Matteo Zupancic

Matteo Zupancic is Tenure Track Assistant Professor (RTT) in German Studies (Germ-01/B) at the Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica.

From 2023 to 2025 he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici (Rome) and wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Stuttgart Research Centre for Textual Studies (Stuttgart), working on a digital edition of Goethe's "Venetian Epigrams". He received his PhD/Dr. phil. from the Universities of Pisa and Tübingen (2022) and was previously a student at the SNS, Pisa (2013-18). He was a Stipendiat at the DLA, Marbach (2019) and will be a Weimar-Fellow at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar in 2025. His dissertation was awarded the Colombaria Prize 2023 for the best PhD Thesis in Historical and Philosophical Sciences.

Editor of the Journal “Odradek. Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories”.
Project Member of “Il cinema tedesco occidentale in Italia (1949-1989): co-produzione, distribuzione e funzione” (IISG) and Collaborator of “DiScEPT: Digital Scholarly Editions Platform and aligned Translations", (IISG).
Fellow of the “Ernst und Friedrich Georg Jünger Gesellschaft”, “Associazione Italiana Germanistica”, “Goethe-Gesellschaft”, “English Goethe Society” and “European Academy of Religion”.

His main areas of interest are the literarische Sprachreflexion in the Moderne and the intersections between literature, philosophy and theology. He is also interested in epistemology of cultural studies, modern/digital philology, literature and film, and the relationship between literature and biology from the Goethezeit to the Weimar Republic.