Constanza Cordoni
WG Textual networks and translation cultures | AG Textuelle Netzwerke und Übersetzungskulturen
Research Interests: Rabbinic literature, Jewish literature and cultural history; reception history; historical narratology; rabbinic hermeneutics
Curriculum Vitae
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The Land of Israel in Geonic Times | |||||||||
Enduring Job: The Book of Job in Early Medieval Jewish Literature | |||||||||
Since 4/2023 | Rothschild Fellow, Department of Jewish studies, Univ. Vienna | ||||||||
Since 4/2023 | Post-doc researcher, Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences | ||||||||
4/2022–3/2023 | Visiting professor, Department of Jewish studies, FU Berlin | ||||||||
3/2018–6/2022 | Lecturer, Department of Jewish studies, Univ. Vienna | ||||||||
10/2021–3/2022 | Rothschild Fellow, Department of Jewish studies, Univ. Vienna | ||||||||
3/2020–3/2022 | Post-doc researcher, Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of the Sciences | ||||||||
11/2019–2/2020 | Post-doc Fellow Jewish theology, Department of Old Testament Studies, Karl-Franzens-Univ. Graz | ||||||||
11/2016–10/2019 | Post-doc researcher, Department of History and Art History, Univ. of Utrecht | ||||||||
10/2010–10/2016 | Prae-doc assistant, Department of Jewish studies, Univ. Vienna | ||||||||
4/2008– 9/2010 | Doctoral candidate, Department of German Philology, Univ. Vienna | ||||||||
Hanna Skerhut | PhD thesis: ‚Das Land, das ich dir zeigen werde’ (Gen 12,1): Zur jüdischen und christlichen Auslegung der Texte zum Land und zur Landverheißung in der Hebräischen Bibel bzw. im Alten Testament | ||||||||
Helga Schöppl | Master thesis: Bruno Schulz und seine jüdische Identität | ||||||||
Bianca Plattner | Master thesis: The land of Israel and the Psalms: Analysis of selected Psalms and their interpretation using Traditional and Digital Methods | ||||||||
2/2014–12/2015 | Parental leave | ||||||||
1/2012–8/2013 | Parental leave | ||||||||
2022 | Protestantse Theologische Universiteit Amsterdam/Groningen, Senior Research Fellowship, Center for Early Jewish Hermeneutics |
2021 | Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) Cofund Post-doc Fellowship (declined). |
2021 | Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe: GBP 68,352 for research project: Enduring Job: The Book of Job in Early Jewish Medieval Literature. |
2021 | FWF (Austrian Science Fund) Stand-alone project: The land of Israel in Geonic Times (P 34307-G; sum granted: EUR 383,825) |
2020 | Vienna City, MA 7 Wien Kultur. Award: EUR 4,000 toward the organisation of conference: Ancient and early medieval religious homelands. |
2019 | Post-doctoral Research Fellowship Jüdische Theologie, Institut für Alttestamentliche Bibelwissenschaft, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. |
2019 | European Association for Jewish Studies Conference Grant Programme in European Jewish Studies. Award: GBP 5,900 toward the organisation of conference: Ancient and early medieval religious homelands. |
2007 | FWF (Austrian Science Fund) Stand-alone project: Barlaam und Josaphat in der europäischen Literatur des Mittelalters (P 20076 / P 20738; sum granted: EUR 120,000; project proposal co-authored with Prof. M. Meyer). |
Since 2016; seminars and lectures on Jewish literature (antiquity and Middle Ages); Bible reception; Digital Humanities; Judeo-Spanish for Bachelor and Master programmes Jewish studies as well as Jewish studies extension curricula
Lecture: | Geschichte der rabbinischen Literatur und Kultur, Dept. Jewish studies, FU Berlin/ Dept. Jewish studies, Univ. Vienna (2022-23) |
Lecture: | The Land of Israel in the first Millennium, Dept. Jewish studies, FU Berlin (2022) |
Seminar: | Die Pesiqtot: Die Homilien-Midraschim Pesiqta de Rav Kahana und Pesiqta Rabbati, Dept. Jewish studies, Univ. Vienna (2022-23) |
Seminar: | Seder Eliyahu: Ein Spätmidrasch, Dept. Jewish studies, FU Berlin (2022) |
Seminar: | Hiob: Jüdische Lektüren, Dept. Jewish studies, FU Berlin (2022) |
Seminar: | Psalmen: Bibel und Nachleben, Dept. Jewish studies, Univ. Vienna (2021) (taught with G. Langer). |
Seminar: | Ladino für Anfänger, Dept. Jewish studies, Univ. Vienna (2021); FU Berlin (2022-23). |
Seminar: | Jüdische Literatur Digital Erforschen, Dept. Jewish studies, Univ. Vienna (2021). |
Seminar: | Hiob: Bibel und Nachleben, Dept. Jewish studies, Univ. Vienna (2021) |
Seminar: | Matriarchinnen und andere biblische Frauen: Rezeption in der Spätantike und im Mittelalter, Dept. Jewish studies, Univ. Vienna (2020). |
Seminar: | Das Land Israel und die Frage des Sense of Place; Dept. Jewish studies, Univ. Vienna (2019) (taught with G. Langer). |
Seminar: | Rabbinische Karten: Erets Israel; Dept. Jewish studies, Univ. Vienna (2018). |
Seminar: | Kleine Formen der rabbinischen Literatur; Dept. Jewish studies, Univ. Vienna (2016). |
Tutorium | on Lawrence Schiffmans Vorlesung “History, Culture, Literature and Religion of Judaism during the Rabbinic Period“; Dept. Jewish studies, Univ. Vienna (2010). |
2021 | “Ancient and early medieval religious homelands” (online conference; 17 speakers) |
2018 | “The Languages of the Jews: Diaspora, Language, and Jewish Identity“, Utrecht (conference; 12 speakers; co-organised with L. V. Rutgers) |
2018 | “The Relation between Form and Content in Aggadic Midrash“, Krakow (congress sessions at XIth EAJS Congress; 8 speakers, co-organised with L. Teugels) |
2014 | “The Bible and Women: Jewish Middle Ages“, Vienna (workshop; 15 V, co-organised with G. Langer and C. Bakhos) |
2011 | “Narratology, Hermeneutics, and Midrash“, Vienna (conference; 14 speakers; co-organised with G. Langer) |
2010 | “Barlaam and Josaphat in the Literature of the Middle Ages“, Vienna (conference; 27 speakers; co-organised with M. Meyer) |
Evaluator | for Belgian Flemish Research Foundation (FWO); for Israel Science Foundation (ISF); for Brill series The Reference Library of Judaism and Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism |
Member | European Association of Jewish Studies; World Union of Jewish Studies; Vienna Doctoral School of Theology and Research on Religion (https://vdtr.univie.ac.at); Cluster Transformations of Jewish and Christian Identities in the Past and Present at research centre “Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society”, (RaT: https://www.religionandtransformation.at/en/); Fachverband Judaistik - Jüdische Studien - Jüdische Theologie in Germany |
Editor | G. Langer, K. Davidowicz, and C. Bakhos Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht series Poetik, Exegese und Narrative; |
