Carmine Chiellino

Carmine Gino Chiellino is an intercultural literary scholar, writer, editor and translator. He traveled to Germany for the first time in 1969 to conduct research for his university thesis. After studying Italian and sociology, which he completed at La Sapienza in Rome, he studied German. He did his doctorate at the University of Giessen on the "futurism debate" in Germany. In addition to his work as an Italian lecturer, Chiellino devoted himself to researching literature and migration in Germany. He completed his studies in Comparative Literature at the University of Augsburg in 1993 and was appointed Professor of Comparative Literature there in 2001. Chiellino is the editor of several standard works on questions of German-language literature and migration.