Lingue e Linguaggi

Giulia Andreina Disanto
https://www.unisalento.it/scheda-utente/-/people/giulia.disanto
Università del Salento
Italy

Prof. Dr. Giulia A. Disanto is currently Associate Professor of German Literature at the Department of Humanities (Studi Umanistici) at the University of Salento. She graduated in Literature magna cum laude in 2002 from the University of Bari. After a period of studies and research at the University of Münster and at the Peter Szondi Institute at the Freie University of Berlin,she received her PhD in Literary Studies / German Literature in 2006. She was a research fellow of German Literature from 2007 to 2010 at the University of Bari. In 2007 and 2010, she participated in a DAAD research fellowship in Berlin (FU and TU). Assistant Professor of German Literature from 2012 to 2021. Her research interests include German literature from the nineteenth century to the present, notably with regard to the interplay between literature and history (war and peace studies), in avant-garde studies (in particular: dadaism, the literary work of Kurt Schwitters), in ecocriticism, in Jewish and exile literature, in the literary genre of poetry.
She is member of the following scientific associations: «AIG-Associazione Italiana Germanistik», «IVG – Internationale Vereinigung der Germanistik», «The Kurt Schwitters Society - UK, Frank Wedekind-Gesellschaft», «EASLCE-European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment»,  «INSL-International Network for the Study of Lyric» and of the associations,  «DAAD-Alumni» and «Alumni of Freie Universität Berlin». She is member of the editorial committee of the scientific journal «Lingue e Linguaggi» (ISSN 2239-0359) and also Assistant Editor of «Ecozon@. European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment» (ISSN: 2171-9594).