Profile Daniela Keller
Daniela Keller studied English, Sociology and Media in Basel and Melbourne. She graduated in 2010 with a MA thesis on the literary garden in the works of the Australian authors Patrick White and Thea Astley. She subsequently worked as deputy CEO and project manager for a communication agency, returning to the University of Basel in 2012 to take on the position of a Teaching and Research Assistant and start her dissertation project under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ina Habermann and Prof. Dr. Annette Kern-Stähler (University of Bern).
For her PhD Daniela examined literary depictions of Germany and physics in contemporary English fiction by applying the new materialist concept of diffraction. She has recently published an article that reads Ali Smith’s novel How to Be Both (2014) diffractively in an essay collection on diffractive reading (ed. Kai Merten; Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) and has co-edited the SPELL volume Brexit and Beyond: Nation and Identity (Narr, 2021) with Ina Habermann. During ST 2015 she was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex. Her research interests include British Literature of the twentieth and twenty-first century, cultural topographies and theories of space, new materialism, diffractive reading, as well as the relationship between literature and science.