Focus: Rhetoric and Culture
Pronouns: She/her
Elina Nikolskaya is currently studying on the "Rhetoric and Culture" track, focusing on the phenomenon of propaganda in contemporary Russia. Her primary research interest lies in the concept of myth and its role in shaping public opinion through state influence.
She holds a specialist degree in journalism from Lomonosov Moscow State University and a bachelor's degree in law from the State Law Academy. In 2017, she earned her PhD in Philology.
Before starting her academic career, Elina worked as a television journalist, beginning as a crime reporter and later becoming the editor-in-chief of a national Russian television news program.
Her previous academic interests included the study of television content (Nikolskaya, E., Chobanyan, K. (2021). Testing the Waters: TikTok’s Potential for Television News (pp. 62-88). World of Media. Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies; Nikolskaya, E. (2017). Television News Magazines in Canada, the United States, and Australia in the Context of Format Transformation (pp. 102-113). Medi@lmanah.), newsroom practices (Nikolskaya, E. (2021). The Work of a Reporter in the Editorial Office of Television News. Aspect-Press.), and the representation of social conflicts in both traditional and social media (Nikolskaya, E., Krasheninnikova, M. (2022). Traditional Media and Social Media: Dialectics of Social Conflicts (pp. 103-135). Bulletin of Moscow University. Part 10: Journalism.).
In her free time, she enjoys attending theater performances, listening to blues music, and playing the violin.