Federica Claudia ABRAMO

Federica Abramo is a research fellow at the Department of Humanities (UniCT) and contract lecturer in German Language at the Department of Education Sciences (UniCT). For the Erasmus+ ENID Teach project she is currently working on the design of digital and flexible learning environments, with a focus on collaboration, accessibility and inclusiveness. Her research interests include: experimental didactics of German language and literature; inquiry-based learning; collaborative learning; the relationship between language, literature and science; embodied cognition; cognitive literary criticism.
In 2021 she obtained her PhD in Text Forms (cycle XXXI) at the University of Trento with a dissertation on the representations of the body-mind relationship in the stories of the late German author E.T.A. Hoffmann, under the supervision of Prof. Alessandro Fambrini. She conducted a research period at the Freie Universität Berlin in collaboration with the D.I.N.E. Lab (Language of emotions) cluster of excellence for research on the processes of reading and understanding poetic text, under the supervision of Prof. Arthur M. Jacobs.
She collaborated the WG 3 group of the COST E-READ (http://ereadcost.eu/), dedicated to the understanding of reading processes in the transition from analogue to digital, directed by Prof. Prof. Anne Mangen.
She is a member and web content manager of the interdepartmental research centre NEWHUMS - Neurocognitive and Humanistic Studies and of the editorial board of the Wunderkammer series for the publishing house Mimesis (Milan). She has organised and participated as a speaker at various national and international conferences.