Dr. Chiara Caradonna

Research fellow with the project Relational Inhabiting. Towards a Fisherman Ontology in modern Italian Art, Literature and Film

CV

Since 2021 Senior Lecturer (tenure track) in the Departments of Romance Studies and of General and Comparative Literature, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2017-2021 Postdoc, The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2017 Ph.D., Ruprecht Karls-Universität Heidelberg: Opak. Eine Untersuchung zu Paul Celans Gedicht „Schwanengefahr“ mit einer erkenntniskritischen Vorrede
2011 MA, European, American and Postcolonial Language and Literature, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, and Humboldt University, Berlin
2009 BA, Modern and Contemporary Western Languages and Literature, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, and Humboldt University, Berlin

Fellowships

February 2025 Visiting Lecturer, Comparative Literature, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
March 2024 Visiting Lecturer, Comparative Literature, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
February 2023 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Italian Literature, University of Pisa, Italy
May 2023 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Italian Literature, University of Messina, Italy (ERASMUS+ Staff Mobility)

Jury, Council, and Board Memberships

Since 2022 Member of the Doctoral Commission of the Doctorate in “Classic and Modern Literatures and Cultures”, University of Genoa, Italy

Research Interests

Modern and contemporary European literatures (Italian, German, French; poetry; realism/naturalism)
Modern and contemporary Latin-American literatures (Mexico, Colombia)
Italian Cinema
Critical Theory
Literature & Anthropology
Literature & Visual Arts
Ecocriticism, Political and Decolonial Ecology
Littoral Studies / Blue Humanities
Theories of Notation
Theories of Revolution

Publications

Book

Opak. Schatten der Erkenntnis in Paul Celans „Meridian“ und im Gedicht „Schwanengefahr“. Göttingen, Wallstein Verlag, 2020, pp. 456 [In German]

Books Edited

“Im Reich der mittleren Dämonen”. Paul Celan in Freiburg and his correspondance with Gerhart Baumann. Ed. with Arno Barnert und Annika Stello, in TEXTkritische Beiträge 15 (2016), 15-115
Die Maulposaune. Poetry from Italy. Heidelberg, Verlag das Wunderhorn, 2019 [in German]
(ed. and commented) Rainer René Mueller, Gesammelte Gedichte. Göttingen, Wallstein, 2021
Caesurae. Paul Celan’s Later Poetry. Conference Proceedings. Ed. with Vivian Liska. Göttingen, Wallstein, 2024
Stefano D'Arrigo, Poet and Novelist: Readings for the 21st Century, hrsg. mit Daria Biagi, Quaderni d'Italianistica 46 (2025) [Forthcoming]
Reorienting Pasolini. Returning the Gaze on Pasolini’s Oriental Imagery. Berlin, ICI Press, 2025 [Forthcoming]

Chapters in Collections

Writing with Paws. Kafka’s and Nietzsche’s Bestiary, in: Pierandrea Amato, Gianluca Miglino (ed.), Lo stile di Dioniso. La filosofia di Nietzsche nella letteratura tedesca del Novecento. Milano, Udine, Mimesis, 2012, pp. 138–157 [in Italian]
“My two hands started a fight” Kleist, Kafka and what happens when “a member is not made like the other”, in: Roberta Malagoli, Stefania Sbarra (ed.), Conversione dello sguardo e modalità della visione in Heinrich Von Kleist. Milano, Udine, Mimesis, 2015, pp. 151–175 [in Italian]
Introduction, in “Im Reich der mittleren Dämonen”. Paul Celan in Freiburg and his correspondance with Gerhart Baumann. Ed. with Arno Barnert und Annika Stello, in TEXTkritische Beiträge 15 (2016), pp. 107-119 [in German]
Janus confronté. For a Language of Desire, in: Pablo Valdivia Orozco, Andrea Allerkamp (ed.), Paul Valéry: Für eine Epistemologie der Potentialität. Heidelberg, Winter Verlag, 2016, pp. 287-311 [in German]
Afterword, in: Die Maulposaune. Gedichte aus Italien. Heidelberg, Verlag das Wunderhorn, 2019, pp. 173-181 [in German]
Beyond Poetry: Celan’s Red Folder, May 1968, in: Michael Eskin, Karen Jane Leeder and Marko Pajević (eds.), Paul Celan Today. A Companion. Berlin, New York, De Gruyter, 2021, pp. 201-219
In Hiding. On Ghosts, Veils and Shadows, in: Li-Wen Kuo, Works 2010-2020, Berlin, Kerber Verlag 2021
Livable Spaces, restless. On Rainer René Muellers Œuvre, in: Rainer René Mueller, Gesammelte Gedichte. Ed. by Chiara Caradonna and Leonard Keidel. Göttingen, Wallstein, 2021, pp. 503-520 [in German]
Reading Manuscripts as Notation. An Experiment into the Possibilities of Interpretation, in: Susana González Aktories, Susanne Klengel (ed.), Open Scriptures: Notation in Contemporary Art in Europe and the Americas. Madrid/Frankfurt am Main, Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2022, pp. 313-332
Introduction, in: Caesurae. Paul Celan’s Late Poetry. Conference Proceedings. Ed. with Vivian Liska. Göttingen, Wallstein, 2024 [Forthcoming]
Celan’s Eternities. Verschränkte Zeit with Josef Koudelka and Walter Benjamin , in: Caesurae. Paul Celan’s Late Poetry. Conference Proceedings. Ed. with Vivian Liska. Göttingen, Wallstein, 2024, pp. 346-368.
A Lifeboat during Shipwreck. Reading Verga and D’Arrigo towards a Fisherman Ontology, in: Shaping the Future. Literary Imagination in the Anthropocene. German-Italian Perspectives. Ed. by Cristina Savettieri and Christina Schaefer, Stuttgart, Steiner Verlag, 2024, 141-158.
“Controtipato, controtipato”. On the Poetics and Politics of Grain and Duplication in Pasolini’s Oriental Imagery, in: Reorienting Pasolini. Ed. by Chiara Caradonna, Berlin: ICI Press, 2026. [Forthcoming]
Introduction, in: Reorienting Pasolini. Ed. by Chiara Caradonna, Berlin: ICI Press, 2026. [Forthcoming]
Cancelled, replaced, lost? On the Afterlife of Rejected Titles in Franz Kafka’s Work, in: Historische Semantiken und Praktiken des Titels. Paratext-Studien. Ed. by David-Christopher Assmann and Lorella Bosco, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026. [in German, forthcoming]

Articles in Journals

“Ein ruchloses Kapitel”. Antisemitism in Germany 1959, in Das literarische Jahr 1959. Berliner Hefte zur Geschichte des literarischen Lebens 8 (2008), pp. 139–165 [Invited, in German]
Dank begehren. Michel Houellebecqs Unterwerfungen, in Die Wiederholung. Zeitschrift für Literaturkritik 1 (2015), pp. 57–79 [in German]
“Un trajet à travers la forêt des mots”. The new double volume of the Historical-Critical Edition of Paul Celan’s Prose and Speeches has been published, in TEXTkritische Beiträge 15 (2016), 243–251 [in German]
With Needle & Thread. On Rainer René Mueller’s Poem “Rißvernähung : Oxygène”, in Mütze 14 (2016), pp. 680–706 [in German]
Ways out. On Daniel Sada’s Poetry, in Die Wiederholung. Zeitschrift für Literaturkritik 6 (2018), pp. 61–115 [in German]
Secret Messages. Rainer René Mueller’s Poetry, in Germanica 64 (2019), pp. 15-40 [in German]
Aufräumen. The Writer and/on Revolution, in Yearbook for European Jewish Literature Studies 7 (2020), 223-226
Narrative Catastrophe and its Aftermath: On the Potentiation of Notation as a Form of Negative Virtuality in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Work, in EU-topías. Revista de interculturalidad, comunicación y estudios europeos 27 (2024), 133-148

Articles in Journals (Peer Review)

Mandel’štam. Rome. Pasolini, in: Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 62 (2021), pp. 291-320
The Ethnographer from Within: Wild Thought in Stefano D’Arrigo’s Horcynus Orca, in arcadia. International Journal of Literary Culture 56 (2021), pp. 1-26
The Recollection of Revolution. Gustav Landauer and Hannah Arendt on the Memory of New Beginnings, in Journal for Avant-Garde Studies 3 (2023), 1-25
Schneepart and Schlachtbeschreibung. On the resumption of the debate on montage in Alexander Kluge and Paul Celan, in Journal for Avant-Garde Studies 5 (2025), ed. by Felix Christen und Elisabeth Flucher, 173-198
Allen gemein. Friedrich Hölderlin in the Franco-Italian Debate on Community, in Studi Germanici 28 (2025) [in Italian]
“Sweeping literature away”. Art and anthropology in the making of Horcynus Orca, in Quaderni d’Italianistica (2026) [Forthcoming]
“I Arab, I Suevian”. Muslim Sicily in Stefano D’Arrigo’s Poetry, in Poetics Today (2026) [Forthcoming]
Stefano D’Arrigo e l’antropologia, in Allegoria (2026) [Forthcoming]

Other Publications

Veils, in: Stephan Berg, Alexander Klar, Frédéric Bußmann (ed.), Jetzt! Junge Malerei in Deutschland, München, Hirmer Verlag, 2019, 142 [in German]
Commentary, in: Rainer René Mueller, Gesammelte Gedichte. Göttingen, Wallstein, 2021, pp. 401-481 [in German]

Translations (selection)

Peter Trawny, Heidegger und der Mythos der jüdischen Weltverschwörung. Frankfurt am Main, Klostermann, 2015; IT: Heidegger e il mito della cospirazione ebraica. Milano, Bompiani, 2015
Ralph Dutli, Soutines letzte Fahrt. Göttingen, Wallstein, 2013; IT: L’ultimo viaggio di Soutine. Roma, Voland, 2016 [with Flavia Pantanella]
Rainer René Mueller, Poesie. Le parole e le cose
Angela Bubba, Alberto, Elsa e la Bomba, DE: Alberto, Elsa und die Bombe. Heidelberg, Wunderhorn, 2020 [From Italian to German]

Lectures

Participation in Scientific Conferences (last 5 years)

Crossing Waters and Meeting Monsters. Dante’s Presence in Stefano D’Arrigo’s Horcynus Orca, in: Dante Poet of World Literature: Translation, Philology, and the Future of Literary Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 20-22 December 2021
“Still in me, the outcry of a wounded man”. Franco Lattes Fortini’s voices, in: Return Review Revise. European Jewish Literature Studies: State of the Art and Outlook to the Future, 10th Conference of the Association for European Jewish Literature Studies, Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem, 14 June 2022
“Controtipato, controtipato”. On the Poetics of Grain and Duplication in Pasolini’s Oriental Imagery, in: Pasolini in “the Light of the Orient”. International Conference marking the 100th Anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Birth, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 20-22 June 2022
Pasolini, D’Arrigo, e le lingue dei margini, in: “Pasolini fu una luce...”. Il secolo di Pier Paolo Pasolini / “Pasolini war ein Licht...”. Das Jahrhundert von Pier Paolo Pasolini – Internationale Tagung anlässlich des 100. Geburtstags von Pier Paolo Pasolini, University of Munich, Germany, 20-22 October 2022
Schneepart und Schlachtbeschreibung. Mit Paul Celan und Alexander Kluge, für eine Hermeneutik des Überschusses. 27. Deutscher Germanistentag [Annual Conference of the German Association of German Studies], Paderborn, Germany, 25-28 September 2022
Exploring Ontologies. Humans and Non-Humans in Stefano D’Arrigo’s “Horcynus Orca”. Environmental Humanities Week. La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, 30 November 2022.
Voices (in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction). Notes on the Tonal Legacy of German-Jewish Thought, in: Sprechen trotz allem. Deutsch-Jüdisches Denken und sein Fortleben, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 14-15 December 2022
Syncretism and Subalternity in Italy’s South. The Case of Sicilian Fishermen, in: Weltliteratur: Contemporary Readings of a Contested Concept, Katholische Akademie, Berlin, 10-11 July 2023
“Ma allora, che specie di specie è sta specie nostra umana?” Sicilian Literary Journeys towards a Fisherman Ontology, in: Die Zukunft gestalten: Deutsch-italienische Perspektiven auf die literarische Imagination in Zeiten des Anthropozän, Villa Vigoni, 28 August-1 September 2023
Spazzare via la letteratura. Osservazioni sullo sviluppo del prospettivismo darrighiano, XXVI Congresso nazionale Associazione degli Italianisti, «Contemplare/abitare: la natura nella letteratura italiana», Napoli, 14-16 September 2023
Nichts wird gelöscht. Zur Potenzierung der Aufzeichnung als Form negativer Virtualität ausgehend vom Werk Pier Paolo Pasolinis, 38. Romanistentag, „Präsenz und Virtualität“, Leipzig, Germany, 24-27 September 2023
Ist Aufzeichnung populär? Zur Entwicklung der „appunti“ als medienübergreifende Gattung bei Pasolini, in: Bild, Ton, Schrift: Pasolinis Medien, Siegen University, 16-17 November 2023
Gelöscht, ersetzt, verschwunden? Über das Nachleben aussortierter Titel, in: Name, Rock, Blickfang. Historische Semantiken und Praktiken des Titels, 18-20 September 2024
Relational Inhabiting. Towards a Fisherman Ontology in Italian Literature and Film, in: 2025 Modern Language Association Convention, New Orleans, 9-12 January. Panel: Italy’s Archipelagic Imaginaries
Forme del paesaggio. Stefano D’Arrigo in dialogo con le arti figurative, in: Giornata di studi su D’Arrigo e il mondo artistico-letterario di Roma dal dopoguerra, Roma, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, 6 March 2025
“I Arab, I Suevian”. Islamic Sicily in the Italian Poetry of Stefano D’Arrigo, in: Poetry of the World, Humboldt University, Berlin, 18-19 June 2025
“Chi me lo dà l’occhio che avete voi?” Antropologia critica e ribaldamento del punto di vista nella genesi di Horcynus Orca, XXVIII Congresso nazionale Associazione degli Italianisti, Egemonie e margini nella letteratura italiana, University of Genoa, 11-13 September 2025
Caliban le pêcheur. La côte comme espace d’exploitation et de résistance, in: Des humains aux terrestres. Pour un nouveau récit du vivant. Colloque international, Sorbonne Université-Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Paris, 30-31 octobre 2025
Pasolini’s Wasteocene, in: Pier Paolo Pasolini. Seeing Otherwise, Workshop, ICI Berlin, 3 November 2025
Fisher of Men: Modern Transformations of a Trope between Sacred and Profane, in: Bible, Literature, Culture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 29 December 2025
Relational Inhabiting. Towards a Fisher Ontology in Modern Italian Culture and Beyond, in: Entangled Seascapes: More-Than-Human Histories Across Oceanic Worlds, Academia Belgica, Rome, 22-23 January 2026

Selected Invited & Keynote Lectures

Aufräumen. The Writer and/on Revolution. The First Annual Else Lasker Schüler Lecture, The Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem, 5 June 2019
A World’s End: Countermeasures in Stefano D’Arrigo’s Horcynus Orca, in: The World, How to Measure? Research Seminar, The School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University, 2020-2021, 23 November 2020
Shamans, Poets and Fishermen. On the many Encounters between Literature and Anthropology, in: Doctoral Seminar of the Department of Comparative Literature, Bar Ilan University, 11 March 2021
Ein Gehnsein. Celan a Gerusalemme e Berlino, in: Paul Celan intermedial. Leggere, ascoltare, contare, tradurre, produrre, Master Course of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the Università La Sapienza, Rome, 21 April 2021
Literature & Anthropology. Examples and Approaches, in: Nearby: German Studies, the Hebrew and the World, The Marcel Reich-Ranicki Chair of German Literature, The Program of Comparative Literature, Tel Aviv University, Berlin, 4 August 2021
Corruption. Film Series in Honor of Leonardo Sciascia’s 100th Birthday [Introduction to Series], Jerusalem Cinematheque, 8 November 2021
Corruption. Film Series in Honor of Leonardo Sciascia’s 100th Birthday [Introduction to Elio Petri’s Film “Todo modo”], Jerusalem Cinematheque, 11 November 2021 [Organized in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Culture, Tel Aviv]
Al di là di natura e cultura: Horcynus Orca di Stefano D’Arrigo, Cantiere Umanistico dell’Antropocene, University of Pisa, 26 November 2021
Demoni, sciamani e uccelli acquatici. Per una teoria dello scrivere opaco nella poesia tarda di Paul Celan, Seminario di Interpretazione del Testo, University of Pisa, Italy, 11 April 2022
“Io arabo e io svevo”: La Sicilia islamica nella poesia di Stefano D’Arrigo. Doctoral School in Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Genova, Italy, 28 February 2023
Finimondo nello Stretto. Nature a confronto e sovversioni prospettiche in “Horcynus Orca” di Stefano D’Arrigo, public lecture, University of Pisa, 3 March 2023
Un’altra antropologia, un’altra letteratura. Conflitti prospettici in Horcynus Orca, in: Incontro e scontro sulla linea dei due mari. Pensare il conflitto con Stefano D’Arrigo, Doctoral Seminar, University of Messina, 5 April 2023
Fin de mundos. Subvertir perspectivas en la literatura y en el cine italianos. Series of Four Meetings. Departamento de Literatura. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá. With Istituto Italiano di Cultura Bogotá. 18, 20, 21, 22 March 2024.
Entropologie in der Straße von Messina. Das Ende der Welt und das Ende der Literatur in Stefano D’Arrigo’s “Horcynus Orca”, Guest Lecture, Institue of Romance Studies, Leipzig University, 11 July 2024
A Lifeboat during Shipwreck. Literature, Anthropology and the End of the World, Colloquium, Department of Comparative Literature, Bar-Ilan University, 15 December 2024
El verano italiano. Un mito contemporáneao. Series of Four Meetings. Departamento de Literatura. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá. With Istituto Italiano di Cultura Bogotá. 25, 27 February, 1-2 March 2025
Miradas cruzadas Italia-Rusia. Comparative Literature Seminar. With Anastasia Belousova. Departamento de Literatura. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Bogotá. With Istituto Italiano di Cultura Bogotá. 28 February 2025
Kafka and Universalism, in: Kafka, actually. Another Gaze at Kafka, 101 Years After His Death, Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem, 25 March 2025 [in Hebrew].
Human and Non-Human Wounds in Pasolini’s “Teorema”, in: Vulnerability. A Workshop, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, 14 May 2025
Horcynus Orca. Per i 50 anni dall’uscita del capolavoro letterario. Conversation with the German translator Moshe Kahn, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 15 May 2025 [in Italian and German]
Pier Paolo Pasolini's Unstable Geographies, ICI Berlin, 3 November 2025

Courses

BA-Seminars:

Spring 2020/21 (HUJI): Women Re-Writing the Nation in the Mediterranean (in English, with Prof. Camelia Suleiman, Michigan State University)
Winter 2021/22 (HUJI): Freud’s Italian Children. The Reception of Psychoanalysis in Italian Literature (in Hebrew)
Winter 2021/22 (HUJI): Introduction to Romance Cultures (in Hebrew, recurring yearly)
Spring 2021/22 (HUJI): Introduction to Romance Literatures (in Hebrew, recurring yearly)
Spring 2021/22 (HUJI): Italian Realism: The Voice of the Defeated (in Hebrew)
Spring 2021/22 (HUJI): Pasolini, the Other: Life and Works of a Revolutionary Artist (in English)
Winter 2022/23 (HUJI): Sicily: Representations of an Extraordinary Island in Literature and Film (in Hebrew)
Spring 2022/23 (HUJI): Will Literature Save Us from Extinction? Italian Literature and Climate Crisis (in English)
Spring 2022/23 (HUJI): Female Writing in Italy: Natalia Ginzburg and Elsa Morante (in Hebrew)
Winter 2023/24 (HUJI): Sicily from the “South”: Mediterranean Myths in Literature and Cinema (in English)
Winter 2023/24 (HUJI): The Smell of the Other: Sensing Women and Minorities in Italian Literature (in Hebrew, with Tal Yehezkely)
Spring 2023/24 (HUJI): 20th Literary Theories (in Hebrew, recurring yearly)
Winter 2024/25 (HUJI): Italian Summer: On a Recurring Trope in Italian Literature, Film and Popular Music (in Hebrew)
Spring 2024/25 (HUJI): Stories from the Sea: Holiness, Heresy, Secularism (in Hebrew, with Prof. Ilana Pardes)

MA-Seminars (in English):

Winter 2021/22 (HUJI): Is Translation Possible? A Journey through Modern Theories of Translation
Winter 2022/23 (HUJI): Reading the Signs Around Us: Introduction to Semiotics
Spring 2023/24 (HUJI): Community. On a Figure of Thought in Contemporary French and Italian Thought
Winter 2024/25 (HUJI): Fragment, Note, Draft: Forms of the Incomplete in Literature and Film