INTERNATIONAL PHD IN GERMANIC AND SLAVIC
STUDIES

Research: Genealogies and kinship. For an ecocritical and gendered perspective on women's poetry in Germany from the nineteenth century to the present day

Chiara Maciocci graduated with honours in 2018 with a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from 'Sapienza Università di Roma', with a thesis on the philosophy of the tragic in Schelling and its affinity with Hölderlin's work. In 2021 she then obtained a double honours degree in German Idealism and Modern Philosophy at "Sapienza University of Rome" and "Friedrich Schiller Universität" in Jena, with a thesis on the concept of time in Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit". She is currently a doctoral student in Germanic and Slavic Studies at the Department of European American and Intercultural Studies of "Sapienza University of Rome", with a project aimed at analysing under a double lens - the ecocritical and the gender lens - a corpus of German women poets from the early 19th century to contemporary times. The interest of this approach lies in the programmatic intersection of these two perspectives, in an attempt at literary criticism that is able to restore the counter-discourses of the women poets in their full value as a questioning of both the patriarchal system and the epistemology - and the consequent dynamics of environmental exploitation - that this system is associated with. Since 2021, she has also collaborated with the "Laboratorio di Studi femministi Anna Rita Simeone – Sguardi sulle differenze", which is part of the Faculty of Humanities of the "Sapienza University of Rome".