Chiara Caradonna is Senior Lecturer at the Departments of Romance Studies and of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She earned her PhD at the University of Heidelberg in 2017 and was a Postdoc-fellow of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University (2017-21). In the winter semester 2025-36 she is visiting fellow at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin. She works on the intersections between literature, continental philosophy, anthropology, photography and cinema from an ecocritical and decolonial perspective. In her book Opaque. Shadows of Knowledge in the “Meridian” and in the poem “Schwanengefahr” (Wallstein 2020) she analyzed epistemological and hermeneutic aspects of Paul Celan’s later poetry, on which she has also published several articles and co-edited a book (Wallstein 2023). She further specializes on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s theory and practice of notation across genres, and has been focusing on the modern and contemporary literature of Sicily, investigating both the modern reception of the island’s Arab-Muslim past, and the depiction of fishermen communities in Italian literature and film.