Elisa Mucciarelli, M.A.

Predoctoral Researcher (accociated, Leibniz ScienceCampus)

Contact

Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies
Leibniz ScienceCampus "Europe and America"
Landshuter Str. 4
93047 Regensburg
Germany

+4+ (0)941 / 943-5360 elisa.mucciarelli@sparchlit.uni-regensburg.de

Doctoral Project

The Space of Abkhazia in Transnational Literature and Visual Media after 2008

Once a popular travel destination for Soviet tourists vacationing on the so-called ‘Black Sea riviera’, after 1991 Abkhazia was deeply altered by the experience of conflict, ethnic cleansing, and displacement, in both its geographical space and social dynamics. This project explores selected post-2008 multilingual and transnational texts, films, and works of art that put the space of Abkhazia at the forefront of their respective narratives. Borrowing from research in human geography, it assumes that the social space of the region is the dynamic result of trajectories, relations and interactions between human and more-than-human actors. Accordingly, it proposes to investigate its manifold and multifaceted constructions, reconstructions and deconstructions in literature and visual media using theories from the geohumanities, the environmental humanities, posthumanism, and semiotics. By relying on a post- and decolonial epistemological framework and emphasising transnationalism and multilingualism, this project also aims to highlight the translocal entanglements of the works that engage with Abkhazia, spanning Eastern and Western Europe as well as Latin America.

Curriculum Vitae

Elisa Mucciarelli holds a BA in Scandinavian Studies with a minor in Slavic Studies from the University of Vienna and an M.A. in East-West-Studies. Europe in Discourse with a focus on Slavic literature and linguistics from the University of Regensburg. Since finishing her M.A. in 2024, she has taught German as a foreign language at the Department of Economics and worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Slavic Literature and Culture at UR under the supervision of prof. Mirja Lecke. She is currently a predoc researcher at the Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World and associated with the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies at the University of Regensburg.