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SNF-PRIMA grantee Dr. Daniela Landert joins Department of English

The English department warmly welcomes Dr. Daniela Landert, who successfully obtained an SNF-PRIMA grant for the period 2020-2024. The project is entitled "The Pragmatics of Improvised Drama Comedy" and investigates how the communicative…
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The Prolonged Death of the Hippie, 1967–1969: Conference program online!

The program of the three-day conference includes well over twenty national and international scholars, poets and musicians. Highlights are the keynote speeches and performances by Ed Sanders and Anne Waldman.
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Steve Duman and Michelle Witen short-listed for teaching award

We congratulate Steve Duman and Michelle Witen for having been short-listed for the Modern Scholarship Best Teaching Award 2019 – a well-deserved recognition of their commitment and competence in the classroom over the years. It is with a…

Ridvan Askin receives fellowship

Ridvan Askin has been granted a 4-month External Junior Fellowship (June-September 2019) at the FRIAS - Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies to work on his second book Transcendental Poetics and The Futures of American Romanticism:…
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«Young Talent Prize» awarded to Rahel Ackermann Hui

On the occasion of the University of Basel's Dies academicus 2018, our graduate and former student assistant Rahel C. Ackermann Hui received the Young Talent Prize from the student association “Schwizerhüsli” for her MA Thesis "Distance,…

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SNF grant awarded to Regula Hohl Trillini and Lukas Rosenthaler

Regula Hohl Trillini and Lukas Rosenthaler have won a grant under the Swiss National Science Foundations' "Digital Lives" initiative. Their project WordWeb / Intertextuality in Drama of the Early Modern Period  to develop their work on the…

Philipp Schweighauser in discussion with Russ Castronovo (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Philipp Schweighauser discusses Charles Brockden Brown's novel Wieland, the gothic, noise, and information theory with Russ Castronovo (University of Wisconsin, Madison): https://youtu.be/r55MWWgmhkk.

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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.
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