Christine Ott (PhD in Italian Literature 2002, Katholische Universität Eichstätt; habilitation 2009, Philipps University of Marburg) holds the Chair for French and Italian Literature at the Institute for Romance Languages and Literature at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her main areas of research interest include poetry (early modern and twentieth century), food/corporeality studies, and early modern commentaries. At present, she is working on heterodox elements in Michelangelo’s poetry as well as on feasting/fasting and corporeality in early modern literary texts. As a Frankfurt Fellow, she chaired the team’s work on speech and register.