Chiara Caradonna is Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Romance Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She completed her PhD at the Department of Romance Studies of the University of Heidelberg in 2017. Between 2017 and 2021 she was Postdoc-Fellow of the Martin Buber Society at the Hebrew University. In her research she deals with modern and contemporary European poetry on the one hand, and with the “excessive” novel that defies the genre’s formal boundaries on the other. In this context, she is particularly interested in the intersections between literature, philosophy and anthropology. In her first book, titled Opak. Schatten der Erkenntnis im “Meridian” und im Gedicht “Schwanengefahr” (Wallstein 2020) she analyzes epistemological and hermeneutic aspects in Paul Celan’s later poetry. She has published on Paul Valéry and Edmund Husserl, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Daniel Sada and Rainer René Mueller. Lately she has been focusing on the modern and contemporary literature of Southern Italy and in particular on the work of Sicilian writer Stefano D’Arrigo. She currently plans to expand her latest article titled “The Ethnographer from Within: Wild Thought in Stefano D’Arrigo’s Horcynus Orca” (arcadia 56, 2021) in a book tentatively titled Ethnography in the Strait. Beyond Nature and Culture in Stefano D’Arrigo’s Horcynus Orca. She is also interested in cinematographic representations of Sicily and more broadly in Italian Cinema of the 1950s-70s, as well as in contemporary Italian popular culture (graphic novel and music).

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