INTERNATIONAL PHD IN GERMANIC AND SLAVIC
STUDIES

email: gabriele.guerra@uniroma1.it
phone: 06 8837 8091
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Gabriele Guerra (1968), is Associate Professor of German Literature at the Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies at the Sapienza University of Rome. Previously he was a lecturer in German as a commercial language at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, a researcher in German literature at the Institut für Neuere Deutsche Literatur of the University of Marburg, and a lecturer at the Sapienza University of Rome. He was also a research fellow in 2012 at the Zentrum für Kultur- und Literaturforschung in Berlin and a DAAD fellow at the Freie Universität zu Berlin in 1995-1996.
He studied at the University of Rome La Sapienza, graduating in 1994 with a thesis on Walter Benjamin; then he obtained a PhD in Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft at the Freie Universität zu Berlin with a thesis on the use of theological-religious categories in a series of Jewish-German thinkers and intellectuals between 1900 and 1930. In 2013 he also obtained his university teaching qualification (2nd level) for the area 10/M1.
His main research interests are German Judaism in literature and thought in the first half of the 20th century, the Konservative Revolution and Ernst Jünger, the historical avant-gardes at the crossroads of aesthetics, politics and religion, and more generally the link between aesthetics and religion and between theology and politics.
He is also a German translator (he has translated some texts by Walter Benjamin, Literature and Critical Strategies). Frammenti I, Mimesis, Milan 2012) and has been a teacher of Italian for foreigners. Member of the Italian German Association, of the Italian Walter Benjamin Association, of the Hugo-Ball-Gesellschaft. External member of the PRIN research group "Klassische Moderne 1880-1930", co-financed by MURST at 40% and consortium between Sapienza University of Rome, Trento, Bari and Urbino, for the three-year period 2006-2009. Speaker at numerous national and international conferences, as well as organizer of scientific conferences. Since 2003 he has been editor (with responsibility for the review area) of the magazine "Links. Review of German literature and culture. Zeitschrift für deutsche Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft"; also collaborates on the review portal www.literaturkritik.de .