Alina Mozolevska is an associate professor in the Faculty of Philology at Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. She has a PhD in Linguistics from Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv, Ukraine. She has held research fellowships at the UniGR-Center for Border Studies at Saarland University (Germany, 2022), the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France, 2017) and the University of Cadiz (Spain, 2017). Mozolevska was also a visiting VolksWagenStiftung fellow at Saarland University (Germany, 2022–2023) and a member of the research group Prisma Ukraïna  'War, Migration and Memory' (Forum Transregionale Studien, Germany, 2022–2023). She has published on borders and identity in literary and political discourses. She has also organised international student research projects, such as the international media school Borderland stories (a joint project of Saarland university and Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, 2021–2022) and the summer school Witnessing and Documenting Wartime Experiences: the Current Russian War in Ukraine, Historical Perspectives, and Global Alliances (joint project of Saarland university, the Ukrainian Catholic University and Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, 2023).

Mozolevska has been a UNET Fellow at ZOiS since 2023. Her current project focuses on the role of digital popular culture in the mediatisation of the Russo-Ukrainian war.  More precisely, it explores the cultural practices of producing visual narratives in Russian and Ukrainian social media in order to reveal the symbolic, ideological and intertextual potential of the visual discourse of war.

• Media Studies
• Cultural Studies
• Border Studies
• Discourse Analysis

• Ukraine Research Network@ZOiS