• 'Imaginarration': Images tell stories" (project on different image-text relationships, originally part of the Cluster of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Integration" at the University of Konstanz). Current projects in this area:

     - Portraits in narrative, dramaturgicalc and lyrical texts

     - Self-portrait and time in literature and visual arts

     - Dimensions of the visual perspecitive in 18th century Venetian painting and literature

     - Baroque times' images

•  New cards, different watches: Space and time shifts in transcultural literature (e.g. Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, Igiaba Scego)
• Poetics of the novel / especially French and Italian narratives of the 20th and 21st centuries (e.g. Butor, Robbe-Grillet, Perec, Reza, Ndiaye, Toussaint, Michon; e.g. Tabucchi, Calvino, Levi, Consolo)
• Mythologies in the early modern period (especially Italian Renaissance)
• Giacomo Leopardi
• French and Italian poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries