Angela Gencarelli

Dr. phil.

Biography

  • since 10/2025 Senior Researcher, Medical Humanities / Literary Studies, University of Fribourg
  • 08/2025 Submission of Habilitation "Bestiarien der Moderne. Kreative Fortschreibungen eines mittelalterlichen Genres vom späten 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart", University of Graz (venia legendi: Neuere Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft)
  • 2021 - 2025 Postdoc at the Center for Cultural Studies, University of Graz
  • 2015 - 2021 Postdoc at the Institute for Literary Cultures, Leuphana Univerity Lueneburg
  • 2015 PhD thesis on the Relation of Particle Physics and Poetics in Irmtraud Morgner's Prose
  • 2010 - 2015 Fellow with DAAD-Scholarship at the International PhD Programme for German Studies, University of Bonn & University of Florence
  • 2012 - 2013 Doctoral Assistant at the Institute for German Studies, University of Frankfurt
  • 2011 Fellow at the Institute for German Studies, University of Florence (with DAAD-scholarship)
  • 2008 - 2010 Non-Academic Employment (international Project Controlling)
  • 2002 - 2008 BA/MA Studies: German Literature, History, and Sociology at University of Potsdam and Manchester

Research and publications