Quintus Immisch di Padua

Dr. Quintus Immisch di Padua

Postdoctoral Fellow in German and Comparative Literature, UCLouvain
Visiting Researcher, Université libre de Bruxelles
Member of the Editorial Board of Neophilologus. An International Journal of Modern and Medieval Language and Literature 
 

Research Areas

German and Comparative Literature (Francophone/Italian Literature)
Literary and Cultural Theory
Nakedness and Body in Literature – Interview: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/297015 
Rhythm, Idiorrhythmy, Coexistence
Classical Reception
Gender & Queer Studies
histoire croisée/entangled history/cultural transfers
 

CV

2025
qualification (France) for maître de conférences positions in sections 10 (littérature comparée) and 12 (études germaniques)

since 10/2024
Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLouvain, German and Comparative Literature

since 10/2023
Visiting Scholar at Université libre de Bruxelles (German/Comparative Literature)

2020-2024
Research and Teaching Assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at Universität Tübingen (German/Comparative Literature, Cultural Theory)

2020-2024
PhD in German and Comparative Literature – cotutelle Universität Tübingen/Aix-Marseille Université
Thesis on Nudity in Modern Literature (18th-20th century)
Member of the Franco-German Graduate School of Conflicts of Culture/Cultures of Conflict
Completion: 05/07/2024, summa cum laude (0,0)

2019-2020
Doctoral Fellowship in Comparative Literature, Universität Tübingen, Graduate School Theory of Balance

01-07/2019
Sorbonne Université (Paris IV)

2014-2015
Sapienza – Università di Roma, funded by the DAAD

2011-2019
Universität Tübingen
Studies in German, Latin, and Italian Literature, Literary and Cultural Theory
M.A. Literary and Cultural Theory
Staatsexamen German Literature
Staatsexamen Latin Literature
Staatsexamen Italian Literature
 

Conferences

Gender and Mediation. Translational and Editorial Practices in the Reception of Belgian Literature in Czech- and Germanophone Cultural Spaces during Modernism (1870–1940), 15-17/04/2026, CEFRES/Charles University of Prague, with Prof. Dr. Petra James, Prof. Dr. Hubert Roland and Dr. Martina Mecco

Mediating Belongings, Constructing Identities. Belgian Modernism in Transfer, 22-23/04/2025, University of Oxford, with Prof. Dr. Petra James and Prof. Dr. Hubert Roland, funded by the PDR/FNRS

Untimely Encounters. Queer Temporalities and the Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity, 02-03/11/2023, Universität Gießen, with Prof. Dr. Peter von Moellendorff and Saskia Schomber, funded by the DFG

Aus dem Takt. Idiorrhythmie als narratives Konzept in Literatur und Kultur, 02-04/02/2021, Universität Tübingen, with Dr. Sara Bangert, funded by the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal & State Governments
 

Selected Fellowships and Awards

International Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler Science Prize 2025, awarded by the Austrian Society for German Studies (ÖGG)
Prix de thèse, Aix-Marseille Université, 2025
Doctoral Prize of the University of Tübingen, 2025
Funding for several projects: FNRS, DFG, Franco-German University, Excellence Strategy/German Federal Research Ministry
Fellowship Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, 2017-2019
Deutschlandstipendium, Universität Tübingen, 2016/2017
DAAD Fellowship, Sapienza – Università di Roma, 2014/2015

Publications

Monograph

1. Nacktheit. Eine Kulturgeschichte des Körpers, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2026 (Studien zur deutschen Literatur, 235). ISBN 978-3-11-170723-5. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111707389 

   Interview: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/297015 

Edited Volumes

In préparation:

• Mediating Belongings, Constructing Identities: Belgian Modernism in German and Czech Reception, edited by Quintus Immisch di Padua, Petra James, Martina Mecco, Hubert Roland (in preparation).
• Untimely Encounters. Queer Temporalities and the Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity, edited by Quintus Immisch di Padua and Saskia Schomber (in preparation, proposal accepted for the series Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, Brill/Rodopi).

Published: 

1. Wie zusammen leben? Idiorrhythmie als narratives Konzept in Literatur und Kultur, edited by Quintus Immisch di Padua and Sara Bangert, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2025. ISBN 9783111354156. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111364049
2. The (Un-)eventful: a Transdisciplinary Journey, edited by Paul Kaletsch and Quintus Immisch, Frankfurt a. M.: Windpark Books 2024, Open Access. ISBN 9783949363351. https://doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-18638.
3. Nach dem Postkolonialismus? Ähnlichkeit als kulturtheoretisches Paradigma, edited by Dorothee Kimmich in cooperation with Anil Bhatti, Nicole Colin and Quintus Immisch, in: Wege der Germanistik in transkultureller Perspektive. Akten des XIV. Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG), v. 4, edited by Laura Auteri, Natascia Barrale, Arianna Di Bella and Sabine Hoffmann, Bern/New York et al.: Peter Lang 2022. Open Access. ISBN 9783034345705. https://doi.org/10.3726/b19958.
    

Journal Articles

In preparation:

• “Lectures d’un autre temps. Réception de l’Antiquité et pensée réparatrice chez Giacomo Leopardi”, in: Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire (accepted).
• “Modern obscuritas and Queer Similarity in Thomas Manns ‘Kleiderschrank’: Undoing Knowledge in the History of Sexuality”, in: Interférences littéraires/Literaire interferenties (accepted).

Published:

1. “Freud und der Teppich. Materialität und Globalität der Psychoanalyse um 1900”, in: Germanistische Mitteilungen 51 (2025), p. 49–70. Open Access. https://doi.org/10.33675/GM/2025/51/6.
2. “The Freudian Poetics of Naked Truth: Psychoanalysis and the Modern History of Nakedness and Nudity”, in: Cahier voor Literatuurwetenschap 16 (2025), p. 1–16. Open Access. https://doi.org/10.62956/a472g738.
3. “Des humains nus dans la littérature et la culture aux temps modernes. Imaginations, pratiques et épistémologies de la nudité du XVIIIe au XXe siècle”, in: Trajectoires 18 (2025), online. Open Access. https://doi.org/10.4000/13pgs. ISSN 1961-9057.
4. “Die Kolonialisierung der Antike. Epistemizide in Winckelmanns Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums”, in: Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 3 (2023): p. 31–55 (special issue Die Kolonialisierung der Vergangenheit, ed. by Mira Shah and Patrick Stoffel). Open Access. https://meiner-elibrary.de/doi:10.28937/9783787346585_2. ISSN 2751-3106 and 2451-1765 (online).
5. “Dekolonialisierung und Diversifizierung des Wissens von der Antike. Zur Debatte um ‘Antike und Identität’ in den Altertumswissenschaften”, in: Antike und Abendland 69 (2023): p. 21–43. Open Access. https://doi.org/10.1515/anab-2023-0002.(with Saskia Schomber). ISSN 0003-5696.
6. “L’immaginario del classicismo e la ‘forma totale del corpo’. Ricezione dell’antichità e colonialismo nel Settencento”, in: Comparatistica 17/2 (2022): p. 171–190. ISSN 1120-7094. ISBN 978-88-33833-14-9.
7. “Imagining the Naked Body. Winckelmann, the Origin of Art and the Cultural History of Nudity in the 18th Century”, in: CompLit. Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society 3/1 (2022), p. 89-105. ISSN 2782-0874. ISBN 978-2-406-13091-8.

Articles in Books

In préparation:

• “Von der Lust, im Bild zu verschwinden. A. W. Schlegels Narcissus-Sonett”, in: August Wilhelm Schlegel als Dichter. Neue Interpretationen, edited by Georg Braungart, Sabine Gruber, Stefan Knödler, Paderborn: Fink (accepted).
• “Dionysisches Erzählen. belonging und queere Form in Nonnos’ Dionysiaka”, in: Identität als Erzählung – Antike Perspektiven im Kontext, edited by Simon Grund and Francesco Padovani (under review) (with Saskia Schomber)
• “‘The Present, whatever it may be’. Antiquity’s Queer Time and the Critique of Modernity in Leopardi’s Ultimo Canto di Saffo”, in: Untimely Encounters. Queer Temporalities and the Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity, edited by Quintus Immisch di Padua and Saskia Schomber (in preparation) (with Saskia Schomber)
• “Introduction“, in: Untimely Encounters. Queer Temporalities and the Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity, edited by Quintus Immisch di Padua and Saskia Schomber (in preparation) (with Saskia Schomber). 

Published:

1. “Nacktheit/Bekleidung”, in: Roland Barthes-Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung, edited by Angela Oster, Stuttgart: Metzler 2025, p. 467–470. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-70517-9_65. ISBN 3662705168.
2. “Idiorrhythmie”, in: Roland Barthes-Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung, edited by Angela Oster, Stuttgart: Metzler 2025, p. 423–426. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-70517-9_55. ISBN 3662705168.
3. “Wie zusammen leben? Idiorrhythmie als narratives Konzept in Literatur und Kultur”, in: Wie zusammen leben? Idiorrhythmie als narratives Konzept in Literatur und Kultur, edited by Sara Bangert and Quintus Immisch di Padua, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2025, p. 3–30 (with Sara Bangert). https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111364049-001. ISBN 978-3-11-135415-6.
4. “Beyond the Madeleine: Experience, Temporality, and the Queer Event in Proust”, in: The (Un-)eventful: a Transdisciplinary Journey, edited by Paul Kaletsch and Quintus Immisch, Frankfurt a. M.: Windpark Books 2024, p. 47–59. Open Access. ISBN 978-3-949363-35-1.
5. “Ways of Concluding: Solitary Engagements and Living-Together”, in: The (Un-)eventful: a Transdisciplinary Journey, edited by Paul Kaletsch and Quintus Immisch, Frankfurt a. M.: Windpark Books 2024, p. 87–92. Open Access. 978-3-949363-35-1.
6. “Chambre d’échos. Mythische Anfangslosigkeit bei Barthes und Ovid”, in: Der Mythos vom Mythos. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf das Mythische in Künsten und Wissenschaften, editd by Kristin Rudersdorf, Saskia Schomber and Florian Sommerkorn, Baden-Baden: Tectum 2019, p. 87–109. ISBN 978-3-8288-4108-6.
7. “Krisis und Kinesis. Rituelles und bewegtes Leben in Kafkas Bau”, in: Literatur und Ritual, edited by Pavlos Dimitriadis et al., Berlin: Bachmann 2019, p. 45–62. ISBN 978-3-96234-015-5.