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Department of
Languages and Literatures

Anglophone Linguistics and Literary Studies

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Dr. Dr. Christian Haenggi in action

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08 October 2020 / Research

Regula Hohl Trillini interviewed by filmmaker Andrew Smith

BAFTA-winning filmmaker Andrew Smith has interviewed our very own Regula Hohl Trillini for his new weekly Hamlet podcast To Be Or Not To Be: Lockdown Shakespeare.

03 October 2020

7 & 11 October: Radio Features on Pynchon and Music

Two upcoming radio programs will celebrate music in Pynchon's work, taking their cues from Christian Hänggi's book Pynchon's Sound of Music and NYC band Visit's album "Now everybody—" Visit Interprets Songs by Thomas Pynchon. Swiss radio...

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01 October 2020 / Research

Prof. em. Werner Brönnimann's "King Lear – König Lear" published

Werner Brönnimann's annotated and commented German translation of William Shakespeare's play King Lear is part of the long-running series Englisch-deutsche Studienausgabe der Dramen Shakespeares – currently published by Stauffenburg Verlag...

08 September 2020

Prof. Miriam Locher's research team reports first results

The project team on relational work and communal TV watching of K-drama on a streaming platform reports first results: Locher, Miriam A. (2020). Moments of relational work in English fan translations of Korean TV drama. Journal of...

05 June 2020 / Studies

Library service from June 8

Dear Students, due to the space limitation of our Seminar library, we keep the building closed until further notice. We offer individual time slots in order to consult books. To arrange a visit please get in touch with Mario Piscazzi:...

Upcoming Events

16 Sep 2020 – 16 Dec 2020 / Public event, Lecture series

Ringvorlesung "Green Poetry"

Im Herbstsemester 2020 findet eine interdisziplinäre Ringvorlesung zum Thema 'Green Poetry' statt.

27 Oct 2020 13:00 - 14:00 / Public event, Colloquium

Machine Language, Birdsong, and 'verbum dei': The Limits of Literature in Samuel Beckett

Balázs Rapcsák (Universität Basel)

11 Nov 2020 13:00 - 14:00 / Guest lecture / Talk

From Novel to Film: Comparing Jhumpa Lahiri's Novel "The Namesake" with Mira Nair's Film Adaptation

Prof. Ambreen Hai (Smith College, Massachusetts)

12 Nov 2020 14:15 - 16:00 / Guest lecture / Talk

Analyzing Phonetic and Morphosyntactic Variation and Change in British English Using App and Twitter Data

Prof. Dr. Adrian Leemann (University of Bern)

25 Nov 2020 16:15 - 18:00 / Guest lecture / Talk

"Are you wasting money on language classes?!?": Learning English as a Voluntourist

Dr. Larissa Semiramis Schedel (University of Bonn)

01 Dec 2020 13:00 - 14:00 / Public event, Colloquium

Complexity, Accuracy, Fluency, and Lexis in L2 Development: A Dynamic Usage-based Investigation of Differences Across Modalities and Contexts

Dr. Zeynep Köylü (Universität Basel)

10 Dec 2020 10:15 - 12:00 / Guest lecture / Talk

Jacobean Revenge Tragedy

Dr. Susanne Gruß (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

24 Jun 2021 – 26 Jun 2021 / Congress / Conference / Symposium

13th International Symposium on (Im)Politeness & 7th iMean Conference

Past Events

22 Sep 2020 13:00 - 14:00 / Public event, Colloquium

Farewell to Anthropocentrism in Postmodern American Postbellum Literature

Anouk Aerni (Universität Basel)

17 Sep 2020 10:15 - 12:00 / Guest lecture / Talk

“Strange New Worlds”: Form and Meaning in Science Fiction

Dr. Daniel Cojocaru (Kantonsschule Zürcher Oberland)

12 May 2020 / Colloquium

CANCELLED: Complexity, accuracy, fluency, and lexis in L2 development: An investigation of differences across modalities and contexts

Dr. Zeynep Köylü (Universität Basel)

12 May 2020 / Public event

CANCELLED: "The Decline of Western Civilization" (1981)

American documentary directed by Penelope Spheeris

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