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.
The Pynchon Playlist

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The Pynchon Playlist: Orbit publishes catalog of 927 musical references

Orbit, an open-access journal of contemporary American fiction, publishes Christian Hänggi’s article “The Pynchon Playlist: A Catalog and Its Analysis,” another puzzle piece of his exploration of music in Thomas Pynchon’s work.
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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.

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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…

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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

Annual Report 2017 is out

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

/ People

Thomas Messerli defended his thesis

Thomas Messerli successfully defended his thesis with summa cum laude on 26/1/2018: “Repetition in Telecinematic Humour: How US American sitcoms employ formal and semantic repetition in the construction of multimodal humour” …