Chiara Sartor

Chiara Sartor is a Researcher at the University of Freiburg within the DFG Research Training Group 2190 History of literature and knowledge in small forms. She leads the project Institutional Texts / Linguistic Artworks, examining experimental writings by psychiatric patients in early 20th-century France, Switzerland, and Belgium that were later curated by Jean Dubuffet for the Collection de l'Art Brut.

Her research spans:

• Literary History
• History of Knowledge
• Art Brut Studies
• Psychiatric Writings
• Reception History
• Experimental Writing

with emphasis on the transformation of institutional patient texts into linguistic artworks through collection, transcription, and exhibition practices.

Dr. Sartor actively contributes to academic discourse through teaching, workshop organization, and conference participation within the Research Training Group 2190 framework, fostering interdisciplinary exploration of marginal literary forms and their socio-historical contexts.