Beate Anna BAUMANN
Keywords
Intercultural studies; German language teaching; Multilingualism and linguistic creativity; Sociolinguistics; Applied linguistics; Empirical methodologies in the field of L2 teaching/learning research
Beate Baumann is Associate Professor of GERMAN LANGUAGE, TRANSLATION AND LINGUISTICS [GERM-01/C] at the Department of Humanities of the University of Catania, where she teaches courses L11, L20, LM37 and LM38.
She is Deputy Director of the POLYPHONIE inter-university research centre (University of Genoa and University of Catania) and Scientific Director of the UniCT Centre.
She is Co-Editor of the journal Polyphonie. Mehrsprachigkeit_Kreativität_Schreiben (ISSN: 2304-7607), classified by ANVUR as a scientific journal.
Author of numerous scientific publications and translator (German > Italian, Italian > German) of scientific texts and literature.
She has participated in numerous international and national conferences as a speaker and has given lectures at Italian and foreign universities.
Visiting professor at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of Cologne.
Participation in research projects:
- COST Action MultiLiLiTrans: Literary multilingualism and social transformations in superdiverse societies (Action Chair: Barbara Siller, Cork; Vice-Chair: Hannes Schweiger, Vienna, Sandra Vlasta, Genoa. Since 2025).
- SpacesPost.-Migr. - Socio-linguistic and artistic-literary spaces of post-migration: proposals and models for lasting dialogue between cultures (P.I.: Prof. Concettina Rizzo, Pia.ce.ri. Line 2, since 2024).
- MigrAIRe - Migration and belonging: analysis of strategies and methods for the construction of new identity concepts and restructuring of linguistic repertoires (P.I.: Prof. Concettina Rizzo, Pia.ce.ri. Line 2, 2020-2024).
- Multilingualism and multiple identities. An empirical investigation in the context of German language learning (principal investigator, Prometeo 1, 2018-2019).
- Migration, conflict, interculturality: strategies and methods for the construction of new linguistic-cultural and symbolic competences (P.I.: Prof. Concettina Rizzo, Prometeo 3, 2017-2019).
- Principal investigator of the project “Processes of linguistic and cultural learning through texts of intercultural literature. An empirical study” (principal investigator, Prometeo 1, 2017-2018).
- Identity and interaction between languages, literatures and cultural expressions' (coordinated by Marilia Marchetti, FIR, 2014-2016).
- Intercultural learning in an international university context. An exchange project with texts on German and Italian-language migration literature for young people / L’apprendimento interculturale nel contesto universitario internazionale. Un progetto di scambio con testi appartenenti alla letteratura giovanile e di migrazione di lingua tedesca e italiana. Educational and research cooperation project conceived and implemented together with Dr Wiebke Otten of the Freie Universität Berlin (2024-2025).
- Plurilingualism and performative linguistic phenomena in German-language transcultural writing (holder, University Project, 2008-2010).
Member of various research centres:
- GENUS Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies, Department of Humanities, University of Catania
- I-LanD Interuniversity Research Centre, University of Naples L'Orientale
- Associate member of the Cultures, Representation, Education, Didactics & Training Engineering Research Laboratory, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez (Morocco)
- Member of the Study Group of the Lingua Madre National Literary Competition (CLM), a permanent project of the Piedmont Region and the Turin International Book Fair.
Fellowship at the Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (BIM) at Humboldt University. Project: Post-migratory reconfigurations. New cultural, linguistic and narrative forms and practices in contemporary Germany (March-May 2023).
Coordinator of Erasmus exchanges with the German universities of Cologne, Potsdam, Frankfurt/Oder and Erlangen-Nuremberg.
DISUM delegate for Internationalisation/Erasmus (2013-2022).
DISUM delegate for the coordination of the research line “Plurilingualism and linguistic and cultural mediation” (2023-2026).
Responsable coordinator of the LiCuTra PCTO Project Languages, cultures, translation (in collaboration with the Liceo Scientifico Statale ‘Enrico Boggio Lera’ in Catania, 2024-2025).
Responsable coordinator of University German Language Certifications (TestDaF, 2006-2025).
Beate Baumann studied at the Universities of Cologne, Florence and Bologna.
Main areas of research
Intercultural studies; German language teaching; Multilingualism and linguistic creativity; Sociolinguistics; Applied linguistics; Empirical methodologies in the field of L2 teaching/learning research
Deputy Director of the POLYPHONIE Interuniversity Research Centre (University of Genoa and University of Catania) and Scientific Director of the UniCT Centre (https://www.polyphonie-centroricerca.it/index.php?op=home&lang=it).
Participation in research projects:
- COST Action MultiLiLiTrans: Literary multilingualism and social transformations in superdiverse societies (Action Chair: Barbara Siller, Cork; Vice-Chair: Hannes Schweiger, Vienna, Sandra Vlasta, Genoa. Since 2025).
- SpacesPost.-Migr. - Socio-linguistic and artistic-literary spaces of post-migration: proposals and models for lasting dialogue between cultures (P.I.: Prof. Concettina Rizzo, Pia.ce.ri. Line 2, since 2024).
- MigrAIRe - Migration and belonging: analysis of strategies and methods for the construction of new identity concepts and restructuring of linguistic repertoires (P.I.: Prof. Concettina Rizzo, Pia.ce.ri. Line 2, 2020-2024).
- Multilingualism and multiple identities. An empirical investigation in the context of German language learning (principal investigator, Prometeo 1, 2018-2019).
- Migration, conflict, interculturality: strategies and methods for the construction of new linguistic-cultural and symbolic competences (P.I.: Prof. Concettina Rizzo, Prometeo 3, 2017-2019).
- Principal investigator of the project “Processes of linguistic and cultural learning through texts of intercultural literature. An empirical study” (principal investigator, Prometeo 1, 2017-2018).
- Identity and interaction between languages, literatures and cultural expressions' (coordinated by Marilia Marchetti, FIR, 2014-2016).
- Intercultural learning in an international university context. An exchange project with texts on German and Italian-language migration literature for young people / L’apprendimento interculturale nel contesto universitario internazionale. Un progetto di scambio con testi appartenenti alla letteratura giovanile e di migrazione di lingua tedesca e italiana. Educational and research cooperation project conceived and implemented together with Dr Wiebke Otten of the Freie Universität Berlin (2024-2025).
- Plurilingualism and performative linguistic phenomena in German-language transcultural writing (holder, University Project, 2008-2010).
Member of various research centres
- GENUS Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies, Department of Humanities, University of Catania
- I-LanD Interuniversity Research Centre, University of Naples L'Orientale
- Associate member of the Cultures, Representation, Education, Didactics & Training Engineering Research Laboratory, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez (Morocco)
- Member of the Study Group of the Lingua Madre National Literary Competition (CLM), a permanent project of the Piedmont Region and the Turin International Book Fair.
Fellowship at the Berliner Institut für empirische Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (BIM) at Humboldt University. Project: Post-migratory reconfigurations. New cultural, linguistic and narrative forms and practices in contemporary Germany (March-May 2023).