Elizaveta Volkovskaia is a Ph.D. student in the University of Pittsburgh's Slavic Languages and Literatures program. She received a B.A. in Linguistics and Translation from SUAI in Saint Petersburg and an M.A. in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Arizona. Her current research interests include social media and participatory culture in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, cultural schemata in media coverage, and nationalism in 19th-century literature.