Donatella Germanese

Dr. Donatella Germanese is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, focusing on interdisciplinary intersections between literature, the arts, and science. Her work examines how postwar Italian corporate magazines became sites for popularizing technology and science while engaging with modern industrial society through literary and artistic lenses.

• Researches Cold War atomic exhibitions, particularly the Atoms for Peace Exhibition in Italy
• Collaborates with Maria Rentetzi on a collected volume about atomic mobile exhibitions
• Analyzes science diplomacy and performative cultural aspects of scientific exhibitions

Her scholarship critically engages with Italy's fascist legacy, exploring its contradictions and influence on modernity through literary theories and debates.