Claudia J. Fischer is an assistant professor in the Department of German Studies at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, where she also directs the Master's Degree in Comparative Studies. At the Center for Comparative Studies, she coordinates the research subgroup “Synesthesia/THELEME”, dedicated to Interart and Intermedia Studies. She obtained her PhD in Literary Theory in 2007, with a thesis on Grace and Graciousness (Verbo, 2015). She was a visiting professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University (USA) in 2018 and has taught on Erasmus mobility at the universities of Göttingen (Germany) and Salzburg (Austria). Her main research interests lie in the relationship between literature and music, and she has mainly worked on nineteenth-century authors. She has translated Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Rainer Maria Rilke, Walter Benjamin, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and, together with Vera San Payo de Lemos, Tempo do Coração (Antígona, 2020), the correspondence between Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan.
Areas of research
German Romanticism
Music and Literature
Translation Studies
Selected publications
Fischer, Claudia J., Fernando Pessoa no Espelho de Celan, Lisboa: Tinta-da-China, 2025.
Fischer, Claudia J. e Cristiana Vasconcelos Rodrigues, Melomania. Casamentos Perfeitos entre Música e Literatura, Lisboa: Húmus, 2024.
Fischer, Claudia J., “Uma playlist romântica”, in A Música das Artes, org. João Pedro Cachopo. Lisboa: Sistema Solar, (publicação prevista em 2025).
Fischer, Claudia J. and Vera Lemos, “Inhabiting the Mind of a Multilingual Interpreter: Displacement, Translation, and Revelation in Bachmann’s ‘Simultan’”, Austrian Studies. 32, December 2024. https://doi.org/10.1353/aus.00008
Fischer, Claudia J., “Substituir crianças. Acerca de dois dramas familiares em crise epidémica: «Der Findling» de Heinrich von Kleist e «Supertoys Last All Summer Long» de Brian Aldiss”. Dedalus, 2024. https://revistadedalus.pt/ddalus/index.php/dedalus/issue/view/22
Fischer, Claudia J., Ferrari, P. “’A rhythm of another speech’. Pessoa’s theory and practice of poetry translation”. The Translator 26(4), Taylor & Francis online, 2021, p. 324-354. https://doi.org/10.1080/13556509.2021.1902060
Fischer, Claudia J., “Between Intangible and Corporeal: Word, Body and Music in German Romanticism”. Dedalus, 22/23, 2020, p. 49-70.
http://aplc.org.pt/index.php/revista-dedalus/78-revista-dedalus-n-22-23
Fischer, Claudia J. (ed.), Contos Musicais. Wackenroder, Kleist e Hoffmann, Selecção, prefácio, tradução e notas de Claudia J. Fischer, Lisboa, Antígona, 2016.
Fischer, Claudia J., Sobre Graça e Graciosidade, Lisboa, Babel/Verbo, 2015.
Fischer, Claudia J., “Auto-tradução e experimentação interlinguística na génese d' «O Marinheiro» de Fernando Pessoa”, Pessoa Plural. Revista de Estudos Pessoanos, nº 1, Primavera de 2012, p. 1 – 69. Doi: 10.7301/Z0XW4H04
