Lisann Anders
Paper Presented at SANAS Conference 2016
Anders, Lisann. “The Dynamics of Community in the TV show Community.” Communities: Between the Popular & Political. University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 04-05 November 2016.
Research Projects
Anders, Lisann. The Man of the Crowd 2.0: Between Reality and Madness. [PhD Project, ongoing]
Ridvan Askin
Publications
Askin, Ridvan. Narrative and Becoming. Plateaus – New Directions in Deleuze Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
---. “Objects.” Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman. Ed. Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Talks
“Emerson’s Speculative Pragmatism.” Heidelberg Center for American Studies, 29 November 2016.
“‘How can I think about my brain when it is the brain who is doing the thinking?’:
Andrew’s Brain and Doctorow’s ‘metaphysical bullshit’.” Contemporary Literature and Art: Texts and Spaces, University of Strasbourg, 11 March 2016.
“Enstrangement Revisited: From Shklovsky’s Epistemology to Deleuze’s Ontology.” One Hundred Years of Ostranenie: An International Conference, University of Erfurt, 15-17 December 2016.
“Deleuze’s Virtual Romanticism.” Virtuality, Becoming and Life: The 9th International Deleuze Studies Conference, University of Roma Tre, 11-13 July 2016.
“S wie Stil.” L’Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze: Film und Diskussion, eikones Forum (Basel), 19 May 2016.
“Deleuze und Beckett/Schneider’s Film.” Cinémathèque Deleuze I¬—Montage und Wahrnehmungsbild, eikones Forum (Basel), 28 April 2016.
Lecture Series
New Developments in Theory
24-25 Oct 2016:
Jonathan Sterne (McGill University): “Audile Scarification: On Cultures of Loudness and the Normalization of Hearing Damage” (lecture) & “Machine Hearing” (workshop), University of Basel (with Christian Hänggi, Daniela Keller, and A. Elisabeth Reichel).
14 March 2016:
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (George Washington): “Noah’s Arkive,” University of Basel (with Christian Hänggi, Daniela Keller, and A. Elisabeth Reichel).
“Literature and Contemporary Philosophy,” English and American Rhenish Scholars
(EARS) Meeting, plenaries: David Rudrum (Huddersfield) & Frida Beckman
(Stockholm), University of Basel, 2 December 2016.
“The Beautiful Game: The Poetics and Aesthetics of Soccer in Transnational
Perspective,” International Conference (with Catherine Diederich and Aline
Bieri, Basel), plenaries: Simon Critchley (New School), Eva Lavric (Innsbruck), Emily Ryall (Gloucestershire), University of Basel, June 30-July 2, 2016.
Grants
Fellowship of the University of Basel’s Research Fund Junior Researchers to conduct research on second book project “Transcendental Poetics and the Futures of American Romanticism” at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies in the academic year 2016-2017
Research Projects
Visiting Research Fellow at Heidelberg Center for American Studies pursuing project on “Transcendental Poetics and the Futures of American Romanticism,” September 2016-August 2017: www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/forschung/visitingscholars.html
Thomas Austenfeld
Publications
Article
Austenfeld, Thomas. “Not for an Age? Robert Lowell’s Historical Moment.” Anglia 134.4 (2016): 683-699. DOI 10.1515/anglia-2016-0074.
Book Review
Austenfeld, Thomas. Review of Barbara Korte and Frédéric Regard (eds.), Narrating “Precariousness”: Modes, Media, Ethics (Heidelberg: Winter, 2014) in Anglia 134.1 (2016): 188-191. DOI: 10.1515/ang-2016-0019.
Presentations / Papers
Austenfeld, Thomas. “An Ecocritial Approach to Robert Lowell.” Presented at the American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, May 26, 2016.
Information on Activities in American Studies organized for my Institution in 2016
Coordinator, weekend seminar visit by Prof. Mathilde Roza, Radboud University Nijmegen, November 2016. “Teaching The Orenda.”
Coordinator, Fulbright Senior Scholar Visitor Prof. Richard Kopley, Pennsylvania State University emeritus, guest lecturer and researcher in Fribourg September 25-October 13, 2016.
Supervision of PhD Projects
Patrizia Zanella. “The Border-Crossing Fiction of Louise Erdrich and Other North American Indian Writers.” Supported by a Doc.CH grant from the SNSF.
Sofie Behluli
Publications
Behluli, Sofie. Review of “American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political”, Swiss Association for North American Studies. Conference, 4-5 November 2016, Bern. BAAS: British Associations for American Studies, U.S. Studies Online, 17 Dec. 2016.
Talks
“Transgenerational Female Communities in Siri Hustvedt’s The Summer Without Men.” SANAS Conference, 4-5 November 2016. University of Bern.
“When Words Border on Images.” Transpositions Summer School on Border Regimes: Confrontations, Configurations, Transpositions, 4-9 September 2016. Kandersteg, Bern.
“Evocation of Material Objects in Contemporary American Novels.” International Summer Academy American Studies in a Transatlantic Perspective: Material Cultures. 4-11 June 2016. Miami, Florida.
In Preparation or in Press
Rippl, Gabriele, and Sofie Behluli. “Ekphrasis in the Digital Age.” Antikanon 2, Digitalität. Ed. Christina Hoffmann and Johanna Öttl. Wien: Turia + Kant, 2017. In press.
Behluli, Sofie. “Hustvedt’s Summer Without Men: A Transgenerational Female Community.” SPELL 35. Ed. Julia Straub and Lukas Etter. Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 2017. Submitted.
--- “Auraticizing Ekphrasis in Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch.” Anglia. Journal of English Philology. Berlin / New York: De Gruyter, 2017. To be submitted.
Ursula Caci Haag
Academic Activities
Unpublished Dissertation (the defense took place on October 12, 2016)
Caci Haag, Ursula. “Locating Gender in Space: Emily Dickinson’s Conception of Gender.” Diss. Basel University, 2016.
Francesca de Lucia
Publications
De Lucia, Francesca. “Fictionalizing Carlo Tresca: Jerre Mangione’s Night Search,” Italian Americana, vol. 35 n.2, summer 2016.
---. “Chinatown as a Wild Zone in Louis Chu’s Eat a Bowl of Tea” in American Wild Zones: Space, Experience, Consciousness. Eds. Jerzy Kamionowsky and Jacek Patryika. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016.
Conference Papers
“Racism and Classism in John Fante’s Ask the Dust,” 10th Biennial MESEA
Conference, University of Warsaw, June 22-24 2016.
“Let the Fires Rage: Filming post-September 11th New York in Spike Lee’s The Twenty-Fifth Hour,” EAAS Conference, Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania, 22-25 April 2016.
Guest Lectures
“European Culture and its Influence on Britain” guest lecture, Minzu University of
China, December 15 2016.
Lukas Etter
Publications
Etter Lukas. “Visible Hand? Subjectivity and Its Stylistic Markers in Graphic Narratives.” Subjectivity across Media: Interdisciplinary and Transmedial Perspectives. Ed. Maike Sarah Reinerth and Jan-Noël Thon. New York: Routledge, 2016. 92-110.
---. “Transatlantic Comics: Tintin and Superman Crossing the Pond.” Handbook of Transatlantic American Studies. Ed. Julia Straub. Berlin / New York: De Gruyter, 2016. 292-309. [ISBN: 978-3110376371]
---. “Reihung und Reibung: Zur Serialität in Chris Wares Jimmy Corrigan – The Smartest Kid on Earth.” Serialität in Literatur und Medien. Ed. Petra Anders and Michael Staiger. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, 2016. 156-69.
Conference and Workshop Papers
11/2016
“Bildender Stil: Autorschaft und Individualität in zeitgenössischen Comic-Stilstudien.” Conference Zur Ästhetik des Gemachten in Animation und Comic, Schloss Herrenhausen Hannover.
09/2016
“’Word Problems’: Popular and Educational Discourses on Mathematics in the Pre-Civil War United States.” Fellows’ Talk at the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), Worcester, MA.
09/2016
“Seriality and Randomness in Contemporary Webcomics.” Conference Anglistentag 2016, University of Hamburg.
Alexandre Fachard
Publications
Books
Conrad, Joseph. Victory: An Island Tale. Eds. J. H. Stape and Alexandre Fachard, with an Introduction by Richard Niland and Notes by J. H. Stape. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Articles
Fachard, Alexandre. “A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole.” The Literary Encyclopedia, 2016 [http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35744].
---. ‘“[Date, 1601.] Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors’, by Mark Twain.” The Literary Encyclopedia, 2016 [http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35789].
---. “A ‘delightful week-end’ Visit: May Mott-Smith at Oswalds.” The Conradian 41.2 (autumn 2016): 111-15.
---. “John Kennedy Toole.” The Literary Encyclopedia, 2016
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13741].
---. “The People of the Abyss, by Jack London.” The Literary Encyclopedia, 2016 [http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7364].
---. “Why Jessie Conrad Was Not a Professional Typist.” The Conradian 41.1 (spring 2016): 102-11.
Reviews
Fachard, Alexandre. Review of: Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, Diaboliques: Six Tales of Decadence. Ed. Raymond N. MacKenzie. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015; Émile Zola, Earth. Eds Brian Nelson and Julie Rose. Oxford: OUP, 2016. In Translation and Literature 25:3 (November 2016): 399-407.
Translations
D’Anna, Giovanni. Le faussaire. Geneva: Slatkine, 2016 [Il falsario: storia della più grande truffa scientifica che si conosca. Milan: Mursia, 2010].
Wells, Ida B. Les horreurs du Sud. Geneva: Markus Haller, 2016 [Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892–1900. Boston: Bedford, 1997].
Research Projects
Conrad, Joseph. The Rover. Eds. Alexandre Fachard and J. H. Stape. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2018.
---. Tales of Hearsay. Ed. Alexandre Fachard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2019.
Franziska Gygax
Publications
Gygax, Franziska. “Zu Ende erzählen: Leben und Sterben im Text.” In
Sterben/Erzählen. Hermeneutische Blätter. 2 (2016). Zürich: Institut für Hermeneutik und Religionsphilosophie, Universität Zürich. 25-32.
Papers and Talks
“Life Writing and Lives on Stage.” IABA international conference: Excavating Lives. May 26-29, Cyprus.
Joe Sacco in conversation with Franziska Gygax. April 19, Literaturhaus Basel.
“Gertrude Stein”, Gespräch mit Marcel Schwald, June 11, Theater Winkelwiese, Zürich.
“Cancer Narratives: Insights for medical students.” Symposium: Teaching Medical Humanities: Scenarios, contexts, Prospects. November 18, University of Lausanne.
Information on Activities in American Studies organized for my Institution in 2016
Joe Sacco in Conversation at the Literaturhaus, together with the Cartoon Museum Basel, April 19.
Supervision of PhD Projects
Ursula Caci: Locating Gender in Space: Emily Dickinson’s Conception of Gender
(completed October 2016)
Roxane Hughes
Publications
Hughes, Roxane. “Cinderella from a Cross-Cultural Perspective: Connecting East and West in Donna Jo Napoli’s Bound.” Cinderella Across Cultures: New Directions and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Gillian Lathey, and Monika Woźniak. Detroit: Wayne University Press, 2016. 232-252.
Conference Papers
“Resurging Steps: Chinese American Literature and the Trope of Footbinding.” Biennial MESEA Conference, Cultural Palimpsests: Ethnic Watermark, Surfacing Histories. University of Warsaw, Poland. June 22-14, 2016.
“Between Origins and Destination: The Elsewhere of Brian Sousa’s Almost Gone.” APSA Conference, Uncommon Communities. Stanford University, USA, October 13-15, 2016.
“The Common Community Made Uncommon in Brian Sousa’s Almost Gone.” SANAS Conference, American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political. University of Bern, November 4-5, 2016.
Corin Kraft
Information on Activities in American Studies organized for my Institution in 2016
10/2016
Seminar “Memory and Trauma in the Literature of the Deep South”
University of Basel
Presentation of my MA thesis (“Slaves to Memory. Place and Identity in the Collective Memory of Twentieth Century U.S. Southern Literature: William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!, Steve Yarbrough’s The Oxygen Man and Thulani Davis’ 1959”. With special focus on William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! in the context of Prof. Dr. Gygax‘ seminar
4/2016
EUCOR Conference
University of Strasbourg (F)
Presentation of my MA thesis at the tri-national conference EUCOR (France; Switzerland; Germany)
Awards
SANAS and US Embassy Travel Award
Christina Ljungberg
Publications
Krämer, Sybille, and Christina Ljungberg, eds. Thinking with Diagrams: The Semiotic Basis of Human Cognition. Berlin and Boston: DeGruyter Mouton, 2016.
Krämer, Sybille, and Christina Ljungberg. “Thinking and Diagrams”. Thinking with Diagrams: The Semiotic Basis of Human Cognition. Ed. Sybille Krämer and Christina Ljungberg. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2016. 1-19.
Ljungberg, Christina. “The Diagrammatic Nature of Maps.” Thinking with Diagrams: The Semiotic Basis of Human Cognition. Ed. Sybille Krämer and Christina Ljungberg. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2016. 139-159.
Audrey Loetscher
Conference Talk
Loetscher, Audrey. “US (Un)sustainability, Eco-communities and National Identity.” American Communities: between the Popular and the Political, 4 November 2016 , University of Bern. Conference Presentation.
Research Projects
www.unil.ch/angl/home/menuinst/phd/currentstudents/loetscher-audrey-1.html
Scott Loren
Publications
News Commentary
Loren, Scott. “Pimp My Presidency: Super PACs and Campaign Financing.” HSG Digital Resources: www.unisg.ch/en/wissen/newsroom/aktuell/rssnews/meinung/2016/februar/meinung-usasuperpac-scottloren25feb2016.
Book Chapter
Loren, Scott & Christian Sinn. “Anstössige Bilder? Medienstrategien der Interkulturalität.” Zwischen Kulturen und Medien. Zur medialen Inszenierung von Interkulturalität, K. Schenk, R. Cornejo, L. V. Szabo (Hrsg.), Wien: Edition Praesens, 2016, S. 257-291.
Conference Papers
Loren, Scott. “Transcultural Not-Spots: Negotiating Meaning in Rich Linguistic Fields.” Kulturelle Schlüsselwörter – Zugänge zum Verständnis von Kulturen; March 2. Open Lecture Series, University of St. Gallen
Loren, Scott, and Julia Straub. “National Melodramas: Mass Media, the Syrian Exodus and Mother Merkel.” American Comparative Literature Association; March 17-20, Harvard University.
---. “National Melodramas: Mass Media, the Syrian Exodus and Mother Merkel.”
Migration und Europa in kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspective; October 6-8
Universität Vechta.
Loren, Scott, and Jörg Metelmann. “Projecting Wall Street: A cultural Studies Perspective.” Global Finance and the Moving Image; October 20-22, Institute for Culture and Society; Universidad Navarra
Jennifer J* Moos
Publications
Co-Edited Book
Moos, Jennifer J*, Anne Conrad, and Johanna Blume, editors. Frauen – Männer – Queer. Ansätze und Perspektiven aus der historischen Genderforschung. Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 2015.
Articles
Moos, Jennifer J*. “Geschlecht und Schlaf: Potenziale und Perspektiven der Verbindung von Geschlechterforschung und critical sleep studies.” Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 2015, pp. 89-108.
Reviews
Moos, Jennifer J*. Review of “‘Observed, Measured, Contained’: Contemporary Fiction and the Science of Sleep”, by Michael Greaney. Journal of Literature and Science, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 54-55. JLS, doi: 10.12929/jls.09.2.06.
Presentation
Moos, Jennifer J*. “Sleep Matters: Zum Zusammenspiel von Geschlechterforschung und critical sleep studies.” Research Colloquium Gender Studies, 6 April 2016, University of Zurich, Zurich. Presentation.
Organization of Conferences, Panels, Public Readings
Conference Presentation
Moos, Jennifer J*. “Why We Must All Fail: Sleep as Failure.” The Failed Individual, International Conference, 12-14 November 2015, University of Mannheim, Mannheim. Conference Presentation.
Co-Organization of Panel
Moos, Jennifer J*, and René Dietrich. “Rights to Life? Biopolitics and Rights Discourse in the 21st Century U.S.” Annual Conference of the DGfA/GAAS, 19-22 May 2016, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück. Panel Organization.
Moderation of Workshops and Round Table Discussions
Moos, Jennifer J*. “Fresh Perspectives for Research and Innovation. An Interdisciplinary Workshop with Londa Schiebinger.” Interdisciplinary Workshop, 17 September 2015, University of Freiburg, Freiburg i.Br. Workshop moderation.
---. “Podiumsdiskussion: Intersex*.” Aktionstage gegen Sexismus und Homophobie 2015, 9-14 November 2015, University of Freiburg, Freiburg i.Br. Moderation of round table discussion.
Michael C. Prusse
Lectures
“Surfing Across the Media: Tim Winton’s Lockie Leonard Trilogy in Book Format and as TV Series.” Challenging Reading: English-Language Education with Children and Teenagers Conference, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 12 March 2016.
“Every Story Tells a Story That Has Already Been Told: Intertextuality and Transmediality in Selected Literature for Children and Young Adults.” Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, 19 October 2016.
A. Elisabeth Reichel
Publications:
Articles in Journals (Peer-Reviewed)
Musical Macrostructures in The Gold Bug Variations and Orfeo by Richard Powers; or, Toward a Media-Conscious Audionarratology.” Forum: Audionarratology. Eds. Jarmila Mildorf and Till Kinzel. Partial Answers 15.1 (2017): 81-98.
Encyclopedia and Handbook Entries
Reichel, A. Elisabeth. “Ekphrasis.” Glossary of Handbuch Literatur & Musik. Eds. Nicola Gess and Alexander Honold. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. 591-92.
---. “Intermedialität.” Glossary of Handbuch Literatur & Musik. Eds. Nicola Gess and Alexander Honold. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. 597.
---. “Sound/Sound Studies.” Glossary of Handbuch Literatur & Musik. Eds. Nicola Gess and Alexander Honold. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. 612-13.
Reichel, A. Elisabeth. “Seshadri, Vijay.” Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2016. www.kll-online.de
---. “3 Sections.” Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2016. www.kll-online.de
Talks
“On Alternating Sounds: From Franz Boas’s Ethnographic Ear to the Poetry of Edward Sapir.” Ear Pieces: Listening, Diagnosing, Writing. International Conference, University of Cambridge, 16-17 December 2016.
“Sounding Primitives, Writing Anthropologists: The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict.” Anthropology, Literature, the Senses: Questions of Cultural, Poetic, and Medial Alterity. International Workshop, University of Basel, 25-26 November 2016.
“Folk Communities in Translation: Edward Sapir’s Renditions of French-Canadian Folk Songs in Poetry” (with Philipp Schweighauser). American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political. Biennial Conference of the Swiss Association for North American Studies, University of Berne, 4-5 November 2016.
“An Anthropologist’s Paragonal Project: Musical Alterities in the Poetic and Critical Writing of Edward Sapir.” 21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, University of Vienna, 21-27 July 2016.
“On the Poetry of a Boasian Cultural Anthropologist: Ruth Benedict’s Palimpsestuous Writing.” Cultural Palimpsests: Ethnic Watermarks, Surfacing Histories. 10th Biennial Conference of the Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA), University of Warsaw, 22-24 June 2016.
“Toward Unnerving the Us: Apollonians and Dionysians in the Ethnography and Poetry of Ruth Benedict.” European Association for American Studies Conference 2016, Ovidius University of Constanta, 22-25 April 2016.
“‘For you have given me speech!’—Gifted Speakers, Inarticulate Others, and Media Epistemologies in Margaret Mead’s Writing.” Postcolonial Knowledges. Third Bremen Conference on Language and Literature in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts, University of Bremen, 15-18 March 2016.
Organization of Conferences, Panels, Public Readings
Anthropology, Literature, the Senses: Questions of Cultural, Poetic, and Medial Alterity. International workshop (with Silvy Chakkalakal), University of Basel, 25-26 November 2016. Experts: Regina Bendix (Göttingen), David Howes (Montréal), Sieglinde Lemke (Freiburg), and Richard Rath (Honolulu).
Lecture series New Developments in Theory (with Ridvan Askin, Christian Hänggi, and Daniela Keller):
Jonathan Sterne (Montréal): lecture and workshop, University of Basel, 24-25 October 2016.
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Washington): “Noah’s Arkive” (lecture), University of Basel, 14 March 2016.
Awards, Grants, Fellowships
11/2016
Doc.Mobility Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), to fund a 12-month research stay at Dartmouth College on invitation of Prof. Dr. Donald E. Pease (USD 46’800)
11/2016
Research grant for the year 2016, Doctoral Program for Literary Studies, University of Basel, to fund participation in two international conferences
11/2016
Swiss Association for North American Studies (SANAS) Research Award, to fund a 5-day archival stay at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
06/2016
Honorable Mention from the Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA) for the paper “On the Poetry of a Boasian Cultural Anthropologist: Ruth Benedict’s Palimpsestuous Writing”
Gabriele Rippl
Publications
Rippl, Gabriele. “The Rich Zones of Genre Borderlands – Siri Hustvedt’s Art of Mingling”, in: Johanna Hartmann / Hubert Zapf / Christine Marks, eds., Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt’s Works. Interdisciplinary Essays, Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter, 2015. 27-38.
---. “Hamlet’s Mobility: The Reception of Shakespeare’s Tragedy in US-American and Canadian Narrative Fiction”, in: Ina Habermann, ed., Shakespearean Dimensions, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 229-255.
---. “Mythenbildung und Kanonisierung: Walter Paters Mona Lisa als Mythos der Moderne – transkulturell, intertextuell und intermedial”, in: Stephanie Wodianka, ed., Moderne Mythen, Paderborn: transcript, 2016. 27-53.
In Preparation or in the Press
In preparation: Transcultural Ekphrasis (with Birgit Neumann).
In the press: Anglia, special issue Anglophone World Literatures, Anglia 135, vol. 1 (2017) (with Birgit Neumann).
In the press: “Anglophone World Literatures: Introduction”, in: Anglia, special issue An-glophone World Literatures, Anglia 135, vol. 1 (2017) (with Birgit Neumann).
In the press: “‘Celebrating Afropolitan Identities?’ Contemporary African World Literatures in English”. Anglia, special issue Anglophone World Literatures. Eds. Birgit Neumann and Gabriele Rippl, 135, vol. 1 (2017).
In the press: “Ekphrastic Encounters in Contemporary Transcultural American Life Writing”, in: Nassim Winnie Balestrini / Ina Bergmann, eds. Intermediality and Life Writing, Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter, 2017.
In the press: Gabriele Rippl / Sara Bloch / Martina Dubach, eds., Grenzen in den Wissenschaften heute, Berner Universitätsschiften, vol. 60, Bern: Haupt, 2017.
In the press: “Anais Nin: The Diary of Anais Nin”, in: Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, ed., Handbook Autobiography / Autofiction, Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter, 2017.
In the press: “Autobiography in the Globalized World”, in: Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, ed., Handbook Autobiography / Autofiction, Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter, 2017.
In the press: “Life and Work”, in: Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, ed., Handbook Autobiography / Autofiction, Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter, 2017.
In the press: “each art may be observed to pass into the condition of some other art” – Intermediale Verflechtungen in Walter Paters ‘imaginary portraits’”, in: Christine Hoffmann, ed., Malerei in der Literatur des Fin de Siècle, Wiener Beiträge zu Komparatistik und Romanistik, Peter Lang 2017.
In the press: “Ekphrasis in the Digital Age”, in: Christina Hoffmann / Johanna Öttl, eds., Antikanon, vol. 2 ‘Digitalität’ (2017) (with Sofie Behluli).
In the press: “Ekphrastic Encounters in Contemporary Transcultural American Life Writing”, in: Nassim Winnie Balestrini / Ina Bergmann, eds. Intermediality and Life Writing, Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter, 2017.
In the press: “The Cultural Work of Ekphrasis in Contemporary Anglophone Novels”, in: Poetics Today (2017).
Workshops/ Lecture Series
Co-organized International WBK Workshop “Original – Copy: Techniques and Aesthetics of Reproduction”, a cooperation between Medieval German Literature, Art History, Literatures in English, University of Bern (with Prof. Dr. Ch. Göttler, Prof. Dr. P. Schneemann and Prof. Dr. M. Stolz; coordinator: G. Rippl), December 2016.
Co-organized International Exploratory Workshop “Cultural Dimensions of Sustainability”, University of Bern (with Prof. Dr. Torsten Meireis, Humboldt University Berlin), November 2016.
Co-organized International Conference “Of Cultural and Medial Alterity: The Scholarship, Poetry, Photography, and Films of Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead” (funded by Swiss National Science Foundation/SNF in cooperation with the University of Basel, Department of English/Prof. Dr. Ph. Schweighauser, and the Department of Anthropology/Prof. Dr. W. Leimgruber), November 2016.
Co-organized seminar “Contemporary Ekphrasis”, ESSE Conference, National University of Galway, Ireland (with Prof. Dr. Renate Brosch, University of Stuttgart, and Prof. Dr. Danuta Fjellestad, University of Uppsala), August 2016.
Master Class “Intermediality and Literature”, International PhD Program “Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Giessen, May 2016.
Co-organization of talk and workshop by Laura Marcus, “The Meanings of ‘Ambivalence’: Its Origin and Ends”, part of the Distinguished Lecture Series (together with the Walter Benjamin Kolleg), University of Bern, April 2016.
Co-taught Workshop “Inflation der Mythen”, Graduate School of the Humanities, Walter Benjamin Kolleg, Universität Bern (with Prof. St. Wodianka, University of Rostock), March 2016.
Talks
“Original – Copy: Techniques and Aesthetics of Reproduction”, work-shop of the Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern, December 2016.
“Migration”,’ Migration’ workshop of the Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern, December 2016.
“Introduction to the Cultural Dimensions of Sustainability”, University of Bern, November 2016.
“Ekphrastic Encounters in Contemporary American Life Writing”, IAUPE Conference at Senate House, University of London, England, July 2016.
Master Class “Intermediality and Literature”, International PhD Program “Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Giessen, May 2016.
“Mythen und Kanonisierung”, workshop “Inflation der Mythen”, Gradu-ate School of the Humanities, Walter Benjamin Kolleg Universität Bern (with Prof. St. Wodianka, University of Rostock), March 2016.
January 2016: “Ekphrasis Today: The Cultural Work of Word-Image Translations/Transformations”, University of Düsseldorf.
Information on Activities in American Studies organized for my Institution in 2016
Laura Marcus (University of Oxford) “The Meanings of ‘Ambivalence’: Its Origins and Ends.” (Distinguished Lecture Series 2016)
“Cultural Dimensions of Sustainability.”, (together with Prof. Dr. Torsten Meireis, Humboldt Universität Berlin; November 2016)
“Original – Copy: Techniques and Aesthetics of Reproduction.” (Walter Benjamin Kolleg, together with Prof. Dr. Christine Göttler, Prof. Dr. Peter Schneemann and Prof. Dr. Michael Stolz, December 2016)
“Inflation der Mythen.” (Graduate School of the Humanities, Walter Benjamin Kolleg, Universität Bern (together with Prof. Dr. Stephanie Wodianka, Universität Rostock, March 2016)
Supervision of PhD Projects
Hoffmann, Agnes. Selective Affinities: Landscape Around 1900 between Text and Image (Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Henry James). Co-supervision, University of Basel (finished 2016)
Mayer, Uwe. Mythos als Fremdheitstopos: Zur Produktivität einer Denkgewohnheit in der englischsprachigen Literatur seit der Romantik. Co-supervision, GCSC Giessen. (finished 2016)
Reichel, Elisabeth. Cultural Relativism, ‘Primitivism,’ and the Valuation of Cultures in the Writings of Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead, Co-supervision. University of Basel.
Reber, Simon. Intermedial Strategies in the Poetry of Sapir.
Steffen, Samuel. Representation of Gulf Wars.
Gasser, Selina. Female Standup Comedy.
Behluli, Sofie. Visuality and Materiality in the Contemporary American Novel.
Research Projects
Contemporary Narratives, Handbook Project with Prof. Dr. Laura Marcus (University of Oxford).
Of Cultural and Medial Alterity, SNF-funded research project with Prof. Dr. Philipp Schweighauser and Prof. Dr. Walter Leimgruber (University of Basel).
Ekphrasis in the Digital Age, with Prof. Dr. Renate Brosch (University of Stuttgart), and Prof. Dr. Danuta Fjellestad (University of Uppsala).
Research project “Anglophone Life Writing Today: Transcultural Figurations – Intermedial Constellations” (funded by the Center for Advanced Studies Morphomata, Cologne).
Interdisciplinary WBK research platform “Original – Copy: Techniques and Aesthetics of Reproduction”, a cooperation between Medieval German Literature, Art History, Literatures in English (with Prof. Dr. Anselm Gerhardt, Prof. Dr. Ch. Göttler, Prof. Dr. P. Schneemann and Prof. Dr. M. Stolz; coordinator: G. Rippl).
Research and book project: Transcultural Ekphrasis (with Prof. Dr. Birgit Neumann, University of Düsseldorf).
Book project and research project “Cultural Dimensions of Sustainability” (with Prof. Dr. Torsten Meireis, Humboldt University Berlin).
Manuela Rossini
Publications
Rossini, Manuela (with Ivan Callus and Stefan Herbrechter, eds.). European Posthumanism. Republication of EJES Vol.18.2. in the Routledge Special Issues as Books series. London: Routledge, 2016. The original article was selected also for the virtual 20th anniversary issue of EJES.
Research Projects
EMPATHIES: www.empathies2017.com
CRITICAL POSTHUMANISM : www.criticalposthumanism.net
Philipp Schweighauser
Publications
Schweighauser, Philipp. Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016.
---. “Some Reflections on the Place of Aesthetics and Politics in American Studies.” RANAM: Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines 49 (2016): 43-53.
---. “Das Rauschen modernistischer Form: John Dos Passos, Zora Neale Hurston und die Soundscapes der Moderne und frühen Postmoderne.” Handbuch Literatur & Musik. Ed. Nicola Gess and Alexander Honold. Tübingen: De Gruyter, 2016. 495-507.
---. “The Early American Novel and Sentimentalism.” Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies. Ed. Julia Straub. Tübingen: De Gruyter, 2016. 213-233.
Talks
Writing Literature, Filming Culture: The Poetry and Multimedial Ethnographic Work of Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead. EUCOR English Trinational PhD Symposium, University of Strasbourg, 22-23 April, 2016.
“Folk Communities in Translation: Edward Sapir’s Renditions of French-Canadian Folk Songs in Poetry” mit A. Elisabeth Reichel. Swiss Association for North American Studies (SANAS) American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political, Universität Bern, 4.-5. November 2016;
“Die akademische Lehre reformieren? Ein Erfahrungsbericht von der MOOC-Front.“ Rotary, Basel. 31. Oktober, 2016.
Research Projects
“Of Cultural, Poetic, and Medial Alterity: The Scholarship, Poetry, Photo¬graphs, and Films of Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead.” (SNF Project; started in August 2014; with Prof. Dr. Walter Leimgruber (Basel) and Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl (Bern))
“Beckett’s Media System: A Comparative Study in Multimediality.” (SNF project started in November 2015)
Teaching
Philipp Schweighauser offered his first MOOC-seminar entitled “Reading Literature in the Digital Age”, shortlisted for the Teaching Excellence Award at the University of Basel in the category “Treading New Paths”.
Julia Straub
Publications
Julia Straub, ed. Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016.
---. “The Transatlantic Dante in the Nineteenth Century: Cultural Authority and Reception Histories.” Traveling Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Cultural Contexts. Ed. Erik Redling. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016. 79-93.
---. “Introduction: Transatlantic Literary Studies.” Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies. Ed. Julia Straub. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016. 1-17.
Talks
“Authorship and Subjectivity in Colonial America.” Guest lecture at the Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, December 2016.
“The Digital Imaginary and the Cultural Work of New Media Representations.”
Guest lecture at the Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, December 2016.
“Imagism.” Guest seminar at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, December 2016.
With Scott Loren. “National Melodramas: Mass Media, the Syrian Exodus and Mother Merkel.” Jahrestagung der Kulturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft, Universität Vechta, October 2016.
With Scott Loren. “National Melodramas: Mass Media, the Syrian Exodus and Mother Merkel.” Annual Convention of the American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, März 2016.
Organized Events
Conference
“American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political.” Biennial SANAS Conference, together with Lukas Etter and Ryan Kopaitich. University of Bern, November 4-5, 2016.
Organized Reading with US-American Novelist Nell Zink
Part of the SANAS Spring Reading Group, June 2016.
Erasmus Teaching Exchange
Hosted by the American Studies section at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, December 2016
MA Study Trip to Paris:
“Americans in Paris”, together with Gabriele Rippl, April 2016
Alexa Weik von Mossner
Publications
Articles
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. “Feeling Cosmopolitan: Strategic Empathy in Charles W. Chesnutt’s Paul Marchand, F.M.C.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 41.4 (2016): 76-95. Print.
---. “Ecocinema and Gender.” The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender. Eds. E. Ann Kaplan, Patrice Petro, Dijana Jelaca, and Kristin Hole. New York: Routledge, 2016. 417-426. Print.
---. “Environmental Narrative, Embodiment, and Emotion.” In Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology. Ed. Hubert Zapf. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016. 534-550. Print.
---. “Encountering the Sahara: Embodiment, Emotion, and Material Agency in Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky.” (Updated Reprint). Environmental Awareness and the Design of Literature. Ed. François Specq. Leiden: Brill, 2016. 116-135. Print. (reprint)