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Studies / 15 June 2018

The Road to Brexit: A Students' Podcast from a Research Seminar

In a podcast, Prof. Ina Habermann and some students of her research seminar “The Road to Brexit” present their findings about the reasons why so many Britons voted to leave the EU.

Research / 16 April 2018

Seducing with words: The role of language in the pick-up artist’s make-believe

Daria Dayter writes a post for the university's science blog 'Sci Five' covering her collaborative research with Sofia Rüdiger (University of Bayreuth) on the discourse of pick-up artists, a self-proclaimed speed-seduction community.

People / 04 April 2018

Michelle Witen interviewed by the James Joyce Quarterly for its "Clever, Very" series

Michelle Witen is featured in the latest instalment of the James Joyce Quarterly's "Clever, Very" series. In the interview, Witen discusses the upcoming "Joycean Animals" workshop at the Zurich James Joyce Foundation (co-organized with...

Research / 23 March 2018

Michelle Witen publishes «James Joyce and Absolute Music»

Drawing on draft manuscripts and other archival material, James Joyce and Absolute Music (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), explores Joyce's deep engagement with musical structure and his participation in the growing modernist discourse...

Organizational Unit / 23 February 2018

Annual Report 2017 is out

The Annual Report 2017 of the Department of English is published and available for download.

Upcoming Events

• 05 Aug 2018 – 11 Aug 2018

  Joycean Animals

  The Annual James Joyce Workshop

• 12 Sep 2018 10:15 - 11:45

  Exam retake «Theorien und Methoden der Literaturwissenschaft »

  (lecture no. 50882-01)

• 12 Sep 2018 10:15 - 11:45

  Exam retake «A Survey of English Literature IV:»

  (lecture no. 19140-01)

• 12 Sep 2018 14:15 - 15:45

  Exam retake «Language in the courtroom»

  (lecture no. 50519-01)

• 14 Sep 2018 10:15 - 11:45

  Exam retake «The History of English»

  (lecture no. 21837-01)

• 14 Sep 2018 10:15 - 11:45

  Exam retake «American Literature Survey I/IV»

  (lecture no. 26014-01)

• 14 Sep 2018 12:15 - 13:45

  Exam retake «Discourse and Cognitive Science»

  (lecture no. 23064-01)

• 17 Sep 2018 18:15 - 19:15

  Welcome meeting for all 1st-semester students of English

Past Events

• 16 Jun 2018 18:00

  Bloomsday

  Come celebrate "Bloomsday in Basel" with the Department of English on June 16th, from 6pm onwards!

• 30 May 2018 19:15 - 21:00

  Energies in the arts: Opening questions

  Prof. Douglas Kahn (UNSW, Sydney)

• 24 May 2018 18:00 - 20:00

  «Finnegans Wake» Reading Group

  The thirteenth meeting

• 18 May 2018 16:00 - 18:00

  Speculative Temporalities

  «New Developments in Theory» lecture series: Prof. Steven Shaviro (Wayne State University)