PhD in MODERN FOREIGN LITERATURES, LANGUAGES, AND CULTURES

email: fattori@lettere.uniroma2.it
phone: 0645427498

Anna Fattori is Associate Professor of German Literature at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. She has studied German Literature and English Literature at the University of Perugia (‘laurea’ 1983). She is a former holder of a Bundesstipendium at the University of Zurich and she holds a PhD in Germanistik from the University of Pavia.

Since 2001 she is Erasmus coordinator for the German speaking countries; since 2011 she is also Erasmus general coordinator for the Faculty of the Humanities of Rome Tor Vergata.

Her research and teaching interests include Swiss-German Literature, Robert Walser, the German novel of the 18^th century (with special focus on Jean Paul), the theory of the novel, travel literature, poetry, Anglo-German Studies, literary stylistics, avant-garde

She has co-edited two collections of essays about Robert Walser: Bildersprache - Klangfiguren. Spielformen der Intermedialität bei Robert Walser, Akten der römischen Tagung 8.-10. November 2007, ed. by A. Fattori and M. Gigerl, München, Fink 2008, and „Ich beendige dieses Gedicht lieber in Prosa”. Robert Walser als Grenzgänger der Gattungen, ed. by A. Fattori and K. G. v. Schwerin, Heidelberg, Winter 2011.

She is co-editor of the journal CH-Studien. Zeitschrift zur Literatur und Kultur der Schweiz (University of Lodz) and of the series published by Metzler „Lyrikforschung. Neue Arbeiten zur Theorie und Geschichte der Lyrik“

She is a member of Robert Walser-Gesellschaft, Jean-Paul Gesellschaft, GEDL (Gesellschaft für die Erforschung der Deutschschweizer Literatur), Keller-Gesellschaft, AIG (Associazione Italiana di Germanistica), IASIL (International Association for the Study of Irish Literature).