ANNALISA COSENTINO

Annalisa Cosentino is full professor of Czech and Slovak language and literature at Sapienza University of Rome. Her research fields are Czech modern and contemporary literature, Literary criticism, Central European Studies: Realismo scientifico e letteratura. Critica e storiografia letteraria ceca 1883- 1918, Bulzoni, Roma 1999 (Vědecký realismus a literatura. Česká teorie, kritika a literární historie v letech 1883–1918, FF UK, Praha 2011); Praga da una primavera all'altra: 1968-1969, Forum, Udine 2008; Čtení o Bohumilu Hrabalovi, Ipsl, Praha 2016; Chvála blbosti. Z Prahy do Irkutska a zpět v patnácti stech povídkách a jednom románu, FF UK, Praha 2017; „Do vlasti české“. Z korespondence Angela M. Ripellina, IPSL, Praha 2018; Storie di Praga. Un percorso nella cultura ceca, Hoepli, Milano 2021. She edited Bohumil Hrabal's Collected Works (Opere scelte, I Meridiani Mondadori, 2003) and Jaroslav Hašek's Works (Opere, I Meridiani Mondadori, 2014). She also translated into Italian works by Jan Amos Komenský, Jan Skácel, Václav Havel.
She designed and directed the series Lezioni e letture https://forumeditrice.it/percorsi/lingua-e-letteratura/lezioniletture, OltrE https://forumeditrice.it/percorsi/lingua-e-letteratura/oltre (2004-2010 funded in the frame of the European programme Cultura 2000, ex-Arianna), Gli Anemoni LUM http://www.marsilioeditori.it/index.php/catalogo/collana/2/letteratura-u...
She is a member of the scientific committee of Slovo a smysl/Word and Sense (Charles University) and of the advisory board of Semicerchio (Università di Siena); she works as a referee for the Czech Science Foundation and other international research agencies. For her work in the field of Czech literature and literary criticism she received the Premia bohemica 2019 from the Czech Ministry of Culture. 2018-2023 she has coordinated the International PhD Programme of Germanic and Slavic Studies (Germanoslavistika), Sapienza University of Rome and Charles University.