Vincenza Scuderi (*1972), research assistant, Chair of German Language and Translation at the University of Catania, 2003-2005 Franz Werfel Fellow at the University of Vienna. Research interests: contemporary German-language (particularly Austrian) literature, gender studies, performance studies, translation studies. Essays on Brigitta Falkner, Peter Waterhouse, Christoph Ransmayr, Peter Handke and others.