Davide Stimilli
Emeritus Faculty
Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures • Jewish Studies

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Associate Professor in Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures


Areas of research related to Jewish Studies:

German-Jewish and Italian-Jewish literature, Franz Kafka, Jewish art historians and philologists, Aby Warburg

Courses:

Kafkaesque (GRMN/HMN2601)
Jewish/German Writers (GRMN/JWST 3501)
Representing the Holocaust (GRMN/JWST 2502)

About Prof. Stimilli:

Davide holds degrees in philosophy from the University of Pisa and a PhD in comparative literature from Yale University. He is the author of “Fisionomia di Kafka” and “The Face of Immortality: Physiognomy and Criticism,” the editor of a monographic issue of the journal aut aut, devoted to Aby Warburg: “Aby Warburg. La dialettica dell’immagine,” and of Warburg’s clinical history: “Die unendliche Heilung. Aby Warburgs Krankengeschichte” (translated in Italian, French, and Spanish), as well as of a selection of Warburg’s unpublished writings: “‘Per Monstra ad Sphaeram’: Sternglaube und Bilddeutung. Vortrag in Gedenken an Franz Boll und andere Schriften 1923 bis 1925.” Professor Stimilli’s interests include literary criticism and theory, intellectual history and art theory.