14 Sep 2023 / Doctorate/PhD

Start-up Grants, CHF 30,000 each: Call for Applications

The Doctoral Programme in Literary Studies of the University of Basel calls for applications for two one-year start-up grants of CHF 30,000 (start: 1 April 2024).

04 Aug 2023 / People

Ridvan Askin promoted to Privatdozent

16 Jul 2023

Students of English feature in university's 'shortED' explainer videos

Anna Püntener and Rachael Moorthy-Mäder feature in two of the first three short videos realised by the university's New Media Centre wherein students explain topics from their field of study.

28 Jun 2023 / Research, Events

Call for Papers: "Interdisciplinary Symposium: Decolonial Imaginaries in Literary and Urban Studies"

9–10 November 2023, University of Basel

23 May 2023

Ina Habermann receives SNSF project grant

Project title: "SwissBritNet: Swiss-British cultural exchange and knowledge networks 1600-1780"

30 Mar 2023 / Research

"The Dynamic Lexicon of English" by Dr Julia Landmann out now

Her monograph on a socio-cognitive approach towards loan processes and their linguistic effects has been published open access by Brill.

23 Mar 2023 / Research

Two new publications by Dr Elena Dubenko

The articles present the findings of her research in cognitive linguistics and cognitive translation studies.

01 Mar 2023 / Research

New Cambridge Element: Fiction and Pragmatics

The English linguistics team is happy to report an open access publication with Cambridge University Press, written by Miriam Locher, Andreas Jucker, Daniela Landert and Thomas Messerli.