Translatio/n: Narration, Media, and the Staging of Differences

Federico Italiano (PD Dr. phil.) is senior researcher at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and teaches Comparative Literature at the University of Munich (LMU). His main research fields include the relationship between Literature and Cartography, Translation Theory, and Contemporary Poetry. Professor Michael Rössner (PhD) teaches Romance Literature at the University of Munich (LMU), Germany. He is director of the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History (IKT) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research fields are literature of the Renaissance and Baroque, literature of the Avantgarde and the early 20th century, post-colonial studies and translation studies.