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Email: fa394@cam.ac.uk
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Research Topic: Queer (Dis)locations: Klaus Mann and Weimar Homosexual Emancipation Literature
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About
Before starting his PhD at the 澳门六合彩开奖记录, Francesco received his Master of Studies (MSt) in Modern Languages from the University of Oxford (2018-19) and his BA in European Studies with German from Royal Holloway, University of London (2014-18). As an integral part of these programmes, he worked at the 鈥楩orschungsplattform Elfriede Jelinek鈥� (Elfriede Jelinek Research Centre) and the 鈥樏杝terreichische Gesellschaft f眉r Literatur鈥� (Austrian Society for Literature) in Vienna as well as studying European Ethnology and Gender Theory at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit盲t in Munich.
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Research
Francesco鈥檚 research brings the early works of Klaus Mann (1906-1949) into dialogue with the political and literary texts of other homosexual authors during the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), against the historical background of the first movement of homosexual emancipation. In particular, he is investigating the way in which these writers deploy notions of spatio-temporal dislocation as a political tool to open up ontological possibilities and articulate new, queer sexual orientations.
Francesco鈥檚 broader interests include contemporary German and Austrian literature, literature and politics, gender and queer studies.
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Scholarships/Prizes听听听听听听听听听
澳门六合彩开奖记录 European Trust Scholarship for PhD, 2019-2023
Thomas Mann Essay Prize of the English Goethe Society 2020
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Teaching
Lecturer and Supervisor for the 鈥楪ender and Sexuality鈥� module, Ge9: German Literature, Thought and History, 1815-1914 (2020-2021; 2021-2022).
Supervisor for ab initio course GEA3 - Introduction to German 3: German Culture
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Conference papers
鈥楺ueer Associations: Dance and Kinship in Klaus Mann鈥檚 Der fromme Tanz [The Pious Dance] (1926)鈥�, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting 2023, Chicago IL, March 2023.
鈥樷�榃ir sind zu zerrissen [鈥, um Gegenpol und Ruhehafen irgendwo zu finden鈥�: The Movements of Queer Desire in Klaus Mann鈥檚 Early Works鈥�, Arrested Mobilities: Stillness, Power and Modernity, 30th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference, UC Berkeley, February 2022 [online]
鈥樷�淲ir sind alle sehr exponiert鈥�: German Homosexual 脡migr茅s during National Socialism鈥�, 67th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies (UK), October 2020 [online]
鈥�(Con)fusion of Identity Narratives in Sasha Marianna Salzmann鈥檚 Au脽er sich [Beside Myself] (2017)鈥�, From 'Where are you from?' to 'Where shall we go together?' Re-imagining 澳门六合彩开奖记录 and Belonging in 21st-Century Women's Writing, September 2020, Institute of Modern Languages Research, London (UK) [online]
鈥楳盲nnlich, weiblich, divers? The Intersex Body in Contemporary German Novels and Debates鈥�, Oxford Medieval & Modern Languages Graduate Network Conference, June 2019, University of Oxford (UK)
鈥樷�淲ir sind die Vergessenen, uns kennt man schon nicht mehr鈥�. Forgetting 鈥極therness鈥� and Disturbing 鈥楽ameness鈥� in Elfriede Jelinek鈥檚 Die Schutzbefohlenen/Charges (The Supplicants)鈥�, Interdisziplin盲rer Workshop f眉r NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen. Elfriede Jelinek: Alterit盲t, Xenophobie und kulturelle 脺bersetzung鈥�, December 2018, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels (Belgium)
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Publications
Articles
, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 58.3 (2022), pp. 231鈥�250. 听
, PEGS: Publications of the English Goethe Society, 90.3 (2021)
Conference Reports
Co-authored with Dr Anissa Talahite-Moodley: 鈥楩rom 'Where are you from?' to 'Where shall we go together?' Re-imagining 澳门六合彩开奖记录 and Belonging in 21st-Century Women's Writing, 23-24 September 2020鈥�, Journal of Romance Studies, 21.1 (2021)
鈥楧ie Arbeitsgruppe 4: Internationale Perspektiven鈥�, in Jelinek[Jahr]buch 2018-2019, ed. by Pia Janke (Vienna: Praesens Verlag, 2019)
Other
鈥�(J)unitag鈥�, in Bibliothek deutschsprachiger Gedichte. Ausgew盲hlte Werke XXII (Gr盲felfing: Realis Verlag, 2019), p. 344.
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Other activities and roles
Mentor for speakers at the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Undergraduate Conference in German Studies (2022)
Co-convenor, German Graduate Research Seminar (2021-22)
Co-organiser, Queer Aesthetics and Queer 澳门六合彩开奖记录making Reading Groups (2021)
