Silvia Palermo

Silvia Palermo is an Associate Professor of German Language and Translation at the Department of Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies of the University of Naples 'L'Orientale'. Previously, from March 2006 to March 2019, she was a researcher in German Language and Translation at the University of Salerno. She serves on the Doctoral School in 'Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies' at the University of Naples 'L'Orientale'.

Her research spans four key areas: 1) The Linguistic Landscape in German-speaking regions, particularly South Tyrol/Alto-Adige; 2) Linguistic analysis and translation of transcultural authors, especially Turkish-German writers Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Renan Demirkan, and Zehra Cirak; 3) Studies on German as a foreign language for Italian speakers; and 4) Contrastive studies of German and Italian nominal morphology. She participated in the international Eurogr@mm research project at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim from 2007-2012.

Palermo's scholarly output reveals a consistent focus on multilingualism, migration literature, and linguistic landscape studies, particularly regarding South Tyrol. Her publications include 'Il paesaggio delle valli. Il Linguistic Landscape dell'Alto Adige/Südtirol' (2022), 'Perikizi. Ein Traumspiel/Perikizi. Un Sogno di E.S. Özdamar' (2016), and translations of works by Emine Sevgi Özdamar and other German-language authors.

She is an active member of several academic associations including:

• Associazione Italiana di Germanistica (AIG)
• Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG)
• Società di Linguistica Italiana (SLI)
• Società Italiana di Linguistica Applicata (SItLA)

Professor Palermo teaches 'Specialist Translation II (German)' and 'German Language II' across multiple degree programs including Linguistic and Cultural Mediation, Languages, Literatures and Cultures of Europe and the Americas, and Comparative Languages and Cultures. Her regular teaching schedule spans multiple university buildings including Palazzo Santa Maria Porta Coeli, Palazzo del Mediterraneo, and Corigliano Palace.