2019

Publications:

New Directions in Philosophy and Literature (co-edited with David Rudrum and Frida Beckman). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

“Emerson’s Speculative Pragmatism.” New Directions in Philosophy and Literature. Ed. David Rudrum, Ridvan Askin, and Frida Beckman. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. 234-252.

“Editor’s Introduction.” New Directions in Philosophy and Literature. Ed. David Rudrum, Ridvan Askin, and Frida Beckman. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. 175-178.

“Editor’s Introduction.” New Directions in Philosophy and Literature. Ed. David Rudrum, Ridvan Askin, and Frida Beckman. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. 99-101.

“Editors’ Preface” (with David Rudrum and Frida Beckman). New Directions in Philosophy and Literature. Ed. David Rudrum, Ridvan Askin, and Frida Beckman. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. ix-x.

Interview by Luke Clancy. “Culture File: A Beautiful Game? Soccerdemic, Ridvan Askin on the Relationship between Beauty and Soccer.” Culture File Podcasts. RTÉ lyric fm, 9 July 2019. <https://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/lorcan-murrays-classic-drive/programmes/2019/0709/1061148-lorcan-murrays-classic-drive-tuesday-9-july-2019/?clipid=103153876>

Talks:

Invited Talks

“Beyond the Subject: Posthuman and Nonhuman Literary Criticism.” Book Launch: New Directions in Philosophy and Literature, Stockholm University, 18 October 2019

“Beyond the Object: Reading Literature through Actor-Network Theory, Object-Oriented Philosophy, and the New Materialisms.” Book Launch: New Directions in Philosophy and Literature, Stockholm University, 18 October 2019

Other Talks

“Space Beyond Space: Size, Scale, Level, and the Absolute in Charles Olson’s The Maximus Poems.” ASA Annual Conference: Fight to Build, Honolulu, November 7-10, 2019

“Deleuze’s Romanticism.” 12th Annual Deleuze and Guattari Studies Conference: From Sense to Machinic Becoming, Royal Holloway, University of London, 8-10 July 2019

“The Poetry of Soccer.” International Conference: The Art of Football, TU Dublin, 4-5 July, 2019

“Fiction, Illusion, and the Mind: E.L. Doctorow’s Andrew’s Brain.” APL Annual Conference 2019: Truth, Fiction, Illusion – Worlds and Experience, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, 29 May-2 June 2019

Awards & Fellowships:

External Junior Fellowship. FRIAS: Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg, June 2019-September 2019 (4 months)

SANAS Research Award 2019 (for talk at the ASA Annual Conference: Fight to Build, Honolulu, November 7-10, 2019).

Information on activities in American Studies you organized for your institution in 2019 (visiting lecturers, fellows, performances, and so on)

Lecture Series: New Developments in Theory

5-6 Dec 2019:               EARS Meeting Double Feature

                                      Elana Gomel (Tel Aviv University): “Time after (the End of) Time” (Lecture) & Marco Caracciolo (Ghent University): “The Form of Slowness: Literary Narrative and the Imagination of the Nonhuman” (Lecture) & “Temporality, Narrativity, and the Anthropocene” (Workshop w/ Elana Gomel). University of Basel

                     21 May 2019:               Birgit Mara Kaiser (Utrecht Universiteit): “A Politics of Reading.” University of Basel

English and American Rhenish Scholars (EARS) Meeting. Plenaries: Elana Gomel (Tel Aviv University) and Marco Caracciolo (Ghent University). University of Basel, 6 December 2019

Supervision of PhD projects

Shannon Lambert (PhD thesis, advisory board external member; Ghent University, ongoing)

<http://www.narmesh.ugent.be/people.html> (scroll down)

Research projects

Habilitation project: “Transcendental Poetics and the Futures of American Romanticism”

Publications

Austenfeld, Thomas (ed.)  Robert Lowell in a New Century: European and American Perspectives.  Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House (an imprint of Boydell & Brewer), 2019.  ISBN 9781640140288.

-----.  “Questions of Epic and Lyric: The Challenge of Walt Whitman.” IdeAs [Online Journal of the Institut des Amériques, www.institutdesameriques.fr] 14 (2019), posted October 1, 2019. journals.openedition.org/ideas/6618 . doi.org/10.4000/ideas.6618 . OPEN ACCESS.

-----. Review of Jewel Spears Brooker, T.S. Eliot’s Dialectical Imagination (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2018) in Anglia 137.2 (2019): 360-363. DOI:  doi.org/10.1515/ang-2019-0029.

Guest Lectures outside of academic conferences:

“Between Lyric and Epic: The Challenge of Walt Whitman.” Guest Lecture, Universität Trier, January 22, 2020.

 “What Poets Do With History: Derek Walcott’s Omeros and the Battle of the Saint(e)s.”  Guest Lecture, Muhlenberg Center at Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, January 14 and 15, 2020.

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Outside evaluator of doctoral thesis on Gjertrud Schnackenberg, by Alexandra Kraeva, U. of Mulhouse. February 3, 2020

Co-organizer for swissuniversities-sponsored one-day workshop entitled “Transnational Conversations”. Multilingual Writing and Cultural Exchange in Europe and the Americas. Guest: Dr. Jennifer Reimer, U. of Graz. December 6, 2019

Organizer, Swiss European Mobility Exchange visit by Dr. Snezana Vuletic, LMU München, for multiple guest lectures. “Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun” and “An Introduction to Postcolonial Criticism.” November 11-15, 2019

Organizer, Guest Lecture by Zoe Boekbinder, New Orleans, “The Folsom Prison Project,” October 29, 2019

Organizer, Guest Lecture by Dr. Sascha Pöhlmann, U. of Konstanz, “Walt Whitman and Future-Founding Poetry,” October 22, 2019

Co-organizer, with Patrizia Zanella, of CUSO Workshop, Literary Texts and Legal Epistemologies in North American Indigenous Studies.  Guest: Prof. Jill Doerfler, Chair of the Department of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota-Duluth.

Radio interview on “Echo der Zeit” (SRF) on the death of Toni Morrison. Tuesday, August 6, 2019, 18:00h.

Organizer, Guest lectures by Prof. Frank Mehring, Radboud University, Nijmegen.  “Confessin’ the Blues: Sonic Life Writing” and “The Weary Blues: Remediating the Literary Harlem Renaissance in Visual Culture.” May 6 and 7, 2019.

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.  Ph.D. defended  in October 2019.

Information on your own academic activities in 2019 (books, papers, lectures, awards, etc.)

Conference paper: “‘The Eloquence of the Locks and Bars’ – Metaphors of Confinement in Novelistic Enquiries into Mental Health” (Conference: “The Material and Immaterial Heritage of Psychiatry”, Gothenburg, 11-12 June 2019).

Information on activities in American Studies you organized for your institution in 2019 (visiting lecturers, fellows, performances, and so on)

Bern, 24 June 2019: Workshop “Cultural Perspectives on Mental Illness” with Prof. Dr. Susanne Rohr (University of Hamburg).

Research projects

ongoing PhD project: “Narrating Neurons: Perspectives on Mental Illness in American and British Novels in the Age of Neuroscience.”

Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

“Lessons in Color-blind Racism in The Bachelorette.” Canadian Review of American Studies 49.2 (2019): 115-138.

With Patricia Egli and Yvette Sánchez, “The ICRC at a Crossroads: Swiss Roots—International Outlook.” Journal of International Humanitarian Action 4.13 (2019), 1-17.

Conference Paper

With Katherine Goktepe (presenter), “Populism with a P(hd): Education Levels and Populist Leaders.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Washington, D.C., August 31, 2019.

Blog Entry

“Watching The Bachelorette: Seriously Frivolous – Frivolously Serious?” Blog of the University of Toronto Press Journals July 29, 2019. blog.utpjournals.com/2019/07/29/watching-bachelorette-seriously-frivolous-frivolously-serious/.

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Classes

Fall 2019, seminar “US History since 1945,” Assessment level (first year-students), in English, 4 ECTS.

Fall 2019, “Introduction to US Politics,” Bachelor level, in English, 4 ECTS.

Spring 2019, seminar co-taught with Katherine Goktepe, “From Shakespeare to the Present: Politics on Stage,” Master level, in English, 3 ECTS.

Guest lecture

Peter Hossli, journalist, “Politics and Media in the United States,” Nov. 11, 2019.

Publications

Books:

Co-Editor, with Britta Sweers and Kornelia Imesch. Critique of Authenticity. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2019.

Essays:

“Neorealism, Contingency, and the Linguistic Turn.” Humanities 8.4 (2019): 176. Special Issue Ethics and Literary Practice. Ed. Adam Zachary Newton. doi.org/10.3390/h8040176.

“Where Are Jacques and Ernesto When You Need Them? Rancière and Laclau on Populism, Experts and Contingency.” Philosophy and Social Criticism 45.9-10 (2019): 1132-1143.

“A Critique of Authenticity and Recognition.” In T. Claviez, B. Sweers, K. Imesch (eds.), Critique of Authenticity. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2020. 43-58.

“The Dual Paradox of Authenticity in the 21st Century: A Response to Alessandro Ferrara.” In T. Claviez, B. Sweers, K. Imesch (eds.), Critique of Authenticity. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2020. 19-30.

“Introduction.” With Britta Sweers and Kornelia Imesch. In T. Claviez, B. Sweers, K. Imesch (eds.), Critique of Authenticity. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2020. vii-xix.

“Walt Whitman: Metonymy, Contingency, and the Democracy of it All.” In Winfried Herget (ed.), Walt Whitman Revisited On the Occasion of his 200th Birthday. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019. 139-162.

“Melville, Whitman, and Metonymy: Towards a New Poetics of Community.” Textual Practice 33 (2019): 1767-1785. doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2019.1665927.

Lectures/Conferences:

Teaching at the Institute for World Literature, 29 June – 11 July, Harvard University.

Co-Organizer of the Conference “Constructing and Contesting Community,” University of Bern, 8-9 May 2019.

Talks:

“Some remarks on the Metonymic Society.” Conference Constructing and Contesting Community.” Universität Bern, 9-10 May 2019.

Supervision of PhD projects

Viola Marchi: “’Fuori Luogo: Community and the Impropriety of the Common.”

Ryan Kopaitich: “Radical Intimacy: Context and Community”

Banu Akin: “Exiles Crossing Female Bodies: Towards New Configurations of Gender in Arab American and Maghrebi Literature”

“Artificial Entities, Gender, & Sex in the Cultural Imagination.” AI Lecture Series at the UZH Philosophy Department. May 20, 2019.

“Technandrology - a Symbolics of Human-Machine Interaction in the Postindustrial Paradigm.” With Scott Loren. Posthuman Economies: Literary and Cultural Imaginations of the Postindustrial Human at the University of Basel. April 13-14, 2019.

“Player Agency, Identification, and Immersion. Or, Some Thoughts on End of the Universe.” Guest lecture as part of Dr. Jesse Ramirez’ seminar “Playing with the End of the World: The Last of Us and Post-Apocalyptic Gaming” at the University of St. Gallen. March 5, 2019.

Do Androids Dream of Sex? Geschlecht in kulturellen Repräsentationen von künstlichen Entitäten.” Winterkongress der Digitalen Gesellschaft. February 23, 2019.

Publications

Papers at Conferences:

 “Portraying (in) Language: Gertrude Stein’s Literary Portraits,” (Un)Like: Life Writing and Portraiture, c.1700-the present Centre for Life-Writing, Workshop, King’s College, London, 3 May 3, 2019

“Sick and Self: The Writer as Patient and Theorist,” IABA international conference, “Knowing the Self: Auto/Biographical Narratives and the History of Knowledge, Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, June 19-21, 2019

“Life Writing Palliative Praxis,” European Cultures of Palliative Care, Workshop, University of Zurich, Oct 25-26. 2019

“Feeling (and Falling) Ill: Finding a Language of Illness,” International Conference “Feeling Dis/ease: New Perspectives on Modern History,” Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Jan. 29-31.

Panel on “Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984” Neues Kino Basel, May 7, 2019

Publications

Hänggi, Christian. “South Park: Trump, technology, and the uncanny.” Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror and the Politics of Fear. Ed. Victoria McCollum. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. 141–151. Print.  

Hänggi, Christian. “Scientology.” Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in American History. Eds. Christopher R. Fee and Jeffrey B. Webb. Santa Barbara CA: ABC-Clio, 2019. 565–569. Print   

Hänggi, Christian. “MOVE.”  Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in American History. Eds. Christopher R. Fee and Jeffrey B. Webb. Santa Barbara CA: ABC-Clio, 2019. 436–439. Print.   

Hänggi, Christian. “Haymarket Bombing.” Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in American History. Eds. Christopher R. Fee and Jeffrey B. Webb. Santa Barbara CA: ABC-Clio, 2019. 294–297. Print.   

Hänggi, Christian. “Kent State University Shootings.” Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in American History. Eds. Christopher R. Fee and Jeffrey B. Webb. Santa Barbara CA: ABC-Clio, 2019. 354–357. Print.   

Lectures/Papers

Hänggi, Christian. “From Vivaldi to ‘Volare’: Pynchon’s Love for Italian Music.” Paper presented at the 2019 International Pynchon Week in Rome, Italy. June 2019.

Hänggi, Christian. “Die dunklen Seiten von 1968.” Lecture/concert with Lakeside Big Band, Zurich. November 2019.

4. Information on activities in American Studies you organized for your institution in 2019 (visiting lecturers, fellows, performances, and so on)

Conference: The Prolonged Death of the Hippie, 1967–1969. University of Basel, 12–14 September 2019. Keynote Speakers: Anne Waldman & Ed Sanders. hippie-conference.unibas.ch

Publications:

Heim, Cécile. “Stephen Graham Jones.” The Literary Encyclopedia, 23 November

2019, https://www.litencyc.com.

Heim, Cécile, Boris Vejdovsky, and Benjamin Pickford, eds. The Genres of Genre: Form,

Formats, and Cultural Formations. Narr, Swiss Papers in English Language and

Literature (SPELL), vol. 38, 2019.

Heim, Cécile. “Pratiquer les inter- / multi- / pluri- et transdisciplinarités: L’apprentissage de la lecture entre les lignes.” Faculté des lettres: Journée de la recherche. 19 September 2019, https://www.unil.ch/lettres/home/menuinst/faculte/nos-rendez-vous-annuels/journee-de-la-recherche.html. –> The direct link to my text is: https://www.unil.ch/lettres/files/live/sites/lettres/files/shared/Faculte/rdv-annuels/recherche/2019/09-03-Cecile-Heim.pdf

Heim, Cécile. “The Unnatural and Accidental Women.” The Literary Encyclopedia, 24 July

2019, https://www.litencyc.com.

Heim, Cécile “The Unsustainability of Private Property: Resisting American Oil Culture in

Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit.” Narratives of (Un)sustainability: Assessing U.S. Oil

Culture: An Interdisciplinary Conference. Lausanne, Switzerland. 27-28 September 2019.

Heim, Cécile. “The Cultural Work of Violence: How Rhymes for Young Ghouls Teaches

Resistance to Violence through Decolonization.” Violent Times, Rising Protest:

Biennial Meeting of the Swiss Association of Gender Studies. Bern, Switzerland. 12-

13 September 2019.

Heim, Cécile. “Some Truths about Social Welfare and the Racial Politics of Literary Criticism in Eden Robinson’s ‘Contact Sports.’” Indigenous Literary Arts of Truth and Redress: 4th Annual Meeting of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association. Vancouver, Canada. 3-5 June 2019.

Heim, Cécile. “[Non]Domestic [In]Dependent Nations: Unsettling the U.S. Settler State in

Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit.” Brexit and Beyond: Nation and Identity: Biennial

Meeting of the Swiss Association of University Teachers in English. Basel, Switzerland. 3-4 May 2019

Heim, Cécile. “(Re)mapping Justice: Capital, Law, and Land in Linda Hogan’s Mean

Spirit.” We Are Still Here: Native American Literature Symposium. Prior Lake, MN,

USA. 7-9 March 2019.

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CUSO Workshop: “The Cultural Work of Violence” 22. & 23 March 2019. Guest Speakers: Prof. Mishuana Goeman (UCLA) and Prof. David Schmid (SUNY at Buffalo). Including two keynote lectures: “Turning the Spectacle: Imagining Indigenous Futures, Killing Colonial Pasts” by Prof. Goeman on 23 March 2019, and “Popular Cultures of Violence” by Prof. Schmid on 22 March 2019.

Guest Lecture: “Crime Narratives in the Age of Trump: A Manifesto” by Prof. David Schmid (SUNY at Buffalo), 21 March 2019 at the University of Lausanne.

Research projects

Dissertation Project: “Indigenous Literary Aesthetics of Resurgence: Representing and Resisting Violence against Indigenous Women.” (Tentative Title)

Publications:

“Iconicity in Cognition and Communication.” Modelling - Thinking in Practice. Historical Social Research Supplement 31: 66-77. doi: 10.12759/hsr.suppl.31.2018.66-77. Ed. Ø. Eide, C. Marras, A.Ciula and P.Sahle. dx.doi.org/10.12759/hsr.suppl.31.2018.66-77

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Co-organized the 12th Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature at Lund University, Sweden, 3-5 May 2019.

Published the article:

“Gender, Generations and Ethnicity in Louise DeSalvo’s Crazy in the Kitchen.” In The US and the World We Inhabit. Eds. Paola Loreto et als. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholarly Press, 2019.

Gave the following paper:

 “‘Proper old Boston was behind us’: Race, Urban Shifts and Ethnic Identity in Anthony Giardina’s White Guys.” Biennial Conference for the American Association of North American Studies, University of Catania, September 25-27 2019.

has been teaching his full load in Mulhouse. In SS 2019 he taught two courses in Lausanne.

In April 2019 he organized his third EUCOR anglais conference in Mulhouse, for graduate students from the Upper Rhine universities, including Basel, Freiburg and Strasbourg (MAs and PhDs). 

As to publications, he published his third monograph on a different century, Rediscovering America’s First Great, with the University of Wisconsin Press. It’s about forgotten colonial literature: Major Robert Rogers’s 1766 play Ponteach, or The Savages of America.

Information on your own academic activities in 2019 (books, papers, lectures, awards, etc.) Please use MLA Style wherever applicable.

Award:

2019 Russel B. Nye Award for the Outstanding Article published in the Journal of Popular Culture for the article, ‘American War Adventure and the Generic Pleasures of Military Violence: Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper’

Talks:

April 9: Guest talk at Zelig Pub, UNIL, on ‘The 60s Counterculture and Easy Rider’

June 5: RTS radio interview about The Handmaid’s Tale.

August 2: Plenary lecture at Intl. Gothic Association Biennial Conference, Lewis University, Chicago, on ‘War Gothic’

Sept. 13: Conference presentation at ‘The Prolonged Death of the Hippie’ Conference, Basel University, on ‘Deprogramming, Brainwashing or Enlightnment: LSD and the Psychdelic Revolution Against the Backdrop of the Vietnam War’

Oct. 24: Round Table at CUSO Workshop in Lausanne on ‘Was Primitivism Cultural Appropriation?”

Nov. 7: Invited conference presentation at ‘Haunted Nature’ Symposium in Wurzburg, Germany, on ‘Haunting and Horror in the Eco-Gothic’

Information on activities in American Studies you organized for your institution in 2019 (visiting lecturers, fellows, performances, and so on)

May 10: Jeroen Dewulf, anthropologist at UC Berkeley, on “The Kingdom of Kongo to Louisiana: Congo Dances, Mardi Gras Indians and the African Origins of New Orleans Jazz.

Sept. 27-29: Conference and CUSO workshop on ‘Narratives of (Un)sustainability,” UNIL, co-organized with Audrey Loetscher.

October 24: Nidesh Lawtoo (KU Leuven), Research Seminar guest lecture on “From Fiction to Politics and Back: The Case of the Apprentice President.”

October 28 & 30: Zoe Boekbinder (Singer-songwriter based in New Orleans), two guest lectures: “Gender and Music” and “Prison Project.”

Supervision of PhD projects

Ana Gomes Correa, Masculinity, Military Identity, and Femininity: Monstrosity and Changes in Representation in Literature and Popular Culture, from the Vietnam War to the War on Terror.

Cécile Heim, Denaturalizing the Law: Sexual Violence, Race and the Land in Native American Crime Fiction's Negotiation of Justice and the Law.

Audrey Loetscher, Environmental Policy and National Identity: A Contemporary Genealogy of the US’s Culture of Unsustainability.

Elodie Rogliardo, Black Women’s Afropean Identity: Construction, Exploration and Promulgation at the Crossroad of Relations in Leonora Miano’s, Laura Nsafou’s and Kiyemis’ Afropean Narratives.

Research projects

Ongoing research project about war narrative and the role of genre (melodrama, adventure, horror) in organising affective and ideological effects in stories about military violence and especially combat death.

Publications

Nimijean, Richard, and David Carment, eds. Canada, Nation Branding and Domestic Politics. New York: Routledge, 2019.

“Introduction: Is Canada Back? Brand Canada in a Turbulent World.” In Canada, Nation Branding and Domestic Politics, edited by Richard Nimijean and David Carment, 1-12. New York: Routledge, 2019.

Carment, David, and Richard Nimijean. “Conclusion: Don’t Look Back: They Might Be Gaining on You.” In Canada, Nation Branding and Domestic Politics, edited by Richard Nimijean and David Carment, 134-39. New York: Routledge, 2019.

“Where is the Relationship Going? The View from Canada." In Canada-US Relations: Sovereignty or Shared Institutions?, edited by David Carment and Christopher Sands, 39-59. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Carment, David, and Richard Nimijean. 2019. “Justin Trudeau ou l’étalage de vertu.” Le Monde diplomatique (October 2019): 11.

“It’s 2015 all over again. Or is that 2004?” The Monitor 26, no. 3 (2019): 35-36.

Carment, David, and Richard Nimijean. “Parties competing over values, not substance, in foreign policy platforms.” The Hill Times, August 7, 2019.

Carment, David, and Richard Nimijean. “Trudeau’s Precarious Hold on the Liberal Foreign Policy Agenda.” iPolitics, July 9, 2019.

Presentations

“Reimagining Canada: Spatial Dislocation and the Canadian Identity.” 8th Congress of Polish Canadianists (Lodz, Poland, September 25-27, 2019).

“Thinking about Canada’s Image in the World.” Invited lecture to the Centro di Studi Canadesi - Società e Territori (UNIOR), Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" (May 8, 2019).

Research projects

Co-editor (with David Carment), Canada Among Nations 2020: Divided in a Dangerous World (Palgravre Macmillan, 2020 forthcoming). Authors’ workshop at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada 25-26 May 2020.

“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.” Authors’ workshop hosted by the Canadian Studies Program at the University of California Berkeley 7-9 May 2020.

Global issues from a Canadian perspective (planned textbook with Jeffrey Ayres, St. Michael’s College, USA, and David Carment, Carleton University, Canada)

Publications

Prusse-Hess, Barbara; Prusse, Michael (2019). Wirksamer Englischunterricht: die Sprache als Inhalt, Ziel und Medium. Lehren und Lernen, 45 (4): 16-19 (Print).

Prusse, Michael; Rosenberger, Lukas (2019). “The Professional Expert Fallacy” - Allgemein(bildend)er oder berufsspezifischer Englischunterricht? Sprachen lernen integriert - global, regional, lokal. Dokumentation zum 27. Kongress für Fremdsprachendidaktik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung, ed. Charlott Falkenhagen, Hermann Funk, Marcus Reinfried & Laurenz Volkmann.  Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Hohengehren, pp. 143-153 (Print).

Prusse, Michael; Rosenberger, Lukas (2019). "The Professional Expert Fallacy" - The Perspective of English Teachers on EFL and ESP at Vocational Colleges in the Canton of Zurich. Babylonia 2 (Supplement ADLES-Conference 2018 in Lausanne): 52.

Lectures

Prusse, Michael (2019). Transmediales Erzählen im Fokus: «Close reading» in der Lehrer/-innenbildung als Beitrag für zukunftsorientierten Englischunterricht. 28. DGFF Kongress "Sprachen, Kulturen, Identitäten: Umbrüche durch Digitalisierung?", Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, 27 September 2019 (Lecture).

Prusse, Michael (2019). Voicing the voiceless or mere ventriloquism? Refugees in three Western children's books. Silence and silencing in children's literature: IRSCL Congress 2019, Stockholm City Conference Centre, 17 August 2019 (Lecture).

Talks

“Ekphrasis and Ecology”, University of Tübingen, Workshop “Kunst und Ökologie”, June 2019.

“Globalization and Contemporary Transcultural Literature in English / Afropolitans”, University of Bonn, May 2019.

“Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa und Ihre Remediationen”, University of Rostock, May 2019.

Workshops / Lecture Series

Thementag “Zentralschweizer Dialog an der Schnittstelle Gymnasien – Hochschulen: Basale fachliche Studierkompetenzen in der Erstsprache”, Uni/PH Luzern, September 2019.

Workshop “Kunst und Ökologie”, June 2019.

Conference “Illustration and Adaptation”, University of Dijon, October 2019.

Publications

Author:

“Kulturwissenschaft [Kulturelle Nachhaltigkeit]”, in: Ursula Kluwick und Evi Zemanek, eds., Nachhaltigkeit interdisziplinär. Konzepte, Diskurse, Praktiken. Ein Kompendium, Wien/Köln/Weimar: Böhlau/utb, 2019, 312-329.

“Ekphrasis”, in: The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Article published June 2019. doi: dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.1057.

“Anais Nin: The Diary of Anais Nin”, in: Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, ed., Handbook Autobiography / Autofiction, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019, 1750-1761.

“Autobiography in the Globalized World”, in: Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, ed., Handbook Autobiography / Autofiction, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019, 1263-1280.

“Life and Work”, in: Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf, ed., Handbook Autobiography / Autofiction, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019, 327-335.

“Einleitung” (with Michael Stolz), in G. Rippl and M. Stolz, eds., special issue Original und Kopie: Techniken und Ästhetiken der re-/produktiven Abweichung, in Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 3 (2019).

“Ekphrasis als intermediale Transkription”, in G. Rippl and M. Stolz, eds., special issue Original und Kopie: Techniken und Ästhetiken der re-/produktiven Abweichung, in Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 3 (2019).

“Teju Coles Bilder: Open City (2011) – Every Day Is for the Thief (2007/2014) – Blind Spot (2016)”, in: Günter Blamberger and Dietrich Boschung, eds., Competing Perspectives. Figures of Image Control. Morphomata-Schriftenreihe, München: Fink, 2019, 355-372.

“Kraftwerks Radio-Aktivität/Radio-Activity – Tod der Spezies Mensch”, in: Jörg Vögele, Anna Schiller, Luisa Rittershaus and Kelly Gisela Waap, eds. Dancing with Mr. D: Tod in Popmusik und Kunst, Köln: Wienand, 2019, 252-256.

“Introduction: Cultural Sustainability”, in: Torsten Meireis and Gabriele Rippl, eds. Cultural Sustainability, London: Routledge, 2019 (with Torsten Meireis), 3-11.

“Conclusion”, in: Torsten Meireis and Gabriele Rippl, eds. Cultural Sustainability, London: Routledge, 2019 (with Torsten Meireis), 249-255.

“Sustainability and the Ethics of Literary Description”, in: Torsten Meireis and Gabriele Rippl, eds. Cultural Sustainability, London: Routledge, 2019, 221-232.

“A Tale of Love and Fallout”, in: Torsten Meireis and Gabriele Rippl, eds. Cultural Sustainability, London: Routledge, 2019 (with Torsten Meireis), 209-220.

Review of Michaela Keck, Deliberately out of Bounds: Women’s Work on Classical Myth in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction, Heidelberg: Winter, 2017. In: Amerikastudien/American Studies 64.1 (2019).

Editor:

Torsten Meireis / Gabriele Rippl, eds. Cultural Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences, London: Routledge, 2019.

Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 3 (2019), special issue Original und Kopie: Techniken und Ästhetiken der re-/produktiven Abweichung (with M. Stolz).

Rippl, Gabriele, Lucia von Kornexl, Ursula Lenker, Martin Midekke, and Daniel Stein, eds. Anglia: Book Series. Berlin/Boston: De Gryuter 2019.

Rippl, Gabriele, Lucia von Kornexl, Ursula Lenker, Martin Midekke, and Daniel Stein, eds. Anglia: Journal of English Philology / Zeitschrift für englische Philologie 137.1 (2019).

Rippl, Gabriele, Lucia von Kornexl, Ursula Lenker, Martin Midekke, and Daniel Stein, eds. Anglia: Journal of English Philology / Zeitschrift für englische Philologie 137.2 (2019).

Rippl, Gabriele, Lucia von Kornexl, Ursula Lenker, Martin Midekke, and Daniel Stein, eds. Anglia: Journal of English Philology / Zeitschrift für englische Philologie 137.3 (2019).

Rippl, Gabriele, Lucia von Kornexl, Ursula Lenker, Martin Midekke, and Daniel Stein, eds. Anglia: Journal of English Philology / Zeitschrift für englische Philologie 137.4 (2019).

Middeke, Martin, Gabriele Rippl, and Hubert Zapf, eds. Handbooks of English and American Studies: Text and Theory. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2019.

Information on activities in American Studies you organized for your institution in 2019 (visiting lecturers, fellows, performances, and so on)

“A New Take on Masculinity Studies: Comparison, Narrative and Trans*.” Guest Lecture by Prof. Dr. Stefan Horlacher, TU Dresden, as part of the lecture series “Gender Studies: Linguistic and Literary Perspectives”, 3 April 2019.

“International Conference of the Walter Benjamin Society 2019.” Bi-Annual Conference of the International Walter Benjamin Society, 26-29 June 2019. (co-organizer).

“Space/Spatiality.” Workshop at the University of Bern, 4-5 April 2019.

“The Spatial Turn in Cultural and Literary Studies: Travelling Media between Local and Global Spaces.” Guest Lecture by Prof. Dr. Birgit Neumann, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, as part of the workshop “Space/Spatiality”, 4 April 2019.

“Thinking with Oil and Water.” Guest Lecture by Prof. Dr. Stephanie LeMenager University of Oregon, 26 September 2019.

“Autobiography as Topoanalysis: the Spatial Dimensions of Life-Writing.” Prof. Dr. Laura Marcus, University of Oxford, as part of the lecture series “Auto_Bio_Grafie”, 1 October 2019.

“Relatives, Reliefs, Raw Lives: On Post-1980 Autobiographical Graphic Novels.” Dr. des. Lukas Etter, University of Siegen, as part of the lecture series “Auto_Bio_Grafie”, 29 October 2019.

Supervision of PhD projects

Bischof, Roman: Between Neurons and the Self: Concepts of Consciousness, Identity and Reality in Representations of Mental Illness in Anglophone Novels since 1950 (working title).

Kappel, Yvonne: Latency and Memory in Contemporary Anglophone (working title, co-supervision; first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Birgit Neumann).

Reber, Simon: Intermedial Strategies in the Poetry of Sapir (working title).

Reichel, Elisabeth (University of Basel, co-supervision): Cultural Relativism, ‘Primitivism,’ and the Valuation of Cultures in the Writings of Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead.

Skibo-Birney, Bryn: Writing Between ‘the Human’ and ‘the Animal’ in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy” (member of the dissertation jury).

Steffen, Samuel: Representation of Gulf Wars (working title).

Von Rütte, Sabine: The Representation of Motherhood in Contemporary American Fiction and Music (working title).

Research projects

“Anglophone World Literatures” (with Prof. Dr. Neumann, Heinrich-Heine University of Düsseldorf, and Prof. Dr. Stefan Helgesson, Stockholm University).

“Auto_Bio_Graphie” (Interdisciplinary WBK research platform, with Prof. Dr. Ch. Thurner, University of Bern, Prof. Bénédicte Vauthier, University of Bern, Prof. Dr. P. Schneemann, University of Bern, and Prof. Dr. M. Schäuble, University of Bern.

“Ecology and Art”, (with Prof. Dr. Peter Schneemann, Dr. Toni Hildebrandt, Art History University of Bern; Prof. Dr. Michaela Schäuble and Dr. Darcy Alexandra, Social Anthropology/visual anthropology University of Bern; in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Christoph Wagner, Art History University of Regensburg, Prof. Dr. Torsten Meireis, Theology HU Berlin, Prof. Dr. Peter Krieger, Art History UNAM, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wolf and Dr. Hannah Baader, Art History KHI Florence)

“The Ecological Imperative” (an Interdisciplinary Walter-Benjamin-Kolleg research, with Prof. Dr. P. J. Schneemann and Prof. Dr. Michaela Schäuble.

“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>

“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>

“Postcolonial Ekphrasis” (Research and book project with Prof. Dr. Birgit Neumann, University of Düsseldorf).

Guest Lecture:

Guest lecture on: “A Black Feminist Imaginary in Beyoncé’s Lemonade” in PD Dr. Julia Straub’s MA seminar “African American Literature”, at the English Department, University of Bern

Publications:

Schoch, Hannah. “Zirkulierende Bildformeln zwischen Ost und West: Politiken des Populären und Shakespeare: The Animated Tales.” Politiken des Populären: Medien, Kultur, Wissenschaft, edited by Ivo Ritzer, Harald Steinwender,  Springer 2019, pp. 75-111.

Lectures, Papers, Presentations:

Schoch, Hannah. “Genre Affordances: Hamilton. An American Musical and the Political Dynamics of Cultural Circulation.” Paper at the Abschlusstagung “Genres und Medien: Perspektiven auf Strukturen, Diskurse und Kulturen medialer Genre-Konzepte.” University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth. April 25-27, 2019

Schoch, Hannah. Podium „Gleichstellung und Diversität als Herausfoderung für wissenschaftliche Institutionen“, im Rahmen der Feministischen Aktionswoche am Deutschen Seminar, UZH. Zusammen mit Daniela Hahn, Simona Isler, Christiane Löwe, Sophie Witt. May 14, 2019.

Schoch, Hannah. “Witch Hunts! Die Salem Witch Trials in der amerikanischen Kulturgeschichte.” Talk for the general public at the Anna Göldi Museum, Ennenda, Glarus. Part of the series Hexen in der englishsprachigen Welt, supported by the Max Geilinger-Stiftung. May 2, 2019.

Schoch, Hannah. “Intimate Politics. The Couple, Democracy, and the American Cultural Imaginary.” Presentation of PhD Project. BAA Summer Academy 2019–‘State Narratives in Transatlantic Perspective’. Nuremberg and Regensburg. May 29, 2019.

Schoch, Hannah. “Martine Syms: Politics of Gender and Race under the Digital.” Invited lecture at the Herbstakademie ZHdK. “Nach dem Digitalen, Konjunkturen des Postdigitalen”, Zurich, October 19-24, 2019.

Schoch, Hannah. "’History is a ship forever setting sail’ (Tracy K. Smith ‚Ghazal’): Lyrische Gedichte und die Gegenwärtigkeit der Vergangenheit“. Paper at the Conference „Genre und Zeit“, Bielefeld, November 7-8, 2019.  

Schoch, Hannah. “The Trope of the Union: Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie and the Found(er)ing of the Democratic Nation”, Paper at the IAAS Postgraduate Symposium: “The Land of the (Un)free: Interrogating Democracy in America”, University College Cork. November 23, 2019.

Information on activities in American Studies you organized for your institution in 2019 (visiting lecturers, fellows, performances, and so on)

March 21/22, 2019. Eugenie Brinkema (MIT): “Object-Oriented Horror: On Rubber, the Chorus, and the Torus” (Lecture) and “Formal Affects, Violence, and Horror” (Colloquium) Part of "Imag(in)ing Future Bodies: Engagements of Gender, Race & Tech." An ongoing event series. English Seminar, UZH. Co-organiser together with Morgane Ghilardi.

June 13-15 2019. “Lyric Poetry as Popular Culture.” Workshop 20 at the DGfA/GAAS 66th Annual Meeting, Hamburg 2019. Co-organiser together with Dr. Marcel Hartwig. 

Research projects

PhD Thesis: “Intimate Politics: The Heterosexual Couple, Democracy, and the Cultural Imaginary of the USA.”

Publications

Schweighauser, Philipp. Review of American Literary History and the Turn toward Modernity, edited by Melanie V. Dawson and Meredith L. Goldsmith. Anglia, vol. 137, no. 4, 2019, pp. 703-707.

Schweighauser, Philipp. “Of Syncretisms, Foils, and Cautionary Examples: Ruth Fulton Benedict’s Poetic and Ethnographic Styles.” Revisiting Style in Literary and Cultural Studies. Ed. Herrmann, Jasmin, Ingwersen, Moritz, Sonnenberg-Schrank, Björn and Olga Ludmila Tarapata. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019. pp. 193-205.

Schweighauser, Philipp. Review of Acoustic Entanglements: Sound and Aesthetic Practice, by Sabine Kim. Anglia, vol. 137, no. 1, 2019, pp. 194-197.

Schweighauser, Philipp, et al., editors. Boasian Aesthetics: American Poetry, Visual Culture, and Cultural Anthropology. Special issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies, vol. 63, no. 4, 2018.

Schweighauser, Philipp. “Ways of Knowing: The Aesthetics of Boasian Poetry.” Boasian Aesthetics: American Poetry, Visual Culture, and Cultural Anthropology, special issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies, vol. 63, no. 4, 2018, pp. 541-556.

Schweighauser, Philipp, et al. “Introduction.” Boasian Aesthetics: American Poetry, Visual Culture, and Cultural Anthropology, special issue of Amerikastudien/American

Lectures/Papers/Talks

Schweighauser, Philipp. “Boasian Vistas: The Poetic and Visual Work of Sapir, Benedict, and Mead.” Collegium Helveticum, Zurich, 15 January 2019.

Information on activities in American Studies you organized for your institution in

2019 (visiting lecturers, fellows, performances, and so on)

Visiting scholars

Prof. Dr. Ana Fernández-Caparrós Turina

Organised guest lectures

PD Dr. Clemens Spahr (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz): “American Transcendentalism: Literature, Reform, and the Institutions of Education in Antebellum America.” University of Basel, 26 March 2019.

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 North 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 am Beispiel der Katastrophenhörspiele von Andreas Ammer und FM Einheit.” english.philhist.unibas.ch/en/persons/anja-mauruschat/

Rapcsák, Balázs. “Samuel Beckett's Media Art.” english.philhist.unibas.ch/en/persons/balazs-rapcsak/

Teklić, Teresa. “The Aesthetics and Pragmatics of Sincerity in Contemporary North American

Literature.” www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/seminar/mitarbeiter-und-sprechstunden/Teklic

Research projects

SNSF Project: Beckett’s Media System: A Comparative Study in Multimediality. beckett-media.philhist.unibas.ch/en

Publications

“Surveillance in Jennifer Egan’s Novels of the Information Age.” Narrating Surveillance – Überwachen erzählen. Ed. Betiel Wasihun. Würzburg: Ergon. 111-128.

“Canon Formation and the American Short Story.” Handbook of the North American Short Story. Ed. Erik Redling and Oliver Scheiding. Berlin: de Gruyter, in the press.

“Walter Pater: Marius the Epicurean.” Handbook of the English Novel, 1830-1900. Eds. Martin Middeke and Monika Pietrzak-Franger. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, in the press.

Conference papers

“The Value of Hashtags and Goodreads: Theorizing the Canon in Digital Culture.” Anglistentag  Leipzig, September 2019.

““Lost in transnation”? Performing Identity in a New Black Atlantic”. Transatlantic Literary Authority: Material Networks, Symbolic Economies, University of Heidelberg, July 2019 (by invitation).

Supervision of PhD project:

Alessandra di Pietro. Cosmopolitan Identities and Transnational Feminism in the Novels of Contemporary African Female Writers (start August 2019)

Doctoral Defense

The Border-Crossing Fiction of Louise Erdrich, James Welch, Thomas King, and Tomson Highway: Creating Kinship Across Nations and Languages, University of Fribourg, 7 Oct. 2019. Honors: insigni cum laude. Dissertation committee: Profs. Thomas Austenfeld (University of Fribourg; supervisor), Birgit Däwes (Europa-Universität Flensburg; co-supervisor), Jill Doerfler (University of Minnesota-Duluth), and Deborah Madsen (University of Geneva).

Papers

                                            

“‘communal joy’ and Kinship between Indigenous and Black Cowboys in Richard Wagamese’s Dream Wheels.” NALS (Native American Literature Symposium). Prior Lake, MN. 7-9 March 2019.

The Border-Crossing Fiction of Louise Erdrich, James Welch, Thomas King, and Tomson Highway.” CUSO (Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale/Conference of Western Switzerland’s Universities) Doctoral Conference and Workshop on “The Cultural Work of Violence.” University of Lausanne. 22-23 March 2019.

“MMIWG2S: Interrupting the Violence of Settler Colonial Archives.” SGGF/SSEG (The Swiss Association for Gender Studies). University of Bern. 12-13 September 2019.

“Linguistic Border-Crossings in Contemporary Turtle Island Literatures.” “Transnational Conversations”: Multilingual Writing and Cultural Exchange in Europe and the Americas. University of Fribourg. 06 Dec. 2019.

Information on activities in American Studies you organized for your institution in 2019 (visiting lecturers, fellows, performances, and so on)

Co-organizer with Prof. Thomas Austenfeld. CUSO (Conference of Western Switzerland’s Universities) workshop “Literary Texts and Legal Epistemologies in North American Indigenous Studies.” University of Fribourg, Switzerland. 3 October 2019.