Katrin Wehling-giorgi
Assistant Professor
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
Before coming to Durham University, I taught courses at the Universities of Oxford and Warwick, where I spent three years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (at the IAS first and then as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow). Previously, I studied Philosophy and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, where I also completed a D.Phil in comparative literature. At Durham, I teach on various courses, including the second-year module ‘Narratives of Fascist and Post-war Italy’, the final-year module 'Writing the Modern Self' and the MA module ‘Thinking Otherness’.
Research Interest
My research interests include comparative approaches to twentieth-century and contemporary narrative, with a particular focus on the theoretical intersections between psychoanalysis and literature, gender studies and discourses surrounding subjectivity and space.
Publications
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Wehling-Giorgi, Katrin (2017). ‘Dislocazioni materne: memoria, linguaggio e identità femminile nelle opere di Goliarda Sapienza’. In Nel nome della madre. Ripensare le figure della maternità . Brogi, D., de Rogatis, Tiziana, Franco, Cristiana & Spera, Lucinda Rome: Del Vecchio Editore.
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Wehling-Giorgi, K. (2017). Violence, Language and the Maternal Body: Negotiating Resistance in Goliarda Sapienza’s and Elena Ferrante’s Works. In Women and the Public Sphere in Modern and Contemporary Italy. Essays for Sharon Wood. Spunta, M. & Storchi, S. Troubadour.
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Wehling-Giorgi, Katrin (2016). '"Ero separata da me": Memory, Selfhood and Mother-Tongue in Goliarda Sapienza and Elena Ferrante'. In Goliarda Sapienza in Context: Intertextual Relationships with Italian and European Culture. Bazzoni, Alberica, Bond, Emma & Wehling-Giorgi, Katrin Madison, New Jersey: University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 215-230.
