Linda Puccioni is a Tenure Track Researcher in German Literature at the Department of Philology and Criticism of Ancient and Modern Literatures at the University of Siena.
She obtained the National Scientific Qualification as an Associate Professor in June 2023.
She studied at the Universities of Siena, Vienna, and Munich. She earned her PhD in Neuere Deutsche Literatur at the Promotionsstudiengang Literaturwissenschaft of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, fully funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
She has worked as a Research Fellow in German Literature (DFCLAM) and as a contract lecturer.
Since 2019, she has been collaborating with the Master’s Program in Literary Translation and Editing of Ancient and Modern Texts (Siena), both in teaching and organization.
Her main research interests focus on early 20th-century Austrian literature, particularly the relationship between literature and visual arts, literature and psychoanalysis, and literature and artificiality. She has published several works on Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Gregor von Rezzori, and Robert Musil.
Recently, she has been working on Austrian women writers of the late 20th century, especially Marlen Haushofer, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Anna Mitgutsch.