PHIL-TRAGEN

The Team

The people behind PHIL-TRAGEN.

An ERC research team based at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, working across philosophy, translation studies and German-Jewish intellectual history.

Libera Pisano

Principal Investigator · ERC Project Leader

Libera Pisano

Universitat Pompeu Fabra · Barcelona

Libera Pisano is Assistant Professor of Modern Philosophy at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). She received her PhD in Theoretical Philosophy from Sapienza University of Rome in 2014.

She has held research positions at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the University of Hamburg, Humboldt University of Berlin, and the University of Calabria, and was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at UPF.

Her research focuses on modern philosophy, German-Jewish thought, philosophy of language, translation, exile, identity and the theological-political dimensions of community. She has published extensively on Mendelssohn, Hegel, Landauer, Rosenzweig, Benjamin and Susman.

Her latest monograph, The Exile of Language: German-Jewish Philosophical Challenges to Linguistic Autochthony, was published by Brill in 2025.

Research Team

Members
  • Francesco Ferrari

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    Francesco Ferrari

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra · Friedrich Schiller University Jena

    Postdoctoral researcher working on German-Jewish thought, philosophy of religion, hermeneutics, critical theory and political philosophy.

  • Isabel Jacobs

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    Isabel Jacobs

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra · Barcelona

    Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy, German-Jewish Studies and Translation Theory at UPF, working on Central and Eastern European thought.

  • Lorenzo Gensini

    Digital Supervisor & Webmaster

    Lorenzo Gensini

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra · Barcelona

    Digital Supervisor and Webmaster of PHIL-TRAGEN. PhD candidate in phenomenology at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Supervisor of the Gianni Vattimo Archive.

  • Mila Guillet Sariols

    PhD Researcher

    Mila Guillet Sariols

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra · Barcelona

    PhD researcher investigating the political and pedagogical dimensions of translation within the PHIL-TRAGEN project.

  • Daniel Méndez

    PhD Researcher

    Daniel Méndez

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra · Barcelona

    PhD candidate in Humanities at UPF, working on modern German-Jewish thought and political philosophy through the figure of Gustav Landauer.

  • Bruno Castro Coma

    European Project Manager

    Bruno Castro Coma

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra · Barcelona

    European Project Manager specialised in Horizon Europe, Justice and NextGenerationEU projects, with expertise in project coordination, financial management and international consortium management.

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