Grazia PULVIRENTI

Grazia Pulvirenti, Dr. phil., is Full Professor of German Literature and Neurohermeneutics at the University of Catania, where she also teaches Neurohermeneutics. She has been Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna, the Warburg Institute and University College London. She co-edits the German studies book series Wunderkammer (Milan: Mimesis) and is President of the Lamberto Puggelli Foundation (onlus).

She co-founded the transdisciplinary research network NeuroHumanities Studies (www.neurohumanitiestudies.eu). She also co-founded the International Interdisciplinary Research Center NewHums – Neurocognitive and Humanities Studies, which she directed until 2022. From 2014 to 2019 she co-initiated and co-organised the international colloquia Neurohumanities Dialogues.

She sits on the editorial boards of journals including the International Journal of Literature and Arts, Cognitive Philology, Critica letteraria e linguistica (Milan: FrancoAngeli) and Mitteleuropa. Identità letterarie (Milan: FrancoAngeli).

She is a member of leading international scholarly associations, including the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS), the English Goethe Society, the Goethe-Gesellschaft Weimar, the Internationale Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft, the International Association for German Studies (IVG), the Goethe Society of North America, Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities (https://cognitive-futures.com) and the International Network for the Study of Lyric (INSL). She also sits on the faculty board of the PhD programme in Sciences of Interpretation.

Her research interests include literature from a neurocognitive perspective, visual culture, Austrian literature, travel literature, twentieth-century German poetry, eighteenth- and twentieth-century German theatre, the Goethezeit, Romanticism and intermediality.

She has published more than 150 works with major national and international journals and publishers.

Her awards include the Anna Maria Ortese Prize (2019) and the L'Iguana Prize (2021).

She curates the column "Dentro le pieghe delle storie" for Letteratitudine and writes for Fata Morgana Web and L'Indice dei Libri.

As a novelist, she published Non dipingerai i miei occhi. Storia intima di Jeanne Hébuterne e Amedeo Modigliani (Milan: Jouvence, 2018), which won the Anna Maria Ortese Prize and was nominated for the Strega Prize. Her short stories and poems have appeared in anthologies and literary journals.