• Lettura psicoanalitica del testo poetico e letterario con analisi delle strutture linguistiche, retoriche e stilistiche alla luce degli sviluppi della psicoanalisi di Freud / Lacan / André Green / Winnicott / W. R. Bion nonché della ricezione dei medesimi autori nei Paesi di Lingua Tedesca. • Ruolo e funzione della letteratura nel contesto delle società occidentali globalizzate e delle dinamiche intra- e interpsichiche legate alla formazione del singolo nell’ambito della Didattica della Letteratura e della Cultura dei Paesi di Lingua tedesca. • Letterature dei Paesi di Lingua tedesca connesse alla shoah e al trauma secondo le cocordinate rappresentazione / figurabilità psichica (Green; Fédida; C. e S. Botella; Bion; Lang; Rath; Rohde-Dachser etc.) sviluppate nel Novecento e ridefinite dall’epoca ipermoderna contrassegnata dalla presenza dei social medias e della memoria digitale. • Intersezioni transdisciplinari delle istanze utopiche delle Letterature dei Paesi di Lingua Tedesca nella dimensione retorico-stilistica della soggettivazione (umorismo e dinamiche inter- e intra-linguistiche), utopia come scommessa delle discipline umanistiche rispetto alle categorie del sociale, dei Programmi OCSE e di Agenda 2030 alla luce delle scienze dure e dei rischi dell’accademismo. (2016 - )

• Since 2016 Maletta devotes part of her researches to explore utopianism in an age where traditional subject boundaries are breaking down. She gives high priority to promoting inter-, multi and transdisciplinary studies and education, firmly convinced that the aims of literature and literaricity in our new global reality have to transcend the scope of a single discipline in order to encourage proposals and ideas in emerging research areas (OCSE - Agenda 2030) as for New Didactics of German Literature in the era of Digital Humanities. • Maletta’s researches range from psychoanalysis of creativity to the exploration of interlinguistic and intersemiotic mechanisms of German-language authors with particular attention to the link between the choice of words, syntax, stylistic peculiarities and the indifferentiated matrix of unconscious processes. She is still and has been investigating Freudian, Lacanian, Greenian and Post-Bionian theories of the mind which shed light on creativity. • Maletta also investigates the way absence (Lacan; Fédida; Green; Bion; C. u. S, Botella; Lang; Rath; Rohde-Dachser etc.) impinges on Darstellbarkeit (representability) and Vorstellungsrepräsentanz (ideational representative) in the production of writers and poets who experienced loss and death. Starting from Freudian Kulturarbeit Maletta also focuses on the relationship concerning the body at writing, aesthetics and ethics of poetry in the shoah-debate in relation to working memory in a digitalised world. • Since 2016 Maletta has been exploring utopian and post-utopian instances as a form of expression of Freudian Kulturarbeit (Civilisation and its Discontents) in Western globalised societies paying particular attention to authors, whose fiction developes and intertwines an anthropological point of view with personal imagery and psychological imagination and with social criticism. • Along with Post-Freudian psychoanalysis, Maletta conducts researches into the ethics of utopian instances in literary production to reconsider the role of German culture in the symbolisation of poetical and creative experience in literary works dealing with the deconstruction of origins as return to an idealized, archaic temporality, from which Western ontophilosophy has supposedly departed. (2016 - )