Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Sarah Dessì Schmid

2018	Job offer: full professor (W3) of Romance Linguistics, University of Heidelberg (rejected)
Since 2013	full professor (W3) of Romance Linguistics (French/Italian) at the Department of Romance Studies, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
2010-2013	tenured lecturer at the Institute of Linguistics/Romance Studies at the University of Stuttgart
2013	Habilitation at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen on the topic of Aspektualität – Eine onomasiologische Untersuchung aspektualer Strukturierung von Sachverhalten in den romanischen Sprachen (Aspectuality - An Onomasiological Model Applied to the Romance Languages). Umhabilitierung at University of Stuttgart.
2004-2010	Research assistant at the Department of Romance Studies, University of Tübingen (50%)
2005-2009	Research assistant at the Institute of Linguistics/Romance studies, University of Stuttgart (50%)
2004-2005	Lecturer for the Italian language, Language Center of the ETH and University of Zurich, Switzerland
2003	PhD at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. PhD thesis: Alla riscoperta dello spirito. Un’analisi comparativa delle teorie linguistiche di Ernst Cassirer e Benedetto Croce (German Translation: Die Wiederentdeckung des Geistes. Eine vergleichende Analyse der Sprachtheorien Ernst Cassirers und Benedetto Croces)
2000-2004	Research assistant at the Department of Romance Studies, University of Tübingen
1995-2000	Lecturer for the Italian language, Department of Romance Studies, University of Tübingen
1990-1995	Philosophy, Italian and History (Corso di Laurea in Lettere e Filosofia), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Further Research Activities (Selection)

Member of the Accademia della Crusca (Accademica corrispondente)
Board member of the CRC 833 The construction of meaning (2017 – 2021; 2nd Deputy Spokesperson)
Board member of the CRC 1391 Different Aesthetics (2019-2023 and since 2023)
Board member of the Società Internazionale di Filologia e Linguistica Italiana (SILFI) (since 2016; 2018 – 2022: 1st Chairperson)
Board member of the Deutscher Italianistenverband (DIV) (since 2016; since March 2022: 1st Deputy Chairperson)
Board member of the Zentrum Vormodernes Europa at University of Tübingen
Board member of the Institut franco-allemand Tübingen
Co-editor of the Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit Online (EDNO) (since 2023)
Co-editor of the journal Studi di grammatica italiana (since 2024)
Co-editor of the series Italianistica: Testi e Strutture – Strukturen und Texte
Member of the scientific advisory board for the journals Italienisch and Testi e Linguaggi

Academic Self-Administration (Selection)

Member of the senate, University of Tübingen (since 2022)
Member of the faculty council of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Tübingen (2019 – 2022 and since 2022)
Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Tübingen (2023 – 2024)
Spokesperson of the Department of Modern Languages, University of Tübingen (2016 – 2022)
Acting director of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Tübingen (2014 – 2015 & 2021 – 2022)