Davide Stimilli (Ph.D., Yale University) is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature and Humanities. Prior to teaching at CU-Boulder, he held positions in Italian and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University and in Comparative Literature at the University of Puerto Rico. He has written extensively on Franz Kafka and Aby Warburg. His interests include literary criticism & theory, intellectual history, and art theory.

Teaching Interests

Literary criticism & theory, German and Italian studies, intellectual history, Renaissance and 18th-century studies, art theory.



Current Courses

HUMN 2601: Kafka and the Kafkaesque




Recent Courses


 COML 5620: History of Literary Criticism


 COML 5000: Proseminar in Comparative Literature


 HUMN 3093: Topics: Reading and Guessing

Books

Editor (with Claudia Wedepohl) Aby Warburg, “Per Monstra ad Sphaeram”: Sternglaube und Bilddeutung (Hamburg: Dölling und Galitz 2008) Italian Translation Jan Patočka: Saggi eretici (Torino: Einaudi 2008)  Editor (with Chantal Marazia) Ludwig Binswanger-Aby Warburg, Die unendliche Heilung. (Berlin: diaphanes 2007) French Translation: La Guérison infinie (Paris: Rivages, 2007) Spanish Translation: La curación infinita (Buenos Aires: Adriana Hihdalgo, 2007) Italian Tranlsation: La guarigione infinita (Vicenza, Neri Pozza, 2005) The Face of Immortality: Physiognomy and Criticism (Albany: State University of New York Press 2005) Editor. Aby Warburg. La dialettica dell'immagine aut aut 321-322 (2004). Special Monographic Issue. Fisionomia di Kafka (Torino: Bollati Boringhieri 2001)

Recent Articles

"Aby Warburg in America Again: With an Edition of His Unpublished Correspondence with Edwin R. A. Seligman (1927-1928)," RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 48(2005), 193-206

"Morte ai morti! L'indifferente Mattia Pascal," in Magia di un romanzo: "Il fu Mattia Pascal." Ed. P. Frassica (Novara: Interlinea 2005), 27-37.

"L'impresa di Warburg," aut aut 321-322 (2004), 97-116.

"Daimon and Nemesis," RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 44 (2003), 99-112.

Recent Conferences & Guest Lectures

"Aby Warburg's Impresa," Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University, February 2008.

"Vita contemplativa," Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturwissenschaft, Berlin, January 2008.

"Aby Warburg and the Philology of the Future," Association of British Art Historians Annual Convention, University of Leeds, April 2006.

"Dream Bodies." Conference: "'Sleeping, I am more awake.' The Art of Dreams." Vanderbilt University, Nashville, March 2006.

"Dialettica del mostro," Biennale Teatro, Venezia, Italy, September 2005.

"Divinatio. Aby Warburgs Philologie der Zukunft", Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin, Germany, July 2005

"Motionless Gestures: The Reclining Body in the Renaissance," Indiana University, Bloomington, April 2005, Keynote Address, Graduate Studies Annual Conference, Department of French and Italian

"Scanning Images," Getty Research Center, Los Angeles, 22 January 2005, Conference "The Art of the Moving Image"

"The Word to the Image: Aby Warburg's Impresa," Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, November 2004

"Gods in Exile: Heine and Freud in Italy," Modern Language Association (MLA) 2003 Convention, San Diego, December 2003