Associate Professor in听Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
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听补苍诲 The Face of Immortality: Physiognomy and Criticism,听the editor of a monographic issue of the journal aut aut, devoted to Aby Warburg: 鈥淎by Warburg. La dialettica dell鈥檌mmagine,鈥 and of Warburg鈥檚 clinical history: 鈥淒ie unendliche Heilung. Aby Warburgs Krankengeschichte鈥 (translated in Italian, French, and Spanish), as well as of a selection of Warburg鈥檚 unpublished writings: 鈥溾楶er Monstra ad Sphaeram鈥: Sternglaube und Bilddeutung. Vortrag in Gedenken an Franz Boll und andere Schriften 1923 bis 1925.鈥 Professor Stimilli鈥檚 interests include literary criticism and theory, intellectual history and art theory.
Areas of Research Related to Jewish Studies:
German-Jewish and Italian-Jewish literature, Franz Kafka, Jewish art historians and philologists, Aby Warburg