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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Timely Fragments.
Ikon.
305-306.
2019
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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.
New Centennial Review: interdisciplinary perspectives on the Americas.
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 fuer 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: studies in literature and culture. 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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Timely Fragments.
Ikon.
305-306.
2019
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Teaching
courses taught
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GRMN 2601 - Kafka and the Kafkaesque
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018
Exposes the students to a wide selection of Kafka's literary output and aims to define the meaning of the Kafkaesque by looking not only for traces of Kafka's influence in the verbal and visual arts, but also for traces left in Kafka's own work by his precursors in the literary tradition. Taught in English. Same as HUMN 2601. -
HUMN 2601 - Kafka and the Kafkaesque
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018
Exposes the students to a wide selection of Kafka's literary output and aims to define the meaning of the Kafkaesque by looking not only for traces of Kafka's influence in the verbal and visual arts, but also for traces left in Kafka's own work by his precursors in the literary tradition. Same as GRMN 2601.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Yale University 1995
- M.Phil., Yale University 1990
- B.A., University of Pisa (Italy) 1985
awards and honors
International Activities
global connections related to teaching and scholarly work (in recent years)
- Argentina Country
- Austria Country
- Belgium Country
- Canada Country
- France Country
- Germany Country
- Italy Country
- Mexico Country
- United Kingdom Country
- western Europe Transnational Region