Members’ activities 2018
Ridvan Askin
Publications:
Askin, Ridvan. Narrative and Becoming. Plateaus – New Directions in Deleuze Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. (Paperback ed.; orig. 2016).
Askin, Ridvan, Catherine Diederich, and Aline Bieri, eds. The Aesthetics, Poetics, and Rhetoric of Soccer. London: Routledge, 2018.
Askin, Ridvan, trans. Die Pinocchio Theorie by Steven Shaviro. Berlin: Merve, 2018.
Askin, Ridvan and Armen Avanessian. “Vorwort: Zum Werk Steven Shaviros.” Die Pinocchio Theorie by Steven Shaviro. Berlin: Merve Verlag, 2018. 7-12.
Askin, Ridvan, Catherine Diederich, and Aline Bieri. “Introduction: Aesthetics, Poetics, Rhetoric, Soccer.” The Aesthetics, Poetics, and Rhetoric of Soccer. Ed. Ridvan Askin, Catherine Diederich, and Aline Bieri. London: Routledge, 2018. 13-24.
“Emersons politisches Denken und die Dichtung.” Literatur und Politische Philosophie: Subjektivität, Fremdheit, Demokratie. Ed. Michael Festl and Philipp Schweighauser. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2018. 101-122.
Talks:
“Posthumanismus.” Ringvorlesung: Theorien und Methoden der Literaturwissenschaft, University of Basel, 7 May 2018
“Absolute Form: Traveling the “great outdoors” in Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes, in 1843.” The Genres of Genre: A Conference on Form, Format, and Cultural Formations—SANAS Biennial Conference, University of Lausanne, 2-3 November 2018.
“The High Theory of Soccer.” International Conference: Writing Football, Deutsches Fußballmuseum & TU Dortmund University, 12-13 July, 2018.
“Traveling the ‘great outdoors’: Narration, Space, and the Absolute in Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes, in 1843.” International Conference on Narrative, McGill University, 19-22 April 2018
Information on activities in American Studies you organized for your institution in 2018 (visiting lecturers, fellows, performances, and so on):
Lecture Series: New Developments in Theory
16 Nov 2018: Luciana Parisi (Goldsmiths, University of London): “Machine Patterning and Alien Imagination” (Lecture) & “Machine Imagination” (Workshop). University of Basel (with Balázs Rapcsák and Daniela Keller)
18 May 2018: Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University): “Speculative Temporalities.” University of Basel (with Daniela Keller and Balázs Rapcsák)
Supervision of PhD projects:
Shannon Lambert, PhD advisory board external member, Ghent University, ongoing
www.narmesh.ugent.be/people.html (scroll down)
Research projects:
Transcendental Poetics and the Futures of American Romanticism (habilitation, ongoing)
Thomas Austenfeld
Four conference presentations / guest lectures:
“Confessional Poetry and The Cold War.” Keynote at the American Studies Week,
University of Flensburg, December 3, 2018.
“Pathos: The Genre of Poetic Address.” Presented at the SANAS conference Lausanne, The
Genres of Genre, November 2, 2018.
“‘To prepare a face’: Faces in 20th-century Literature and Philosophy.” Presented at the
Conference of the Australian Literary Studies Association, Canberra, July 4, 2018.
“American Poetry: Pleasure, Pathos, Prosody.” Invited Guest Lecture at the University of
Klagenfurt. Austria. January 10, 2018.
Information on activities in American Studies you organized for your institution in 2018 (visiting lecturers, fellows, performances, and so on):
Organizer, CUSO Workshop for Doctoral Candidates. “American Literature and the
Archive.” Guest: Prof. Randall Fuller, Herman Melville Distinguished Chair of 19th
Century Literature, University of Kansas. Fribourg, April 12-13, 2018.
Organizer, “The Sacred Word,” Poetry event with Don Paterson and Marie-Elsa Bragg.
Fribourg, March 15, 2018.
Supervision of PhD projects:
Patrizia Zanella. “The Border-Crossing Fiction of Louise Erdrich, James Welch, Tomson
Highway, and Thomas King.” Supported by a Doc.CH grant from the SNSF.
Aurélie Zurbruegg. “Writing on Walls: Message, Mediality, and Modes of Address.”
Sofie Behluli
Publications:
Review of Timo Müller, ed., Handbook of the American Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. In: Anglia, Journal of English Philology 136.2 (2018): 378-381.
Talks:
“The Figure of the Artist in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction: Chevalier, Messud, Tartt.” 8th Annual British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS), Postgraduate Conference, New Work in Modernist Studies, 1 Dec. 2018, University of Glasgow.
Promotional Talk for the Berrow Foundation Scholarship, 1 Nov. 2018, University of Bern.
“Ekphrastic Practices in Contemporary US-American Novels: Hanya Yanagihara.” School of American Visual Art and Text (SAVAnT) Workshop, 26 Feb. 2018, British Library, London.
Grants:
Dec. 2018: Grant by the Swiss Friends of Oxford University, Switzerland, to attend the 8th annual conference of the ESCL in Lille, France, CHF 500.-
Nov. 2018: Grant by the Vivian Green Student Assistance Fund to visit the Museo del Prado in Madrid in April 2019, Lincoln College, University of Oxford, £ 350
Nov. 2018: Grant by the Graduate Research Fund at Lincoln College, Oxford, to attend the BAMS post-graduate conference at the University of Glasgow, £ 188.79
Oct. 2018: Full grant to attend a graduate workshop “Literature and Transnational Citizenship”, 11-12 Oct. 2018, as part of the Oxford-Berlin Literary Studies Network between the Centre for British Studies and the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
Other Practical Experience:
Nov. 2018: Chair of Panel “A3: Transgressions in Genre” at the SANAS Biennial Conference The Genres of Genre, 2-3 November 2018, University of Lausanne
As of April 2018: Exam Invigilation for Lincoln College, Oxford
Information on activities in American Studies you organized for your institution in 2018 (visiting lecturers, fellows, performances, and so on)
Organization:
Drinks Reception and Dinner for the Swiss President, Alain Berset, and the Members of the Oxford University Swiss Society, 25 Oct. 2018, Lincoln College, Oxford.
Preparation of the exhibition room of the Centre for British Studies at the Long Night of Sciences / Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft at the Humboldt University, as part of the Oxford-Berlin Literary Studies Network between the Centre for British Studies and the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, 11-12 Oct. 2018, Berlin
Other Roles:
As of Oct. 2018: Secretary of the Oxford University Swiss Society
As of Sep. 2018: “Womentoring”-Mentor for young female academics at the University of Bern; Mentor at the English Faculty for incoming English graduates, University of Oxford; Mentor (i.e. Lincoln Link) for English Freshers at Lincoln College, University of Oxford
As of Apr 2018: Charities Representative in the MCR of Lincoln College, Oxford
Research projects:
My own PhD Project: “The Work of Art in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction”,
ego.english.ox.ac.uk/people/sofie-behluli
Roman Bischof
Research projects:
ongoing PhD project: “Narrating Neurons: Perspectives on Mental Illness in American and
British Novels in the Age of Neuroscience”
Claudia Franziska Brühwiler
Inaugural Talk (Antrittsvorlesung, venia in American Studies):
Brühwiler, Claudia Franziska. “‘We’re all mad here’? – Im Wunderland der US-Konservativen.” University of St. Gallen, Dec. 18, 2018.
Book Chapters:
Brühwiler, Claudia Franziska. “‘The Root of All Good’: Ayn Rand, Lieblingsschriftstellerin der Managementwelt.” Business-Fiktionen und Management-Inszenierungen. Eds. Yvette Sánchez. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2018, 217-225.
Brühwiler, Claudia Franziska. “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, 199-214.
Conference Paper:
Brühwiler, Claudia Franziska. “The (Ab)use of Leo Strauss: ʻClaremonstersʼ in Defense of Trump.” General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Hamburg, August 23, 2018.
Book Review:
Brühwiler, Claudia Franziska. “Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition by Andy Connolly.” VoegelinView April 27, 2018, voegelinview.com/philip-roth-and-the-american-liberal-tradition/
Magazine and Blog Contributions:
Brühwiler, Claudia Franziska. “‘Kein Geliebter kommt mit dem Leben davon’: Zu Ehren Philip Roths.” [“‘Nobody beloved gets out alive’ – In honor of Philip Roth.”] University of St.Gallen, May 28, 2018, www.unisg.ch/de/wissen/newsroom/aktuell/rssnews/leute/2018/mai/nachruf-philip-roth
Brühwiler, Claudia Franziska. “Von Hofberichterstattern zu schwarzen Listen: US-Präsidenten und die Medien im Wandel der Zeit.” HSG Focus, 2 (2018), magazin.hsgfocus.ch/hsg-focus-2-2018-medien-x-0/artikel/von-hofberichterstattern-zu-schwarzen-listen-12626
Media Appearance:
SRF, “Club: Forever Trump?,” November 6, 2018, www.srf.ch/sendungen/club/forever-trump-bleibt-er-der-grosse-sieger
Information on activities in American Studies you organized for your institution in 2018 (visiting lecturers, fellows, performances, and so on):
Public lecture series “One Nation under God? Politik und Religion in den USA” (four lectures on religion and politics in the USA).
Thomas Claviez
Article:
Claviez, Thomas. “Dramen der An(v)erkennung: Kritische Theorie als Literaturgeschichte.”
In Michael Festl/Philipp Schweighauser (Hgg.), Literatur und Philosophie: Subjektivität, Fremdheit, Demokratie. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2018. 21-50.
Lectures/Talks:
“Realism, Metonymy, and the Contingency of it all.” Conference “Realisms,” University of
Göttingen. 5.-6. July 2018
“Neo-Realism and the Problem of Recognition.” Conference “Current Tendencies in
Contemporary American Fiction.” Warburg Haus, Hamburg. 22-23 June 2018.
“The Road Not Taken: Ethics, Reciprocity, and Non-Negative Non-Agency.” GCSC Keynote
Lectures. Giessen. Justus-Liebig University, 19 June 2018.
“Where Is Jacques When You Need Him? Rancière, Populism, and the Demos.” Conference
“Philosophy and Social Science.” Prag, Czech Republic. 16-20 May 2018.
“Grey Metonymy: Contingency and Community in Agamben and Esposito.” Colloquium
Philosophy Center. De Paul University Chicago. 13 April 2018.
“Contingency in Agamben and Esposito.” Italian Studies Colloquium. Cornell University, New
York. 10 April 2018.
“The Metonymic Community.” CGS Forum “Community.” University of Bern, Switzerland. 26
February 2018.
“Anecdote and Contingency: The Relevance of the Irrelevant.” Conference “Exemplary
Singularity: Fault Lines of the Anecdotal.” John F. Kennedy Institut Berlin. 1-3 February 2018.
Interview “The Aesthetics of Populism.” Konferenz “The Return of Aesthetics.” University of
Frankfurt, 30 November - 2 December 2018.
“Alterity, Contingency, and the Difference of it All.” Colloquium “Alterity Revisited,”
University of Lucerne, Switzerland. 8-9 December 2018.
Information on activities in American Studies you organized for your institution in 2018 (visiting lecturers, fellows, performances, and so on):
Conference organization:
CGS Forum “Constructing and Contesting Community.” University of Bern, 26-27 February
2018.
Guest Lecture Justin Jest (George Mason University, Washington): “The Roots of US-
American Populism.” 24 May 2018.
Supervision of PhD projects:
Marchi, Viola. “Fuori Luogo: Community and the Impropriety of the Common.”
Kopaitich, Ryan. “Radical Intimacy: Context and Community.”
Akin, Banu. “Writing the Body: A Feminist Reading of Novels by French-African and
African-American Writers.”
Research projects:
“Theories and Practices of Authenticity in Global Cultural Production.” Finished July 2018
Christian Hänggi
Article:
Hänggi, Christian. “The Pynchon Playlist: A Catalog and Its Analysis”, Orbit: A Journal of
American Literature, vol. 6, no. 1, 2018. doi: doi.org/10.16995/orbit.487
Lectures/panels/papers delivered:
“South Park’s Horror in the Early Trump Era.” thefidget space, Philadelphia, 1 August 2018.
“Unerwünschte Nebenwirkungen von Werbung.” Panel Discussion. UBX18 Conference,
Munich, 18 October 2018.
Information on activities in American Studies you organized for your institution in 2018 (visiting lecturers, fellows, performances, and so on):
Organization of a guest lecture by Peter Price (Philadelphia): “The Prolonged Death of the
Hippie, 1967–1969”. 18 December 2018, English Department, University of Basel.
Cécile Heim
Article:
Heim, Cécile. “Neoliberal Violence: Colonial Legacies and Imperialist Strategies of the
Contemporary Western Adventure.” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 51, no. 6, 2018, pp. 1434-1452.
Information on activities in American Studies you organized for your institution in 2018 (visiting lecturers, fellows, performances, and so on)
Conference organization:
“Witnessing Resurgence: Self-Determination and Allyship”
Annual Meeting of the Emerging Scholars’ Forum
University of Bern, 29 June – 1 July 2018
Co-organized with: Melanie Braith, Sabin Jeanmaire, Alicia Krömer, and Patrizia Zanella
“The Genres of Genre: A Conference on Form, Formats, and Cultural Formations”
Biennial SANAS Conference
University of Lausanne, 2-3 November 2018
Co-organized with: Agnieszka Soltysik-Monnet, Benjamin Pickford, and Boris Vejdovsky
The Biennial SANAS Conference was preceded by a screening of Rhymes for Young Ghouls, written and directed by Jeff Barnaby (Mi’kmaq). This public event took place at the Zinéma in Lausanne and was sponsored by the Canadian Embassy to Switzerland.
Andrea Eugster Ingold
Talks:
“Journeys Across Continents and Time: The Dutiful Daughter in Little Women and in Sigrid
R. Ammer’s Writings” presented at Orchard House, Home of Louisa May Alcott, on July 18th 2018
Research projects:
I do continue my research on Lulu Nieriker Rasim, daughter of May Alcott.
Scott Loren
Edited volume:
Cuonz, Daniel, Scott Loren and Jörg Metelmann, editors. Screening Economies: Money
Matters and the Ethics of Representation. transcript, 2018.
Volume contributions:
Loren, Scott. “Frankenstein’s Legacy: Discursive Thinking in the Economic Paradigm.”
Screening Economies: Money Matters and the Ethics of Representation, edited by Cuonz, Loren and Metelmann, transcript, 2018, pp. 71-93.
Loren, Scott. (2018). “Networks Reworked: an interview with Paolo Cirio.” In Cuonz, Loren,
Metelmann (eds.), Screening Economies: Money Matters and the Ethics of Representation. Bielefeld: transcript.
Articles and papers:
Loren, Scott. “Words as Witness: Remembering the Present in Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein.” SPELL: Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature, vol. 36,
2018, pp. 67-100.
Kolmar, Martin and Scott Loren. “Wenn aus Veränderung Krise wird.” Der Tagesspiegel, 10
Information on activities in American Studies you organized for your institution in 2018 (visiting lecturers, fellows, performances, and so on):
Guest lecture:
A. Elisabeth Reichel, “Visual Anthropology: from the male gaze to the ethnographic gaze.”
Held at the University of St. Gall, 20. November 2018
Christina Ljungberg
Talk:
“Sensorial effectiveness in multimedia arts and literature” at the ICLA Research Committee meeting and workshop “Literature, Arts, and Media: Rivalry or Alliance” at the Institute of Cultural Research at the University of Tartu on Dec. 13, 2018.
Publications:
Ljungberg, Christina. “Mapping Utopia”, Spatial Modernities – Geography, Narrative, Imaginaries. Ed. Johnny Riquet and Elizabeth Kollmann. New York: Routledge, 2018. 42-56.
Ljungberg, Christina. “Iconicity in Cognition and Communication”. In Historical Social
Research: Models and Modelling between Digital & Humanities – A Multidisciplinatry Perspective. HSR Supplement 31 (2018): 66-77.
Francesca de Lucia
Publication:
“Looking for an Invisible Enemy in Israeli Film”, in The Enemy in Contemporary Film. Eds
Martin Loeschnigg and Marzena Sokolwska Paryz. DeGruyters, 2018.
Invited lecture:
“Da Napoli a Pechino”, guest lecture, Beijing International Studies University, 5 November
2018, Beijing.
Conference paper:
“Don DeLillo’s Exit West: Exploring the Mediterranean in The Names”, “Widening the Lens:
Beyond the Orient and Occident in Narrative Perspectives for the East and West”,
American University of Dubai, 5-7 April 2018.
Activities for 2017
Publications:
Italian American Cultural Fictions: From Diaspora to Globalization. Peter Lang, 2017.
“Founding Chinese America in Louis Chu’s Eat a Bowl of Tea”, in Harbors, Flows and Migrations. Eds Vincenzo Bavaro, et al. Cambridge Scholarly Press, 2017.
Invited lectures:
“China in French Literature”, guest lecture, Minzu University of China, Beijing, June 6 2017.
“Chinese American Women Writers: An Overview” guest lecture, Ashoka University, New
Delhi, India, January 24 2017
Conference papers:
“Gender, Generations and Ethnicity in Louise DeSalvo’s Food Memoir Crazy in the Kitchen”
Biennial Conference for the American Italian Association of North American Studies,
University of Milan, September 28-30 2017.
“Challenging Orientalism, gender and race in Grace Zaring Stone’s The Bitter Tea of General
Yen, Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, July 5-8 2017.
Richard Nimijean
I received a Professional Achievement Award (Instructor) from Carleton University (2018).
I guest edited a special issue of Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 24 (2) on the theme, “Is Canada Back? Brand Canada in a Turbulent World.” The issue looks at the connection between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s political brand and how he promotes Canada internationally. See iaffairscanada.com/2018/cfpjs-newest-issue-vol-24-issue-2-examining-the-trudeau-governments-branding-legacy/
“On foreign policy, Trudeau’s Liberals are long on rhetoric, short on action.” Hill Times, June 28, 2018 (co-authored with David Carment).
“The Trump Challenge to Canadian Americanité.” Paper presented to the 8th Triennial International Conference of the Central European Association for Canadian Studies (Prague, Czech Republic, September 20-22, 2018).
“Brand Canada from Afar: Reflections of a Canadian Studies Ex-Pat Professor.” Paper presented to the Congrès annuel de l’Association Française d’Études Canadiennes (Avignon, France, June 13-15, 2018).
“Where is the Relationship Going? The View from Canada.” Authors Workshop for the forthcoming book, Canada Among Nations 2018: Canada-US Relations: Sovereignty or Shared Institutions? (Johns Hopkins University, Washington, June 25-26, 2018).
I taught an intensive course, “Canadian Nationalism,” in the Department of English and American Studies at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, October 22-26, 2018
Research projects:
I have three new research projects:
“Reflections from Abroad: The Construction of Canadian Identity” This project examines how expatriate Canadians think about, teach, and research Canada (planned edited collection with Christopher Kirkey, State University of New York College at Plattsburgh), Apart from co-editing, I have a chapter titled “Reimagining Canada: Spatial Dislocation and the Canadian Identity.”
Global issues from a Canadian perspective (planned textbook with Jeffrey Ayres, St. Michael’s College, USA, and David Carment, Carleton University, Canada)
Michael C. Prusse
Publications:
Prusse-Hess, Barbara & Michael Prusse, eds. (2018). Wirksamer Englischunterricht.
Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Hohengehren, (Print).
Prusse, Michael C. (2018) “Die Heldenreise als transmediale Erzählschablone im
Englischunterricht.” www.leseforum.ch 3 www.leseforum.ch/sysModules/obxLeseforum/Artikel/645/2018_3_de_prusse.pdf (Web).
Prusse, Michael C. (2018) “Transmedial Reading: Tim Winton’s Lockie Leonard.” In Using
Literature in English Language Education: Challenging Reading for 8-18 Year Olds, ed. Janice Bland. London: Bloomsbury: pp. 121-137 (Print).
Prusse, Michael C. (2018). “Echoes of Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit in Ernest
Hemingway’s ‘A Canary for One’”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, 31.4 (2018): 223-225 (Print).
Lectures:
Prusse, Michael C. (2018). “Irish narratives from a Swiss perspective: Registering repetitions,
patterns, colours in Bernard MacLaverty’s ‘Walking the Dog’ and in John
McGahern's Fiction.” Guest Lecture at St. Mary's University College Belfast, 21 November 2018 (Lecture).
Dubach, Viola, Luisio Meyer, Carolina & Michael Prusse (2018). Leseförderung in der
Ausbildung von Deutsch- und Englischlehrpersonen an der PHZH, Lesen lustvoll fördern, Leseförderungskonferenz der Schweizer Arbeitsgemeinschaft der allgemeinen öffentlichen Bibliotheken (SAB), Bern, Welle 7, 12 November 2018 (Lecture).
Prusse, Michael C. (2018). “Schriftliche Expertinnen- und Experteninterviews zu wirksamem
Englischunterricht.” Ringvorlesung Forschung und Entwicklung in der Fremdsprachendidaktik der Universität Freiburg, Fribourg, 24 September 2018 (Lecture).
Prusse, Michael C. (2018) “Neue berufliche Perspektiven durch Fachdidaktik
Masterstudiengänge.” HSGYM-PHZH Tag der Mittelschulen, PHZH, 13 September 2018 (Lecture).
Prusse, Michael C. & Lukas Rosenberger (2018). “The Professional Expert Fallacy: The
Perspective of English Teachers on EFL and ESP at vocational schools in the Canton of Zurich.” ADLES conference Des langues étrangère pour tous: didactique et méthodologie, HEP Vaud, 6 September 2018 (Lecture).
Prusse, Michael C. (2018). “Effective English Teaching.” First Swiss Teacher Training Day,
Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich, 6 July 2018 (Lecture).
A. Elisabeth Reichel
Lectures:
“Mulvey’s Displeasures: Ethnographic Film, the Gaze, and Trance in Bali.” Seminar Film
and Psychoanalysis (Dr. Scott Loren), University of St. Gallen, 20 November 2018.
“Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives: The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir,
Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict.” English Department, University of Basel, 30 October 2018.
Dissertation:
Dr. phil. des., summa cum laude, University of Basel
Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies
Thesis: “Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives: The Poetry and Scholarship of
Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict”
Committee: Prof. Dr. Philipp Schweighauser (Basel), Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl (Bern), Dr. Regina Schober (Mannheim)
Date of defense: 21.12.2018
Grants:
06/2018 Grant from the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel for the completion of the Ph.D. project “Sounding Primitives, Writing Anthropologists”
(CHF 10’000; declined)
04/2018 Grant from the Office of Career Advancement, University of Basel, to complete the Ph.D. project Sounding Primitives, Writing Anthropologists: The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict (CHF 20’679)
Funding of Academic Events:
International conference Posthuman Economies: Literary and Cultural Imaginations of the Postindustrial Human. 13-14 April 2019, University of Basel
CHF 9’000 Office of Career Advancement, University of Basel
CHF 2’750 Doktoratsprogramm Literaturwissenschaft, University of Basel
Monograph:
Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives: The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir,
Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict (working title). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Book series Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Invited for review by Regna Darnell and Matthew Bokovoy. Accepted with conditions. 147,000 words.
Edited special issue:
Boasian Aesthetics: American Poetry, Visual Culture, and Cultural Anthropology. With
Philipp Schweighauser, Gabriele Rippl, and Silvy Chakkalakal. Amerikastudien / American Studies 63.4 (2019). Forthcoming.
Articles in journals:
“Introduction.” With Philipp Schweighauser, Gabriele Rippl, and Silvy Chakkalakal.
Amerikastudien / American Studies 63.4 (2019). “Introduction.” Spec. issue Boasian Aesthetics: American Poetry, Visual Culture, and Cultural Anthropology. Eds. Philipp Schweighauser et al. Forthcoming.
“Sonic Others in Early Sound Studies and the Poetry of Edward Sapir: A Salvage Operation.”
Journal of the Austrian Association of American Studies 1.1 (2019). Spec. issue Soundscapes and Sonic Cultures in America. Eds. Nassim Balestrini, Klaus Rieser, and Katharina Fackler. Forthcoming.
Articles in books:
“The Jabber of Money: Disorderly Modes of Listening in Marin Amis.” Ear Pieces:
Listening, Diagnosing, Writing. Ed. Edward Allen. London: Routledge. In preparation.
“On the Poetry of a Boasian Cultural Anthropologist: Ruth Benedict’s Palimpsestuous
Writings.” Cultural Palimpsests: Ethnic Watermarks, Surfacing Histories. Eds. Yiorgos D. Kalogeras, Joanna Kardux, Jopi Nyman, and Monika Müller. Accepted for publication.
“‘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. Accepted for publication.
Gabriele Rippl
Information on your own academic activities in 2018 (books, papers, lectures, awards, etc.) Please use MLA Style wherever applicable.
Talks:
“Picture This! Transcultural American Literature in the Digital Age”, University of Mainz,
Annual Obama Lecture & Award Ceremony, Obama Institute, 22.11.2018.
“Margaret Atwood’s Gardens”, University of Wuerzburg, EASLCE 8th Biennial
Conference: The Garden. Ecological Paradigms of Space, History, and Community, 27.09.2018
“Mona Lisa as Original-Copy”, in: Summer School of the Swiss Study Foundation:
Reproduzierbarkeit und Kopie in transdisziplinärer Perspektive, Magliaso, 01.09. – 08.09.2018.
“Ecological Imaginaries and Cultural Sustainability: Lauren Redniss’ Graphic ‘Tale of Love
and Fallout’”, UNAM Mexico City, Coloquio internacional e interdisciplinario: Aesthetics and Ecology. A Global Perspective: New Resources, Materials, Concepts, 11.05.2018
“Literary Eco-Ekphrases and the Materiality of Works of Arts”, University of Regensburg,
Internationale Tagung: Animated Things. Kunst und Ökologie, 13.04.2018
“Literatur und Migration: Amerikanistische und anglistische Perspektiven”, University of
Bern, Ringvorlesung: Migration. Disziplinäre und interdisziplinäre Perspektiven, 07.03.2018
“Intermedial Anecdotes: Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red”, Free University of Berlin,
Conference: Exemplary Singularity. Fault Lines of the Anecdotal, John-F.-Kennedy Institute, 03.02.2018
Workshops/Lecture Series:
Workshop “Mediality, Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern
Workshop “Auto_Bio_Graphie”, University of Bern
Workshop “Anglophone World Literatures”, University of Bern, with Prof. Dr. Stefan Helgesson, University of Stockholm, and Prof. Dr. Birgit Neumann, University of Düsseldorf
Publications:
Author
Rippl, Gabriele. “Autobiography in the Globalized World.” Handbook
Autobiography/Autofiction, Ed. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2018. 1263-1280.
Rippl, Gabriele. “Anais Nin: The Diary of Anais Nin.” Handbook Autobiography/Autofiction,
Ed. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2018. 1750-1761.
Rippl, Gabriele. “Ekphrastic Encounters in Contemporary Transcultural American Life
Writing.” Intermediality, Life Writing and American Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Ed. Nassim Winnie Balestrini, and Ina Bergmann. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2018. 143-161.
Rippl, Gabriele. “Life and Work.” Handbook Autobiography/Autofiction, Ed. Martina
Wagner-Egelhaaf. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2018. 327-335.
Rippl, Gabriele. “The Cultural Work of Ekphrasis in Contemporary Anglophone Novels.”
Poetics Today 39.2 (2018). 265-285.
Rippl, Gabriele. “Picturing Lagos: Word-Photography Configurations in Teju Cole’s Every
Day Is for the Thief.” Social Dymanics Special Issue. Re-Imagining African Cities. The Arts and Urban Politics 44.3 (2018). 472-484.
Editor
Rippl, Gabriele, Lucia von Kornexl, Ursula Lenker, Martin Midekke, and Hubert Zapf, eds.
Anglia: Book Series. Berlin/Boston: De Gryuter 2018.
Rippl, Gabriele, Lucia von Kornexl, Ursula Lenker, Martin Midekke, and Hubert Zapf, eds.
Anglia: Journal of English Philology / Zeitschrift für englische Philologie 136.1 (2018).
Rippl, Gabriele, Lucia von Kornexl, Ursula Lenker, Martin Midekke, and Hubert Zapf, eds.
Anglia: Journal of English Philology / Zeitschrift für englische Philologie 136.2
(2018).
Rippl, Gabriele, Lucia von Kornexl, Ursula Lenker, Martin Midekke, and Hubert Zapf, eds.
Anglia: Journal of English Philology / Zeitschrift für englische Philologie 136.3 (2018).
Rippl, Gabriele, Lucia von Kornexl, Ursula Lenker, Martin Midekke, and Hubert Zapf, eds.
Anglia: Journal of English Philology / Zeitschrift für englische Philologie 136.4 (2018).
Middeke, Martin, Gabriele Rippl, and Hubert Zapf, eds. Handbooks of English and American
Studies: Text and Theory. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2018.
Information on activities in American Studies you organized for your institution in 2018 (visiting lecturers, fellows, performances, and so on)
“The Colonial Period.” Guest lecture by Dr. Oliver Scheiding, University of Mainz, as part of
the lecture series “Literary History”, 14 March 2018.
“Octave Thanet’s ‘My Lorelei: A Heidelberg Romance’ (1880).” Guest lecture by Prof. Dr.
Christopher Looby, UCLA, as part of the lecture series “Literary History”, 28 March 2018.
“Flood, Fire, Drought and Blizzard: Indigenous Australian Writers and Environmental
Concerns.” Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Beate Neumeier, University of Cologne, as part of the Workshop “Un/Sustainability in Anglophone Fiction”, 4 May 2018.
“What Would Jesus Drive: The Mainstreaming of Evangelical Environmental Protection
Programs and Underpinning Theology.” Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Marcia Pally, Fordham University, NY, as part of the Workshop “Un/Sustainability in Anglophone Fiction”, 4 May 2018.
“Photography as Critical Idiom and Intermedial Criticism.” Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Liliane
Louvel, University of Poitiers, as part of the Seminar “Modernism and Visual Culture”,
10 December 2018.
Supervision of PhD projects:
Kappel, Yvonne. Latency and Memory in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction (working title,
co-supervision; first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Birgit Neumann).
Bischof, Roman. Narrating Neurons: Perspectives on Mental Illness in English Language
Novels in the Age of Neuroscience (working title).
Behluli, Sofie. Visuality and Materiality in the Contemporary American Novel (co-
supervision; first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Laura Marcus, Oxford).
Reber, Simon. Intermedial Strategies in the Poetry of Sapir (working title).
Steffen, Samuel. Representation of Gulf Wars (working title).
Gasser, Selina. Female Stand-up Comedy (working title).
Research projects:
“Anglophone Life Writing Today: Transcultural Figurations – Intermedial Constellations”
(Research project funded by the Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
Morphomata Kolleg, Cologne).
“Auto_Bio_Graphie” (Interdisciplinary WBK research platform, a cooperation between
Dance Studies (Prof. Dr. Ch. Thurner), Spanish Literature (Prof. Bénédicte Vauthier),
Literatures in English (Prof. Dr. G. Rippl), art history (Prof. Dr. P. Schneemann) and Visual Anthropology (Prof. Dr. M. Schäuble).
“Contemporary Narratives” (Handbook Project with Prof. Dr. Laura Marcus, University of
Oxford).
“Cultural Dimensions of Sustainability” (Research and book project with Prof. Dr. Torsten
Meireis, Humboldt University Berlin).
“Ekphrasis in the Digital Age” (with Prof. Dr. Renate Brosch, University of Stuttgart, and
Prof. Dr. Danuta Fjellestad, University of Uppsala).
“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>
“Postcolonial Ekphrasis” (Research and book project with Prof. Dr. Birgit Neumann,
University of Düsseldorf).
<http://www.wbkolleg.unibe.ch/forschung/forschungsforum/auto_bio_grafie__historiografische_perspektiven_auf_selbstzeugnisse_in_den_kuensten/index_ger.html>
“Original – Copy: Techniques and Aesthetics of Reproduction” (Interdisciplinary WBK
research platform, 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>
Philipp Schweighauser
Publications:
Schweighauser, Philipp. “‘Gut’: Becketts Verhandlungen von Macht in seinen Fernsehspielen für den Süddeutschen Rundfunk.” Literatur und Politische Philosophie: Subjektivität, Fremdheit, Demokratie. Ed. 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, 2018. 445-459. Print.
Schweighauser, Philipp. “Sinclair Lewis and the Decline of ‘Liberalism’: Reading It Can’t Happen Here in the Age of Trump.” Hermeneutische Blätter 1 (2018): 118-131. Print.
Schweighauser, Philipp. “Faire du neuf, autrement: la poésie de Margaret Mead.” Trans. Éléonore Devevey. Anthropologie et poèsie. Ed. Vincent Debaene and Nicolas Adell. Spec. issue of Fabula LHT 21 (2018). Web. www.fabula.org/lht/21/schweighauser.html.
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. Ed. Festl and Schweighauser. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2018. 9-17. Print.
Lectures/Papers/Talks:
Schweighauser, Philipp. “Angles of Immunity: Beckett’s Film.” Beckett and the Media. International Conference, University of Basel, 24 March 2018.
Schweighauser, Philipp. “Beautiful Deceptions: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Early American Novel.” Obama Institute, University of Mainz, 2 May 2018.
Schweighauser, Philipp. “45 Degrees: Autoimmunity in Beckett’s Film.” Theater and Performance Colloquium, Harvard University, 11 October 2018.
Schweighauser, Philipp. “Of Literary and Social Innovation: Margaret Mead’s Lyrical Work.” Twentieth Century and Contemporary Colloquium, Harvard University, 25 October 2018.
Organised guest lectures:
Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheiding (Obama Institute, University of Mainz): “Native American Colonial Mediascapes: Mapmaking and Periodicals.” University of Basel, 13 March 2018.
Prof. Christopher Looby (UCLA): “Sexual Impulses in 1799.” University of Basel, 27 March 2018.
Supervision of PhD projects:
Aerni, Anouk. “A Farewell to Anthropocentrism in 20th Century American Postbellum Prose.” english.philhist.unibas.ch/en/persons/anouk-aerni/
Kraft, Corin. “Contemporary American Literature and the Internet of Things.” english.philhist.unibas.ch/en/persons/corin-kraft/
Mauruschat, Ania. “Radiophonie, Störung und Erkenntnis: Zur Epistemologie der Radiokunst.” english.philhist.unibas.ch/en/persons/anja-mauruschat/
Osei-Bonsu, Victoria. “Representations of the Other in Selected Works of Joseph Conrad.” (completed 2018)
Rapcsák, Balázs. “Beckett’s Media System: A Comparative Study in Multimediality.” english.philhist.unibas.ch/en/persons/balazs-rapcsak/
Reichel, A. Elisabeth. “Sounding Primitives, Writing Anthropologists: The Poetry and Scholarship of Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, and Ruth Benedict.” (completed 2018) english.philhist.unibas.ch/index.php
Research projects:
SNSF Project: Beckett’s Media System: A Comparative Study in Multimediality. beckett-media.philhist.unibas.ch/en
Bryn Skibo-Birney
Talk:
Skibo-Birney, Bryn. “Mino-Bimaadiziwin in Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Fiction.” Rising
Up: A Graduate Students’ Conference on Indigenous Knowledge and Research. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. 9-10 March 2018.
Julia Straub
Talks and presentations:
Presentation of the Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies at the Transatlantic Conversations Workshop at the University of Mainz, Obama Institute, by invitation, October 2018.
Panel organizer and chair at the annual conference of the European Early American Studies Association, London, December 2018. Panel: Communities in Print/Communities of Print
Organized guest lectures:
4 guest lectures by Dr. Tim Lanzendörfer from the University of Mainz as part of an Erasmus teaching staff mobility exchange scheme, October 2018
American Studies events:
Organized a 5-day study trip “Americans in Italy/Shakespeare in Italy” to Rome with PD Dr. Ursula Kluwick, November 2018
Publication:
Rev. of Carsten Junker. Patterns of Positioning: On the Poetics of Early Abolition.
Heidelberg: Winter, 2016. in: Anglia 136.4 (2018): 760-763.
Alexa Weik von Mossner
Book chapters:
“Roland Emmerich’s The Day After Tomorrow.” Cli-Fi: A Companion. Eds. Axel Goodbody and Adeline Johns-Putra. Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2018. 133-138.
“Franny Armstrong’s The Age of Stupid.” Cli-Fi: A Companion,. Eds. Axel Goodbody and Adeline Johns-Putra. Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2018, 123-129.
“From Nostalgic Longing to Solastalgic Distress: A Cognitive Approach to Love in the Anthropocene.” Affective Ecocriticism: Emotion, Embodiment, Environment. Eds. Jennifer Ladino and Kyle Bladow. Omaha: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. 51-70.
“Engaging Animals in Wildlife Documentaries: From Anthropomorphism to Trans-species Empathy.” Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film. Eds. Catalin Brylla and Mette Kramer. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 163-179.
“The Moral Dilemma of Unsustainability: Eco-dystopian Fiction as Cultural Critique.” Cultural Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences. Eds. Gabriele Rippl and Torsten Meireis. New York: Routledge, 2018, 194-208.
Talks:
“Cognitive Narratology, Empirical Ecocriticism, and Alice Walker’s ‘Am I Blue?’” Paper at the interdisciplinary workshop on “Empirical Ecocriticism” that I organized with Matthew Schneider-Mayerson at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany December 14-15, 2018.
“How Do Environmental Narratives Make us Feel? Theoretical and Empirical Considerations.” Guest lecture at the University of Osnabrück, Germany, November 27, 2018.
“Tales of a Third Culture Kid: Empathy, Emotion and Political Engagement in the Novels of Pearl S. Buck.” Keynote lecture at the Conference “Intercultural Views: Pearl S. Buck and Other Writers from Twentieth-Century China” at the University of Bergamo, Italy. November 9, 2018.
“Back to the Roots: Race, Space, and Community in Urban Farming Documentaries.” Paper at the 8th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE) at the University of Würzburg, Germany, September 26-29, 2018.
“Screening the Anthropocene: Environmental Documentaries and Academic Knowledge Production.” Invited talk at the “Anthropocene and Citizen Science” Workshop at the Deutsche Museum, Munich, Germany, July 19, 2018.
“From Eco-Narratology to Empirical Ecocriticism: Exploring Empathy and Emotion in Environmental Narrative.” Guest lecture at the NARMESH Project at the University of Ghent, Belgium, June 21, 2018.
“How We Feel about (Not) Eating Animals: Ecomedia, Emotion, and Vegan Studies.” Plenary lecture at “A Clockwork Green: Ecomedia in the Anthropocene — A Nearly Carbon Neutral Virtual Symposium,” sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) & the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, June 14-30, 2018.
“Feeling with (Non)human Others: Narrative Empathy in American Literature and Film.” Guest lecture at the University of Graz, Austria, May 17, 2018.
“Affective Ecology and a Transmedial Poetics of Risk Narratives.” Keynote lecture at “The Poetics of Risk” Workshop at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, May 4, 2018.
“Imaginary Futures: (Un)Sustainable Communities in Environmental Culture.” Invited speaker at the 12th Annual Peace Conference at Golden West College, Huntington Beach, California, USA, April 20, 2018.
“Who Cares? Emotion and Reception in Climate Change Cinema.” Guest lecture at the Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science & Policy, University of Miami, Florida, USA, April 16, 2018.
“Street Food: Environment, Place, and Protest in Urban Farming Documentaries.” Paper at the 32nd Annual Conference of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS) and the British Association for American Studies (BAAS), London, UK April 4, 2018.
“Speculative Emotions? The Affective Appeals of Eco(dys)topia.” Keynote lecture at the 2018 Ravenstein Seminar Winter School on “Literature, Affect, and Emotion,” organized by the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, January 26, 2018.
“American Environments at the Movies: Embodiment, Emotion, and Perception.” Guest lecture at the University of Regensburg, Germany, January 18, 2018.
Conferences and workshops organized:
Organizer, with Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, of the interdisciplinary workshop “Empirical Ecocriticism” at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany, December 14-15, 2018.
Organizer, with Pierre-Louis Patoine, of the international conference “Inhabiting Immersive Territories in the Anthropocene” at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, France, June 22-23, 2018.
Information on activities in American Studies you organized for your institution in 2018 (visiting lecturers, fellows, performances, and so on):
Guest lecture by Thomas Austenfeld, “American Poetry: Pleasure, Pathos, Prosody,” January 10, 2018.
Guest lecture by Sean Lovitt, “Blueprints for a Long Hot Summer: The Speculative Fiction of Revolutionary Action Movement,” March 19, 2018.
Guest lecture by Pete Porter, “Screen Stories and Moral Codes: It Happened One Night and Get Out,” April 26, 2018.
Guest lecture by Timo Müller, “Environmental Mobility and the American Road Movie,” May 14, 2018.
Guest lecture by Wojciech Malecki, “What Animal Stories Do to Your Mind: Narratives, Psychology, and Social Change,” November 5, 2018.
Supervision of PhD projects:
Marijana Mikic, “Contemporary African American Fiction: Narrative as a Meeting Point with the Racial Other” (ongoing, working title)
Research projects:
Research project, “Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American Literatures,” with two PhD researchers, funded by the FWF, 2018-2021.https://narrativeencounters.aau.at
Research project “Empirical Ecocriticism,” in collaboration with Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Wojciech Malecki, funded by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich. empiricalecocriticism.com
Pilot study for bilateral FWF grant application “Stories and Extinctions: Can Narratives Change Attitudes and Behavior Toward Endangered Species?” with Wojciech Malecki, funded by the AAU research council.
Patrizia Zanella
Talks and Lectures
“‘We had family here, blood and otherwise’: Survivance through Kinship, Story, Dreams,
and Language in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves.” NALS (Native American Literature Symposium), 24 March 2018, Prior Lake, Minnesota. Conference Paper.
“Black-Indigenous Kinship-Making in Richard Wagamese’s Dream Wheels.” “Witnessing
Resurgence: Self-Determination and Allyship”: The Fifteenth Annual Emerging Scholars’ Forum of the GKS (Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien /Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries), 30 June 2018, University of Bern, Switzerland. Conference Paper.
“Continuities between AIM, Standing Rock, and Violence at the Mexico-United States Border” in Prof. Thomas Austenfeld’s Lecture “Minorities and Prisons: Leonard Peltier and Others,” 27 Nov. 2018, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Guest Lecture.
“Crossing the Medicine Line: Kinship Connections Across Nation State Borders.” International PhD Workshop: Current Research in American Studies, 05 Dec. 2018, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany. Workshop Paper.
Information on activities in American Studies you organized for your institution in 2018 (visiting lecturers, fellows, performances, and so on):
Co-organizer with Melanie Braith, Cécile Heim, Sabin Jeanmaire, and Alicia Kroemer. “Witnessing Resurgence: Self-Determination and Allyship”: The Fifteenth Annual Emerging Scholars’ Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries, 29 June – 01 July 2018, University of Bern.