Staying up to date
News of the Department of English
/ People
In memoriam Prof. Fiona Tolhurst, Ph.D. (1968-2021)
We are shocked and grieved to hear of the death, on December 21, 2021, of Fiona Tolhurst, who taught several courses in Medieval and Early Modern English Literature at our department between 2008 and 2012./ People
Jakob Leimgruber awarded professorship at the University of Regensburg
PD. Dr. Jakob Leimgruber, our lecturer in English linguistics since 2018, has accepted a professorship in English linguistics at the University of Regensburg, Germany. The Basel English Department congratulates Jakob and we wish him success…
/ Research
Philipp Schweighauser publishes essay on "Antifiction Fictions"
The text appears in the journal of the Modern Language Association's American Literature Division 1, Early American Literature 56.3 (2021)./ People
Daniela Landert awarded professorship at Universität Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Daniela Landert, our SNF-PRIMA leader of the project The Pragmatics of Improvised Drama Comedy, has accepted a professorship in English linguistics at Heidelberg University, Germany. The Basel English Department congratulates…/ People
In memoriam Dr. Markus Marti-Cimitro (1955-2021)
We are saddened by the death of Dr. Markus Marti, who taught as a lecturer at the Department of English of the University of Basel from 1996 to 2016.
/ Studies
English courses at eucor universities
Eucor – The European Campus is a cross-border network of five French, German and Swiss universities in the Upper Rhine region that work together for intellectual exchange.
/ Research
Miriam Locher & Andreas Jucker publish new course book on the pragmatics of fiction
Prof. Miriam Locher (Basel) and Prof. Andreas H. Jucker (Zürich) have published a new course book on The Pragmatics of Fiction. Literature, Stage and Screen Discourse with Edinburgh University Press.