Profile
Abstract
https://matteocolombi.de/
Senior researcher and Erasmus coordinator at the Department of Slavic Studies, Leipzig University. Disciplinary focus: Czech studies (from 2018).
Previous positions: Visiting scholar and junior/ senior researcher at Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europas (2007-2018), senior researcher and visiting professor at the Department of Slavic Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2015-2017).
Education: M.A. in Literary Studies and Comparatistics (Bologna), German and Czech Studies (Leipzig and Prague); international Ph.D. in Comparatistics (L'Aquila) and Western Slavic Studies (Leipzig)
Research fields: German and Czech literature from the Czech region; Italian and Slovene literature from the Trieste area and the Slovene region; ethnicity and literature; Kafka studies; gender and literature; subcultures and opposition movements; literature and other media (esp. film and comics); crime literature.
Professional career
- since 08/2018
Senior researcher at the Department of Slavic Studies, Leipzig University - 04/2009 - 07/2018
Senior researcher at Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europas (GWZO) in Leipzig - 10/2016 - 03/2017
Visiting professor of Western Slavic cultural and literary studies at the Department of Slavic Studies of the Humboldt University in Berlin - 04/2015 - 03/2016
Senior researcher at the Department of Slavic Studies of the Humboldt University in Berlin (deputazing) - 11/2003 - 05/2008
Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at L'Aquila university and in Western Slavic Studies at Leipzig university (cotutelle)
Education
- 09/1997 - 07/2003
Student of Lettere Moderne (Literary Studies and Comparatistics) at Bologna University
- Colombi, M.Genüssliche Bewegung oder unbehagliche Reibung? Queer(-Theory) im Spannungsfeld: Eve Kosofksy Sedgwick und Sara AhmedIn: Artwinska, A.; Schulze-Fellmann, J. (Eds.)Gender Studies im Dialog. Transnationale und transdisziplinäre Perspektiven. Bielefeld: Transcript. 2022. pp. 293–316.
- Colombi, M.Jana Černás LebenswissenIn: Lisa, M. (Ed.)Totale Sehnsucht. Wien und Prag: Kētos. 2022. p. 137-171.
- Artwinska, A.; Colombi, M.Canons and Their Questioning, Canons and Their Fading: Some Personal Remarks on the Development of the Teaching of Literary HistorySlovo a smysl. 2023. pp. 15–48.
- Colombi, M.Kulturirridentismus oder Masaryk aus Triester italienischer PerspektiveZeitschrift für Slavische Philologie. 2024. 80 (1). pp. 103–136.
- Colombi, M.Old New Families and (Good) Old Magic Realism between Brazil and Czechia: Markéta Pilátová’s With Bata in the JungleIn: Artwinska, A.; Calderón Villarino, Á.; Welge, J. (Eds.)Family Constellations in Contemporary Ibero-American and Slavic Literatures . Berlin: De Gruyter. 2024. pp. 147–167.
- KonferenzAchtung, ein großer Autor! Pozor, velikáni! Milan Kundera und Bohumil Hrabal neu betrachtetSlawische Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturstudien (Schwerpunkt Westslawistik)Event Organiser: Artwinska, Anna; Colombi, Matteo; Rytel-Schwarz, Danuta14/02/2019 – 18/02/2019
- KolloquiumStaatsmann, Intellektueller, Visionär: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk revisitedSlawische Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturstudien (Schwerpunkt Westslawistik)Event Organiser: Artwinska, Anna; Colombi, Matteo; Rytel-Schwarz, Danuta02/11/2018 – 03/11/2018
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Czech culture and literature from the National Renaissance to early Modernism
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Western Slavic cultures and literature in historical perspective: Polisch and Czech Literature from the Middle Ages to the Baroque (until 2024)
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Cultural and literary relationships in Eatern and Eastern-Central Europe (changing research topics) (until 2024)
2022/23: The national poets' afterlife II. A rewriting (hi)story (Mickiewicz, Němcová, Puškin, Ševčenko)
2022/23: Which story tell literary history? (Part 2). Challanges of a transnational litery history in the Slavic cultural space
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Comparative literature (until 2024) / Introduction to Comparative World Literature (from 2024)
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Czech culture and literature from the 20th and 21th century
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Cultural Studies: Themes and methods (until 2024)/ Cultural Studies Theories and Analysis (from 2024)