FELLOW 2024/25
Judith Kasper has been a professor of comparative literature at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2018. After studying German and Romance languages and literature at the universities of Nice, Göttingen, and Freiburg, she earned her first doctorate in Freiburg with a dissertation examining the theme of forgetting in the works of Proust, Perec, and Barthes. She then pursued a second doctorate in philosophy, focusing on the concept of homeland in the twentieth century through the works of Benjamin, Schmitt, Heidegger, Celan, and Bachmann. After a DAAD lectureship in Paris, she held various academic roles at the universities of Bologna, Verona, and Venice. From 2009 to 2018, she worked as a research fellow at the Institute for Romance Philology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. In 2015, she completed her habilitation in Potsdam, where she explored the idea of “traumatized spaces” in the works of Freud, Levi, Kertész, Sebald, and Dante. After interim professorships in Munich and Frankfurt an der Oder, she was appointed a full professor in Frankfurt am Main in 2018. Her research focuses on the interface between philology and psychoanalysis, on literary theory, on Holocaust studies, and on poetry and translation theory. She is co-editor of RISS: Journal for Psychoanalysis.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Land und Streit: Spuren der Nachlese. Matthes & Seitz, 2024.
- Edited. Barbara Cassin. Die Unübersetzbaren: Drei Essays. Turia + Kant, 2023.
- Antisemitismus asemantisch. Edited with Karl-Josef Pazzini and Mai Wegener. Issue of RISS: Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse 98 (2023).
- Die Kunst des Entkummerns: Ein Florilegium von Barbara Cassin. Edited with Marcus Coelen. Textem, 2022.
- Dante Alighieri – Guido, ich wünschte: Ein Sonett in 30 Übertragungen. Edited with Andrea Renker and Fabien Vitali. Turia + Kant, 2021.
- Der traumatisierte Raum: Insistenz, Inschrift, Montage bei Freud, Levi, Kertész, Sebald und Dante. De Gruyter, 2016.
