Directorate

Dr. Anne-Kathrin Gitter

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Personal Assistant to the Directorate;
Deputy of the Equal Employment Opportunity Representative;
Teaching Coordinator

gitter(at)dubnow.de
Phone: +49 341 21735-56

Anne-Kathrin Gitter has been Personal Assistant to the Director at the Dubnow Institute since March 2021. Since September 2021 she ist Deputy of the Equal Employment Opportunity Representative and Teaching Coordinator.

Studied German and Italian at the Leipzig University and Bari/Italy; graduated with the First State Examination in 2011. From 2012 to 2021, Doctoral Candidate at the Chair of Modern German Literature and Literary Theory at the Leipzig University. Dissertation topic »Der christliche Metacode im Spätrealismus. Die produktive Rezeption von Dante Alighieris Divina Commedia bei Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Wilhelm Raabe und Ferdinand von Saar.« Scholarship holder of the Free State of Saxony, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and from March 2017 to February 2018 coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar »CiCi«, lecturer and research assistant at the Institute for Romance Studies at the Leipzig University. Thereafter event management at the Dubnow Institute and from September 2019 to July 2021 Research Assistant at the Institute for German Studies at the Leipzig University.

Research Interests

  • Literature of the 19th century and german realism
  • Monument cult, literary monuments, archaism and historicism in german literature in the 19th century

Publications

Essays and Articles

"E Come 'l Pan per Fame si Manduca" – Ugolino della Gherardesca e le rappresentazioni del "Piacere della Gola" nella Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri. In: Sabine Bastian/Uta Felten/Jean-Pierre Goudaillier (eds.), Cultures et mots de la table, Berlin 2019, 237–241.

Räume und Topographien – Spaces and Topographies, in: arbeitstitel. Forum für Leipziger Promovierende, 6 (2014) H. 1, I–III.

„Um dich, mit dir, in dir war die Hölle von Anfang an!“ – Verborgene (Jenseits-)Räume in Conrad Ferdinand Meyers Angela Borgia, in: arbeitstitel. Forum für Leipziger Promovierende, 5 (2013) H. 1, 1–12.

Reviews

Hertling, Thomas: Homosexuelle Männlichkeit zwischen Diskriminierung und Emanzipation. Eine Studie zum Leben homosexueller Männer heute und Begründung ihrer wahrzunehmenden Vielfalt, Münster 2011, in: arbeitstitel. Forum für Leipziger Promovierende, 4 (2012) H. 1, 13–16.