INTERNATIONAL PHD IN GERMANIC AND SLAVIC
STUDIES

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Camilla Miglio (Bari 1964)- PhD in German Studies (Un. of Pisa). Professor in German Studies and translator, scholar of contemporary and twentieth-century German literature and of the Age of Goethe, as well as of theory and history, sociology and poetics of translation. Since 2010 at the "Sapienza" University of Rome. Previously, for a decade, at the "Orientale" University of Naples. From 1998 to 2001 she taught and worked in the role of researcher at the University of Pisa. She was project manager E.S.T. (Europe as a Space of Translation (2007-2013), co-founded by the European Union (Culture Programme). She is co-founder of the translation studies platform "Il Porto di Toledo". She translated German writers of the Romantic and twentieth centuries, including The Brothers Grimm, Clemens Brentano, A. Jacob Liebenskind, Franz Kafka, H. M. Enzensberger, Peter Waterhouse, Ulrike Draesner, Ulf Stolterfoht, Navid Kermani, Lutz Seiler, Paul Celan, Rose Auslaender and D. Gruenbein in anthologies. She’s currently translating the Brothers Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Her publications include studies on Herder, Novalis, Goethe, Brentano, Rilke, Benn, Bachmann, Kafka, Celan. On Paul Celan Celan- three books: Celan e Valéry. Poesia, traduzione di una distanza, (ESI, Naples 1997), Vita a fronte. Saggio su Paul Celan (Quodlibet, Macerata 2005), L’Opera e la vita. Paul Celan e gli studi comparatistici (L‘Orientale, Naples 2008, edited with Irene Fantappiè).With Francesco Fiorentino e Valentina Valentini she edited: La terra sonora. Il teatro di Peter Handke (Roma IISG 2017); with Flavia Di Battista, Tommaso Gennaro, Matteo Iacovella e Giulia Puzzo she edited : Lessico Europeo: il Movimento, Roma SUE 2018. On theory and history of translation se has edited two volumes (Il demone a vela. Traduzione e riscrittura tra didattica e ricerca, L’Orientale, Naples 2006; Dello scrivere e del tradurre, L’Orientale, Naples 2007). 2010 she received the Bundesverdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. And 2005, The Ladislao Mittner Award in German Studies, delivered by DAAD (Ministries of Culture and Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany).

Member of the scientific Commitee of "Studi tedeschi" (2003-2010), since 2011 of "Semicerchio. rivista di poesia comparata". Coordinator of the editorial Board of "Sapienza University Press" (Section: Humanities).
Since 2018 Member of the scientific Advisory Board of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

She is currently working at two monographs, one on Paul Celan, the other on Ingeborg Bachmann; in collaboration with Francesco Fiorentino she is editing the translation of Peter Handke's Collected Theatrical Works.

STUDIES
1992-1997: Ph.D. in German Studies at the University of Pisa. PhD thesis: Names in a foreign land. Celan and Valéry. Poetry and Translation (mention: excellent) 1989: Kleines Sprachdiplom, Goethe Institut in Monaco 1988: Degree in Languages and Literature at the University of Bari (German-English). Thesis in History of Literary Criticism: Method, Metahistory. The Kultur der Renaissance in Italien of Jakob Burckhardt (110 e lode) 1983: Maturità classica, liceo Quinto Orazio Flacco, Bari (60/60) 1 Member and previusly member of the board of the AIG (Associazione italiana di Germanistica) and AILC (International Association for Comparative Studies).