soviet Realm

Abstract: Once a popular travel destination for Soviet citizens vacationing on the Black Sea coast in western Georgia, since 1991 Abkhazia has come to international attention for its involvement in the Georgian civil war of 1992 as well as the Russo-Georgian war of 2008. Most research on the region has therefore highlighted its recent history of conflict and complicated political and economic position between Russia and Georgia. This dissertation seeks to complete and enrich such research by engaging with the multifaceted relation between selected literary works that focus on Abkhazia, written by Abkhaz, Russian, and Georgian authors between the early 1960s and the present, and the production and negotiation of space. In keeping with human geographer Doreen Massey’s theories of space as ‘the sphere of coexisting heterogeneity’, this research aims to analyse the literary space of the texts as a plural concept produced through relation and interactions (or lack thereof), always in need to be negotiated and never entirely finished. Such interactions can involve both human and nonhuman actors and craft a literary space marked by the experience of rebellion, war, and deportation, but also one of tolerance and multiethnic coexistence. Moreover, the research will consider the conceptual space outside the text in a post- and decolonial light. By analysing literary works by authors of different ethnic backgrounds who did not write about Abkhazia from the disembodied perspective of the urban centres, but rather partook in local discourse and wrote from the local perspective, the dissertation will reflect on the role of geography for knowledge production in the Soviet and post-Soviet context. This endeavour has generally been termed ‘social geographies of knowledge’ by Massey and ‘geo- and body-politics of knowledge’ by South American decolonial theorists. Ultimately, this research grapples with Abkhazia as a case study to advance the hypothesis that an explicit engagement with the production of both literary and non-literary space is needed in order to better reflect on the (post)colonial experience of primarily non-Russian regions which found themselves in the Russian sphere of influence during their history.

Sommersemester 2024

36309 – ?bung wissenschaftliches Arbeiten (Schwerpunkt slavische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft)

Wintersemester 2024/2025

36310 – Multinational Soviet Literature (?bung)

26.4.2024: Abkhazia in Contemporary Georgian Film SMIR, Kolloquium der Promovierenden und Postdocs der slavischen Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft Salzburg, München, Innsbruck, Regensburg, Universit?t Regensburg

29.5.2024: ?Narrating Soviet History from the Periphery: The Case of Idris Bazorkin” Summer Workshop Narrating History: History in Literature – Literature in Historiography, Graduiertenschule für Ost- und Südosteuropastudien, Regensburg

28.6.2024: ?Chancen und Herausforderungen einer transterritorialen Literaturtheorie: Der Fall Abchasien“ Tag des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses, Universit?t Regensburg

3.7.2024: ??kokritische Zug?nge zu Literatur und Film aus dem Kaukasus nach 1991“ Kolloquium der slavischen Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Universit?t Regensburg