Irina Rajewsky

Irina Rajewsky studied General and Comparative Literature, Italian Studies, and Art History in Madison (Wisconsin), Berlin, and Pisa. In 2000, she earned her doctorate from the Free University of Berlin with a dissertation on forms and functions of intermedial narration in postmodern Italian literature. Since 2022, she has been a Full Professor of General and Comparative Literature at the Gutenberg Institute for World Literature and Written Media at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Her research focuses on inter- and transmediality, transmedial narratology, and questions of fictionality and factuality across media. She also works on Italian and French narrative literature from the 19th to 21st centuries, as well as artistic and cultural practices of modernity, postmodernity, and the contemporary period—including literature, photography, film, theater, and digital media.