research overview
- Prof. Stimilli has written extensively on Franz Kafka and Aby Warburg. His research interests include literary criticism and theory, intellectual history, art theory, and film studies.
- Contact Info
Stimilli, Davide Associate Professor
Positions
- Associate Professor, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Research Areas
- Aesthetics
- Art Criticism
- Arts/Humanities/Cultural Activities
- Criticism
- Cultural History
- Czech and Slovak Languages/Literature
- European Languages/Literature
- German Language/Literature
- History of Medicine
- History of Philosophy
- Humanities, General/Other
- Intellectual History
- Italian Language/Literature
- Jewish History
- Jewish Studies
- Language and/or Literature, Comparative Literature
- Literary Criticism
- Literary History
- Philosophical Literature
- Philosophy of Language
- Photography
- Renaissance Studies
- Theatre/Film Criticism
- Western Civilization
- Yiddish Language/Literature
Research
keywords
- intellectual history, literary theory and criticism, art theory and criticism, film theory and criticism, aesthetics, german studies, italian studies, jewish studies, renaissance studies
Publications
selected publications
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book
- The Face of Immortality: Physiognomy and Criticism 2005
- Aby Warburg: la dialettica dell’immagine. Ed. 321-322. 2004
- Fisionomia di Kafka 2001
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chapter
- The Melancholy of the (Co-)Author: Panofsky and the Authorship of Saturn and Melancholy. 269-288. 2018
- Dream Bodies On the Iconography of the Dreamer. 97-119. 2016
- La lealtà della memoria: Warburg, Vöge, Panofsky, e il Timoteo di Van Eyck. 149-165. 2016
- Vita contemplativa. Zu Bedeutung und Herkunft der Besonnenheit bei Warburg. 227-241. 2014
- Morte ai morti! L’indifferente Mattia Pascal. 27-37. 2005
- La vela y el remo: hacia la interpretación de una endíadis en la poesía de Fray Luis de León. 1602-1609. 2002
- Identity of a Jewish Community in a Provincial Town: Ancona. 97-106. 2000
- Über Schamhaftigkeit: Ein Beitrag zur historischen Semantik einiger physiognomischer Begriffe. 99-123. 1996
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journal article
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AFFECTING GRACE: THEATRE, SUBJECT, AND THE SHAKESPEAREAN PARADOX IN GERMAN LITERATURE FROM LESSING TO KLEIST..
Comparative Literature.
450-453.
2016
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Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School.
Central European History.
124-126.
2015
- L’énigme de Warburg. Revue française de psychanalyse. 1100-1114. 2015
- Soglia e linea d'ombra. 85-89. 2014
- Aby Warburg's 'Impresa'. Images Re-Vues. 2013
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Secrecy and Betrayal On Kafka and Welles.
Cr -East Lansing-.
91-114.
2012
- Tynktura Warburga. 94-103. 2011
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Aby Warburg’s Pentimento.
Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature.
140-175.
2010
- PASTORAL POSTURES: SOME RENAISSANCE VERSIONS OF PASTORAL [Positions sur la pastorale : quelques versions de la pastorale à la Renaissance]. Bibliotheque dhumanisme et renaissance; travaux et documents|. 35-60. 2009
- "The migrant streets of culture": The Aby Warburg - Fritz Saxl correspondance 1920 to 1929.. Art Bulletin. 723-724. 2005
- "Wanderstrassen der Kultur": Die Aby Warburg-Fritz Saxl Korrespondenz 1920 bis 1929. Art Bulletin. 723-724. 2005
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Aby Warburg in America Again: With an Edition of His Unpublished Correspondence with Edwin R. A. Seligman (1927-1928).
Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics.
193-206.
2005
- L'impresa di Warburg. 97-116. 2004
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Daimon and Nemesis.
Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics.
99-112.
2003
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Findlinge: Franz Kafka und Jakob Wassermann.
Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte.
478-500.
1999
- The Circumambient Air: Or, Several Attitudes about Breathing. Atenea. 131-137. 1998
- Italics vs. Black-Letter: The Triestine Typography. Atenea. 93-99. 1997
- Kafka e la musica. 189-198. 1997
- Character and Caricature. 51-72. 1996
- 'Una capra dal viso semita': Saba and the Physiognomy of the Italian Jew. LAnello che Non Tiene: journal of modern Italian literature|. 27-37. 1994
- Was Kafka a Saint?. Litteraria Pragensia. 39-47. 1994
- Caricatura e carattere: una lettura del Candelaio. Carte Italiane. 4-11. 1992
- Svevo e la musica. 181-190. 1990
- “Auto-osservazione e auto-rappresentazione: Kafka e la cultura filosofica tedesca intorno al 1900.”. 533-552. 1987
- La tradizione fisiognomica. Rivista di Estetica. 33-50. 1986
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AFFECTING GRACE: THEATRE, SUBJECT, AND THE SHAKESPEAREAN PARADOX IN GERMAN LITERATURE FROM LESSING TO KLEIST..
Comparative Literature.
450-453.
2016
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Teaching
courses taught
- GRMN 3900 Independent Study (Spring 2019)
- GRMN 4900 Independent Study (Spring 2019)
- GRMN 5900 Independent Study (Spring 2019)
- GRMN 6900 Master's Thesis (Spring 2019)
- GRMN 6940 Master's Degree Candidate (Spring 2019)
- GRMN 7900 Independent Study (Spring 2019)
- GRMN 7930 Internship (Spring 2019)
- GRMN 8990 Doctoral Dissertation (Spring 2019)
- GRMN 3900 Independent Study (Fall 2018)
- GRMN 4900 Independent Study (Fall 2018)
- GRMN 5900 Independent Study (Fall 2018)
- GRMN 6900 Master's Thesis (Fall 2018)
- GRMN 6940 Master's Degree Candidate (Fall 2018)
- GRMN 7900 Independent Study (Fall 2018)
- GRMN 8990 Doctoral Dissertation (Fall 2018)
- GRMN 3900 Independent Study (Summer 2018)
- GRMN 4900 Independent Study (Summer 2018)
- GRMN 5900 Independent Study (Summer 2018)
- GRMN 6900 Master's Thesis (Summer 2018)
- GRMN 6940 Master's Degree Candidate (Summer 2018)
- GRMN 2601 Kafka and the Kafkaesque (Spring 2018)
- GRMN 3900 Independent Study (Spring 2018)
- GRMN 4900 Independent Study (Spring 2018)
- GRMN 5900 Independent Study (Spring 2018)
- GRMN 6900 Master's Thesis (Spring 2018)
- GRMN 6940 Master's Degree Candidate (Spring 2018)
- GRMN 7900 Independent Study (Spring 2018)
- GRMN 7930 Internship (Spring 2018)
- GRMN 8990 Doctoral Dissertation (Spring 2018)
- HUMN 2601 Kafka and the Kafkaesque (Spring 2018)
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Yale University 1995
- M.Phil., Yale University 1990
- B.A., University of Pisa (Italy) 1985
International Activities
global connections related to teaching and scholarly work (in recent years)
- Argentina Country
- Belgium Country
- Canada Country
- France Country
- Germany Country
- Italy Country
- Mexico Country
- United Kingdom Country
- western Europe Transnational Region