Career
Nikitina studied West African languages and cultures at St Petersburg University, then pursued a PhD at Stanford University (graduating in 2008). She was then a post-doctoral researcher at the TOPOI excellence cluster at Humbold University of Berlin. Nikitina joined CNRS in 2013 as a tenured researcher. She was a member of the Language, langues et cultures d'Afrique (fr) research centre, then of LACITO (Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale).
She passed her Habilitation in 2019. [3]
From 2018 to 2023, she was the Principal Investigator of a European Research Council project, "Discourse Reporting in African Storytelling", [4] that "explores strategies of discourse reporting characteristic of traditional narratives in African languages, and compares them to discourse reporting strategies attested in a number of Turkic languages spoken in Russia". [5]
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