Ridvan Askin
• was elected Treasurer & SAGW Delegate of SANAS
• Gave the following talks
• "Narrative and Speculation: A New Metaphysics for a New Narratology." ISSN International Conference on Narrative. Las Vegas, NV. 15-17 March 2012. Conference Talk.
• "Differential Narratology: Program for A Speculative Poetics." International Conference Aesthetics in the 21st Century. University of Basel. 13-15 September 2012. Conference Talk.
• "Some Recent Developments in American Studies and the Return of Aesthetics" (with Andreas Hägler and Philipp Schweighauser). Literaturforum. University of Basel. 6 December 2012. Colloquium Talk.
• Published
• Interview by Marion Regenscheit. "Vom Eigenleben der Dinge und Ihrer Erkennbarkeit." Mewi-Blog. Tageswoche, 2012. Web.
• "Difference and Identity in Richard Powers' The Echo Maker: A Deleuzian Reading." Ideas of Order: Narrative Patterns in the Novels of Richard Powers. Ed. Antje Kley and Jan Kucharzewski. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 217-238. Print.
• "'Folding, Unfolding, Refolding': Mark Z. Danielewski's Differential Novel House of Leaves." Revolutionary Leaves: The Fiction of Mark Z. Danielewski. Ed. Sascha Pöhlmann. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2012. 99-121. Print.
• Organized the following conferences
• "New Aesthetic Paradigms" (with Andreas Hägler and Philipp Schweighauser). CUSO Workshop. Seminarhotel Lindenhof, Brienz. 7-9 September 2012."
• "Aesthetics in the 21st Century" (with Paul J. Ennis, Andreas Hägler and Philipp Schweighauser). International Conference. University of Basel. 13-15 September 2012.
• EUCOR Englisch Trinational Graduate Conference. University of Basel. 7-8 December 2012.
Thomas Austenfeld
• Published
• "Razor's Edge: Robert Lowell Shaving." Pacific Coast Philology 47 (2012): 1-16.
• "Le paradoxe d'une Sudiste, femme et catholique. Une triple liberté."[Flannery O'Connor, écrivain catholique?] Pierre d'angle 17 (2011): 11-20. [Tr. Simone de Reyff. Published April, 2012].
• "'Poets alone are summoned as witness': Kay Boyle as Poet." The Wolf (London, UK), ed. James Byrne. Vol. 26 (2012): 91-99.
• Gave the following papers
• "American Pastoral: Intertextuality and 'the past undetonated'" to a class of Agrégation students. Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France, December 6-7, 2012.
• "A Question of Voice: Lowell, Didion, and literary history" at LERMA, Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone. Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France, December 6-7, 2012.
• "Foer the Love of Schulz! An Archaeological Reading of Tree of Codes." In Search of the Lost Original: Comparative Perspectives on Bruno Schulz (1892-1942). Conference at the University of Fribourg, November 30, 2012.
• "Emily Dickinson: Context, Scholarship, Philology." University of Rome "Tor Vergata," Rome, Italy, November 22-23, 2012.
• "The Place of Love Medicine in contemporary American Literature." Radboud University Nijmegen, October 17, 2012.
• "Whatever Happened to the Confessional Voice in American Poetry?" Keynote Lecture, ELLE Conference, Partium Christian University, Oradea (Romania), September 15, 2012.
• Roundtable contribution, "Celebrating 50 years of Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools." American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, May 25, 2012.
• "Transatlantic Literary Journeys." Narrenschiff / Ship of Fools. A Transatlantic Encounter. Conference at the University of Fribourg, directed by Thomas Austenfeld, May 11-12, 2012.
• "Nobody's Nation: What Remains of Multiculturalism in American Literature?" Tertium Datur: Hybridisierung, Synkretismus, Créolité. Interdisziplinäres Kolloquium Universität Fribourg, April 20, 2012.
• "The Last Report: Louise Erdrich between Communities—A Comparative Analysis." Native America: Indigenous Self-Representation in Canada, the U.S., and Mexico. Conference at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, February 24-25, 2012.
• "Robert Lowell's Life Studies and the Obsession with Cleanliness." Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy, February 9-11, 2012.
• Organized the following guest lectures, conferences, and workshops
• Coordinator, Guest lecture by Prof. Peter Barry, Aberystwyth University. "Poems in Chains: Conversations Among American Poems." Fribourg, September 25, 2012.
• Conference Director, Narrenschiff / Ship of Fools: A Transatlantic Encounter, Fribourg and Basel, May 10-12, 2012. Financial support granted by the Schweizer Staatssekretariat für Bildung und Forschung.
• Coordinator, Guest lecture by His Excellency, the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland, Donald S. Beyer, Jr. "American Elections and the Role of the Media." May 3, 2012.
• Co-organizer (with Boris Vejdovsky, Lausanne) of the CUSO seminar, "Aesthetics and Politics; Or, What's Entitled to be Beautiful Today?", March 22-23, 2012, Crêt-Bérard.
• Organizer (with Brigitte Zaugg, Metz) of the EAAS workshop # 14, "Physical Hygiene, Mental Health, and the Growth of a Nation: Literature in the Service of Advancing America," Izmir, March 30-April 2, 2012.
• Coordinator, Guest lecture by Prof. Meg Tyler, Boston University. "The State of the American Lyric in the 21st Century." Cosponsored by the Fulbright Commission. March 15, 2012.
• Assisted M.A. student in publishing her thesis
Minervini Jordan, Cinzia. Being and Becoming. Reading Arthur Miller's Focus and "The Crucible" through Giorgio Agamben. Ed. and pref. by Thomas Austenfeld. Basel: Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, 2012.
Ursula Caci
• June 2012 – May 2013: Continuation of dissertation project "Locating Gender in Space. Emily Dickinson’s Conception of Gender" as research scholar at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo with Prof. Cristanne Miller, granted by a SNFS fellowship for prospective researchers.
Joanne Chassot
• Published
• "Black Women's Ghostly Re-visions of History." Afterimages of Slavery: Essays on Appearances in Recent American Films, Literature, Television and Other Media. Eds. Marlene Allen and Seretha Williams. Jefferson: McFarland, 2012. 18-34.
• "Black Women Re-visioning American History: The Ghost as Alternative Epistemology in the Works of Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor and Michelle Cliff." “Forever Young”? The Changing Images of America. Eds. Philip Coleman and Stephen Matterson. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012. 183-95.
Francesca de Lucia
• Published
• "'What Did I Do To Be So Italian and Blue?': Exploring Italian American Identity in Rita Ciresi's Novels," Voices in Italian Americana, vol. 23, n.1, spring 2012.
• "'An Abrupt Impression of Familiarity': Ethnic Projection in Arthur Miller's Work," Polish Journal of American Studies, vol. 6, 2012.
• Review of (Mis)reading America: American Dreams, Fictions and Illusions, edited by Jerzy Durzak and Pawel Frelik Polish Journal of American Studies, vol. 6, 2012.
• "Un Romanzo sulla Matematica: Ratner's Star di Don DeLillo" (with Paolo de Lucia), La Matematica nella Società e nella Cultura, series 1, vol. 4, n.3, December 2011 (published in spring 2012).
• Gave a seminar paper entitled "Latent Ethnicity: Arthur Miller in Italy and Italian America" at the English department of Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
• Gave the following conference papers
• "Rita Ciresi: An Italian American Woman Writer Explores Sexuality, Ethnicity and Illness," delivered at the conference "Migrations, Sexualities and Genders on the Move, " University of Bergamo, November 5-6 2012.
• "From the Abruzzi to Los Angeles, via the Midwest: (Italian) Americascapes in John Fante's Fiction," delivered at the Annual Conference of the Polish Association for American Studies, University of Lublin, October 17-19 2012.
Lukas Etter
• Gave the following talks
• "The Many Wedges of Alison Bechdel." American Lives. DGfA. Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. June 2012. Conference Presentation.
• "What Rhythm for the Blues? Réflexions sur l'esthétique intermédiale dans LINT de Chris Ware." Lex-ICON. Université de Haute Alsace Mulhouse. June 2012. Conference Presentation.
• "Aesthetics of Seriality in Alternative Graphic Novels." Interdisciplinary Methodology – A Follow-Up. University of the Arts London (Central St Martins College). July 2012. Workshop Talk.
• "The Many Political Wedges of Alison Bechdel." The Graphic Novel. University of Oxford (Mansfield College). September 2012. Conference Presentation.
• "Reihenweise Bücher. Formen der Serialität in alternativen Graphic Novels. " Buch am Mittag. Universitätsbibliothek Bern. October 2012. Talk.
• [with Gabriele Rippl:] "Media in Conflict? Text-Picture Interactions in Comics." Cultures in Conflict. SANAS. Universität Zürich. November 2012. Conference Presentation.
• "Aesthetic Aspects of Seriality in Alternative Graphic Narratives (Bechdel, Lutes, Ware)." Oberseminar Amerikanistik. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. December 2012. Guest Talk.
• Published
• (with Gabriele Rippl). "'Don’t laugh – this ain't the funny pages': Comics und Bildende Kunst (Alain Séchas, Raymond Pettibon)." Interpiktorialität. Theorie und Geschichte der Bild-Bild-Bezüge. Ed. Guido Isekenmeier. Bielefeld: transcript, forthcoming.
• "The 'Big Picture' as a Multitude of Fragments: Jason Lutes's Depiction of Weimar Republic Berlin." Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads. Ed. Daniel Stein, Shane Denson, and Christina Meyer. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. 229-41. Print.
• Organized
• Workshop [with Roger Sabin:] "Interdisciplinary Methodology: A Follow-Up." Central St Martins College London, July 2012.
Dana Frei
• Published as Co-Editor (Journals):
• "Schule." kids+media. Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendmedienforschung. Heft 1 (2012). www.kids-media.uzh.ch/1-2012.html
• "Kontinente." kids+media. Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendmedienforschung. Heft 2 (2012). www.kids-media.uzh.ch/2-2012.html
• Published as Author (1 Book, 3 Articles):
• Challenging Heterosexism from the Other Point of View - Representations of Homosexuality in Queer as Folk and The L Word. Peter Lang 2012.
• "Vorbilder für die Jugend? Humanitäre Einsätze von Stars und ihre mediale Inszenierung in Online-Promi-News." In: kids+media 2/2 (2012). www.kids-media.uzh.ch/2-2012/frei.pdf
• "Vom Panel zum Closet: Zur Symbolik von Räumen in Alison Bechdels Fun Home." In: Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde (SAVk 2/2012) 253-263.
• "Gezeichnetes Leben: Autobiographien in Comicform." In: Gazzetta 51/1 (2012) 46-52.
• Conference paper:
• "Dealing with Misfitting Powers – Transitions & Transgressions in Misfits" GFF Conference: Transitions and Dissolving Boundaries in the Fantastic, 15th September, 2012.
Franziska Gygax
• Published
• (with Regula Koenig, and Miriam A. Locher) "Moving across Disciplines and Genres: Reading Identity in Illness Narratives and Reflective Writing Texts." Medical Communication in Clinical Contexts. Edited by Rukhsana Ahmed & Benjamin Bates. Dubuque: Kendall Hunt, 2012. 17-35.
• "On Being Ill (in Britain and the US): Illness Narratives of the Self." European Journal of Life Writing. In press.
• "Theoretically Ill: Autobiographer, Patient, Theorist." The Writing Cure: Medicine and Literature. Edited by Alexandra Lembert and Jarmila Mildorf. Münster: LIT. In press.
• Gave the following papers at conferences
• "Illness Narratives: Pain and Empowerment." EAAS conference; panel on "Illness and its Metaphors: Challenging Medical Discourse from a Gendered Perspective." Izmir, March 30 - April 2.
• Together with Regula Koenig and Miriam A. Locher: Workshop on 'Illness Narratives' with Victoria Tischler (University of Nottingham). Basel, February 10.
• Interdisciplinary research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Extension granted. Together with, Miriam Locher, Regula König, and Victoria Tischler University of Nottingham): Life (Beyond) Writing: Illness Narratives.
Hartwig Isernhagen
• Gave a talk entitled "Bodmer/Wied - Welch/Momaday/Silko: American Landscapes and The Land, 1832 to (ca.) 1990" at the Dept. of English at Basel on 27 March, 2012, and presented a paper on "Representation Between Stereotype and Irony/Parody: The Museum as a Dangerous Place" at the 33rd American Indian Workshop (Zurich, 13 April, 2012).
• He published "Tod eines Landvermessers. " [On Thoreau] NZZ 104, 5 May, 2012, pp. 57/8.
Christina Ljungberg
• Published
• Monograph: Ljungberg, Christina. Creative Dynamics: Diagrammatic Strategies in Narrative. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2012.
• Edition: Michelucci, Pascal, Fischer, Olga and Christina Ljungberg, eds. Semblance and Signification. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011.
• Contribution to book: Ljungberg, Christina. "Unbinding the Text: Intermedial Iconicity in Peter Greenaway's Prosperous Books." Semblance and Signification. Ed. Pascal Michelucci, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011. 369-388.
• She was invited to
• The international ETH workshop "Cartography & Narrative" 11-13 June, where she gave a talk on "Visualizing imaginary spaces" on 11 June at the ETH Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, Zurich.
• She organized
• SANAS / AAAS biannual joint conference on "Cultures in Conflict / Conflicting Cultures" at the UZH together with Elisabeth Bronfen.
Sämi Ludwig
• Published:
• Book edition: On the Aesthetic Legacy of Ishmael Reed: Contemporary Reassessments. Ed. Sämi Ludwig. Huntington Beach: World Parade Books, 2012. (249 pages)
• "'When the Media Get Juiced'—a review of JUICE (2011)." On the Aesthetic Legacy of Ishmael Reed: Contemporary Reassessments. Ed. Sämi Ludwig. Huntington Beach: World Parade Books, 2012. 242-49.
• "Ishmael Reed, the Sentimental Heathen, or: Why Humans Are More Important Than the Gods." On the Aesthetic Legacy of Ishmael Reed: Contemporary Reassessments. Ed. Sämi Ludwig. Huntington Beach: World Parade Books, 2012. 138-60.
• "Introduction." On the Aesthetic Legacy of Ishmael Reed: Contemporary Reassessments. Ed. Sämi Ludwig. Huntington Beach: World Parade Books, 2012. 5-13.
• "Intercultural Objectivity, or: Tracing This Side of Cultural Relativism: Some Approximations on Literary Interpretation." L'Interculturel Dans Tous Ses Etats. Eds. Karin Dietrich-Chénel and Marc Weisser. Paris: Orizons, 2012. 93-106.
• Gave the following talks:
• Panelist, roundtable. Resistance and Readiness: Immigration, Nativism and the Challenge of Ethnic and Religious Diversity in the US and Europe Today. SSASAA – Salzburg Seminar American Studies Alumni Association. Salzburg, September 2012.
• "Indigenous Multiculturalism? The case of dialects vs. dialectics." Sciences, Art and Gender in the Global Rise of Indigenous Languages. University of Jendouba, Tunisia, February/March 2012.
Nidesh Lawtoo
• Published
• Book edition: Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Contemporary Thought: Revisiting the Horror with Lacoue-Labarthe, ed. and intro. Nidesh Lawtoo. London: Bloomsbury, 2012.
• "Introduction: 'An Emotion of Thought,'" in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Contemporary Thought. London: Bloomsbury, 2012. 1-16.
• "A Frame for ‘The Horror of the West,'" in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Contemporary Thought. London: Bloomsbury, 2012. 89-110.
• "The Horror of Mimesis: Echoing Lacoue-Labarthe," in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Contemporary Thought. London: Bloomsbury, 2012. 239-259.
• "A Talk with Avital Ronell (about Lacoue-Labarthe)" (Interview), in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Contemporary Thought. London: Bloomsbury, 2012. 260-268.
• "A Picture of Europe: Possession Trance in Heart of Darkness," Novel 45.3 (2012): 409-432.
Scott Loren
• Published
• "Posthumanist Panic Cinema: Defining a Genre." Paradoxes of Authenticity. Ed. Julia Straub. Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag, 2012. 159-184.
• "Die Strategie der Tränen. Glenn Beck und der melodramatische Stil in den USA." Die Macht der Gefühle. Emotionen in Management, Organisation und Kultur. Eds. Jörg Metelmann and Timon Beyes. Berlin: Berlin University Press, 2012. 127-144.
• [With Eva Illouz, Dorthe Staunæs, Chris Steyaert, Linda Williams]. "Feel It! Das Management der Emotionen. Eine Diskussion zwischen Eva Illouz, Linda Williams, Dorthe Staunæs und Chris Steyaert, moderiert von Scott Loren.” Die Macht der Gefühle. Emotionen in Management, Organisation und Kultur." Eds. Jörg Metelmann and Timon Beyes. Berlin: Berlin University Press. 23-56.
• [With Jörg Metelmann]. "I Keep Mine Hidden: Subjectivity and Melodrama in Haneke's Caché." Fragments du monde. Retour sur l'œuvre de Michael Haneke. Ed. Valérie Carré. Editions Le Bord de l'Eau, Lormont, 2012.
• Gave the following talk:
• Loren, Scott. "Beck to the Heart of the Matter: The Melodramatic Style in American Politics", Conference: “Melodrama: Staging Emotions in the Anglophone World, 1780-2010” University of Berne, October 2012
Deborah Madsen
• Published
• Book edition: The Poetry and Poetics of Gerald Vizenor (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2012).
• "Alterity" in The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon, ed. Inger Dalsgaard, Luc Herman & Brian McHale (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 146-155.
• "Hybridity, Hyphenation, and Mixed-Race Identities," in Hybridity: Forms and Figures in Literature and the Visual Arts, ed. Vanessa Guinery (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012), 103-113.
• Conference talks
• "Deer Island: The Sovereignty of Transmotion in a State of Exception," Native American and Indigenous Studies Association conference, June 3-6, 2012.
• Organized
• 8 June, 2012: Native Studies Masterclass, with Professor Janice Gould (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs).
Gabriele Rippl
• Published
• Journal editorship: Rippl, Gabriele et al., eds. ANGLIA. Journal of English Philology / Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012. [four volumes in total: 130.1; 130.2; 130.3; 130.4].
• "Film and Media Studies." English and American Studies. Theory and Practice Ed. Martin Middeke, Timo Müller, Chritina Wald, and Hubert Zapf. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2012. 314-332.
• [With Stephanie Hoppeler]. "Continuity, Fandom und Serialität in anglo-amerikanischen Comic Books." Populäre Serialität: Narration-Evolution-Distinktion. Ed. Frank Kelleter. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2012. 367-379.
• Gave the following talks
• "Hamlet in US-American and Canadian Fiction" (Universität Basel, December 2012)
• "Media in Conflict? Text-Picture Interactions in Comics/Graphic Narratives" (SANAS/AAAS Joint Conference 'Cultures in Conflict/Conflicting Cultures,' November 2012; with Lukas Etter)
• "Intermedial Relationships: Modernist American Literature and the Irreducibility of Images" (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br., July 2012)
• "Narrating Radioactivity: Representations of Nuclear Disasters and Precarious Lives in Anglophone Graphic Novels." (Conference 'Narrating Precarious Lives: Dehumanisation, Survival and (Re-)Constructions of the Self,' Universität Freiburg i.Br., June 2012)
• "The Bundesrepublik Deutschland and Its Haunting Past: Walter Abish's How German Is It? Figures and Cultures of Temporality" (For Aleida Assmann on the occasion of her 65th birthday, March 2012)
• "'and what is the use of a book without images?' Bildbeschreibungen und ihre Funktionen in der anglophonen Literatur der Moderne und Postmoderne" (DFG Netzwerk Literaturwissenschaft, Visualitätsforschung, Universität Bochum, March 2012)
• Organized the following guest lectures
• Prof. Dr. Stephan Kohl (Universität Würzburg): "Paul Theroux’s Autobiographical Writing," 25 October 2012
• Prof. Dr. Gill Plain (University of St. Andrews): "'The Peace Goes Badly': Women, Writingand Power at the End of the Second World War," 30 October 2012
• Prof. Dr. Joanna Woodall (Courtauld Inst., London): "Renaissance Portraiture," 15 November 2012
• Organized the following conferences
• NASSR Conference Committee member: "Romantic Prospects" (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, August 2012)
• Co-organized the conference "Melodrama: Staging Emotions in the Anglophone World, 1780-2010," at the University of Berne in October 2012 with Julia Straub
Michaela Rossini
• Published
• Energy Connections. Living Forces in Inter/Intra-Action. Open Humanities Press, 2012.
(‘Frozen’ and ongoing at: www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/Energy_Connections)
• Paperback version of The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science (with Bruce Clarke). Abingdon: Routledge, 2011 (hb) / 2012 (pb).
• Gave the following talk
• Zurich, Collegium Helveticum, 19 April 2012: Presentation at the workshop "Prophetie und Prognose": "Für einen Kritischen Posthumanismus: Messianische Zukunftsvisionen jenseits von Apokalypse und Technophilie".
• Convened the following panel
• Milwaukee (Wisconsin, USA), 27-30 September 2012: SLSA Conference "Nonhuman". Panel convenor and contribution: "Posthumanist Approaches to the Nonhuman – a Transatlantic Comparison".
• Acted as consultant
• Commentary on the draft version of the SAGW Position Paper "Für eine Erneuerung der Geisteswissenschaften".
• Organized the following guest lectures (for the Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and the Social Science):
• Prof. Dr. Kathryn McClymond on 'Ritual'
• Prof. Dr. Marilyn Strathern on 'Fractals'
• Prof. Dr. Sabine Sielke on 'Mimicry
• Was project leader of:
International Winter School 2012, "TransForming Knowledge and Epistemic Cultures"
Christiane Schlote
• Published
• "Iraqi Playwrights and the (Un)Reality of War." Stephan Milich, Friederike Pannewick and Leslie Tramontini, eds. Conflicting Narrative, War, Trauma and Memory in Iraqi Culture. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012. 161-180.
• "Dramatising Refuge(e)s: Rukhsana Ahmad's Song for a Sanctuary and Tanika Gupta's Sanctuary." Graham Ley and Sarah Dadswell, eds. Critical Essays on British South Asian Theatre. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2012. 66-78.
• "Revisiting Bolton: Transcultural Adaptation and Regional Identity in Ayub Khan-Din's Rafta, Rafta." Pascal Nicklas and Oliver Lindner, eds. Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012. 251-263.
• "Oil, Masquerades, and Memory: Sokari Douglas Camp's Memorial of Ken Saro-Wiwa." Gordon Collier, Marc Delrez, Anne Fuchs and Bénédicte Ledent, eds. Engaging With Literature of Commitment. Volume 1. Africa in the World. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012. 243-263.
• "A Different Theatre of War. Humanitarian Aid on British Stages." Ethical Debates in Contemporary Theatre and Drama. Contemporary Drama in English. Mark Berninger and Bernhard Reitz, eds. Trier: WVT, 2012. 121-135.
• "Post-Millennial British Asian Theatre." Hard Times 91 (Frühjahr 2012), 33-38.
• Gave the following talks
• "From Paddington to Baghdad: Agatha Christie in the Middle East." (invited) University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, February 2012
• "From Wandsworth to the West End: British Asian Theatre in the Post-Millennium." (invited) American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, May 2012
• "Introduction: Shakespeare on Stage." (invited) Contemporary Shakespeare Conference, Universität Hildesheim, Hildesheim, June 2012
• "Staging South Asian Diasporas." The Second ISA Forum of Sociology. Social Justice and Democratization. Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2012
• "Staging the Heart of Darkness: Women, Warlords, Humanitarian Aid Workers." ESSE Conference 2012, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2012
• "Archäologische Detektivgeschichten: Agatha Christies Reisen in den Orient." (invited) Senioren-Universität Zurich, Zurich, October 2012
• "Serial Suburbia: From The Good Life to Murder in Suburbia. German Society for the Study of British Cultures, ‘Topographies of Britain’, University of Basel, November 2012
• "Archäologische Detektivgeschichten: Agatha Christies Reisen in den Orient." (invited) Senioren-Kolleg Liechtenstein, Mauren, December 2012
• Convened the following panel
• "Shakespeare in Performance – Shakespeare on Stage." Contemporary Shakespeare Conference, Universität Hildesheim, Hildesheim, June 2012
• Research stay
• Associate at the Department of English, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, May 2012
Philipp Schweighauser
• Was elected President of SANAS
• Published (with Rippl, Gabriele, Tiina Kirss, Margit Sutrop, and Therese Steffen, eds.) the essay collection Haunted Narratives: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Forthcoming 2013.
• Published the following essays
• Relations between Media." Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media and Textuality. Ed. Lori Emerson, Marie-Laure Ryan, and Benjamin Robertson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Forthcoming 2013.
• "Early American Studies Now: A Polemic from Literary Studies." Amerikastudien/American Studies. Forthcoming 2013.
• "Sympathy Control: Sentimental Politics and Early European Aesthetics." Anglia. Forthcoming 2013.
• (with Rippl, Gabriele and Therese Steffen) "Introduction: Life Writing in the Age of Trauma." Haunted Narratives: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma. Ed. Rippl, Schweighauser, Tiina Kirss, Margit Sutrop, and Steffen. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Forthcoming 2013.
• "Trauma and Utopia: Benjamin, Adorno, and Elie Wiesel's Night." Haunted Narratives: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma. Ed. Gabriele Rippl, Schweighauser, Tiina Kirss, Margit Sutrop, and Therese Steffen. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Forthcoming 2013.
• "Book and Wax: Two Early American Media of Deception." Spec. issue of Philologie im Netz. Eds. Peter Schneck and Antje Kley. 5 (2012): 4-44. <http://web.fu-berlin.de/phin/beiheft5/b5i.htm>.
• Co-organized (with Ridvan Askin and Andreas Hägler)
• Aesthetics in the 21st Century. International Conference. University of Basel, September 13-15, 2012.
• New Aesthetic Paradigms. CUSO Workshop with Stewart Martin and Steven Shaviro. Brienz, September 7-9, 2012.
• Gave the following talks
• (with Erich Thaler) "Internationalizing the Curriculum: A European Perspective." Internationalizing the Curriculum: Finding the World in English. Virginia Tech, 29-31 March, 2012.
• "Religion und USA." Discussion with Lotta Suter and Antonius Liedhegener. Part of the series "Wechselwirkungen: Gespräche über Gott und die Welt" of the Forum für Zeitfragen. Literaturhaus Basel, 19 September 2012.
• "Täuschungsmanöver: Das Blendwerk der ersten amerikanischen Romane." Lions Club Bruderholz, 8 May, 2012.
• Hosted the following guest speakers
• Dr. Johannes Fehrle (Freiburg i.B.): "'The Erosion of the Older Distinction between High Culture and so-called Mass or Popular Culture': Postmodernism's Use of Popular Genres." Basel, March 27, 2012.
• Prof. em. Hartwig Isernhagen (University of Basel): "Bodmer/Wied – Welch/Momaday/Silko: American Landscapes and The Land, 1832 to (ca.) 1990." Basel, March 27, 2012.
Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
• Published
• Book edition: The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture. Co-edited with Justin D. Edwards. New York: Routledge, 2012.
• "'I'll Be Whatever Gotham Needs Me to Be': Batman, the Gothic and Popular Culture." The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture. Eds. A. Soltysik Monnet and Justin D. Edwards. New York: Routledge, 2012.
• "War and National Renewal: Civil Religion, Blood Sacrifice and the Soldier in American Culture." War and New Beginnings. Special Issue of the European Journal of American Studies. Online. 2012.
• Gave the following talks
• "Combat Death and the Cultural Work of Self-Sacrifice." Melodrama: Staging Emotions in the Anglophone World, 1780-2010, Berne University.
• "Race and Conflict in the Representation of the Iraq War: Over There and Generation Kill." SANAS Biennial Conference: Cultures in Conflict, Zurich.
• "Gender and Nationalism in Spanish-American War Fiction: Kirk Munroe’s Forward, March! (1899)." ESSE Biennial Conference, Istanbul, Turkey.
• "All Brothers Now: Performances of Race in Recent Films of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars." MESEA Biennial Conference, Barcelona.
• "The 'Good High Days': Maxine Hong Kingston and a Counterculture Politics of Dope." The (Modern) Concept of Intoxication/Rausch International Conference, Albert-Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg.
• Co-ordinated the following guest lecture:
• Justin Edwards, “The Postcolonial Vampire in Canadian and Caribbean Literature,” (Dec. 2012)
• Organized
• Annual African American History Study Trip to Paris (April 2012), with 18 student participants.
Therese Steffen
• Organized workshop
• International Workshop: Cities in Flux: Urbanization and Societal Change in South African Literary and Visual Texts, Durban. University of Basel 19 June. (Sally-Ann Murray, Fiona Siegenthaler, Elísio Macamo, Brian Fulela, Caitlin Martin, Christine Giustizieri, Olivier Moreillon)
• Radio Interview
• Radio DRS 2: "52 Beste Bücher": Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio Gespräch mit Franziska Hirsbrunner. (6th and 12th Februray)
• Published
• Book edition: Bettina Dennerlein, Elke Frietsch, Therese Steffen (eds.) Verschleierter Orient — Entschleierter Okzident? (Un)Sichtbarkeit in Politik, Recht, Kunst und Kultur seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. München, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2012.
• "Werkbeitrag: Marlene van Niekerk, Triomf (1994)" Kindler Lexikon (On-line Version) 2012.
• "Urbane Topografien in Südafrika." UniNova, Wissenschaftsmagazin der Universität Basel, (March 2012): 36-38.
• "'Leben unter dem Schleier': Afroamerikanische Texte und Kontexte." In: Bettina Dennerlein, Elke Frietsch, Therese Steffen (ed.) Verschleierter Orient - Entschleierter Okzident? (Un)Sichtbarkeit in Politik, Recht, Kunst und Kultur seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. München, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2012. 181-201.
• "Vorwort, Einleitung." In: Bettina Dennerlein, Elke Frietsch, Therese Steffen (ed.) Verschleierter Orient - Entschleierter Okzident? (Un)Sichtbarkeit in Politik, Recht, Kunst und Kultur seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. München, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2012. 1-20.
Julia Straub
• Became Secretary of SANAS
• Pursued work on her 'Habilitationsschrift' with the working title: "The American Memory of Literature, 1770-1850"
• Published
• Book edition: Paradoxes of Authenticity: Studies on a Critical Concept. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2012.
• "Mobility and the Canon: Discussing Literary Value in Early American Writing." REAL 28. Ed. Ingo Berensmeyer, Christoph Ehland and Herbert Grabes. Tübingen: Narr, 2012. 177-95.
• "Dante's Beatrice and Victorian Gender Ideology." Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century: Nationality Identity and Appropriation. Ed. Aida Audeh und Nick Havely. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 204-22.
• "Coming Home: Bret Easton Ellis's Lunar Park, Authorship, and Heidegger's Concept of Authenticity." Authenticity: Studies on a Critical Concept. Ed. Julia Straub. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2012. 263-79.
• Introduction: Authenticity in Literary and Cultural Studies. Authenticity: Studies on a Critical Concept. Ed. Julia Straub. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2012. 9-29.
• Was invited to give a guest lecture at the University of Mainz entitled "Reading the First Early American Anthologies as Cultural Texts" in June 12.
• Organized two guest lectures by His Excellency, Ambassador Donald Beyer Jr., for students of the University of Berne in May 2012.
• Organized an international conference entitled "Melodrama: Staging Emotions in the Anglophone world, 1780-2010" in Ocotber 2012 together with Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl, funded by the SNF
Barbara Straumann
• Has been pursuing her Habilitation thesis "Embodied Voices: Female Performers in British and American Narrative Fiction, 1845-1934."
• Published
• "'We didn't need dialogue, we had faces': The Public Bodies of Gloria Swanson." Audiences, Networks, Performances: Studies in U.S.-American Media History. Ed. Antje Kley, Peter Schneck. PhiN: Philologie im Netz Beiheft/Supplement 5 (2012): 128-146.
web.fu-berlin.de/phin/beiheft5/b5_pdf/PhiN_Beiheft5_Straumann.pdf
• Gave the following invited talks
• "Andy Warhol als Dandy." Der Dandy - Theatergespräche, Städtische Bühnen Münster, July 3, 2012.
• "Noise and Voice: Female Performers in Meredith and Eliot." Noise - Geräusch - Bruit: Medien und Kultur unstrukturierter Laute, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, September 17-19, 2012.
• Gave the following plenary lecture
• "Queen Elizabeth I - First Diva." The British Monarchy on Screen, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, November 23-24, 2012. (Together with Elisabeth Bronfen.)
• Taught the following guest seminars
• "Einführung in die kulturwissenschaftliche Filmanalyse am Beispiel von Alfred Hitchcocks Strangers on a Train. " Kulturwissenschaftliches Methodenseminar, University of Lucerne, April 4, 2012.
• "Performing Elizabeth I: Sarah Bernhardt, Flora Robson, Bette Davis, Jean Simmons, Cate Blanchett" Seminar: Die Schauspielerin, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, October 29, 2012. (Together with Elisabeth Bronfen.)
• Gave the following conference paper
• "The Conflict of Voice in Nathanael Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance." Cultures in Conflict - Conflicting Cultures, Joint AAAS and SANAS conference, University of Zurich, November 9-10, 2012.
Alexa Weik von Mossner
• was appointed Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria
• was awarded a Fellowship for Advanced Researchers from the Swiss National Science Foundation to spend the academic year 2014/15 as a Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles
• co-edited (with Christoph Irmscher) Dislocations and Ecologies, a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies 16.2 (Summer 2012).
• published the following essays
• (with Christoph Irmscher) "Introduction: Dislocations and Ecologies." Dislocations and Ecologies. Special Issue of European Jour¬nal of English Studies 16.2 (Summer 2012): 91-97.
• "Afraid of the Dark and the Light: Visceralizing Ecocide in The Road and Hell." The Invention of Eco-Futures: Ecocriticism and Science Fiction. Ed. Ursula Heise. Special Issue of Ecozona: European Journal of Literature, Culture, and Environment 3.2 (Fall 2012): 42-56.
• "The Human Face of Global Warming: Varieties of Eco-Cosmopolitanism in Climate Change Documentaries." Ecocriticism in English Studies. Eds. Carmen Flys Junquera and Juan Ignacio Oliva. Special issue of Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 64 (April 2012): 145-160.
• "Troubling Spaces: Ecological Risk, Narrative Framing, and Emotional Engagement in The Age of Stupid." Ecology and Emotion. Ed. Mick Smith. Special Issue of Emotion, Space, and Society. Published ahead of print online (2012): www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/ pii/S1755458612000242.
• "Facing The Day After Tomorrow: Filmed Disaster, Emotional Engagement, and Climate Risk Perception." Green Cultures: Climate–Knowledge–Catastro¬phes. Eds. Christof Mauch and Sylvia Mayer. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012. 97-115.
• "The Uses and Hazards of Expatriation: Richard Wright's Cosmopolitanism in Process." Ed. James B. Haile. Philosophical Meditations on Richard Wright. Lanham (MD): Lexington Books, 2012. 121-139
• "Rising Waters: Submersion and Survival in Yung Chung's Up the Yangtze." Water. Eds. Marc Landry and Agnes Kneitz. Special Issue of RCC Perspectives 2 (2012): 12-17.
• "Angst vor der Sonne." Kultur und Technik: Das Magazin aus dem Deutschen Museum 2 (2012): 26-31.
• gave the following invited talks and lectures
• "Troubling Futures: The Emotional Impact of Climate Change Cinema." Invited lecture as part of the 2012 Lecture Series at Franklin College, Lugano, November 29, 2012.
• "Imagining Ecological Futures: Environmental Change Scenarios in Popular Film." Guest lecture at the Global Environments Summer Academy 2011: "Socio-Ecological Interactions in a Dynamic World: A Master Course for Environ¬mental Leaders" at the LMU Munich, August 17, 2011.
• "American Literature: A Multi-Ethnic and Transnational Approach." Lecture as part of the "Ringvorlesung Weltliteraturen." University of Fribourg. May 9, 2012.
• "Troubling Futures: The Emotional Impact of Climate Change Cinema." Guest lecture at Brandeis University, Boston, USA, March 22, 2012.
• "Disasters Foretold: Climate Change Documentaries and the Anticipation of Catastrophe." Invited talk at the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows" at Heidelberg University, Germany, March 2, 2012.
• "Hope in Dark Times: Climate Change and the World Risk Society in the Young Adult Novel." Invited talk at the International Workshop "Literature and Climate Change" at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, Sweden, January 27, 2012.
• "Troubling Scenarios: Modes of Engagement in Climate Change Cinema." Guest lecture at the Doctoral Course "Being Human in Times of Climate Change: Stretching the Disciplinary Boundaries" at Lund University, Sweden, January 26, 2012.
• "The Stuff of Fear: Emotion, Ethics, and the Materiality of Nuclear Risk in Silkwood and The China Syndrome." Guest lecture at the University of Augsburg, Germany. January 12, 2012.
• gave conference talks on
• "Listening to the Wind: Cultural Conflict and Identity in Michael Apted's Thunderheart." SANAS/AAAS Joint Conference: "Cultures in Conflict/ Conflicting Cultures", University of Zurich, Switzerland, November 10, 2012.
• "Environmental Film Criticism." Round Table "Recent Theoretical Turns in Ecocriticism." ESSE Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2012.
• "The Stuff of Fear: Emotion, Ethics, and Material Agency in Nuclear Risk Cinema." 5th Biennale Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE), Tenerife, Spain, June 28-30, 2012.
• "Science Fiction and the Future of Ecological Citizenship." International Workshop "Science Fiction across Media: Alternative Histories, Alien Futures" at Umeå University, Sweden, April 23-24, 2012.
• "Objects of Emotion: Cognitive Approaches in Cine-Ecocriticism." Annual Conference of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) in Boston, USA, March 21-25, 2012.
• "Ecotopia at Risk: Troubling Feelings in James Cameron’s Avatar." International Conference "The Shaping Power of Risk: Literature–Culture–Environment" at the Bayreuth Institute for American Studies (BIFAS), University of Bayreuth, Germany, February 24-26, 2012.
• acted as curator of the Rachel Carson Center's environmental film series, Green Visions, at the Gasteig Cultural Center in Munich.