Lorenzo Boccafogli
Curriculum Vitae
1 – Personal data
Date and place of birth: 10.10.1975, Castel San Pietro (BO, Italien)
Nationality: Italian
Address:
Weichselstr. 31
10247 Berlin
Tel.: 0049 (0)30 20053863
Mobile: 0049 0151 59121354
Language skills:
- Italian: Mother language. Experience as reader, editor, translator, teacher, tutor.
- German: fluent in written and spoken (Language of the PhD, Allgemeine und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft – comparative literature – FU Berlin). DAAD certificate.
- English: fluent in written and spoken. TOEFL certificate.
- French: good in written and spoken.
- Spanish: good in written and spoken.
-Latin and old Greek: basic proficiency.
2 – Degree and PhD
Fields of research
- Contemporary literature
- Contemporary theories of History.
- Politics und Sociology.
- Translation theories (in particularA. Berman, H. Meschonnic).
- Linguistics: De Saussure, Hjelmslev, Benveniste, Jakobson, Chomsky, Stati.
- Text edition.
- Media and culture.
PhD:
Since April 2005 post-graduate student, department ofAllgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft(general and comparative literature) at the FUUniversity of Berlin.
Research fields: translation theory, English literature, contemporary German literature, philosophy of language.
Tutor: Mr.Prof. Doctor Gert Mattenklott.
Title of the dissertation: „Wege, auf denen die Sprache stimmhaft wird“ –Analyse der Übersetzung von einundzwanzig Sonetten Shakespeares durch Paul Celan.
Degree:
1994-2002,Laureacum laude, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia(equivalent to degree in Philosophy and Literature), University ofBologna.
Conferences and lectures:
- La ricostruzione del passato, CSTS, University of Bologna, Italy, January 2004.
- „Wege, auf denen die Sprache Stimmhaft wird“, in occasion of the internationalCelan-Symposium “il Con-Testo della Poesia”, Comune di Ascoli, Italy, November 2005.
- „Sprache in statu nascendi“. Voce e memoria dei morti nella poesia di Celan. Istituto Storico della Resistenza, Parma, Italy, February 2006.
- Stimmhaftigkeit. FUUniversity ofBerlin, June 2006.
- Shakespeares Sonette. Rezeptionsgeschichte in Deutschland. FUUniversity of Berlin, December 2006.
- I pronomi in traduzione, Goethe Institut, Napoli, Italy, January 2007.
- Einleitung zur Doktorarbeit, FU University of Berlin, December 2007.
Publications:
- Article Michel Foucault e il dibattito sul postmodernismo, review Discipline Filosofiche, Bologna, Italy, February 2006.
- ArticleNote a Celan: Schneepart, reviewStudi Tedeschi, Napoli, Italy, December 2006.
- ArticleI pronomi in traduzione, reviewStudi Tedeschi, Napoli, January 2008.
- ArticleWege, auf denen die Sprache Stimmhaft wird, Comune di Ascoli. Publication planned for the beginning 2008.
- In collaboration with Prof. Doctor Barnaba Maj, Doctor Massimo Pizzingrilli, Doctor Pier Marco Turchetti:Celan-Lexikon, Ed. Quodlibet, Macerata, Italy. Publication planned for September 2008.
3 – Occupational activities / translator
Scientific essayistic:
- Roland Reuß, Vicende del manoscritto, vicende della stampa. Appunti sulla “genesi del testo”.
- Günter Martens, Sul compito critico dei filologi editoriali. Tesi per un concetto allargato della critica testuale.
- Peter Staengle, Lo Institut für Textkritik [Istituto per la critica testuale] – una cooperativa di editori indipendenti.
All the three for the review Ecdotica 3, 2006, University of Bologna (Prof. Camilla Giunti).
Literature
- Arthur Rimbaud, La nave ubriaca; William Shakespeare, Cinque Sonetti; Friedrich Hölderlin, Età di vita; Paul Celan, Tu mi puoi; Sottovento; Lo scritto; Lillà l’aria; Pupazzi di Löss. Available on-line:
Industry, economy and culture management
2002-2005 Letters and documents (English / Italian and German / Italian) for the cultural association EXZEMA, Bologna, Italy.
1999-2008 Business letters (English / Italian and German / Italian) for several food and wine export companies and concerns, Bologna, Forlì, Ferrara,Italy.
4 – Occupational activities / teacher and editor
Teacher
2003 Private English and German teacher.
2005-2007 Latin and Italian teacherin several Schools (In-Lingua, Barbarossa, Intellego), Berlin.
Editor
2002 DAMS and Accademia delle Belle Arti, University of Bologna, second session.
2003 Facoltà di Scienze Politiche, University of Bologna, first and secondsession.