Claudia Peppel

Vita

My field is Romance languages and literature. I focussed mainly on history of culture and art history. I studied at the Free University in Berlin, then spent three years on a DFG scholarship at the Technical University of Darmstadt as part of the research group "Technology and Society". That involved studying media theory, and history of science and technology. The programme involved intensive interdisciplinary and international cooperation. My dissertation is about the so-called Metaphysical Group (gruppo metafisico), the best known of whom was Giorgio de Chirico, and specifically about their representation of the body, which often played with tension between the organic and the mechanical. I have worked as an academic advisor at the IEB research center and as a scientific coordinator for the University of Fine Arts in Berlin and for a film production company, in charge of subtitling and voicing in various languages and also editing translations.

Studium:

- Studium an der FU Berlin und der Università La Sapienza in Rom
- DFG-Stipendiatin des Graduiertenkollegs "Technisierung und Gesellschaft" der TU Darmstadt
- Kollegiatin des Graduiertenkollegs "Zeiterfahrung und ästhetische Wahrnehmung der Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main
- Promotion an der TU Darmstadt