A Phone Call with the Dead. Necrodialogues in Western Literature, Theater and Media.

A rhetorical-narratological approach to figurativeness in narrative settings, applied to eventful German prose literature between early modernity and poetic realism (1660-1880)

“A socio-literary rebirth of classical tragedy after Nietzsche”. A poetical receptionstudy of the social integration of a ‘classical’ tragic condition in German literary and dramatic texts at the beginning of the 20th-century.

Between polemics and trialogue. A rhetorical approach to tell strategies between fictional and non-fictional discourse forms

"From Poet to Reformer. Towards a Redefinition of Form in German (-language) Expressionist Drama" 

Humour and intertextuality as ideology-critical strategies in Thomas Brussig's oeuvre

Literature, Nature, and Ecology: An Ecopoetic Approach to Contemporary French, Germanophone, Anglophone, and Italian Narrative Prose

Metalepsis in six selected prose works by Günter Grass (1961-2010)

Morphomata fellowship Marco Formisano

Nietzsche’s European man as a Renaissanceman: A conceptual, rhetorical and cultural historical analysis of the Renaissance as Nietzsche’s paradigm for a future Europe.

Nihilism on a Troubled Earth: Friedrich Nietzsche and the nihilisms of the Anthropocene

Perception as simulation, memory and encounter in contemporary German city novels. A comparative study of literary ethics of seeing.

Programs of Sheltering and Heating of the Literary Traveler: Analyzing the Discursive Construction of Sheltering and Warming Spaces in Contemporary German Language Travel Texts

Self-determination and (im)mobility in the Russian-German contemporary novel

Symptomatology in Friedrich Nietzche en René Girard: a confrontation

The narrative construction of religious identities in German-speaking Muslim fiction written by authors of Iranian or Iraqi origin.

The secret testimony of the doppelganger. Study of negative identification in five German literary texts, written between 1820 and 1975.

Hierarchical statistical image modeling with applications in analysis, restoration and coding of images and video

How not to listen to music': factual knowledge narration in 19th-century music guides

Robert Schumann’s and Richard Wagner’s 'Musikkritik': a stylistic analysis.

Text Theatricality. An integrated approach based on rhetorical narratology and performance analysis