Martina Della Casa

Martina Della Casa is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters, Languages and Human Sciences of the University of Haute-Alsace and a member of the Institut de recherche en langues et littératures européennes (ILLE, UR 4363).

In 2014, she defended her doctoral dissertation at the University of Bologna, which received a special mention from the Pier Paolo Pasolini Prize (Bologna, Centro Studi – Archivio Pasolini). A revised version of the dissertation was published under the title Expériences du sacré et dé-figurations du Christ. Lectures croisées : de Bataille à Artaud, Beckett et Pasolini (Paris, Orizons, 2020). As a recipient of the Catherine Gide Foundation Prize (Centre André Gide – Jean Schlumberger, Fondation des Treilles), she carried out a research project that led to the publication of Sur Le Christianisme contre le Christ. Un projet de livre d’André Gide (Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2022). Her research and editorial projects, both individual and collaborative, aim to bring to light and translate into Italian lesser-known parts of Gide’s work or texts that have remained unpublished in book form, as well as to examine the ways in which literary history has appropriated this controversial classic, including how it has been read and reread, edited, and translated across Europe and in particular in Italy.

Her academic and biographical trajectory has also led her to take an interest in translation (French, Italian, English), in the circulation of texts and ideas in Europe, and in multilingual writing practices, with particular attention to the contemporary Swiss literary field. Highly involved in this area, she has for the past ten years co-organized an annual series of interviews and readings devoted to Swiss literature and has recently launched, as co-director, the series “Littera Helvetica” (Florence, SEF).