Marco Rispoli graduated in German at the Ca' Foscari University in Venice. He continued his studies in Vienna and then in Pisa, where he obtained a PhD in Modern Literature in 2003. Since 2004 he has taught German cultural history and German literature at various universities. Between 2006 and 2008 he was a research fellow at the University of Udine. In 2008 he became an Assistant Professor at the Department of Anglo-Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Padua. In 2016 he was appointed Associate Professor and in 2021 Full Professor of German Literature at the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies of the same University. He has spent several research periods abroad (Vienna, Berlin, Frankfurt, Augsburg) thanks to funding from German (DAAD, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) and Austrian (ÖAD) institutions. His research has focused on texts and authors from the late 18th century to the 20th century, with particular emphasis on the Vormärz period (especially the work of Heinrich Heine) and the turn of the century (especially the Wiener Moderne). His publications include the monographs "Parole in guerra: Heinrich Heine e la polemica" (2008), "Hofmannsthal und die Kunst des Lesens" (2021), as well as the editing and translation of the correspondence between Franz Kafka and Max Brod ("Un altro scrivere", in collaboration with Luca Zenobi, 2007) and various texts, including those by Rosa Luxemburg ("Un po' di compassione", 2007), Hugo von Hofmannsthal ("Le parole non sono di questo mondo", 2004; La lettera di Lord Chandos e altri scritti, 2017), Friederike Mayröcker ("Gli addii", 2007) and Joseph Roth ("Hotel Savoy", 2013).