David PAPPALARDO
David Pappalardo is Adjunct Professor in German Language and Translation at the University of Catania. His reserach interests cover the fields of multilingualism, language biographies, literary multilingualism, language ideologies and German as a Foreign Language.
- 2018: Bachelor in Languages and Cultures at the University of Catania.
- 2020: Master in Languages and Compared Literatures at the University of Catania, with focus on Anglophone and German Studies and a one-year Erasmus+ mobility at the University Duisburg-Essen (Germany).
- 2023-2024: Academic tutor for students of German (language curriculum).
- 2024: 18-hour seminar on academic writing in German and on how to write a Hausarbeit.
- 2025 (summer): two seminars on teaching German in Italian schools: strategies and didactic-technological applications.
- 2025 (november): PhD thesis defence in the field of German-language sociolinguistics at the Universities of Catania and Frankfurt (Oder) - supervisors: Prof. Beate Baumann, Prof. Dr. Britta Schneider. Topic: language biographies of four German and Russian speaking writers from the contemporary German-speaking literary panorama and a comparison with the aesthetic multilingualism of their works.
- Until 2026: cooperation with the Italian inter-university research centre POLYPHONIE; member of the cooperation globalexpolyphonie with the literature festival globale° in Bremen.
- Academic Year 2025/26: Adjunct Professor for German Language and Translation 1 and German Language and Translation 3 at the Department of Humanities, Università di Catania.
Pappalardo, David. Il campo letterario come spazio sociale nel repertorio linguistico e nella scrittura plurilingue di Slata Roschal. In: Spazi, luoghi, percorsi. Nuove prospettive linguistiche e letterarie nella germanistica italiana, eds: Ilaria Manenti, Andrea Spedale, Silvia D'Orazio, Camilla Godi (to be published soon).
Schmidt, Daniel, Pellegrino, Ramona & Pappalardo, David. Multilingualism, Identity, and Language Ideologies: Insights from the globale°-Polyphonie Cooperation. In: NuBE. Nuova Biblioteca Europea 6, 2025,103-123. https://doi.org/10.13136/2724-4202/1698
Schmidt, Daniel, Pellegrino, Ramona, & Pappalardo, David. Grenzüberschreitende Perspektiven: Synergien von künstlerischer Praxis und wissenschaftlicher Methodik, in Wortfolge. Szyk Słów, 2025, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.31261/WSS.2025.09.03
Pappalardo, David. Ideologie linguistiche e questioni emotive nei repertori linguistici di due autrici plurilingue del panorama germanofono contemporaneo, in: Immagini, simboli e lingue delle migrazioni, Carla Aleo, Cettina Rizzo, Stefana Squatrito (eds.), Milano: Biblion, 2024, pp. 179-198.
Pappalardo, David. Sprachen der Scham und Sprachen des Stolzes: Linguizismus im autobiografischen Roman Lena Goreliks Wer wir sind (2021), in: POLYPHONIE Genova-Catania: Retrospettiva e prospettive / Rückblick und Ausblick / Rétrospective et perspectives / Looking Back and Looking Forward, Beate Baumann, Michaela Bürger-Koftis, Ramona Pellegrino (eds.), TRANS - INTERNET JOURNAL FOR CULTURAL STUDIES, 2023. https://www.inst.at/trans/27/sprachen-der-scham-und/
Pappalardo D., "Ho imparato il tedesco per non essere sola": Julya Rabinowich tra la sua immigrazione in Austria e la storia di Madina in E in mezzo: io, in: Migrazioni e appartenenze. Identità composite e plurilinguismo, Antonietta Bivona e Cettina Rizzo (eds.), Sesto San Giovanni (MI): Mimesis, 2022, pp. 213-230.
Pappalardo D., A plurilingual identity between fantasy and reality: Herkunft by Saša Stanišić, in: www.polyphonie.at, vol. 9 (1), 2021, pp. 1-22.
Reviews:
Pappalardo D., Julya Rabinowich, E in mezzo: io, trad. it. di Beate Baumann, Nardò (LE), Besa muci, 2021, pp. 264 (ed. orig. Dazwischen: Ich, München, Carl Hanser Verlag, 2016), in: “Studi comparatistici“, vol. 27(1), 2022, pp. 180-181.
Pappalardo D., Sguardi internazionali su identità, migrazioni e scritture, in: “Studi comparatistici”, vol. 25(1), 2020, pp. 149-153.
Pappalardo D., Un progetto di studi sulle migrazioni, in: “Studi comparatistici”, vol. 25(1), 2020, pp. 155-159.
Translations:
Ahrens Gerhard, Da Lubecca alla Sicilia: il professore Adolf Holm (1830-1900), in: "Archivio storico per la Sicilia Orientale", vol. 2, 2021, pp. 5-24 (ed. orig. Gerhard Ahrens, Von Lübeck nach Sizilien: Professore Adolfo Holm (1830-1900), in: “Zeitschrift des Vereins für Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde”, vol. 87, 2022, pp. 135-154), DOI: 10.3280/ASSO2021-002001
Talks at conferences and workshops
16/09/2025: Organisation of the panel Transkulturelle Dialoge und literarische Mehrsprachigkeit: Neue Perspektiven aus der Synergie zwischen dem Literaturfestival globale° und dem Forschungszentrum POLYPHONIE and poster presentation (with Daniel Schmidt und Ramona Pellegrino). Conference: "28. Deutscher Germanistentag", Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig (Germany).
12/06/2025: POLYPHONIE e globale° - Festival für grenzüberschreitende Literatur (with Ramona Pellegrino). Study days: "Attraversare i confini, ampliare le prospettive. Crossing borders, broadening perspectives. Traverser les frontières, élargir les perspectives. Grenzüberschreitungen, Perspektivenerweiterungen", University of Catania, Catania.
27/05/2025: Polyphony and Silence in Action (with Daniel Schmidt and Ramona Pellegrino). Conference: “A New Babel: Multilingualism, Translingualism, and Translation in Contemporary Literature”, Università degli Studi di Verona, Verona.
16/05/2025: Polyphony and Silence in Action: Rethinking Language Ideologies through Artistic and Academic Dialogues (with Daniel Schmidt and Ramona Pellegrino). Symposium: "Polyphony and Silence. Counter-hegemonic Writing Practices, Migration, and Multilingualism", KU Leuven, Leuven (Belgium).
October-December 2024: Translation workshops on multilingual writing DE-IT at High School Boggio Lera, Catania (https://newsicilia.it/catania/scuola/lingua-cultura-traduzione-un-progetto-di-pcto-tra-il-liceo-boggio-lera-e-la-facolta-di-lingue-delluniversita-di-catania/978493/)
02/10/2024: Spazi sociali e repertori linguistici nella scrittura di autrici del panorama germanofono contemporaneo. Conference "Spazi, Luoghi, Percorsi: Prospettive di ricerca e casi di studio nella germanistica italiana", Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan.
18/07/2024: Identitätsaushandlungen und Nichtzugehörigkeit durch die Sprache(n): Mehrsprachigkeit als Distanzerfahrung. Conference (co-organized by me, Daniel Schmidt and Ramona Pellegrino): "Grenzüberschreitende Literatur(en) in einer polyphonen Welt: Mehrsprachigkeit als Quelle der literarischen Kreativität", Universität Bremen, Bremen.
08/07/2024: Tutte le lingue sono uguali, ma alcune sono più uguali delle altre: linguicismo e costruzione dell’altro nel contesto post-migratorio germanofono. Doctoral conference "II Convegno dottorale in Scienze dell'Interpretazione", University of Catania, Catania.
21/06/2024: Biographical and literary experiences of languages: multilingualism in novels. 2024 PhD Viadrilinguistics Summer Workshop (co-organized by me and Didem Leblebici). Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder).
11/04/2024: Ideologie linguistiche, questioni di mercato ed emotive nei repertori linguistici di autrici plurilingue. Conference: "Immagini, simboli, lingue delle migrazioni", University of Catania, Catania.
15/03/2024: Spracherlebnisse, Identitätskonstruktionen und Schreiben: Mehrsprachigkeit als soziale und kreative Erfahrung. Workshop (co-organized by me, Ramona Pellegrino and Daniel Schmidt): Grenzüberschreitende Literatur(en) in einer polyphonen Welt: Mehrsprachigkeit als Quelle der literarischen Kreativität, Universität Bremen, Bremen.
20/10/2023: Esperienze linguistiche e body memory nella costruzione di repertori plurilingui. Doctoral conference "I Convegno Dottorale del Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche", Catania.
06/10/2023: Plurilinguismo, migrazioni ed esperienze linguistiche nella costruzione di identità plurali. Talk at conference "Convegno annuale dell'Associazione Italiana di Germanistica (AIG)", Università RomaTre, Roma.
05/07/2023: Linguistic biographies and narrative identity constructions. Workshop: "Doktorand:innenworkshop des Linguistikdepartments", Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).
05/05/2023: Narratives of non-belonging: movement and distancing in Slata Roschal’s 153 Formen des Nichtseins (2022). Conference: "20th German Graduate Symposium. Movement and Moment", University of Oxford, Oxford (UK).
02/05/2022: "Lingue della vergogna e lingue dell’orgoglio: Wer wir sind di Lena Gorelik". Conference: “Retrospettive e prospettive / Rückblicke und Ausblicke / Rétrospectives et perspectives / Looking back and looking forward”, Università degli Studi di Genova, Genoa.
05/11/2021: Consecutive German-Italian translation, Beate Baumann's interview with Julya Rabinowich. Conference: “Migrazioni e Appartenenze”, University of Catania, Catania.