Lisann Anders
Conference talks:
“Seeing the Invisible: Batman’s Gotham and Green Arrow’s Star City Unmasked.” Paper presented at the 115th Annual PAMLA Conference. Chaminade University, Honolulu, HI, USA. 10-12 November 2017.
“The Mask behind the Hero: Creating Identities in Green Arrow’s Star City.” Paper presented at the international conference Spaced Out/ Spazi Tra Le Nuvole. University of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. 26-28 October 2017.
“Trapped in the Body: The Fragmentation of Body & Mind in Chuck Palahnuik’s Fight Club.” Paper presented at the international PhD conference À Corps Perdu - The Body: Limits, Constructions, Intensity. University of Verona, Verona, Italy, 20-22 September 2017.
Ridvan Askin
Invited talks:
“Narrating the “great outdoors.” International Workshop: Experiencing Nonhuman Spaces, University of Ghent, 1-2 Dec. 2017
“Soccer Genius.” The Beautiful Game Workshop, Wake Forest University, 13-15 July 2017
“Emerson’s Politics.” EUCOR Thursday Lunch Lecture Series, Université Haute-Alsace, 26 January 2017
Visiting Research Fellow. Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg, September 2016-August 2017
University of Basel Research Fund Junior Researchers Fellowship, “Transcendental Poetics and the Futures of American Romanticism.” Heidelberg Center for American Studies, September 2016-August 2017
Activities in American Studies I organized for my institution in 2017
Lecture Series: New Developments in Theory
16-17 Oct 2017: Armen Avanessian (Independent Researcher): Hyperstition (Film Screening & Discussion) & “Speculative Poetics and Political Theory: Experimental Philosophy for the 21st Century” (Workshop). University of Basel (with Christian Hänggi)
19 May 2017: Babette Bärbel Tischleder (Göttingen University): “Literary Studies, Storytelling, and Latour: Rethinking Agency in a More-than-Human World.” University of Basel (with Christian Hänggi)
• “Empathies.” 11th SLSAeu Conference – European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (Member of Program & Organization Committee). Keynotes: Jean Decety (University of Chicago), Jackie Leach Scully (University of Basel), Jesse Prinz (CUNY), Denise Riley (University of East Anglia). University of Basel, 21-24 June 2017
• Annual EUCOR English Trinational MA and PhD Conference (with Philipp Schweighauser, Basel). Plenary: Sämi Ludwig (University of Haute-Alsace). University of Basel, 7-8 April 2017
Research projects:
Habilitation Project: “Transcendental Poetics and the Futures of American Romanticism”
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Thomas Austenfeld
Four lectures / presentations:
1. “The Pathos of Modernist Poems.” Lecture given at a Symposium to honor Prof. Hans Bak on the occasion of his retirement, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, December 15, 2017.
2. “A Plea for Pathos: Recovering an Essential Paradigm for the Lyric.” Presented at the conference Situating Lyric, Boston University, June 7-11, 2017.
3. “Gestures of Faith in Contemporary American Poetry.2 Presented at the conference Spiritual Networks: Religion in Literature and the Arts, 1700 to the Present, University of Halle-Wittenberg, May 18-10, 2017.
4. “Self-surveillance: Conscience and Control in Dave Eggers’ The Circle.” Closing Presentation in the series ÜberwachungsRäume / Spaces of Surveillance, a lecture series at the University of Flensburg, Germany, January 30, 2017.
Activities in American Studies I organized for my institution in 2017:
• Conference Convener and Director, “Beyond the Alps: Robert Lowell in Europe. The Centennial Conference.“ March 30 – April 2, 2017. Supporting Grants received from the Forschungspool der Universität Freiburg, the Schweizerische Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung, and the Staatssekretariat für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation SBFI.
Supervision of PhD projects:
Patrizia Zanella. “The Border-Crossing Fiction of Louise Erdrich and Other North American Indian Writers.” In progress.
Sofie Behluli
Scholarships:
September 2017 – Berrow Foundation Scholarship to support a DPhil in English
August 2020 at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, approx. CHF
100’000.-
January – February 2017 Seed Money by the Philosophical-historical Faculty of the
University of Bern, approx. CHF 6’000.-
Publications:
Behluli, Sofie and Gabriele Rippl. “Ekphrasis in the Digital Age.” Digitalität und literarische Netz-Werke. Antikanon 2. Ed. Christina Hoffmann and Johanna Öttl. Wien: Turia + Kant, 2017. 131-176.
Behluli, Sofie. “Bonding in Bonden: A Post-Postmodernist Female Community in Siri Hustvedt’s The Summer Without Men” American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political. SPELL 35. Ed. Julia Straub and Lukas Etter. Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 2017. 43-60.
Information on activities in American Studies I organized for my institution in 2017:
“The Materialities of American Cultures.” CUSO Workshop co-organized with Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl and PD Dr. Julia Straub. 15-16 September 2017, Bern.
Roman Bischof
Research project:
“Between Neurons and the Self: Concepts of Consciousness, Identity and Reality in Representations of Mental Illness in Anglophone Novels since 1950” (PhD project)
Claudia Brühwiler
Habilitation:
Thesis: Out of a Gray Fog: Ayn Rand’s Europe (submitted Dec. ’16)
Paper presentation: “Black Love Matters? – Lessons in Color-blind Racism in The Bachelorette” (held on Nov. 13, 2017)
Venia legendi in American Studies
Edited volumes:
With Lee Trepanier, A Political Companion to Philip Roth. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2017.
Denkanstösse: Perspektiven auf Flucht und Migration. University of St.Gallen, Taskforce Migration, 2017.
Book chapters:
“From a Society of Second‐Handers to Galt’s Gulch: Ayn Rand’s Counter‐Worlds.” US American Expressions of Utopian and Dystopian Visions. American Studies in Austria, 17. Eds. Ralph Poole, Saskia Fürst, and Yvonne Kaisinger. Vienna: LIT-Verlag, 2017, 83-99.
“Flucht – Grenzgang – Ankunft: Politische Theorie zwischen Literatur, Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaft.” Subjektivität und Fremdheit in demokratischen Gemeinschaften. Beiträge am Schnittpunkt von Literatur und Politischer Philosophie. Eds. Michael Festl and Philipp Schweighauser. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2018, .199-215
Courses and public lectures:
Seminar “Introduction to US Politics,” Bachelor level, in English, 4 ECTS.
Seminar “Beyond God, Guns, and Country: The American Right,” Bachelor level, in English, 4 ECTS.
Public lecture series “Schmelztiegel der Nationen? Die USA als Einwanderungsland” (five lectures on immigration into the USA; in German).
Media contribution:
SRF 1, “Club: Trump – ein Jahr nach der Wahl,” November 7, 2017, www.srf.ch/sendungen/club/trump-ein-jahr-nach-der-wahl.
Thomas Claviez
Essay: “Dramen der An(v)erkennung: Kritische Theorie als Literaturgeschichte.” Michael G. Festl und Ph. Schweighauser (Hg.), Literatur und Politische Philosophie. München: Fink, 2017. 21-49.
Seminar: “Cosmopolitanism and World Literature” at IWL (Institute of World Literature) at University of Copenhagen.
Talk: “The assemblage as Metonymic Community.” American Philosophical Forum at Louisiana State University
Paper: “Dramas of Misrecognition: Critical Theory and Literary History.” Conference “Sociology and Political Philosophy” at Charles University, Prague.
Information on activities in American Studies I organized for my institution in 2017:
Prof. Dr. Slavoj Zizek: “The Ethics of Christian Atheism” [Guest lecture as part of Distinguished Lecture Series]
Prof. Dr. Timothy Campbell: 2Biopolitical Ethics and the Comic Self” [Guest lecture as part of Distinguished Lecture Series]
Prof. Dr. Michael Naas: “Dumb Luck: Jacques Derrida and the Question of Contingency” [Guest lecture as part of Distinguished Lecture Series]
Supervision of PhD projects:
Akin, Banu. “Writing the Body: A Feminist Reading of Novels by French-African and African-American Writers”
Kopaitich, Ryan. “Radical Intimacy: Context and Community.”
Marchi, Viola. “Fuori Luogo: Community and the Alienation of the Common”
Research project:
Sinergia-Projekt “Theories and Practices of Authenticity in Global Cultural Production” [http://p3.snf.ch/project-147677]
Franziska Gygax
Articles:
- A Life A Life A Life: Alive! And Retiring from Life Writing? a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. 32.2: 203-205.
- Rev. of Telling the Flesh: Life Writing, Citizenship, and the Body in the Letters to Samuel Auguste Tissot, by SONJA BOON. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. 32.3: 702-705.
Papers:
- Farewell lecture performance: “The Sense of an Ending and Beginning and Beginning and Beginning and Beginning: Gertrude Stein and Life Writing.” University of Basel. May 23.
- Moderating the reading of British writer/poet Denise Riley. Literaturhaus Basel. June 22.
- Paper “Their Time Has Come: Terminal Illness and Life Writing” at the international conference on “PathoGraphics: Stories of Illness/Disability in Literature and Comics. FU Berlin, October 27-29.
Information on activities in American Studies I organized for my institution in 2017:
International conference (SLSA): “Empathies”: Ethics/Morality/Narrative/Imagination/The Nonhuman University of Basel. June 21-24.
Christian Hänggi
Submitted and defended dissertation Pynchon’s Sonic Fiction
Video lecture: “Vehicle-Ramming Attacks: First thoughts on the meeting of the accident of technology with the accident of ideology” presented at Functional Failures, Operative Fakes & Tenuous Techniques conference (Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, 21–23 Nov 2017) and thefidget space, Philadelphia, 29 Nov 2017.
Paper: “The Pynchon Playlist: A Statistical Analysis” presented at Machiner la poésie/Plotting Poetry conference (University of Basel, 5–7 October 2017) and at the International Pynchon Week (La Rochelle, 5–9 June 2017).
Paper: “Pynchon’s Sonic Warfare” presented at EUCOR Conference (University of Basel, 7/8 April 2017.
Article “Pynchon on Record, Vol. 4” published at www.thomaspynchon.com
Scholar-in-residence at thefidget space, Philadelphia, 16 November–2 December 2017.
Organization of “Happy Birthday, Mr. Pynchon!” at Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich, 8 May 2017, with readings and live music.
Started CD project with working title “V-Disc,” setting to music some of Thomas Pynchon’s lyrics (with Tyler Burba). vdisc.wordpress.com
Activities in American Studies I organized for my institution in 2017:
Co-organisation (with Ridvan Askin et al.) of the new installments of the lecture series New Developments in Theory:
• Hyperstition: Screening, Diskussion, and Workshop with Armen Avanessian. 16/17 October 2017
• Guest lecture by Babette Bärbel Tischleder
Christina Ljungberg
I was invited to give the paper on “The role of iconicity in cognition and communication” the interdisciplinary workshop “Thinking in Practice” at the University of Cologne 19-21 January.
I gave the paper “Mapping Ulysses” at the Eleventh Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature at the University of Brighton, UK, 6-8 April.
I also co-organized the Symposium at the University of Brighton together with Prof. Olga Fischer and Dr. Pamela Perniss.
I published
Ljungberg, Christina. “Reading as Mapping”. Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space. Ed. Robert T. Tally Jr. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. 95-105.
Ljungberg, Christina. “The Sensorial Effectiveness of Laure Prouvost’s Art”. VERSUS 124, 1/2 (2017): 75-88.
And co-edited
Zirker, Angela, Bauer, Matthias, Fischer, Olga and Christina Ljungberg, eds. Dimensions of Iconicity. Iconicity in Language and Literature 15. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2017.
Deborah Madsen
Publications:
“‘Communitism’ in Aktion: Indigene Gemeinschaft, dekolonialer Aktivismus und Videospiel-Narrativ in Kisima Ingitchuna (Never Alone)” [“‘Communitism' in Action: Indigenous Community, Decolonizing Activism, and Video Game Narrative in Kisima Ingitchuna (Never Alone)”] trans. Andreas Fliedner. Subjektivität und Fremdheit in demokratischen Gemeinschaften: Beiträge am Schnittpunkt von Literatur und Politischer Philosophie [Subjectivity and Foreignness in Democratic Communities: Contributions on the Interface between Literature and Political Philosophy]. Ed. Michael Festl & Philipp Schweighauser. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2018. 257-83.
“The Mechanics of Survivance in Indigenously-Determined Video-Games: Invaders and Never Alone.” Transmotion: A Journal of Indigenous Studies 3.2 (2017): 79-110.
Richard Nimjean
Publications:
• “Migrant Spirit Contested: Competing Visions of Canada’s National Identity in the 2015 Federal Election.” TransCanadiana 9 (2017): 335:352. www.ptbk.org.pl/userfiles/file/TransCanadiana/Transcanadiana_9_2017.pdf
Professional Activities:
• Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility Certificate, Alexandra Ioan Cuza University of Iași (Romania) (April 24-28, 2017).
• Co-Editor, International Journal of Canadian Studies
Presentations (Keynote Addresses, Public Lectures, Guest Lectures):
• “Studying Canada.” Guest lecture to the M.A. Program in American Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi (Romania) (April 24, 2017).
• “The Canadian Experiment with Multiculturalism: Is Canada a Model for Managing Diversity?” The Canadian Studies Lecture Series. The Centre for Canadian Studies and the Linguaculture Research Centre for Interlingual and Intercultural Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi (Romania) (April 25, 2017).
• “Bilingualism and Canada’s National Identity.” Guest lecture to the M.A. Program in American Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi (Romania) (April 25, 2017).
• “The ‘Trump Effect’ on Canada-US Relations.” The Canadian Studies Lecture Series. The Centre for Canadian Studies and the Linguaculture Research Centre for Interlingual and Intercultural Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi (Romania) (April 27, 2017)
• “Canada and Liberal Internationalism.” Guest lecture to the M.A. Program in American Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi (Romania) (April 27, 2017).
• “Cool Canada? Canada’s Back? Justin Trudeau and the Politics of National Brand Construction.” International Conference: The World Needs More Canada? Changes and Challenges in Contemporary Canadian Culture and Society (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, June 15-16, 2017).
• “Reframing Canadian “Americanité” and Cross-Border Relations in the Age of Trump.” Keynote address to the conference “The Americas in Canada – Les Amériques du Canada.” Masaryk University (Czech Republic) (October 20, 2017).
• “Canada’s Experiment with Multiculturalism.” Guest lecture to “Canada and Multiculturalism” (Prof. Don Sparling). Masaryk University (Czech Republic) (October 23, 2017).
Michael C. Prusse
Book reviews:
1. Prusse, Michael C. (2017). Klassische Schullektüre. Review of Peter Torberg’s new translation into German of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. ph-akzente 3 (September 2017): 35.
2. Prusse, Michael C. (2017). Review of Amos Paran & Pauline Robinson, Literature – into the classroom. ETAS-Journal 34.2 (Spring 2017): 48.
Lectures:
1. Prusse, Michael C. (2017). “The Hero’s Journey as a Narrative Template Across the Media.” Media Literacy in Foreign Language Education: Digital and Multimodal Perspectives. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, 15 March 2017.
2. Prusse, Michael C. and Lukas Rosenberger (2017). “The Professional Expert Fallacy: Allgemein(bildend)er oder berufsbezogener Englischunterricht? Die Perspektive von Berufsfachschullehrpersonen im Kanton Zürich.” 27. DGFF Kongress “Sprachen lernen integriert: global, regional, lokal,” Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 29 September 2017.
A. Elisabeth Reichel
Publications (incl. ongoing):
Edited Special Issues
Anthropology and Aesthetics: Boasian Vistas. With Philipp Schweighauser, Gabriele Rippl, and Silvy Chakkalakal. Amerikastudien / American Studies 63.4 (2018). In preparation.
Articles in journals:
“Introduction.” With Philipp Schweighauser, Gabriele Rippl, and Silvy Chakkalakal. Amerikastudien / American Studies 63.4 (2018). In preparation.
“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.
Articles in books:
“Toward Unnerving the Us: The Ethnography and Poetry of Ruth Benedict (1887-1948).” Mapping Transnational America. Eds. Adina Ciugureanu and Nicoleta Stanca. Heidelberg: Winter. Manuscript submitted.
“On the Poetry of a Boasian Cultural Anthropologist: Ruth Benedict’s Palimpsestuous Writings.” Cultural Palimpsests: Ethnic Watermarks, Surfacing Histories. Ed. Ewa Barbara Łuczak. Manuscript submitted.
“‘For you have given me speech!’—Gifted Speakers, Inarticulate Others, and Media Epistemologies in the Writing of Margaret Mead.” Postcolonial Knowledges. Eds. Kerstin Knopf and Janelle Rodriques. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing. Manuscript submitted.
“Once More with Feeling: The Emotional and Integrative Functions of Music in John Carney’s Film Once.” Movies and Music: National and Transnational Approaches. Eds. Frank Mehring and Melvyn Stokes. London: Palgrave. Manuscript submitted.
“Sonic Others in Early Sound Studies and the Poetry of Edward Sapir: A Salvage Operation.” Soundscapes and Sonic Cultures in America. Eds. Nassim Balestrini, Klaus Rieser, and Katharina Fackler. Berlin: Lit. Accepted for publication.
“Folk Communities in Translation: Salvage Primitivism and Edward Sapir’s French-Canadian Folk Songs.” With Philipp Schweighauser. American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political. Eds. Lukas Etter and Julia Straub. SPELL: Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature 35. Tübingen: Narr, 2017. 61-83.
Talks:
“From Patterns of Culture to ‘In Parables’: Cultural Representation in the Ethnography and Poetry of Ruth Benedict (1887-1948).” Forschungsfeld: Feldforschung. Erkundungen zwischen Literaturwissenschaft und Ethnologie. Interdisciplinary Doctoral and Postdoctoral Workshop, University of Oldenburg, 6-8 March 2017.
Grants:
Doc.Mobility Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), to fund a 12-month research stay (08/2017 - 07/2018) at Dartmouth College on invitation of Prof. Dr. Donald E. Pease
Research visits:
04/2017 - 07/2017: Affiliate with Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., on recommendation of Brian Hochman
08/2017 - 07/2018: Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., on invitation of Donald E. Pease
Archival work:
12/11/2017 – 12/15/2017; 07/10/2017 – 07/14/2017
Archival Research at Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
04/2017 – 07/2017:
Archival Research at Manuscript Division and Moving Image Research Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
06/29/2017 – 07/07/2017:
Archival Research at National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Suitland, M.D.
Gabriele Rippl
Talks:
“Sustainability and the Ethics of (Literary) Description”, University of Augsburg,
July 2017
“Picturing Lagos: Teju Cole’s Every Day Is for the Thief”, Annual Conference Morphomata Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Cologne, July 2017
“Ekphrasis in the Digital Age: Teju Cole’s Word-Image Configurations”, University of Siegen, June 2017
“Sustainability and the Ethics of Description”, Humboldt University Berlin, Faculty of Theology, June 2017.
“Contemporary Anglophone Life Writing: Transcultural and Intermedial Configurations”, Morphomata Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Cologne, May 2017.
Workshops/lecture series:
CUSO Workshop “American Material Cultures”, with Prof. Dr. Mark Seltzer (UCLA, USA) and Prof. Dr. Christian Emden (Rice University, USA). Co-organizers: PD Dr. Julia Straub and Sofie Behluli, MA, September 2017.
Publications:
Author:
Neumann, Birgit, and Gabriele Rippl. “Anglophone World Literatures: Introduction.” Anglia Special Issue. Anglophone World Literatures. Anglia. Journal of English Philology 135.1 (2017). 1-20.
Neumann, Birgit, and Gabriele Rippl. “‘Celebrating Afropolitan Identities?’ Contemporary African World Literatures in English.” Anglia Special Issue. Anglophone World Literatures. Anglia. Journal of English Philology 135.1 (2017). 159-185.
Rippl, Gabriele, and Sofie Behluli. “Ekphrasis in the Digital Age.” Digitalität und literarische Netzwerke, Antikanon, vol. 2. Ed. Christina Hoffmann, and Johanna Öttl. Wien: Turia + Kant, 2017. 131-176.
Editor:
Bloch, Sara Kyiat, Martina Dubach, and Gabriele Rippl, eds. Grenzen in den Wissenschaften, Berner Universitätsschriften, vol. 60. Bern: Haupt Verlag, 2017.
Kornexl, Lucia, Ursula Lenker, Martin Middeke, Gabriele Rippl, and Hubert Zapf, eds. Anglia. Journal of English Philology 135.1 (2017).
Kornexl, Lucia, Ursula Lenker, Martin Middeke, Gabriele Rippl, and Hubert Zapf, eds. Anglia. Journal of English Philology 135.2 (2017).
Kornexl, Lucia, Ursula Lenker, Martin Middeke, Gabriele Rippl, and Hubert Zapf, eds. Anglia. Journal of English Philology 135.3 (2017).
Kornexl, Lucia, Ursula Lenker, Martin Middeke, Gabriele Rippl, and Hubert Zapf, eds. Anglia. Journal of English Philology 135.4 (2017).
Kornexl, Lucia, Ursula Lenker, Martin Middeke, Gabriele Rippl, and Hubert Zapf, eds. Anglia Book Series. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017.
Midekke, Martin, Gabriele Rippl and Hubert Zapf, eds. Handbooks of English and American Studies. Text and Theory. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017.
In preparation or in the press:
Rippl, Gabriele. “Anais Nin: The Diary of Anais Nin.” Handbook Autobiography/Autofiction. Ed. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018, In press.
---. “Autobiography in the Globalized World.” Handbook Autobiography/Autofiction. Ed. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018, In press.
---. “The Cultural Work of Ekphrasis in Contemporary Anglophone Novels.” Poetics Today 39.2 (2018), In press.
---. “each art may be observed to pass into the condition of some other art” – Intermediale Verflechtungen in Walter Paters ‘imaginary portraits.’” Malerei in der Literatur des Fin de Siècle, Wiener Beiträge zu Komparatistik und Romanistik. Ed. Christina Hoffmann. Wien: Peter Lang, 2018, In press.
---. “Ekphrastic Encounters in Contemporary Transcultural American Life Writing.” Intermediality and Life Writing. Ed. Nassim Winnie Balestrini, and Ina Bergmann. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018, In press.
---. “Life and Work.” Handbook Autobiography/Autofiction. Ed. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018, In press.
---. “Picturing Lagos: Word-Photography Configurations in Teju Cole’s Every Day Is for the Thief.” Re-Imagining the African City, Special Issue of Social Dynamics 44 (2018), In press.
Rippl, Gabriele, and Torsten Meireis, eds. Cultural Sustainability. London: Routledge, 2018, In preparation.
Rippl, Gabriele, Birgit Neumann, and Stefan Helgesson, eds. Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019, In preparation.
Rippl, Gabriele, and Birgit Neumann. Intermedial Aesthetics: Verbal-Visual Configurations in Postcolonial Literature. 2018, In preparation.
Information on activities in American Studies I organized for my institution in 2017:
“Arab Spring - Unfinished Journeys.” Public lecture by Helen Zughaib, 14 June 2017.
“When Tolerance Becomes Form.” Workshop with Helen Zughaib, 15 June 2017.
SANAS Spring Reading Group with Helen Zughaib, 16 June 2017.
“The Worlds of World Literature: Histories of Literary Worlding and Global Circulation.” Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Birgit Neumann, University of Düsseldorf, in the Workshop “Anglophone World Literature”, 13 October 2017.
“(Re-)Writing the Caribbean: Transculturality and Transnationalism in the Caribbean and Its Diasporas.” Guest lecture by Dr. Sinah Kloss, University of Cologne, in the Workshop “Anglophone World Literature”, 3 November 2017.
“Transfigurations: Photo-images in Contemporary Fictional Narratives.” Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Danuta Fjellestad, University of Uppsala, in the Seminar “North American Literature and Photography”, 21 December 2017.
“A Case for Environmental Arts and Humanities.” Guest lecture by Dr. Emily Scott, ETHZ, in the interdisciplinary research colloquium “Cultural Sustainability”, 20 November 2017.
“Avatar. Nachhaltigkeitsethik und Kultur.” Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Torsten Meireis, Humboldt University Berlin, in the interdisciplinary research colloquium “Cultural Sustainability”, 4 December 2017.
Supervision of PhD projects:
Behluli, Sofie. Visuality and Materiality in the Contemporary American Novel (co-supervision; first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Laura Marcus, Oxford).
Bischof, Roman. Between Neurons and the Self: Concepts of Consciousness, Identity and Reality in Representations of Mental Illness in Anglophone Novels since 1950.
Gasser, Selina. Female Stand-up Comedy.
Reber, Simon. Intermedial Strategies in the Poetry of Sapir.
Reichel, Elisabeth. Cultural Relativism, ‘Primitivism,’ and the Valuation of Cultures in the Writings of Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead (University of Basel, co-supervision).
Schindler Wright, Edward. North American Literature and Ecology: Metaphoric Uses of Organic Waste.
Steffen, Samuel. Representation of Gulf Wars.
Research projects:
“Of Cultural, Poetic, and Medial Alterity” (SNF-funded research project with Prof. Dr. Philipp Schweighauser and Prof. Dr. Walter Leimgruber, University of Basel). <https://sbm.unibas.ch>
“Ekphrasis in the Digital Age” (with Prof. Dr. Renate Brosch, University of Stuttgart, and Prof. Dr. Danuta Fjellestad, University of Uppsala).
“Anglophone Life Writing Today: Transcultural Figurations – Intermedial Constellations” (Research project 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). <http://www.wbkolleg.unibe.ch/research/research_forum/original__copy_techniques_and_aesthetics_of_reproduction/index_eng.html>
“Postcolonial Ekphrasis” (Research and book project with Prof. Dr. Birgit Neumann, University of Düsseldorf).
“Cultural Dimensions of Sustainability” (Research and book project with Prof. Dr. Torsten Meireis, Humboldt University Berlin).
“Contemporary Narratives” (Handbook Project with Prof. Dr. Laura Marcus, University of Oxford).
Philipp Schweighauser
Publications:
Schweighauser, Philipp. “Playing Seriously with Genres: Sapir's 'Nootka' Texts and Mead's Balinese Anthropology.” RANAM: Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines 50 (2017), 107-121. Print.
Schweighauser, Philipp. “Making It New, Differently: Margaret Mead's Poetry.” Anthropologie et poèsie. Ed. Vincent Debaene and Nicolas Adell. Spec. issue of Fabula LHT 21. Forthcoming. Online.
Schweighauser, Philipp. “Of Syncretisms, Foils, and Cautionary Examples: Ruth Fulton Benedict’s Poetic and Ethnographic Styles.” On Style. Eds. Jasmin Dücker, Olga Tarapata, Moritz Ingwersen, Bjoern Sonnenberg and Elena Vaja. New York: Peter Lang, forthcoming. Print.
Schweighauser, Philipp. “'Gut': Becketts Verhandlungen von Macht in seinen Fernsehspielen für den Süddeutschen Rundfunk.” Literatur und Politische Philosophie: Subjektivität, Fremdheit, Demokratie. Eds. Michael G. Festl and Philipp Schweighauser. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2018. 169-95. Print.
Schweighauser, Philipp. “Text als Paradigma der Kulturwissenschaft.” Poetik/Poetizität. Ed. Ralf Simon. Tübingen: De Gruyter, forthcoming 2018. Print.
Schweighauser, Philipp and A. Elisabeth Reichel. “Folk Communities in Translation: Salvage Primitivism and Edward Sapir’s French-Canadian Folk Songs.” American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political. Eds. Julia Straub and Lukas Etter. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2017. 61-83. Print.
Schweighauser, Philipp and Michael G. Festl, eds. Literatur und Politische Philosophie: Subjektivität, Fremdheit, Demokratie. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2018. Print.
Schweighauser, Philipp and Michael G. Festl. “Einleitung: Die erste Schwalbe. ” Literatur und Politische Philosophie: Subjektivität, Fremdheit, Demokratie. Eds. Michael G. Festl and Philipp Schweighauser. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2018. 9-17. Print.
Lectures/papers/talks:
Schweighauser, Philipp. “Playing Seriously with Genres: Sapir's 'Nootka' Texts and Mead's Balinese Anthropology.” RANAM 50: Discourse, Boundaries and Genres in English Studies: An Assessment. University of Strasbourg, 4 March 2017.
Schweighauser, Philipp. “How Do We Read Literature in the Digital Age?” Interview with Gaudenz Metzger. FutureLearn Blog, 6 March 2017. about.futurelearn.com/blog/how-do-we-read-literature-in-the-digital-age/.
Schweighauser, Philipp. “Literature in the Digital Age: An Open Online Course of the University of Basel.” Thursday Lunch Talk, University of Mulhouse, 9 March 2017.
Schweighauser, Philipp. “Samuel Beckett: Gespräch.” Discussion with Margrit Tröhler about Beckett's Film and Ross Lipman's Notfilm. Videoex Film Festival, Zürich, 24 May 2017.
Schweighauser, Philipp. “Making It New, Differently: Margaret Mead's Poetry.” Annual Meeting of the German Association of American Studies, University of Hannover, 8 June 2017.
Schweighauser, Philipp. “Margaret Meads Gedichte zwischen Privatheit und Öffentlichkeit: Ein Forschungsbericht.” Lecture Cycle “Privatheiten und Öffentlichkeiten”, University of Freiburg, Germany, 13 June 2017.
Schweihauser, Philipp. “The Poetic and Medial Practices of Boasian Anthropology.” Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 16 November 2017.
Information on activities in American Studies I organized for my institution in
2017:
Visiting scholars:
Tyler Schmidt (Lehman College, City University of New York, Aug 2016 – July 2017)
Organised guest lectures:
Prof. Dr. Winfried Fluck (Freie Universität Berlin): “Foucault and Modern Power.” University of Basel, 4 April 2017.
Prof. John Carlos Rowe (University of Southern California): “An Uncanny Partnership: Georg Lukács’ Theory of Avant-Garde Modernism as Literary Naturalism.” University of Basel, 17 May 2017.
Dr. Marta Kaźmierczak (University of Warsaw): “Through the Thicket of Thesis Writing: Selected Methodological Issues.” University of Basel, 3 October 2017.
Dr. Marta Kaźmierczak (University of Warsaw): “Intersemiotic Aspects of Translation: Intersemiotic Punning.” Research Colloquium, University of Basel, 3 October 2017.
Prof. Zoran Kuzmanovich (Davidson College, North Carolina): “The Perils of Interpretive Narcissism in Nabokov’s ‘Signs and Symbols.’” University of Basel, 21 November 2017.
Prof. Dr. Klaus Benesch (LMU München): “A Matter of Scale: Is Close Reading to American Studies What Place is to Space?” University of Basel, 5 December 2017.
Supervision of PhD projects:
Hänggi, Christian. “Thomas Pynchon’s Sonic Fictions.” edoc.unibas.ch/56240/
Mauruschat, Ania. “Radiophonie, Störung und Erkenntnis. Zur Epistemologie der Radiokunst am Beispiel der Katastrophenhörspiele von Andreas Ammer und FM Einheit.” engsem.unibas.ch/department/people/staff/profile/profile/person/mauruschat-1/
Osei-Bonsu, Victoria. “A Comparative Study of Representations of the Other in Selected Works of Joseph Conrad.” zasb.unibas.ch/research/phd-projects/victoria-moffatt/
Rapcsák, Balázs. “Beckett’s Media System: A Comparative Study in Multimediality.” p3.snf.ch/project-162939
Reichel, A. Elisabeth. “Sounding Primitives, Writing Anthropologists: The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict.” dslw.philhist.unibas.ch/doktorat/literaturwissenschaft/doktorandinnen/
Research projects:
SNSF Project: Of Cultural, Poetic, and Medial Alterity: The Scholarship, Poetry, Photographs, and Films of Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead.
sbm.unibas.ch
SNSF Project: Beckett’s Media System: A Comparative Study in Multimediality. p3.snf.ch/project-162939
Bryn Skibo-Birney
Talk:
“‘Bright Side’: Margaret Atwood’s Post-Apocalyptic Post-Anthropocentrism." Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS): Uncertain Futures. OCAD University, Toronto, Canada. 27-29 October 2017.
Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet
Edited collections:
Neoliberal Gothic: International Gothic in the Neoliberal Age. Eds. Linnie Blake and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2017.
Gothic Matters, special volume of Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory, Culture. University of Łódź. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016.
Articles and chapters:
“From Brook Farm to Burning Man: Alternative Communities in the United States.” American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political. SPELL 35. Eds. Lukas Etter and Julia Straub. Tübungen: Narr Verlag, 2017.
“Introduction: neoliberal gothic.” Co-written with Linnie Blake. Neoliberal Gothic: International Gothic in the Neoliberal Age. Eds. Linnie Blake and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2017.
“Border Gothic: Gregory Nava’s Borderlands and the Dark Side of NAFTA.” Neoliberal Gothic: International Gothic in the Neoliberal Age. Eds. Linnie Blake and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2017.
“Gothic Literature in America: The Nobrow Aesthetics of Murder and Madness,” in When Highbrow Meets Lowbrow: Popular Culture and the Rise of Nobrow. Eds. Pete Swirski and Tero Vanhanen. New York: Palgrave, 2017.
“’His face ceased instantly to be a face’: Gothicism in Stephen Crane,” in Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic and American Realism. Eds. Monika Elbert and Wendy Ryden. University of Alabama Press, 2017.
And for 2016:
“Is There Such a Thing as an Antiwar Film?” A Companion to the War Film. Eds. Douglass Cunningham and John C. Nelson. Chichester: Blackwell-Wiley, 2016. 404-421.
“American Horror: Origins and Early Trends.” Horror: A Literary History. Ed. Xavier Aldana Reyes. The British Library, London, pp. 53-76, 08-2016.
“Masculinity and Nation in the Popular Fiction of the Spanish American War: Kirk Munroe's Forward, March!” Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 22(1) 2016. 11-32.
“Transatlantic Gothic.” Handbook of Transantlantic North American Studies. Ed. Julia Straub. Peter Lang. April 2016.
“Gustav Hasford’s Gothic Poetics of Demystification.” War Gothic in Literature and Culture. Eds. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet and Steffen Hantke. New York: Routledge, 2016. 22-38.
“Ghosts from the Battlefield: A Short Historical Introduction to the War Gothic.” War Gothic in Literature and Culture. Eds. Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet and Steffen Hantke. New York: Routledge, 2016. 22-38.
Information on activities in American Studies I organized for my institution in 2017:
Will Kaufman, “The Long Road to Peekskill” (Talk and concert about Woody Guthrie), Nov. 30, 2017
Rik Palieri, “American Folk Revival” (talk and concert), May 9, 2017
“Summer of Love,” mini-conference and 4 days of necklace-making workshops for the Mystères de l’UNIL, May 18-21
American Studies: Looking Backwards and Forwards, CUSO Workshop with Cynthia Wu (SUNY Buffalo) and Tomasz Basiuk (American Studies Center, University of Warsaw), Nov. 2016
American Gothic Study Day (with invited speakers from Lancaster University and Manchester Metropolitan University), May 2016
Supervision of PhD projects:
Roxane Hughes, Foot-Binding in Chinese American Literature (defended in 2017)
James Dawson, Late-capitalism and the Body in the Works of David Foster Wallace
Cécile Heim, Native American Crime Fiction
Research projects:
Ongoing book project on war narrative and genre – on which I did a conference talk: “Adventure, Killing and the Pleasures of War,” Narrative Conference, Lexington, KY
Julia Straub
Monograph:
The Rise of New Media, 1750-1850: Transatlantic Discourse and American Memory. The New Urban Atlantic Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Essay collection:
with Lukas Etter. American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political. SPELL Series. Tübingen: Narr, 2017.
Book chapters and review:
with Lukas Etter. “Introduction.” American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political. SPELL Series. Tübingen: Narr, 2017. 11-17
“The Magazine as Museum in the Eighteenth Century: Transatlantic Perspectives.” Transatlantic Cultures and Literary Forms, 1780-1850. Ed. Annika Bautz und Kathryn Gray. London: Routledge, 2017.
Rev. of Reingard Nischik, ed. The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 in Anglia 135.2 (2017): 407-09.
Talks:
“Cultural Memory and Its (New) Media in Early America. University of Lausanne, November 2017 (by invitation).
“Beyond the Paradox.”Authenticity Workshop. University of Freiburg, May 2017 (by invitation).
“The Memory Work of Early American Anthologies.” Biennial Conference of the Society of Early Americanists, University of Tulsa, March 2017.
Organized events:
SANAS Spring Reading Group with Helen Zughaib, June 2017
CUSO Workshop “The Materialities of American Culture”, September 2017 (together with Gabriele Rippl and Sofie Behluli)
Alexa Weik von Mossner
Appointed Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria.
Monograph:
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2017.
Articles and Essays:
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. “Cli-fi and the Feeling of Risk.” Special Cluster on Cli-fi edited by Julia Leyda and Susanne Leikam. Amerikastudien/American Studies 62.1 (2017): 129-138.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. “Vulnerable Lives: The Affective Dimensions of Risk in Young Adult Cli-Fi.” Fiction in the Age of Risk,” edited by Golnar Nabizadeh and Tony Hughes-D’Aeth. Special Issue of Textual Practice 31.3 (2017): 553-566.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. “Touching the Senses: Environments and Technologies at the Movies.” Ursula K. Heise, Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann (eds.) The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities. New York: Routledge.
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2017. “When Everything Is Up for Grabs: Environmental Narcissism in Percival Everett’s Grand Canyon, Inc.” Birgit Neumann and Sonja Frenzel (eds.) Ecocriticism: Environments in Anglophone Literatures. Heidelberg: Winter, 2017, 243-61
Weik von Mossner, Alexa. “Sensing the Heat: Weather, Water, and Vulnerabilities in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife.” In Sarah Fekadu, Tobias Döring, Isabel Kranz and Hanna Strass, eds. Meteorologies of Modernity. Tübingen: Narr. 2017. 173-189
Talks and Presentations:
December 14, 2017: “Narrating Animals: Affect and the Intricacies of Trans-species Empathy.” Keynote talk at the international conference Wild Emotions: Affect and the Natural World, organized by Grace Moore and Stephanie Trigg from The Centre for the History of Emotions at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
December 6, 2017: “Feeling Animals? Narrative, Anthropomorphism, and the Intricacies of Trans-species Empathy.” Invited talk at a workshop on “Animal Minds between Narrative and Cognition,” organized by Stephan Besser and Marco Caracciolo as part of the 2nd SMART Cognitive Science conference entitled “SMART Animals” at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
November 23 2017: “Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative.” Guest lecture at the University of Augsburg, Germany.
November 10, 2017: “Food, Art, and the Senses.” Invited talk at the preparatory workshop for the “Kosmos Kaffee” Exhibition at the Deutsche Museum in Munich, Germany.
October 13, 2017: “Climate Change and the Dark Side of Storytelling: Translating Science into Popular Culture.” Invited talk at The Dark Side of Translation conference, organized by the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
July 4-6, 2017: “Visceralizing Climate Change: Science and the Narrative Strategies of Popular Culture.” Paper at the Mediating Climate Change conference at the University of Leeds, UK.
June 24, 2017: “Agents of Affect: Why We Care about Literary Environments”
Paper at the 12th Biennial Conference of ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment). Wayne State University, Detroit, USA.
June 1, 2017: “Beyond Boundaries: Ecocinema and the Intricacies of Trans-species Empathy.” Guest lecture in the Department of Humanities Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden.
Information on activities in American Studies I organized for my institution in 2017
Visiting lecturers hosted:
Patricia VanSandt, “American Justice and the Death Penalty”, June 14, 2017.
Edward Wright
Information on activities in American Studies:
2017 Guest lecture and workshop with the artist Helen Zughaib
Research projects:
PhD project: An ecocritical analysis of contemporary literature.
Patrizia Zanella
Zanella, Patrizia. “Transnational Advocacy, Violence Against Indigenous Women, and the Role of Writers.” NALS (Native American Literature Symposium), 3 March 2017, Prior Lake, MN.
Zanella, Patrizia. “Crossing Borders & Redrawing Boundaries on the Back of the Turtle: The Sovereign Fiction of Louise Erdrich, Thomas King, Tomson Highway, and James Welch.” International PhD-Workshop: Current Research in American Studies, 16 June 2017, Europa-Universität Flensburg.
Zanella, Patrizia. “From the Lakes to the Prairies: Ethics of Belonging in Louise Erdrich’s Birchbark House Series.” ILSA (Indigenous Literary Studies Association) Conference, 19 June 2017, Chilliwack, BC.
Zanella, Patrizia. “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Sexualized Genocide in North America.” The Young Scholars’ Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries, 9 July 2017, Konstanz.
Fall semester research stay at the First Nations Studies Department at Simon Fraser University.
Zanella, Patrizia. “Crossing the US-Canadian Border in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich and James Welch.” WLA (Western Literature Association) Conference, 27 October 2017, Minneapolis, MN.
Zanella, Patrizia. “‘not quite human, not quite wolf, but something in between’: Liminal Spaces in Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach.” In-Between: Liminal Spaces in Canadian Literature and Culture. Ed. Stefan L. Brandt. Canadiana Series. New York et al.: Peter Lang, 2017. 101-112.