Stefania SBARRA

Position
Associate Professor
Roles
Member of the University Quality Assurance Unit
Effective member of University's Equal Opportunities, Employees’ Well-being and Inclusion Committee
Actual member of the GEP Team
Telephone
041 234 7828
E-mail
stefania.sbarra@unive.it
Academic discipline
German Literature [GERM-01/B]
Website
https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/stefania.sbarra(personal record)
Office
Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dslcc
Where: Palazzo Cosulich

Office hours

In person on Tuesdays from 15.30 to 17.30, by appointment stefania.sbarra@unive.it.

Teaching activity current year

LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LMR3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LT10]
Laurea

LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LTR10]
Laurea

Teaching activity previous years

LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LMR3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LT10]
Laurea

LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LTR10]
Laurea

LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LT10]
Laurea

LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LT10]
Laurea

LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LT10]
Laurea

LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)

LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LT10]
Laurea

Activities and research skills

Academic discipline
Letteratura tedesca [GERM-01/B]
Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
Internazionale: Europa
Known languages
tedesco (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
francese (scritto: intermedio parlato: intermedio)
Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
Codirezione degli "Annali di Ca' Foscari. Serie occidentale", sezione Letteratura, Cultura e Storia (da novembre 2016)
Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Letteratura Linea: Critica del testo
Area: Letteratura Linea: Letterature comparate
Area: Letteratura Linea: Romanzo
Area: Lingue e letterature europee Linea: tedesca
Area: Studi storici e relazioni internazionali Linea: Europa occidentale
Letteratura tedesca dell�età classico-romantica
Description:
German literature of the classical romantic period
Keywords:
German literature, Literary criticism, Aesthetics
Estetica dello Sturm und Drang
Description:
Sturm und Drang Aesthetics
Keywords:
German literature, Literary criticism, Philosophical anthropology
Ricezione e influenza di Nietzsche nella letteratura tedesca
Description:
Reception and influence of Nietzsche in German literature
Keywords:
Literary criticism, German literature, Aesthetics
L�opera di Heinrich von Kleist
Description:
Heinrich von Kleist�s works
Keywords:
German literature, Literary criticism, Philosophy
Il romanzo del Realismo tedesco
Description:
German realistic novel
Keywords:
German literature
Heinrich Mann
Heinrich von Kleist
SSD:
L-LIN/13
Il romanzo del tardo Realismo tedesco
SSD:
L-LIN/13
La ricezione di Nietzsche nella letteratura tedesca del primo Novecento
La ricezione di Rousseau nella letteratura tedesca dell'età classico-romantica
SSD:
L-LIN/13
Letteratura e migrazione
SSD:
L-LIN/13
FAMI IMPACT VENETO
Funding body:
Regione VENETO
Type:
Altri programmi ministeriali
Role in the project:
PT
Sito di progetto:
https://www.unive.it/pag/41025
Starting date:
Year: 2019 Length in months: 24
Il piacere del male. Le rappresentazioni letterarie di un'antinomia morale.
Funding body:
Associazione Sigismondo Malatesta
Type:
Altri finanziamenti di ricerca
Role in the project:
PT
Sito di progetto:
http://www.sigismondomalatesta.it/Page.asp/id=217/IdCategoria=217
Starting date:
Year: 2012 Length in months: 36
Other members of the research group:
Olivier Serge BIVORT
Magda CAMPANINI
Daniela RIZZI
Universalism and Right of Man: Late Enlightenment
Funding body:
MUR
Type:
PRIN
Role in the project:
PT
Starting date:
Year: 2023 Length in months: 36
Other members of the research group:
Stéphanie NOVAK
Gerardo TOCCHINI

Publication highlights

Stefania Sbarra FONTANE EFFI BRIEST. LEGGERE LA PAURA in LETTERATURA & CINEMA, vol. 3, pp. 59-69 (ISSN 3034-8684)
2026, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5122547


Stefania Sbarra Il delinquente per l’onor perduto di Friedrich Schiller: o della congiuntura tra letteratura, psicologia e diritto nel tardo illuminismo tedesco in ITINERARI DI RICERCA STORICA, vol. 39, pp. 137-151 (ISSN 1121-1156)
2026, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5112632


Sbarra, Stefania; Spagnoletti, Giovanni Roman Hüben on his documentary film "Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair" : An interview in ATLANTIC STUDIES, vol. Special Issue: Transatlantic Encounters and Adaptations in American and German Literature and Film, pp. 1-10 (ISSN 1478-8810)
DOI 2026, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5111170


Sbarra, Stefania Welcome to Görlitz/Görliwood: Wes Anderson’s >The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and Stefan Zweig’s legacy in ATLANTIC STUDIES, vol. Special Issue: Transatlantic Encounters and Adaptations in American and German Literature and Film, pp. 1-13 (ISSN 1478-8810)
DOI - URL correlato 2026, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5111707


Stefania Sbarra La ragnatela tessuta tra arabi ed ebrei. Arnold Zweig. "Il ritorno di Isaac De Vriendt. Intrigo a Gerusalemme" in L'INDICE DEI LIBRI DEL MESE, vol. 2026/1, pp. 26-26 (ISSN 0393-3903)
2026, Review in magazine - ARCA card: 10278/5111709


List of publications

Curriculum vitae

Stefania Sbarra (Thiene 1969) is Associate Professor of German Literature at the University of Venice Cà Foscari.

She graduated from the University of Venice in 1995  and earned in 2001 her Ph.D. from the Universitiy of Pisa. Between 2000 and 2008 she was assistant professor of at the University of Ferrara and in 2009 moved to the University of Venice Cà Foscari. 

In January 2014 she obtained the national scientific lecture qualification for the role of Associate Professor in German Literature.

She is member of the AIG (Associazione Italiana Germanisti) and of the Associazione Sigismondo Malatesta. In 2012 she was a Jury member of the Jury for the Baioni Prize.

Research, teaching and publications focus on the age of Goethe, Heinrich von Kleist, Nietzsche and the early 20th century, the prose of German Realism and contemporary literature. She has given lectures and/or seminars at various universities and research institutions (Pisa,  Padua, rome, Paris IV, London, Bayreuth, Berlin, Göttingen, Metz, Münster, Literaturarchiv Marbach).

She published a book on the influence of Rousseau in German literature of the classic and romantic period (La statua di Glauco. Letture di Rousseau nell’età di Goethe, Carocci 2006), and a book on German Realism («Il confine, il confine. Dov'è?». Theodor Fontane, Friedrich Nietzsche e il realismo tedesco; Le Lettere 2019), commented the edition of Kleist’s Complete Works  published by Mondadori (2011), and published in some major German journals (Goethe-Jahrbuch, Heinrich Mann-Jahrbuch, Weimarer Beiträge, Cultura tedesca, Cultura Tedesca, Ermeneutica Letteraria, Etudes Germaniques).

Since 2016 she has been co-editor of the journal "Annali di Ca' foscari. Serie occidentale".

In July 2020 she obtained the national scientific lecture qualification for the role of Ordinary Professor in German Literature.

In October 2022, she received an honourable mention in the LabTrad 2022 prize (Italian-German Translation Workshop) announced by the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the University of Roma Tre and the Goethe-Institut Rom, in collaboration with the DAAD-Lektorenprogramm, for the editing of the voume: Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Il cortile nello specchio. Biciletta sul ghiaccio, Venice, Cafoscarina 2018.

 

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