David Pappalardo, M.A.

Please send an e-mail to the following address to arrange an appointment: David.pappalardo@phd.unict.it.

Currently working on a PhD project entitled “Spracherlebnisse und Mehrsprachigkeit. Die Konstruktion pluraler Identitäten im deutschsprachigen Raum”. David Pappalardo's main research interests are multilingualism (in terms of lived experience of languages), identity constructions and writing.

Read more about research projects at the Chair of Language Use and Migration here.

Pappalardo, David. Sprachen der Scham und Sprachen des Stolzes: Linguizismus im autobiografischen Roman Lena Goreliks Wer wir sind (2021), in: POLYPHONIE Genova-Catania: Retrospettiva e prospettive / Rückblick und Ausblick / Rétrospective et perspectives / Looking Back and Looking Forward, Beate Baumann, Michaela Bürger-Koftis, Ramona Pellegrino (eds.), TRANS - INTERNET JOURNAL FOR CULTURAL STUDIES, 2023.

Pappalardo D., "Ho imparato il tedesco per non essere sola": Julya Rabinowich tra la sua immigrazione in Austria e la storia di Madina in E in mezzo: io, in: Migrazioni e appartenenze. Identità composite e plurilinguismo, Antonietta Bivona e Cettina Rizzo (eds.), Sesto San Giovanni (MI): Mimesis, 2022, pp. 213-230.

Pappalardo D., A plurilingual identity between fantasy and reality: Herkunft by Saša Stanišić, in: www.polyphonie.at, vol. 9 (1), 2021, pp. 1-22.

Reviews:

Pappalardo D., Julya Rabinowich, E in mezzo: io, trad. it. di Beate Baumann, Nardò (LE), Besa muci, 2021, pp. 264 (ed. orig. Dazwischen: Ich, München, Carl Hanser Verlag, 2016), in: “Studi comparatistici“, vol. 27(1), 2022, pp. 180-181.

Pappalardo D., Sguardi internazionali su identità, migrazioni e scritture, in: “Studi comparatistici”, vol. 25(1), 2020, pp. 149-153.

Pappalardo D., Un progetto di studi sulle migrazioni, in: “Studi comparatistici”, vol. 25(1), 2020, pp. 155-159.

Translations:

Ahrens Gerhard, Da Lubecca alla Sicilia: il professore Adolf Holm (1830-1900), in: "Archivio storico per la Sicilia Orientale", vol. 2, 2021, pp. 5-24 (ed. orig. Gerhard Ahrens, Von Lübeck nach Sizilien: Professore Adolfo Holm (1830-1900), in: “Zeitschrift des Vereins für Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde”, vol. 87, 2022, pp. 135-154),  DOI: 10.3280/ASSO2021-002001

Academic year 2023/24: Didactic tutor for students of German Language and Translation at University of Catania (Lingua e Traduzione Tedesca).

Since June 2023: Delegate of the research centre POLYPHONIE at Festival für grenzüberschreitende Literatur globale° 23, in Bremen. Also member of its organisation committee.

June 2023: Participation in the Summer School "Telling people apart: Sorting, Grouping, Distinguishing", Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.

Since March 2023: Co-tutelle with Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), with Prof. Britta Schneider.

October-December 2022: Fellowship at Universiy Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) - VIP Program for Graduates.

Since September 2022: Member of the editorial team of the online publication platform POLYPOHNIE (http://www.polyphonie.at/index.php?op=publicationplatform&sub=viewarea&area=20).

Since January 2022: Member of the inter-university research centre POLYPHONIE (Genoa-Catania).

Since October 2021: PhD candidate in Interpretation Sciences at University Catania.

15/03/2024: Spracherlebnisse, Identitätskonstruktionen und Schreiben: Mehrsprachigkeit als soziale und kreative Erfahrung. Workshop (co-organized by me, Ramona Pellegrino and Daniel Schmidt): Grenzüberschreitende Literatur(en) in einer polyphonen Welt: Mehrsprachigkeit als Quelle der literarischen Kreativität, Universität Bremen, Bremen.

20/10/2023: Esperienze linguistiche e body memory nella costruzione di repertori plurilingui. Doctoral conference "I Convegno Dottorale del Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche", Catania.

06/10/2023: Plurilinguismo, migrazioni ed esperienze linguistiche nella costruzione di identità plurali. Talk at conference "Convegno annuale dell'Associazione Italiana di Germanistica (AIG)", Università RomaTre, Rome.

05/07/2023: Linguistic biographies and narrative identity constructions. Workshop: "Doktorand:innenworkshop des Linguistikdepartments", Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).

05/05/2023: Narratives of non-belonging: movement and distancing in Slata Roschal’s 153 Formen des Nichtseins (2022). Conference: "20th German Graduate Symposium. Movement and Moment", University of Oxford, Oxford (UK).

02/05/2022:  "Lingue della vergogna e lingue dell’orgoglio: Wer wir sind di Lena Gorelik". Conference: “Retrospettive e prospettive / Rückblicke und Ausblicke / Rétrospectives et perspectives / Looking back and looking forward”, Università degli Studi di Genova, Genoa.

05/11/2021: Consecutive German-Italian translation, Beate Baumann's interview with Julya Rabinowich. Conference: “Migrazioni e Appartenenze”, University Catania, Catania.