Dr K Wehling-Giorgi
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi
College Lecturer in Italian at Brasenose College and St. Anne's College
Address:
Email: katrin.wehling-giorgi@st-annes.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Comparative approaches to modern literature (Italian/European); Carlo Emilio Gadda, Samuel Beckett; critical theory (psychoanalysis); discourses surrounding subjectivity and space in 20th century literature
Teaching
Undergraduate: Modern Italian Literature (Paper VIII, IX); Dante; Lyric Poetry
Publications
Articles
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi, ‘Abjection and the Fear of Alterity: Matricide and the Element of the Maternal in the Works of Carlo Emilio Gadda and Samuel Beckett’, Italian Studies, Issue 1, 2011
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi, ‘“Splendid little pictures”: Leibnizian Terminology in the Works of Samuel Beckett and Carlo Emilio Gadda’ in E. Tonning, M. Feldman, M. Engelberts and D. Van Hulle (eds), Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, Vol. 22, forthcoming, 2010
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi, ‘Defilement, War and the Corpse: On the Element of Abjection in Carlo Emilio Gadda's and Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Writings’, Decennial Special, Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies, Issue 7, forthcoming, 2010
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi, ‘The Leibnizian Monad and the Self through the Lens of Carlo Emilio Gadda’s and Samuel Beckett’s Writings’, MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, Volume 2, 2007
Review Articles
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi, ‘Gadda e il moderno. Il vortice delle concause e le forme del riso’, Review article of Raffaele Donnarumma, Gadda modernista (2006), Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies, 5/2007
Reviews
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi: Federica G. Pedriali, La farmacia degli incurabili. Da Collodi a Calvino (2006), Italian Studies, 2007, No. 2
Translations
Katrin Wehling-Giorgi: Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, ‘Baubo – Another and Additional Name for Aracoeli: Morante’s Queer Feminism’, in Sara Fortuna and Manuele Gragnolati (eds), The Power of Disturbance: Elsa Morante's Aracoeli, Oxford: Legenda, 2009