Ridvan Askin
Publications:
Askin, Ridvan, Paul J. Ennis, Andreas Hägler, and Philipp Schweighauser, eds. Aesthetics in the 21st Century. Special Issue of Speculations: A Journal of Speculative Realism 5 (2014). Web. <www.speculations-journal.org>
Askin, Ridvan, Andreas Hägler, and Philipp Schweighauser. “Introduction: Aesthetics after the Speculative Turn.” Speculations: A Journal of Speculative Realism 5 (2014): 6-38. Web. <www.speculations-journal.org>
Askin, Ridvan. “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This: Speculation.” Weaponising Speculation. Ed. Caoimhe Doyle. New York: Punctum Books, 2014. 61-68. Print & Web. <punctumbooks.com/titles/weaponising-speculation/>
Talks:
Invited
“‘[E]very pumpkin in the field, goes through every point of pumpkin history’: Emerson and the Memory of Matter,” Matter, Memory, and the More-than-Human: Relational Aesthetics and Politics in the Age of the Anthropocene, Symposium and Workshop, Zurich University of the Arts, 27-28 Nov 2014
“The Speculative Community: A Narrative (Response to Graham Harman),” International Conference: The Speculative Community, or Community and Contingency, University of Bern, 18-19 Oct 2014
Other
“Limping, Dancing, Sitting: A Response to Thomas Claviez,” Author Meets Critics Panel, SANAS Biannual Conference: Literature, Morality, Ethics: American Studies Perspectives, University of Basel, 21-22 November 2014
“The Crisis of Critique: Correlationism and Literary Studies.” Biannual Symposium of the Swiss Philosophical Association: Crisis and Critique, University of St. Gallen, 5-7 June 2014
“Differential Narratology: Three Theses and One Example.” CUSO workshop Literary Theories, Münchenwiler, 9-11 May 2014
“Differential Narratology: Three Theses and One Example.” International Conference on Narrative, MIT, 27-30 March 2014
Participated in SSASA (Salzburg Seminar in American Studies Association), Salzburg Global Seminar, Defining America: New Writing, New Voices, New Directions, Schloss Leopoldskron,
Activities in American Studies I organized for my institution in 2014:
Lecture Series: New Developments in Theory
24-25 Nov 2014: Stuart Elden (Warwick): “Geopolitics, Geopower, Geometrics (lecture) & “Space, Territory, Literature” (workshop), University of Basel (with Daniela Keller and Christian Hänggi)
13 May 2014: Claire Colebrook (Penn State): “Who Comes after Posthumanism?,” University of Basel
“English and American Rhenish Scholars (EARS) Meeting,” plenaries: David Rudrum (Huddersfield) & Marc Nicolas Sommer (Basel), University of Basel, 5 December 2014
“Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives,” SANAS biannual conference (with Philipp Schweighauser, Basel), keynotes: Winfried Fluck (Berlin), Noëlle McAfee (Emory), University of Basel, 21-22 Nov 2014
“Narrative Theory after the Speculative Turn,” panel at the International Conference on Narrative, speakers: Armen Avanessian (Berlin), Jon Cogburn & Mark Allan Ohm (Louisiana State), Ridvan Askin (Basel), MIT, 27-30 March 2014
Research projects:
PhD completed, English Literature, University of Basel, 28 January 2014 (summa cum laude) Thesis: “Narrative and Becoming: Differential Narratology” (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Philipp Schweighauser, University of Basel; Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck, University of Freiburg)
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Habil. project on “American Transcendentalism Revisited: Metaphysics and Naturephilosophy in 19th Century American Thought” (working title)
Thomas Austenfeld
Articles published in 2014:
Austenfeld, Thomas; Reynes-Delobel, Anne. “Kay Boyle.” Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Eds. Jackson Bryer, Richard Kopley, and Paul Lauter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Web.
Austenfeld, Thomas. “Nobody’s Nation. Multiculturalism in American Society and American Literature.” Tertium Datur! Formen und Facetten interkultureller Hybridität / Formes et facettes d’hybridité interculturelle. Ed. Sabine Haupt. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2014. 23-35.
Austenfeld, Thomas. “Fleeing, Flying, Staying, Leaving: The Persistence of Esscape in American Literature.” In Fuga. Temi, Percorsi, Storie. L’Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria. Eds. Federico Bellini and Giulio Segato. Milano: Facoltà di Scienze Linguistiche e Letterature straniere, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 12.1-2 (2014): 69-76. Print.
Conference papers and lectures outside of my regular teaching obligations:
“ʽto braid her hair for the journey home’: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah.” Guest lecture in Professor Hans Bak’s class on North American Fiction, Radboud University Nijmegen, December 4, 2014.
“Bibliography in a Digital Age: (Re)covering Kay Boyle.” Faculty Colloquium talk, English Department, Radboud University Nijmegen, December 4, 2014.
“Lowell’s Dolphin: Shame, Guilt, and the Fate of Confessional Poetry.” Presented at the SANAS conference, Basel, November 21-22, 2014.
“Confess--disclose--proclaim: The Trope of Self-revelation in American Poetry Since the Sixties.” Presented at the SEFOC Conference at Palacky University, Olomouc, October 17, 2014.
“Kay Boyle Scholarship: Trends and Opportunities.” Presented at the American Literature Association Conference, May 22, 2014, Washington, DC.
Activities in American Studies I organized for my institution in 2014 (and one delayed entry for late 2013):
December 10, 2013: Guest lecture and reading by Poet Alfred Corn
October 7, 2014: Guest Lecture by Prof. Darlene Unrue, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, on Katherine Anne Porter’s biography.
Doctoral supervision in progress:
Ola Madhour. “Raw Sensibilities: Elizabeth Bishop and the Philosophy of Beatitude.” Defense scheduled for June 2015.
Arnaud Barras
Publications:
Barras, Arnaud. “Ecopoetic Encounters: Amnesia and Nostalgia in Alexis Wright’s Environmental Fiction”. EASA: Encountering Australia: Transcultural Conversations. Monash Prato Centre, Italy. 24-26/09/2014. Conference presentation.
---. “From a Poetics of Collision to a Hermeneutics of Discovery: Rethinking Knowledge, History and Ecology in Rudy Wiebe’s A Discovery of Strangers”. SANAS: Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives. University of Basel. 21-22/11/2014. Conference presentation.
---. “The Affective Resonance of Country: Performing the Ecopoetic Self Through Aboriginal Narratives”. ASLEC-ANZ: Affective Habitus: New Environmental Histories of Botany, Zoology and Emotions. Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University. 19-21/06/2014. Conference presentation.
---. “The Law of Storytelling: The Hermeneutics of Relationality in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book”. ASAL: Worlds Within. University of Sydney, Australia. 9-12/07/2014. Conference presentation.
---. “Towards an Ecology of Reading: Literature, History, Environment”. National Environmental History PhD Workshop. Centre for Environmental History, Australian National University. 26-30/05/2014. Conference presentation.
Claudia Franziska Brühwiler
Organization of the conference “Philip Roth: Across Cultures, across Disciplines” at the University of St. Gallen, June 13-14, 2014.
Publications:
“A Is A: Spider-Man, Ayn Rand, and What Man Ought to Be.” PS: Political Science & Politics 47.1 (2014), 90–93.
“A Reluctant Public Intellectual: Philip Roth in the German and Swiss Media.” Philip Roth Studies 10.1 (2014), 77–90.
Book Reviews:
“Rule and Ruin by Geoffrey Kabaservice, and The Tea Party by Ronald P. Formisano.” Political Studies Review 12.3 (2014), 66–67.
“Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics by Daniel Stedman Jones.” Political Studies Review 12.1 (2014), 109.
Conference papers:
“‘Nearly Perfect in Its Immorality?’—Ayn Rand and Business Ethics.” Bi-annual Meeting of the Swiss Association of North-American Studies (SANAS), University of Basel, Switzerland, November 22, 2014.
“Serving His Tour as ‘Exasperated Liberal and Indignant Citizen’: Philip Roth as a Public Intellectual.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Washington, D.C., August 30, 2014.
“Kantian Evil and Aristotelian Misunderstandings: Randian Readings of Great Philosophers.” Annual Conference of the Swiss Political Science Association, University of Berne, January 30, 2014.
Grants:
SNF Conference Grant for the Organization of “Philip Roth: Across Cultures, across Disciplines.”
Grant by the Emil Zaugg-Fonds for a book project.
Courses at the University of St.Gallen:
Seminar “Performing Politics: Politics and Theater,” Master level, in English, 3 ECTS.
Public lecture series “Vom New Deal zu ObamaCare: Amerikas politische Linke” (five lectures on the American Left for the general public).
Ursula Caci
Publications:
Caci, Ursula: “Der Affekt als Effekt in Emily Dickinsons Briefen an den Master.” Affekt und Geschlecht. Eine einführende Anthologie. Ed. Angelika Baier et al. Wien: Zaglossus, 2014. 447-470.Print.
Caci, Ursula: “Interchangeability and Mutuality: The Relativity of Power in Dickinson’s Gendered Relationships.” The Emily Dickinson Journal. 23:2 (2014): 69-91. Print.
Research project:
Ongoing dissertation project “Locating Gender in Space. Emily Dickinson’s Conception of Gender.”
Thomas Claviez
Publications:
Claviez, Thomas, mit Dietmar Wetzel. Zur Aktualität von Jacques Rancière. Darmstadt: VS Verlag, 2015.
Claviez, Thomas (ed). Toward a New Poetics of Community. New York: Fordham UP, 2015.
Claviez, Thomas. The Metonymic Community: Toward a Poetics of Contingency. 2016.
Claviez, Thomas. “The Myth of the Early Heidegger.” Critical Inquiry, 2015.
Claviez, Thomas. “Krise, Kontingenz, Kritik: Prolegomena zu einer neuen Poetik der Gemeinschaft.” Studia Philosophica, 2015.
Claviez, Thomas. “N. Scott Momaday.” Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature, 2015.
Talks:
“The Sublime – a Critical Reassessment.” (Doctoral Workshop, Geneva, 3 April 2014)
“Being-With: Authenticity, the ‘They’ and Community in Heidegger’s Being and Time.” (Colloquium "Sociology and Philosophy,” Prague, 19 May 2014)
“The World Literature Program of the CCS Bern.” (Institute of World Literature, Hong Kong, 2-5 July 2014)
“Krise, Kontingenz, Kritik: Prolegomena zu einer neuen Poetik der Gemeinschaft.” (Jahrestagung des Schweizer Philosophenverbands, 5 June 2014)
“Meet the Author: The Conditions of Hospitality.” (SANAS Biannual Conference, Basel, 22 Nov 2014)
“Authenticity, Community, Being-With: Heidegger, Arendt and Levinas.” (Dartmouth College, 4 Nov 2014)
“The Metonymic Community: Walt Whitman and Herman Melville.” (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 9 Nov 2014)
“Authenticity, Community, Being-With: Heidegger, Arendt and Levinas.” (Penn State, 13 Nov 2014).
Activities in American Studies I organized for my institution in 2014:
Distinguished Lecture Series:
Simon Critchley (New School, New York): “Tragedy and Philosophy” (Distinguished Lecture Series 2014, Center for Cultural Studies, Bern)
Terence Cave (Oxford University): “ʽFar Other Worlds, and Other Seas’: Thinking With Literature in the 21st Century” (Annual Balzan Lecture 2014, CCS Bern).
Supervision of PhD projects:
Banu Akin. Dissertation in Progress.
Ryan Kopaitich, “Language, Reference, and the New Community in Contemporary Fiction.” SNSF Sinergia Project
Viola Marchi
Waylon Weber. Dissertation in Progress
Research projects:
SNSF Sinergia Project “Theory and Practic of Authenticity in Global Cultural Production” entitled. Ongoing.
Francesca de Lucia
In February 2014 I started working as associate professor at Zhejiang Normal University in Jinhua, China.
Published articles:
“Awe, Terror and Mathematics.” Emotion, Affect, Sentiment: The Language of Aesthetics and Feeling. Ed. Andreas Langlotz and Agnieszka Soltysil Monnet. SPELL. 30, 163-176.
“Marching through the Wilderness: Relating to the Environment in an Italian American Perspective.” Eating America: Crisis, Sustenance, Sustainability. Ed. Justyna Kociatkiewicz, Laura Suchostawska, Dominika Ferens.
Conferences:
“Chinatown as a Wild Zone in Louis Chu’s Eat a Bowl of Tea”, Polish Association of American Studies, University of Bialystok, 22-24 October 2014.
“Between Newark and the West Bank: Crossing Political and Narrative Boundaries in Philip Roth’s Israel Fiction”, 9th MESEA Conference, University of Saarlanden, Saarbrucken, Germany, 29 May- June 1 2014.
Lukas Etter
Award:
SANAS Research Award 2014
Talks:
10/2014 “Text-Image Combination as an Aspect of Artistic Style in Alternative Comics/Graphic Narratives.” Workshop Theories of Intermediality, Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale (CUSO), Brienz
09/2014 “Die Grenzen der Panelgrenzen: Zur Verbindung von mathematischen ‘Beweisen ohne Worte’ und Comics.” Conference Drawing Boundaries, Crossing Borders (Society for Comics Studies, ComFor), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Sept. 2014: Completion and defense of PhD thesis: Auteurgraphy: Distinctiveness of Styles in Alternative Graphic Narratives
Franziska Gygax
Book publication:
Narrative Matters in Medical Contexts across Disciplines. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2015. Ed. together with Miriam A. Locher.
Papers:
“Life (Beyond) Writing: Illness Narratives”: Erkenntnisse und Herausforderungen eines interdisziplinären SNF-Forschungsprojekts,Workshop Medical Humanities in Forschung und Praxis org. von der Schweizerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 25 March in Berne.
Performing Gertrude Stein’s Portraying: Reading and Acting “Sitwell Edith Sitwell.” Lecture performance together with actor Jonas Gygax. Tagung “A Valentine To Gertrude Stein: The Reception of Gertrude Stein in the Arts and Humanities.” University of Copenhagen, Denmark and co-organized with Ghent University and Linköping University, 8 – 10 May 2014.
Life (Writing) in Transit: Dying and Death in Autothanatographies. IABA Conference “Auto/Biography in Transit,” Banff, Canada, 29 May - 1 June.
Information on activities in American Studies I organized for my institution in 2014:
Ian Williams (comics artist and scholar, Brighton) on “Illness Narratives in Comics,” University of Basel, 24 November.
Supervision of PhD projects:
Ariane Burckhardt: Cognitive Dis-Orders in Graphic Memoirs
Ursula Caci: Locating Gender in Space: Emily Dickinson’s Conceptions of Gender
Research projects:
Affective narratives: Emotion/empathy and American autobiography
Hartwig Isernhagen
Publication:
“Literatur als Forschung: Ein Blick auf die klassische Postmoderne anlässlich des neunzigsten Geburtstags von William Gass” (NZZ 147, 28 June, 2014, 63/4).
Talk:
“American Studies: Ethos and Ethics”, 2014 SANAS Conference: “Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives”, University of Basel, 21-22 November 2014
Ryan Kopaitich
Talks:
“The Broom of the System and Systems in General: David Foster Wallace and the Ethics of Language” (Biannual Conference of the Swiss Association for North-American Studies. University of Basel, 21-22 November, 2014)
“Contingency, Metaphysics, and Indexicality Taken Seriously” (The Speculative Community: New Concepts in Post-Identitarian Thought II. University of Bern, 18-19 October 2014)
“Contingency, Immunity and Risk: Modalities of the Biopolitical” (Life, in Theory. 8th Meeting of the European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Università di Torino and Università del Piemonte Orientale, 3-6 June, 2014).
Information on activities in American Studies I organized for my institution in 2014:
WITH Viola Marchi. 10/2014 - Organization of the conference “The Speculative Community: New Concepts in Post-Identitarian Thought II.” University of Bern, October 18-19 2014. Keynote Speaker: Graham Harman.
Grant of 3,800 CHF from MVUB Fund for the Promotion of Young Researchers and 600 CHF conference support from FuN University of Bern.
Research projects:
Dissertation in Progress with grant from SNSF Sinergia Project “Theory and Practic of Authenticity in Global Cultural Production” entitled:
“Language, Reference and the New Community in Contemporary Literature.”
Christina Ljungberg
Talks (by invitation):
Aarhus, 30 January 2014. “Cognitive aspects of iconicity in textual diagrams”, plenary lecture at the Aarhus University Winter Symposium 2014, “Diagrams in language: iconicity, schema, space” 29-31 January 2014.
Sao Paulo, 1 September 2014. “The Body on Edge: Technology, Environment, and Posthuman Nature”, at PUC, Postgraduate Lecture, invited by Prof. Lucia Santaella.
Luzern, 7 November 2014. “Cartographic Strategies in Fiction”, talk at the AGM of the SGK (Swiss Cartographic Society).
Research project:
Iconicity in Language and Literature, www.iconicity.ch
Viola Marchi
Talks:
22/11/2014 - “Ethics, Interrupted: Levinas’s Moral Philosophy and the Problem of Community.” Paper given at the Biannual Conference of the Swiss Association for North-American Studies. University of Basel, November 21-22, 2014.
19/10/2014 - “Ethics, Interrupted: Community and Impersonality in Levinas.” Paper given at the conference The Speculative Community: New Concepts in Post-Identitarian Thought II. University of Bern, October 18-19, 2014.
04/06/2014 - “‘Fictions of Agency’: Impersonality, Contingency, and Responsibility in Paul Auster’s Leviathan.” Paper given at the international conference Life, in Theory. 8th Meeting of the European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Università di Torino and Università del Piemonte Orientale, June 3-6, 2014.
Information on activities in American Studies I organized for my institution in 2014:
WITH Ryan Kopaitich. 10/2014 - Organization of the conference “The Speculative Community: New Concepts in Post-Identitarian Thought II.” University of Bern, October 18-19 2014. Keynote Speaker: Graham Harman.
Grant of 3,800 CHF from MVUB Fund for the Promotion of Young Researchers and 600 CHF conference support from FuN University of Bern.
Research projects:
Dissertation in Progress with grant from SNSF Sinergia Project “Theory and Practic of Authenticity in Global Cultural Production” entitled:
“Contemporary Literature and the Ethics of the Impersonal.”
Michael C. Prusse
Publications:
Prusse, Michael C. ‘“Every Story Tells a Story That Has Already Been Told”: Intertextuality and Intermediality in Philip Pullman’s Spring-Heeled Jack and in Kevin Brooks’ iBoy.’ Children’s Literature in Language Education (CLELE) 2.1 (May 2014): clelejournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Prusse-Every-Story-Tells-a-Story-That-Has-Already-Been-Told.pdf
Prusse, Michael C. Review of Emer O’Sullivan & Dietmar Rösler, Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Children’s Literature in Language Education (CLELE) 2.1 (May 2014): clelejournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Prusse-Review-O%E2%80%99Sullivan-R%C3%B6sler-2013.pdf
A. Elisabeth Reichel
Conference talks:
“Sonophilia / Sonophobia: Sonic Others in the Poetry of Edward Sapir.” Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives. SANAS conference, University of Basel, 21.-22.11.2014.
“Once More with Feeling: The Emotional and Integrative Functions of Music in John Carney’s Once.” Movies and Music: National and Transnational Approaches. SERCIA conference, Radboud University, Netherlands, 18.-20.09.2014.
“Fictionalizing Music, Musicalizing Fiction: The Integrative Function of Music in The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers.” Audionarratology: Interfaces of Sound and Narrative. International conference, University of Paderborn, 11.-12.09.2014.
Awards:
1. Artes Liberales-ABSOLVENTUM Preis
for my master’s thesis “Fictionalizing Music, Musicalizing Fiction: The Integrative Function of Music in Richard Powers’s The Time of Our Singing” as outstanding achievement in research (awarded Nov. 15, 2014)
2. PhD Research Grant by the Department of English at the University of Basel for a PhD project in the context of the SNSF project “Of Cultural, Poetic, and Medial Alterity: The Scholarship, Poetry, Photographs, and Films of Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead” (01.08.2014-31.07.2017)
Projects:
PhD project “Sonic and Visual Others in the Poetry of Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead” (working title)
Gabriele Rippl
Publications:
Rippl, Gabriele, ed. Anglia, special issue Melodrama: Staging Emotions in the Anglophone World. 132:2 (2014). Print.
Rippl, Gabriele. “Intermedialität: Wort/Bild.” Literatur und Visuelle Kultur. Eds. Claudia Benthien, and Brigitte Weingart. Berlin: De Gruyter 2014. 139-158. Print.
Rippl, Gabriele. “‘Soldierly, severe, self-controlled, self-disciplined’: Männlichkeitsentwürfe von englischen Frauen der Frühen Neuzeit.” Der imaginierte Mann. Ed. Renate Möhrmann. Stuttgart: Kröner, 2014. 52-74. Print.
Rippl, Gabriele. “Hamlet in nordamerikanischen Romanen und Kurzgeschichten.” Hamlet Handbuch. Ed. Peter Marx. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2014. 441-450. Print.
Rippl, Gabriele, and Stephanie Hoppeler. “Narrating Radioactivity: Representations of Nuclear Disasters and Precarious Lives in Anglophone Comic Books and Graphic Novels.” Precarious Lives. Ed. Barbara Korte. Heidelberg: Winter, 2014. 55-70. Print.
Rippl, Gabriele, and Julia Straub. “Introduction.” Melodrama: Staging Emotions in the Anglophone World. Spec. issue of Anglia 132:2 (2014): 217-224. Print.
Rippl, Gabriele. “Introduction: Towards a New Monumentalism.” Towards a New Monumentalism? Cultural and Aesthetic Perspectives beyond Postmodernism. Spec. issue of Anglia 131: 2/3 (2013): 207-217. Print.
Rippl, Gabriele. Rev. of A. S. Byatt, by Mariadele Boccardi. ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2014. Print.
Guest lectures:
Rippl, Gabriele. “‘the eyelids are a little weary’: Walter Paters Mona Lisa als Mythos der Moderne – transkulturell und intermedial”, guest lecture at the University of Rostock. October 2014.
Rippl, Gabriele. “Functions of Ekphrasis in Postcolonial and Migrant Literatures”, guest lecture at the Workshop “Word-Image Interactions in Literature: Practices, Theories, Methodologies”, University of Uppsala, Sweden. May 2014.
Rippl, Gabriele. “Culture and Transgression: Phaedra’s Illicit Love and Its Cultural Transformations in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Anglophone Literature”, guest lecture at Princeton University, USA. March 2014.
Other:
Member of the Hans-Sigrist-Stiftung and Committee, University of Bern. 2013.
Member of the Barbara-Lischetti-Preis Committee, University of Bern/IZFG. 2014.
Admission to AcademiaNet – European Expert Database of Outstanding Female Academics. 2014.
Information on activities in American Studies I organized for my institution in 2014:
Collegium generale Ringvorlesung “Spitzenforschung an der Universität Bern“ (University of Bern, AS 2014)
Collegium generale Münchenwiler-Seminar “Geschlechtergerechtigkeit und Nachhaltigkeit” (University of Bern, April 2014).
Cuso Workshop: Intermediality with Prof. Dr. James Heffernan (Dartmore College, USA), Prof. Dr. Werner Wolf (University of Graz) and Prof. Dr. Lars Elleström (University of Kalmar/Växjö, Sweden; October 2014).
SNF-Workshop on anglophone Graphic Novels with Dr. Roger Sabin, Professor of Popular Culture, at the Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London (February 2014).
Visiting Lecturers
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schlaeger, Humboldt University Berlin. Bern, 1 May 2014.
Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich. Bern, 27 May 2014.
Prof. Dr. Werner Wolf, University of Graz. Bern/Brienz, 17 & 18 October 2014.
Prof. em. Dr. James Heffernan, Dartmouth College, USA. Bern/Brienz, 17 & 18 October 2014.
Prof. Dr. Lars Elleström, Linnaeus University, Schweden. Bern/Brienz, 17 & 18 October 2014.
Prof. Dr. Reingard Nischik, University of Konstanz. Bern, 22 October 2014.
Prof. Dr. Peter Wagner, University of Koblenz-Landau. Bern, 29 October 2014.
Prof. Dr. Deborah Madsen, University of Geneva. Bern, 26 November 2014.
Supervision of PhD projects:
Cottier, Annie. Nation, History and Identity in Contemporary Indian English Literature. Bern, 2014.
Etter, Lukas. Auteurgraphy: Distinctiveness Styles in Alternative Graphic Narratives. Bern, 2014.
Gasser, Selina. Muslim Female Stand-up Comedy: Performing Humour Across Culture and Gender Boundaries. Bern, in progress.
Hoppeler, Stephanie. Continuity in Comic Books and Comic Book Continuity: Serialized US-American Comic Books of the 1980s. Bern, 2014.
Mayer, Uwe. Mythos als Fremdheitstopos: Zur Produktivität einer Denkgewohnheit in der englischsprachigen Literatur. Giessen/Bern, in progress.
Reber, Simon. “Sounds of Modernity”: The Intermedial Poetry of Edward Sapir. Bern.
Steffen, Samuel. Representation of Gulf Wars. Bern, in progress.
Research projects:
Postcolonial Ekphrasis. 2014.
Cuso Workshop: Intermediality with Prof. Dr. James Heffernan (Dartmore College, USA), Prof. Dr. Werner Wolf (University of Graz) and Prof. Dr. Lars Elleström (University of Kalmar/Växjö, Sweden). 2014.
“Of Cultural and Medial Alterity: The Scholarship, Poetry, Photography, and Films of Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead” (SNF Cooperation with the University of Basel). 2014 –.
Cultural Sustainability. 2015.
Christiane Schlote
Publications:
-- Schlote, Christiane. “Writing Dubai. Indian Labour Migrants and Taxi Topographies.” South Asian Diaspora 6.1 (2013): 1-14.
-- Schlote, Christiane. “From Front Page to Front Stage: War Correspondents and Media Ethics in British Theatre.” Ethical Speculations in Contemporary British Theatre. Ed. Mireia Aragay and Enric Monforte. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 173-89.
-- Daniel Rellstab and Christiane Schlote, eds. Representations of War, Migration and Refugeehood: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2015.
-- Daniel Rellstab and Christiane Schlote. “Introduction.” Representations of War, Migration and Refugeehood: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Daniel Rellstab and Christiane Schlote. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2015. 1-14.
-- Schlote, Christiane. “Dramatizing the Congo: Refugees, Humanitarian Aid Workers and Gender.” Representations of War, Migration and Refugeehood: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Daniel Rellstab and Christiane Schlote. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2015. 214-29.
Talks:
-- “Day at the Museum: Sokari Douglas Camp’s Commemorative Sculptures.” Third Biennial Postcolonial Studies Association Conference, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK, September 2013
-- “‘What use is language against the physical realities of injustice?’ Writing War in Anglophone Arab Fiction.” (invited) Department of European Languages and Cultures, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy, September 2013
-- “All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Destitution and Profusion in Representations of Dubai.” 15th EACLALS Triennial Conference, ‘Uncommon Wealths: Riches and Realities’, University of Innsbruck, Austria, April 2014
-- “A Historiography of Protest: Lucy Kirkwood’s Chimerica.” Annual German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English Conference, ‘Theatre and History: Cultural Transformations’. University of Hamburg, Hamburg, June 2014
-- “Reading Humanitarian Aid in a Postcolonial World.” (invited) Department of English, University of Vienna, Austria, November 2014
Philipp Schweighauser
• began work on the three-year SNSF Project “Of Cultural, Poetic, and Medial Alterity: The Scholarship, Poetry, Photographs, and Films of Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead” (with Gabriele Rippl and Walter Leimgruber)
Co-organized the following conference:
Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives. Biannual Conference of the Swiss Association for North American Studies. University of Basel, 21-22 November, 2014. (With Ridvan Askin)
Published the following essays:
Schweighauser, Philipp. “Literary Acoustics.” Handbook of Intermediality: Literature – Image – Sound – Music. Ed. Gabriele Rippl. Tübingen: De Gruyter. Forthcoming.
Regenscheit, Marion, Jelscha Schmid, and Philipp Schweighauser. “Vom Close Reading zum Social Reading: Lesetechniken im Zeitalter des digitalen Texts.” Dichtung Digital. Forthcoming.
Schweighauser, Philipp. “Early American Studies Now: A Response to the Respondents.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 58.3 (2014): 500-505.
Schweighauser, Philipp. “Early American Studies Now: A Polemic from Literary Studies.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 58.3 (2014): 465-87.
Askin, Ridvan, Andreas Hägler, and Philipp Schweighauser. “Introduction: Aesthetics after the Speculative Turn.” Aesthetics in the 21st Century. Ed. Askin, Paul J. Ennis, Hägler, and Schweighauser. Spec. issue. Speculations V (2014): 6-38.
Schweighauser, Philipp. “The Persistence of Information Theory.” Traditions of Systems Theory: Major Figures and Contemporary Developments. Ed. Darrell P. Arnold. New York: Routledge, 2014. 21-44.
Schweighauser, Philipp. “Relations between Media.” The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media. Ed. Marie-Laure Ryan, Lori Emerson, and Benjamin J. Robertson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 424-27.
Published the following special issue:
Askin, Ridvan, Andreas Hägler, and Philipp Schweighauser, eds. Aesthetics in the 21st
Century. Spec. issue of Speculations V (2014).
Published the following reviews:
Schweighauser, Philipp. Rev. of Empowering Words: Outsiders & Authorship in Early America by Karen A. Weyler. Amerikastudien/American Studies. Forthcoming.
Schweighauser, Philipp. Rev. of Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel by Philip F. Gura. Amerikastudien/American Studies. Forthcoming.
Gave the following talks:
“Some Reflections on European-American Relations: A Field Report.” Cross-Cultural Leadership--United States of America. Trinational MA Program in International Business Management. Basel, 11 December 2014.
“Of Cultural, Poetic, and Medial Alterity: The Scholarship, Poetry, Photographs, and Films of Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead.” Looking Forward, 2014: Current Projects in American Studies. John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, FU Berlin. 14 November, 2014.
“Response to Timothy Morton and Claire Colebrook.” Literary Theories. Doctoral Workshop in the framework of the CUSO Doctoral Programme in English Language and Literature. Schloss Münchenwiler. 8-10 May, 2014.
“Literary Acoustics.” Listening to Literature, 1900-1950. MDRN Symposium. KU Leuven, 12-14 March 2014.
“Sind TV-Serien die neuen Romane?“ Public discussion with Andreas Jahn Sudmann and Jutta Blank. Badische Zeitung, Freiburg. 11 November, 2014.
“Of Cultural, Poetic, and Medial Alterity: The Scholarship, Poetry, Photographs, and Films of Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead.” Project Presentation in the Context of the Swiss National Science Foundations’s annual visit to the University of Basel ("Tour de Suisse"). 11 November, 2014.
Bryn Skibo-Birney
Talk:
Skibo-Birney, Bryn. “Post-apocalyptic Storytelling and Post-anthropocentric Ethics in Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy.” Literature, Ethics, and Morality: American Studies Perspective. Swiss Association for North-American Studies Biannual Conference. University of Basel, Switzerland. 22 November 2014.
Research project:
On-going research PhD project: “Writing between ‘the Human’ and ‘the Animal’ in Contemporary North American Literature”
Therese Steffen
Presentation:
“Africa in Basel—an Urban Safari”; Symposium “City in Flux” at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Durban, 20 March, 2014.
Book:
-----. Gender. Grundwissen Philosophie. Leipzig: Reclam Verlag, 2006. Second revised online edition, 2014.
Co-editor:
Stiebel, Lindy, Therese Steffen, eds. Letters to My Native Soil. Lewis Nkosi Writes Home (2001-2009). Wien, Zürich, Berlin, Münster, LIT Verlag, 2014.
Extracurricular:
Retraite: Doctoral Programme Gender Studies, Unibas, Uzh, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Brandstetter, Berlin, 13-15 November
Radio SRF 2: Interview, review of the 2014 Man Booker Prize winner by Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North, 15 October.
International Workshop: Cities in Flux, University of KwaZuluNatal, Durban,
SSAJRP: Lindy Stiebel, Olivier Moreillon, Sabine Binder, Brian Fulela, Therese Steffen, (21 -22 March)
Retraite: Doctoral Programme Gender Studies, Unibas, Uzh, Landgut Castelen, Affect , Habitus, The Psychic Life of Power, Augst, 23-25 January
Research project:
Swiss South African Joint Research Programme
Julia Straub
Talks:
“Towards a New Conversational Philosophy.” SANAS Biannual Conference, University of Basel, 21-22 November 2014.
“The Transatlantic Dante in the Nineteenth Century.” Transatlantic Research Day, University of Plymouth, July 2014 (invited).
“Translating Cultural Authority: Reflections on the Transatlantic Reception of Dante in the Nineteenth Century.” Traveling Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Negotiations of Cultural Concepts in Transatlantic Intellectual Networks, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, April 2014 (invited).
“Intermediality and Contemporary Canadian Poetry.” University of Trier, January 2014 (invited).
Publications:
With Gabriele Rippl. Introduction: Melodrama: Staging Emotions in the Anglophone World. Anglia 132.2 (2014): 217-44.
“Melodrama and Narrative Fiction: Towards a Typology.” Anglia 132.2 (2014): 225-41.
with Gabriele Rippl, eds. Melodrama: Staging Emotions in the Anglophone World, 1770-2000. Special edition of Anglia 132.2 (2014).
Review of: Tim Lanzendörfer. The Professionalization of the American Magazine. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2013 in Anglia 132.4 (2014): 849-52.
Workshop organization:
With Gabriele Rippl: organized a CUSO doctoral workshop, “Theories of Intermediality”, in Brienz on 17-18 October 2014
Research projects:
Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies: www.degruyter.com/view/product/433611
Book based on “Habilitationsschrift”: The American Memory of Literature, 1750-1850, in preparation
Comparative Methods in Literary and Cultural Studies, Workshop July 2015
Became a member of the Melodrama Research Consortium, Rutgers University
Barbara Straumann
• submitted her Habilitation thesis entitled “Embodied Voices: Female Performers in Narrative Fiction” to the Faculty of Arts at the University of Zurich on 24 April 2014 and gave her Habilitation talk to the Faculty on “Ethnographisches Blicken und Schreiben: Mary Kingsleys Travels in West Africa (1897)” on 14 November 2014;
• was appointed Assistant Professor with tenure track for English Literature (Nachfolge Angela Esterhammer) at the English Seminar of the University of Zurich;
• taught a guest seminar “Einführung in die kulturwissenschaftliche Filmanalyse” at the University of Lucerne on 5 May 2014;
• gave a paper on “Debt and the Moral Imagination in George Eliot’s Middlemarch” at the conference on “Getting and Spending: European Literature and Economics in the Long Nineteenth Century” at the University of Leuven (10-12 December 2014);
• published the following essay: “Inhabiting Feminine Suspicion.” Alfred Hitchcock: Critical Evaluations of Leading Film-makers. Ed. Neil Badmington. Volume 4. London, New York: Routledge, 2014. 159-195.
Research projects:
Corinne’s Sisters: Female Performers in Narrative Fiction
(book based on Habilitation thesis)
www.research-projects.uzh.ch/p9954.htm
IOU: Debt in the British Victorian Novel
(monograph)
www.research-projects.uzh.ch/p19097.htm
Elizabeth I: The First Political Diva
(joint book project with Elisabeth Bronfen)
www.research-projects.uzh.ch/p15147.htm
Alexa Weik von Mossner
Alexa Weik von Mossner
• became a member of the DFG Network “Environmental Crisis and the Transnational Imagination” (coordinated by Timo Müller at the University of Augsburg)
• started her 1-year SNSF Fellowship for Advanced Researchers in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles
• continued to act as treasurer of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE)
• acted as curator of the Rachel Carson Center’s environmental film series, Green Visions, at the Gasteig Cultural Center in Munich.
• published the following books
Cosmopolitan Minds: Literature, Emotion, and the Transnational Imagination. Austin: Uni¬versity of Texas Press, 2014 (Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series)
Editor. Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014 (Environmental Humanities Series)
Editor (with Sylvia Mayer). The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014 (American Studies Series)
• published the following articles and essays
“Melodrama, Emotion, and Environmental Advocacy: A Cognitive Approach to Erin Brockovich.” Melodrama. Eds. Julia Straub and Gabriele Rippl. Special Issue of Anglia: Journal of English Philology. 132.2 (2014): 292-309.
“Science Fiction and the Risks of the Anthropocene: Anticipated Transformations in Dale Pendell’s The Great Bay.” Environmental Humanities 5 (2014): 203-216.
“Love in the Times of Ecocide: Eco-Trauma and Comic Relief in Andrew Stanton’s WALL-E.” Eco-Trauma Cinema. Ed. Anil Narine. London and New York: Routledge, 2014. 164-178. Routledge Advances in Film Studies Series.
“The End of Life as We Knew It: Material Nature and the American Family in Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Last Survivors Series.” Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase: Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature. Eds. Brett Josef Grubisic, Tara Lee, and Gisèle Baxter. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014.149-64.
“Introduction: Ecocritical Film Studies and the Effects of Affect, Emotion, and Cognition.” Mov¬ing Envi¬ronments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film. Ed. Alexa Weik von Mossner. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014. 1-19. Environmental Humanities Series
“Emotions of Consequence? Viewing Eco-Documentaries from a Cognitive Perspective.” Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film. Ed. Alexa Weik von Mossner. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014. 41-60. Environmental Humanities Series.
“The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Introduction” (with Sylvia Mayer). The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture. Eds. Sylvia Mayer and Alexa Weik von Mossner. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014. 7-18.
“The Stuff of Fear: Emotions, Ethics, and the Materiality of Nuclear Risk in Silkwood and The China Syndrome.” The Anticipation of Disaster: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture. Eds. Sylvia Mayer and Alexa Weik von Mossner. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014. 101-117.
“Disasters Foretold: Imaging Climate Catastrophe in Six Degrees Could Change the World.” Disaster as Image: Iconographies and Media Strategies across Europe and Asia. Eds. Monica Juneja and Gerrit Jasper Schenk. Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2014. 157-64.
“Umwelt und Utopie in der Populärkultur.” Perspektiven Gesellschaftlicher Innovation. Eds. Peter Sprinkart, Klaus Sailer, Markus Hipp, and Peter Dürr. Regensburg: Walhalla Fachverlag, 2014.
“Cinematic Landscapes in Beasts of the Southern Wild.” Topos 88: The Narrative of Landscape (2014): 64-67.
• gave the following invited talks
“Moving Americans: Literature, Emotion, and the Cosmopolitan Imagination.” Invited talk at the Research Colloquium “Perspectives on American Literature and Culture.” John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, FU Berlin, June 18, 2014.
“Agency in the Anthropocene: Dale Pendell’s The Great Bay” 3rd Conference of the DFG Network “Network “Ethik und Ästhetik in literarischen Repräsentationen ökologischer Transformationen.” University of Vechta, Germany, March 27-29, 2014.
• co-organized a conference panel
together with Timo Müller on “The American National Narrative and the Global Environmental Challenge” at the Annual Conference of the German Association of American Studies (DGfA) at the University of Würzburg, Germany, June 12-15, 2014.
• gave a conference talk on
“American Eco(dys)topias and the Transnational Dimensions of Ecological Citizenship.” Annual Conference of the German Association of American Studies (DGfA) at the University of Würzburg, Germany, June 12-15, 2014.