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Prof. Dr. Davide Giuriato


 

Born 1972 in Aarau (Switzerland)
1993-2000
 
Universities of Basel and Freiburg i.Br., German and Italian Language and Literature
2000-2001
 
Ph.D.-Scholar, Graduate Programme "Textkritik”, LMU Munich
2001-2007
 
Research Assistant, Research Project SNF, "Zur Genealogie des Schreibens”, University of Basel
2005
 
Ph.D. in Modern German Literature, University of Basel, "Mikrographien. Zu einer Poetologie des Schreibens in Walter Benjamins Kindheitserinnerungen"
2005/2006
 
Guest Lecturer, University of Salzburg and LMU Munich
2007-2014
 
Research Assistant, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main
2011
 
Visiting Professor W3, LMU Munich
2012
 
Visiting Professorship W2, Universität Erfurt (declined))
2012/13
 
Postdoctoral Grant, DFG Project Funding, University of Vienna
2013
 
Habilitation in Modern German Literature, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, "Deutlichkeit. Ästhetik des Kunstlosen im 18./19. Jahrhundert"
2013
 
Visiting Professor W3, TU Dortmund
2014
 
Visiting Professorship W3, HU Berlin (declined)
2014
 
Visiting Professor W3, WWU Muenster
2014/15
 
Investigator Grant, DFG-Programme "Heisenberg”, University of Muenster
2014
 
Associate Professor for Modern German Literature, University of Zurich
2015
 
Full Professorship for Modern German Literary History, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (declined)
seit 2015
 
Full Professor of Modern German Literature, University of Zurich
2018
 
Research Fellow, Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin
2020
 
Visiting Scholar, Harvard University (Cambridge/Boston)
2023/24
 
Research Fellow, Hamburg Institute for Advanced Studies (HIAS), Hamburg
 
 

Board activities

2015-2022
 
Member of the Council, Robert Walser Foundation
2016-2018
 
Co-Director, Interdisciplinary MA-Programme "Cultural Analysis", University of Zurich
2017-2020
 
Committee for Early Career Researchers, University of Zurich/SNF
2019-2022
 
Director of Studies, German Departement, University of Zurich
2021-2023
 
Graduate School, Department of Literary Studies
2017-2024
 
Managing Board, Interdisciplinary Research Center "Künste und Kulturtheorie", University of Zurich
2022-2025
 
Jury for the Junior Scientist Price, SAGW (Bern)
since 2017
 
Member of the Advisory Board J. Spyri Foundation/SIKJM, Zurich
since 2020
 
President of the Advisary Board "Johann Caspar Lavater: Historisch-kritische Edition ausgewählter Briefwechsel" (JCLB)
since 2021
 
Mobility Commission of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Zurich
since 2022
 
Member of the Advisory Board Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities (DaSCH)
since 2023
 
Research Committee "Literary Theory”, International Association of Comparative Literature/ Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée (IACL/ AILC)  Link

Weiterführende Informationen

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Davide Giuriato und Anatol Heller (Hg.): Insektenpoesie. Ansätze zu einer literarischen Entomologie. Berlin: 2025.
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Davide Giuriato: Infinitely Determinable. Children and Childhood in Modern Literature. Diaphanes, Zürich 2021

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Davide Giuriato: Grenzenlose Bestimmbarkeit. Kindheiten in der Literatur der Moderne. Diaphanes, Zürich 2020.