2025
Autobiographical Experiences of Migrants
"Dinamiche di coesione e collisione nel contesto delle esperienze migratorie autobiografiche del terzo millennio: il cinema transculturale e la pedagogia del disagio al servizio dell'apprendimento dell'italiano", in: Simona Bartoli Kucher, Nicola Locatelli and Tommaso Meozzi (eds.), Linguaggi per rinascere: autobiografie e incontri transculturali. Atti del convegno "Quo vadis, italiano 2024?". Università di Graz, 24-27 aprile 2024, Italiano LinguaDue, vol. 17, n. 1, OpenAccess publication, DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/2037-3597/29079, 2025, pp. 265-283.
Revisiting "The Hero's Journey"
"Revisiting The Hero's Journey against the Backdrop of a Timeless Vision Quest, a Postmodern Metaphor of the Unconscious and a New Concept of Purity", afterword in: Sarit Zeltzer, The Art of Feeling at Home: A Practical Mindfulness and Creativity Framework for Resilience and Growth after Trauma, volume 18 of the book series Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies (TSIL) edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Rotraud von Kulessa and Costantino Maeder, with a Preface and an Afterword by Dagmar Reichardt, Berlin et al., Peter Lang, 2025, pp. 121-154.
Storytelling as Therapeutic Work with Psychiatric Patients
"E il verde ramo oscillò. Fiabe di folli (19999) di Giuseppina e Giuseppe Bonaviri: Lo storytelling come lavoro terapeutico con pazienti psichiatrici", in: Stefano Calabrese and Paola Villani (eds.), Narrazione e malattia, (Eterotopie n. 1061), Milano – Udine, Mimesis Edizioni, 2025, pp. 141-152.
The Birth of "Italophony"
"Die Geburtsstunde der Italophonie: Zur Nutzung fremdsprachendidaktischer Transkulturalitätsparameter im Italienischunterricht als Zweit-, Dritt- und Fremdsprache", book chapter in: Movimenti - Bewegungen I. Akten der Fachdidaktischen Sektion des Deutschen Italianistentags 2022, edited by Domenica Elisa Cicala, Andrea Klinkner, Tübingen, Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, (Italianistica 1. Testi e Strutture - Strukturen und Texte), 2025, pp. 215-251.
Transcultural Rites as the Base for Effective Healing Methods
"Transcultural Rites as the Base for Effective Healing Methods", preface in: Sarit Zeltzer, The Art of Feeling at Home: A Practical Mindfulness and Creativity Framework for Resilience and Growth after Trauma, volume 18 of the book series Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies (TSIL) edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Rotraud von Kulessa and Costantino Maeder, with a Preface and an Afterword by Dagmar Reichardt, Berlin et al., Peter Lang, 2025, pp. 7-8.
2024
Translations and Editorial Strategies of Dacia Maraini's Work in German-speaking Countries and Japan
"La traduzione è un meraviglioso ponte - Le traduzioni e strategie editoriali in area germanofona e in Giappone: l'Altro (la Germania), l'esotismo traumatico (il Giappone) e la riscrittura meandrica di Dacia Maraini", in: Dagmar Reichardt (ed.): Le tante traduzioni dell’opera di Dacia Maraini: Studi, analisi ed approcci comparatistici con testi originali dell’autrice e con un laboratorio di traduzioni letterarie, [proceedings of the International Symposium held on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of life and work in the fields of Italian literature, theater, culture and politics of Dacia Maraini at the Forum Austriaco di Cultura in Rome / Italy, 14th-15th October 2017, and completed in the year 2023 on the occasion of the 60th year after the publication of her second novel, The Age of Malaise - i.e. L’età del malessere (1963) - awarded the Formentor de las Letras Prize in Spain in 1962 for its publication in Italian and translation in 13 languages], featuring 30 illustrations and 3 registers summarizing the literary production of translation in tabular form, with editorial assistance from María Belén Hernández González, Giuseppe Barbaro, Domenica Elisa Cicala, Claus Friede, Anastasija Gjurčinova, Michelangelo La Luna, Monica Martinelli, Ada Plazzo, Maurizio Rebaudengo and Daria Rizzello, volume 16 of the book series Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies (TSIL) edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Rotraud von Kulessa and Costantino Maeder, with a Preface by Dacia Maraini, with a Greeting by Igiaba Scego, Berlin et al., Peter Lang, 2024, pp. 157-263.
"Maria Stuart" by Dacia Maraini in its Literary Translation in German
"L'effetto Maraini e le SHeroes da lei create: premessa alla Maria Stuart di Dacia Maraini nella sua versione letteraria in lingua tedesca", in: Dagmar Reichardt (ed.): Le tante traduzioni dell’opera di Dacia Maraini: Studi, analisi ed approcci comparatistici con testi originali dell’autrice e con un laboratorio di traduzioni letterarie, [proceedings of the International Symposium held on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of life and work in the fields of Italian literature, theater, culture and politics of Dacia Maraini at the Forum Austriaco di Cultura in Rome / Italy, 14th-15th October 2017, and completed in the year 2023 on the occasion of the 60th year after the publication of her second novel, The Age of Malaise - i.e. L’età del malessere (1963) - awarded the Formentor de las Letras Prize in Spain in 1962 for its publication in Italian and translation in 13 languages], featuring 30 illustrations and 3 registers summarizing the literary production of translation in tabular form, with editorial assistance from María Belén Hernández González, Giuseppe Barbaro, Domenica Elisa Cicala, Claus Friede, Anastasija Gjurčinova, Michelangelo La Luna, Monica Martinelli, Ada Plazzo, Maurizio Rebaudengo and Daria Rizzello, volume 16 of the book series Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies (TSIL) edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Rotraud von Kulessa and Costantino Maeder, with a Preface by Dacia Maraini, with a Greeting by Igiaba Scego, Berlin et al., Peter Lang, 2024, pp. 521-546.
Giuseppe Bonaviri, a Revolutionist of the South
"Bonaviri, rivoluzionario del Sud: la scultura transsociale del 'Libro di pietra' (1984-2009) come modello di una nuova convivenza postmoderna, glocale e transculturale", book chapter in: Benvenuti al Nuovo Sud. Costellazioni, collaborazioni e trasformazioni transculturali. Con interviste a Maria Attanasio e Mario Desiati. Con un saggio critico di Carmine Abate, edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Domenica Elisa Cicala, Laura Fournier-Finocchiaro, Michelangelo La Luna, Colbert Akieudji, Carmen Van den Bergh, Firenze, Cesati, (Civiltà italiana. Terza serie, vol. 62), 2024, pp. 149-161.
Introduction to "The New South"
"Introduzione. Il Nuovo Sud", introduction to the book: Benvenuti al Nuovo Sud. Costellazioni, collaborazioni e trasformazioni transculturali. Con interviste a Maria Attanasio e Mario Desiati. Con un saggio critico di Carmine Abate, edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Domenica Elisa Cicala, Laura Fournier-Finocchiaro, Michelangelo La Luna, Colbert Akieudji, Carmen Van den Bergh, Firenze, Cesati, (Civiltà italiana. Terza serie, vol. 62), 2024, pp. 11-36.
The Italophone Literature in the Light of Paradigm Shifts within a Collective Glocal Identity
"La letteratura italofona transculturale dal XII al XXI secolo alla luce dei cambi di paradigma di una identità glocale collettiva", in: Tatiana Petrovich Njegosh / Franca Sinopoli (eds.), Studi transnazionali. Casi e strumenti interdisciplinari, Roma, Lithos, 2024, pp. 81-112.
Translation Studies and the Art of Translating: Travelling Around the World, Cultures and Words
"Introduzione - Dacia Maraini, la Scienza traslatoria e l'arte di tradurre: viaggi attorno al mondo, alle culture e alla parola" (introduction authored by Dagmar Reicardt & María Belén Hernández González), in: Dagmar Reichardt (ed.): Le tante traduzioni dell’opera di Dacia Maraini: Studi, analisi ed approcci comparatistici con testi originali dell’autrice e con un laboratorio di traduzioni letterarie, [proceedings of the International Symposium held on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of life and work in the fields of Italian literature, theater, culture and politics of Dacia Maraini at the Forum Austriaco di Cultura in Rome / Italy, 14th-15th October 2017, and completed in the year 2023 on the occasion of the 60th year after the publication of her second novel, The Age of Malaise - i.e. L’età del malessere (1963) - awarded the Formentor de las Letras Prize in Spain in 1962 for its publication in Italian and translation in 13 languages], featuring 30 illustrations and 3 registers summarizing the literary production of translation in tabular form, with editorial assistance from María Belén Hernández González, Giuseppe Barbaro, Domenica Elisa Cicala, Claus Friede, Anastasija Gjurčinova, Michelangelo La Luna, Monica Martinelli, Ada Plazzo, Maurizio Rebaudengo and Daria Rizzello, volume 16 of the book series Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies (TSIL) edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Rotraud von Kulessa and Costantino Maeder, with a Preface by Dacia Maraini, with a Greeting by Igiaba Scego, Berlin et al., Peter Lang, 2024, pp. 29-95.
War & Peace in the Italian Cinema of Migration
Il leitmotiv transculturale di "Guerra e Pace" nel Cinema di migrazione italofono, co-authored with Ada Plazzo, in: Comparatismi, n. 9 (2024), "The Private Dimension of Dwelling – La dimensione privata dell'abitare", ISSN 2531-7547, https://www.ledijournals.com/ojs/index.php/comparatismi/article/view/2697, pp. 386-408.
2023
European Paths to World Culture, Culture Mapping, and the VUCA Effect
"European Paths to World Culture, Culture Mapping, and the VUCA Effect: Transcultural Reconfigurations of the Relations between Italy and Germany", in: Franca Sinopoli & Silvia Contarini (eds.), Transculturalità: un concetto operativo in Europa?, (Studi Transnazionali / Transnational Studies, vol. 6), Roma, Lithos, 2023, pp. 37-61.
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Silvia Contarini, Ugo Fracassa, Tatiana Petrovich Njegosh, and Franca Sinopoli: Transcultural Europe in the Global World - A Jean Monnet Project/Erasmus+ Programme (project and book presentations), Sapienza Università di Roma, MOWE, Palazzina Tumminelli Viale dell'Università, 36, 00185 Roma, 19.5.2023, 10:00-12.00 h.
Pioneering Verga
Verga antesignano: orrore, poesia e tecnica dello straniamento in "Tentazione!", in: Antonino Antonazzo, Giorgio Forni, Francesco Galatà & Maria Melania Vitale (ed.): Le «miniature» di Verga: narrativa breve e scena del mondo, vol. 6 of the book series Biblioteca della Fondazione Verga Serie Convegni N.S., edited by Fondazione Verga, Fondazione Verga - Euno Edizioni, 2023, pp. 261-275.
The Significance of Inclusive, Rhizomatic and Transversal Coexistence Parameters
"Transkulturelle Neukonfigurationen des deutsch-italienischen Beziehungsgeflechts: Europäische Wege zur Weltkultur und die Bedeutung inklusiv, rhizomatisch und transversal ausgerichteter Koexistenzparameter", in: Antje Lobin & Eva-Tabea Meineke (eds.), Baustein für Europa: Italien im Fokus deutschsprachiger Bildung, München, AVM - Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München, 2023, pp. 25-62.
2022
"Herstory" and the Potential of Female Transformation "Between" Modernity and Postmodernity
"Herstory und weibliches Transformationspotenzial zwischen Moderne und Postmoderne. Auf der transkulturellen Suche nach Dacia Marainis matriarchaler Familiengeschichte", [Geleitwort der Herausgeberin | Preface as editor of the book series], in: Daria Rizzello: Reisen, Erzählungen und Erinnerungen von fünf Maraini-Frauen. Eine transgenerationale Familientopografie, [doctoral thesis at Universität Bonn as a double degree with Università di Firenze], volume 14 of the book series Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies (TSIL) edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Rotraud von Kulessa and Costantino Maeder, with a preface by Dagmar Reichardt, Berlin et al.: Peter Lang, 2022, pp. 5-13.
Dante Beyond Western Reception
"Dante jenseits der abendländischen Rezeption. Wie Philalethes' deutschsprachige Übersetzung der Commedia von 1849 in die Niederlande kam und im dritten Millennium in Kapstadt Afrikaans wurde", in: Irmgard Scharold (Ed.), Dante intermedial. Die "Divina Commedia" in Literatur und Medien, Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2022, pp. 439-464.
Fifty Shades of Transcultural Interstices in Contemporary Italophone Feminist Fiction Reread "in Triangle"
"Scego - Lahiri - Maraini. Cinquanta sfumature di interstizi transculturali nella narrativa femminista italofona contemporanea riletta a triangolo", in: Transculturalità e plurilinguismi nella letteratura italiana degli anni duemila, edited by Alessandro Benucci, Silvia Contarini and Giuliana Pias, Firenze, Cesati, (Quaderni della rassegna, vol. 211), 2022, pp. 57-76.
From Image to Icon
"Introduzione: Dall'immagine all'icona - congiunture e svincoli semiotici, metodologici e paradigmatici tra imagologia, comunicazione e transculturalità", co-authored with Domenica Elisa Cicala, in: Icone della transculturalità. Concetti, modelli e immagini per una didattica della cultura italiana nel terzo millennio, edited by Dagmar Reichardt and Domenica Elisa Cicala, Firenze, Cesati, 2022, pp. 9-26.
Literary Glocalization
"Giuseppe Bonaviri's Book of Stone (1984-2009): A Blueprint for Literary Glocalization", in: Colloquium Helveticum: Literarische Glokalisierung - Glocalisation littéraire - Literary Glocalization, edited by Philippe P. Haensler, Stefanie Heine, and Sandro Zanetti, (Swiss Review of General and Comparative Literature, vol. 51), Bielefeld, Aisthesis, 2022, pp. 135-151.
Maria Montessori & the Cosmic Education
"Maria Montessori: Dalla pedagogia scientifica ed Educazione cosmica a una glottodidattica transculturale", co-authored with Ada Plazzo, in: Icone della transculturalità. Concetti, modelli e immagini per una didattica della cultura italiana nel terzo millennio, edited by Dagmar Reichardt and Domenica Elisa Cicala, Firenze, Cesati, 2022, pp. 51-74.
Pasolini's Imperfect Perfection
"Pasolinis unvollendete Vollkommenheit. Eine transkulturelle Relektüre von Porno - Theo - Kolossal in deutscher Übersetzung", accompanying text authored by Dagmar Reichardt [about the transcultural potential and translation into German of Pier Paolo Pasolini's book Porno - Teo - Kolossal], in: Porno - Theo - Kolossal. Pasolinis letztes Filmprojekt, authored by Pier Paolo Pasolini, translated from Italian into German by Dagmar Reichardt, edited by Dagmar Reichardt and Reinhold Zwick (Ed.), with accompanying texts by Dagmar Reichardt and Reinhold Zwick, translated with the help of a translation grant from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale MAECI), printed with the support of the Catholic Academy Hamburg (Katholische Akademie Hamburg), Marburg: Schüren, 2022, pp. 137-202.
Theoretical Approaches to Transculturalism
Theoretical Approaches to Transculturalism: Evolution of the Term, Problems of Demarcation and Their Relevance in Third Millennium Discourses, co-authored with Igiaba Scego, in: Transmedialità e transculturalismo in Pier Paolo Pasolini, edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Marco Marino, and Ugo Perolino, in: Diacritica. Trimestrale indipendente di letteratura, [telematic open access journal registered with the Court of Rome on 31.12.2014, authorization no. 278, Scientific periodical of ANVUR Area 10 - Class A in Literary Criticism and Comparative Literatures (10/F4)], VIII, (44/2), 25.5.2022 (vol. I), first double edition of Diacritica: Letture critiche, special issue published in honour of the centenary of Pier Paolo Pasolini, pp. 59-67.
Transmedialità e transumanizzazione: in onore delle celebrazioni per il primo centenario della nascita di Pier Paolo Pasolini
Introduzione. Transmedialità e transumanizzazione: in onore delle celebrazioni per il primo centenario della nascita di Pier Paolo Pasolini, in: Transmedialità e transculturalismo in Pier Paolo Pasolini, edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Marco Marino, and Ugo Perolino, in: Diacritica. Trimestrale indipendente di letteratura, [telematic open access journal registered with the Court of Rome on 31.12.2014, authorization no. 278, Scientific periodical of ANVUR Area 10 - Class A in Literary Criticism and Comparative Literatures (10/F4)], VIII, (44/2), 25.5.2022 (vol. I), first double edition of Diacritica: Letture critiche, special issue published in honour of the centenary of Pier Paolo Pasolini, pp. 19-38.
Verga - An Italian Flaubert, Dickens or Tolstoy?
"Un Flaubert, Dickens o Tolstoj italiano? Il potenziale transculturale e transmediale dell’opera di Giovanni Verga", in: Studi sul Settecento e l'Ottocento. Rivista internazionale di italianistica, a yearly scientific journal classified as "A" by ANVUR and directed by Anna Bellio, Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa / Roma, vol. XVII, 2022, pp. 51-60.
2021
Italian Fashion and Industrial Design: "Put it on" or: "Use it and Enjoy!"
"Put it on or: Use it and Enjoy! The Transcultural and Synergizing History of Italian Fashion and Industrial Design", online publication in: Culture Crossroads. Journal of the Research Center at the Latvian Academy of Culture, vol. 19 (2021), pp. 285-297.
Style, Sense and Senses: The Transcultural Language of Italian Fashion
"Style, Sense and Senses: The Iconic and Transcultural Language of Italian Fashion", in: Diversity and Otherness: Transcultural Insights into Norms, Practices, Negotiations, edited by Lisa Gaupp and Giulia Pelillo-Hestermeyer (Ed.), Berlin/New York, De Gruyter, 2021, pp. 208-244. The book has been published in Open Access by De Gruyter Open Poland under the domain https://doi.org/10.1515/9788366675308.
Transcultural Parameters for Italian Language Teaching (LS/L2)
"Parametri transculturi per la didattica dell'italiano LS/L2", in: Aleksandra Saržoska (Ed.), Atti del Convegno Internazionale: L'italianistica nel terzo millennio. Le nuove sfide nelle ricerche linguistiche, letterarie e culturali. Sessant'anni di studi italiani all'Università SS. Cirillo e Metodio di Skopje, Skopje/North Macedonia, Edizioni dell'Università SS. Cirillo e Metodio di Skopje - Faculty of Philology Blaže Koneski, 2021, pp. 741-768.
2020
A Feast for the Festschrift or: "This is not a Festschrift"
"Ein Fest für die Festschrift oder This is Not a 'Festschrift' - Claus Friede zum 60. Geburtstag", in: Follow Arts. Texte zu digitalen Welten und analogen Formaten von Claus Friede, [introduction to the book], edited by Dagmar Reichardt and Gudrun Thiessen-Schneider (Ed.), vol. 5 of the book series Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies (TSIL) edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Rotraud von Kulessa and Costantino Maeder, Berlin et al.: Peter Lang, 2020, pp. 15-31.
Contingenza polifonica e Transcultural Switching: "Cavalleria rusticana" & "Pagliacci"
"Contingenza polifonica e Transcultural Switching. Il 'duo' lirico Cavalleria rusticana (1890) di Pietro Mascagni e Pagliacci (1892) di Ruggero Leoncavallo nella sua ricezione musicale globale dall'Ottocento al Terzo Millennio", [critical essay by Dagmar Reichardt], in: Polifonia musicale. Le tante vie delle melodie italiane in un mondo transculturale, edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Domenica Elisa Cicala, Donatella Brioschi and Mariella Martini-Merschmann (Ed.), with a preface by Dagmar Reichardt and Domenica Elisa Cicala, with an interview with the Sicilian-German singer-songwriter Etta Scollo, Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore, (Civiltà italiana. Terza serie, no. 32), 2020, pp. 65-84.
Dante Marianacci - A Lifetime for Culture
"Dante Marianacci, intellettuale, poeta e mediatore culturale nomade", in: Dante Marianacci - Una vita per la cultura tra creatività e impegno professionale, edited by Angelo Piero Cappello, Simone Gambacorta and Franco Di Tizio (Ed.), vol. 5 of the book series Monografie e Saggi edited by Federica Di Pasquale, Silvi Marina (TE)/Italy: Ianieri Edizioni, 2020, pp. 486-490.
Fernando Ortiz and His Impact on Europe
"Creating notions of Transculturality: The Work of Fernando Ortiz and his Impact on Europe", in: World Literature and the Postcolonial. Narratives of (Neo) Colonialization in a Globalized World, edited by Elke Sturm-Trigonakis (ed.), Berlin/Heidelberg: J.B. Metzler, 2020, pp. 69-83 [revised edition of my essay first issued in 2018].
Interview with the Sicilian-German Singer-Songwriter Etta Scollo
"La musica è espressione di una voce come di un coro: Intervista 'polifonica' a Etta Scollo", [interview with the Sicilian-German singer-songwriter Etta Scollo edited by Dagmar Reichardt and Piero Carbone], in: Polifonia musicale. Le tante vie delle melodie italiane in un mondo transculturale, edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Domenica Elisa Cicala, Donatella Brioschi and Mariella Martini-Merschmann (Ed.), with a preface by Dagmar Reichardt and Domenica Elisa Cicala, Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore, (Civiltà italiana. Terza serie, no. 32), 2020, pp. 225-236.
Poetic Contact and Hybrid Intersectionality: 750 Years after Dante
"750 anni dalla nascita di Dante Alighieri e oltre. Zone di contatto poetico e intersezionalità ibrida nelle traduzioni germanofone e neerlandesi della Divina Commedia", in: L'interculturel: Quel défits et problématiques aux niveaux européen et international?, edited by Marina Geat and Viviane Devriésère (ed.), (Le ragioni di Erasmus, vol. 3), in cooperation with the Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione dell’Università Roma Tre and the ISFEC d’Aquitaine, Bordeaux, Rome: Roma Tre Press, 2020, pp. 247-266.
The Polyphonic Idea as a Universal Italophone language
"L'idea polifonica come linguaggio italofono universale", introduction by Dagmar Reichardt and Domenica Elisa Cicala in: Polifonia musicale. Le tante vie delle melodie italiane in un mondo transculturale, edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Domenica Elisa Cicala, Donatella Brioschi and Mariella Martini-Merschmann (Ed.), with a preface by Dagmar Reichardt and Domenica Elisa Cicala, with an interview with the Sicilian-German singer-songwriter Etta Scollo, Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore, (Civiltà italiana. Terza serie, no. 32), 2020, pp. 13-22.
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Piero Carbone: "È uscito il volume Polifonia musicale. L'atteso annuncio di Dagmar Reichardt", in: Archivio e pensamenti, [blog], 19.6.2020, https://archivioepensamenti.blogspot.com/2020/06/e-uscito-il-volume-polifonia-musicale.html.
Piero Carbone: Online video book presentation in Italy, Teatro Re Grillo, Licata/Sicily, 20.9.2020, 20:30 h: http://www.comune.licata.ag.it/news/evento-rosa-balisteri/ (Piero Carbone presents the book Polifonia musicale, donating it to the library of Licata - view Piero Carbone's video appearance at min. 50:05'-1:00').
Luigi Saitta: "Gli atti di un convegno dell’Aipi. La colonna sonora della globalizzazione", in: Succede oggi. Cultura nell'informazion quotidiana, 10.11.2020, http://www.succedeoggi.it/2020/11/la-colonna-sonora-della-globalizzazione/.
2019
Nomadic Traditions and Translations: Transcultural Switching in the Italophone Work of Jhumpa Lahiri
"Tradizioni e traduzioni nomadi: la tecnica del Transcultural Switching nell'opera italofona di Jhumpa Lahiri", in: "In limine". Frontiere e integrazioni, edited by Diego Poli (Ed.), Roma: Il Calamo, (Episteme dell'antichità e oltre, no. 18), 2019, pp. 781-796.
Nomadische Literatur und "Transcultural Switching": Jhumpa Lahiri
"Nomadische Literatur und Transcultural Switching: Jhumpa Lahiris italophones Migrationstagebuch In altre parole (2015) - In Other Words (2016) - Mit anderen Worten (2017)", in: Eva-Tabea Meineke / Anne-Rose Mayer / Stephanie Neu-Wendel / Eugenio Spediacato (ed.), Aufgeschlossene Beziehungen: Italien und Deutschland im transkulturellen Dialog. Literatur, Film, Medien, "Rezeptionskulturen in Literatur- und Mediengeschichte" vol. 9 - 2019, Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2019, pp. 243-266.
The Unbounded Destiny of Giovanni Verga's Cross-Media Writing in Post-1918 Italy
"Il destino (s)confinante transmediale dell'opera verghiana nell'Italia post-1918", in: Dario Prola and Stefano Rosatti (ed.), Sponde, confini, trincee: l'Italia nell'Europa post-1918, "Italipolis. Collana di studi italianistici" vol. 1, Warsaw, Wydawnictwo DIG, 2019, pp. 63-70.
Transkulturelle Gewaltdiskurse im europäischen Comic
"Transkulturelle Gewaltdiskurse im europäischen Comic: Die postmoderne Repräsentation der afrikanischen Kolonialerfahrung Italiens in der Mini-Serie Volto Nascosto (2007-2008) von Gianfranco Manfredi", in: Robert Fajen (ed.), Serialität in der italienischen Kultur. Serialità nella cultura italiana, "Romania Viva: Texte und Studien zu Literatur und Film der Romania im 19., 20. und 21. Jahrhundert" vol. 29, Berlin, Bern et al., Peter Lang, 2019, pp. 187-222.
2018
Bonaviri: From Phantastic Autobiography to Transcultural Life Worlds
"Giuseppe Bonaviri (1924-2009). Von phantastisch überhöhter Autobiographie zum transkulturellen Werk- und Lebensentwurfi", in: Florian Steger and Katharina Fürholzer (ed.), Jahrbuch Literatur und Medizin, vol. 10, Heidelberg, Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018, pp. 137-147.
Creating Notions of Transculturality: The Work of Fernando Ortiz
"Creating Notions of Transculturality: The Work of Fernando Ortiz and his Impact on Europe", in: Komparatistik: Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwisssenschaft 2017, edited by Joachim Harst, Christian Moser and Linda Simonis (Ed.), under the supervision of the Board of the German Society for General and Comparative Studies of Literature (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft DGAVL), Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2018, pp. 67-82 [a slightly revised and updated second edition of this essay has been published in 2020 in the volume World Literature and the Postcolonial. Narratives of (Neo) Colonialization in a Globalized World, edited by Elke Sturm-Trigonakis].
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Terence David Kumpf: Towards A New Transaesthetics: Rap Music in Germany and the United States [Ph.D. Dissertation | Erlangung der Würde des Doktors der Philosophie in der Fakultät Kulturwissenschaften der Technischen Universität Dortmund], RuhrCenter of American Studies, TU Dortmund University (FK 15 Kulturwissenschaften), referees: Prof. Dr. Walter Grünzweig (TU Dortmund University, Germany) and Senior Lecturer Justin A. Williams (Bristol University, UK), Dortmund, 2018, online: https://www.academia.edu/76693643/Towards_a_new_transaesthetics_rap_music_in_Germany_and_the_United_States, p. 19 ff.
The Musical Migrations of Etta Scollo
"Le migrazioni musicali della cantastorie Etta Scollo: trenta anni di canzoni nomadi tra i generi e le culture", in: ATeM Archiv für Textmusikforschung, Referenced Scientific Journal of the University of Innsbruck/Austria, Special Issue 3,1 (2018): Popular Music et migration / e migrazione / y migración: 1990-2015, edited by Gerhild Fuchs, Ursula Mathis-Moser and Birgit Mertz-Baumgartner, (subchapter: Fallstudien 2: Nomadismus, Transkulturalität, Hybridität), August 2018, pp. 1-22, DOI: https://www.atem-journal.com/index.php/ATeM/article/view/2018.11.
Un'Italia transculturale: quale modello?
„Introduzione – Un’Italia transculturale: quale modello?“, in: Dagmar Reichardt and Nora Moll (Ed.): Italia transculturale. Il sincretismo italofono come modello eterotopico, in collaboration with Donatella Brioschi, Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore, (Civiltà italiana. Terza serie, no. 26), 2018, pp. 9-27.
2017
Bewegliche Kulturhorizonte inner- und außerhalb Europas
"Bewegliche Kulturhorizonte inner- und außerhalb Europas. Summer School 'Beyond Horizons' 2017", in: Mail aus Riga, academic journal based at the Latvian Academy of Art LAC, Riga/Latvia, n. 129, May 2017, p. 27-34.
Bonaviri e "Verga sulla luna"
"Bonaviri e Verga sulla luna", in: Scrittura fantastica in Bonaviri, edited by Istvan Puskás and Franco Zangrilli, Siracusa, Sampognaro & Pupi, 2017, p. 217-243.
Introduction to "Paradigms of Violence and Transculturality"
"Introduzione", co-authored with Rotraud von Kulessa, Nora Moll and Franca Sinopoli, in: Paradigmi di violenza e transculturalità: il caso italiano (1990-2015). Atti del convegno a Villa Vigoni, 8-10 ottobre 2014, edited and with a preface by Dagmar Reichardt, Rotraud von Kulessa, Nora Moll and Franca Sinopoli (Ed.), vol. 2 of the book series Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies (TSIL) edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Rotraud von Kulessa and Costantino Maeder, Berlin et al.: Peter Lang, 2017, pp. 17-27.
La scrittura italofona nomade di Jhumpa Lahiri
"Radicata a Roma: la svolta transculturale nella scrittura italofona nomade di Jhumpa Lahiri", in: Il pensiero letterario come fondamento di una testa ben fatta, edited by Marina Geat, Rome, Roma TRE Press, 2017, pp. 219-247.
Migrazione, discorsi minoritari, transculturalità
"Migrazione, discorsi minoritari, transculturalità: il caso di Jhumpa Lahiri", in: Scrivere tra le lingue. Migrazione, bilinguismo, plurilinguismo e poetiche nell'Italia contemporanea (1989-2015), edited by Daniele Comberiati and Flaviano Pisanelli, Rome, Aracne, 2017, pp. 77-92.
Read more (reviews, notices)
Veronica Frigeni, "L'italiano perturbante di Jhumpa Lahiri", in: Italian Studies, vol. 75, n. 1, p. 99-110,, cfr. p. 110 (note 27).
On the Theory of a Transcultural Francophony
"On the Theory of a Transcultural Francophony. The Concept of Wolfgang Welsch and its Didactic Interest", Transnational '900. Novecento transnazionale. Letterature, arti e culture / Transnational 20th Century. Literatures, Arts and Cultures, vol. 1, n. 1, (ISSN: 2532-1994 doi: 10.13133/2532-1994_1.4_2017 Open access article licensed under CC-BY), University of Rome La Sapienza, March 2017, p. 40-56.
The Mini-Series "Volto Nascosto" (2007/2008) by Gianfranco Manfredi
"I discorsi di violenza nella mini-serie Volto Nascosto (2007/2008) di Gianfranco Manfredi. Da Tempo di uccidere (1947) alla rappresentazione postmoderna della guerra coloniale italiana in Africa nel fumetto europeo", in: Paradigmi di violenza e transculturalità: il caso italiano (1990-2015). Atti del convegno a Villa Vigoni, 8-10 ottobre 2014, edited and with a preface by Dagmar Reichardt, Rotraud von Kulessa, Nora Moll and Franca Sinopoli (Ed.), vol. 2 of the book series Transcultural Studies – Interdisciplinary Literature and Humanities for Sustainable Societies (TSIL) edited by Dagmar Reichardt, Rotraud von Kulessa and Costantino Maeder, Berlin et al.: Peter Lang, 2017, pp. 141-178.