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Professor Katrin Wehling-Giorgi is a leading scholar in comparative literature and trauma studies at Durham University's School of Modern Languages and Cultures. She holds a D.Phil in Comparative Literature from the University of Oxford and has held fellowships at Warwick University. Her research focuses on 20th-century literature, trauma narratives, gender studies, and feminist theory, with a specialization in Italian and transnational women's writing. She directs the MA in Languages, Literatures and Cultures and chairs the Italian Studies program.
Education:
- D.Phil (Doctorate) in Comparative Literature, University of Oxford
- M.St (Master's) in Comparative Literature, University of Oxford
- Bachelor's in Philosophy and Modern Languages, University of Oxford
Research Interests:
- Trauma studies and its intersections with literature and visual culture
- Gender studies, feminist theory, and maternal imagery
- Comparative analysis of post-WWII women's writing (Elsa Morante, Elena Ferrante, Goliarda Sapienza)
- European modernism and psychoanalytic literary criticism
- Cross-cultural narratives of space and subjectivity
Publications:
- Authored book: Gadda and Beckett: Storytelling, Subjectivity and Fracture (2014)
- Edited volumes on Elsa Morante, Elena Ferrante, and Goliarda Sapienza
- Recent articles on trauma topographies in Morante and Scego's works, transgenerational trauma, and feminist reimaginings of maternal narratives
Awards:
- Gadda First Prize (2014) for her book on Gadda and Beckett
Grants & Collaborations:
- Co-edited Fifty Years of La Storia (2024) and Trauma Narratives in Italian and Transnational Women's Writing (2022)
- Guest-edited special journal issues on Elena Ferrante and comparative trauma studies
- Current book project: Spectral (Hi)stories: Women Narrating Trauma in Post-war Italy (Palgrave Macmillan)
Labs/Teams: Collaborates with global networks in medical humanities, feminist literary studies, and cultural trauma research through her fellowship at Durham's Institute for Medical Humanities.
