University of Basel

Department of
Languages and Literatures

Anglophone Linguistics and Literary Studies

Profile Tamara Dima Imboden

Tamara Dima Imboden is a doctoral researcher at the University of Basel and an assistant at the chair for North American and General Literature. Her dissertation, titled “Re-Signifying Space: Narrating Identity in Migration Fiction” focuses on migration fiction’s depiction of and engagement with cultural authenticity, drawing together her interests in postcolonial theory, migration and identity. Tamara Dima Imboden (“Tammy”) has taught, among other things, the BA seminar "African-American Women Writers," the proseminar III courses “Reconstructing the Past: Memory and Literature” and "Postcolonial Urbanities," and introductory literary studies and literary theory. Her research interests includepostcolonial studies, gender studies, intersectionality, 20th and 21st century world literature, migration narratives, literary spaces, cultural memory, trauma.

In 2025, Tamara Dima Imboden co-founded the Swiss Literary PhD Network (DocNetCH) together with E. Nastacia Schmoll from the University of Zurich. DocNetCH is a platform for PhD students of Literary Studies in Switzerland to exchange knowledge and information, as well as to network and support each other, formally and informally. Feel free to reach out if you would like more information on the network.

Current projects and courses:

  • Dissertation: “Re-Signifying Space: Narrating Identity in Migration Fiction”
  • Co-Founder and board member of the Swiss Literary PhD Network (DocNetCH)
  • From August 2025: Visiting Scholar at the University of Auckland, New Zealand
  • From February 2026: Visiting Scholar at the University of Vienna, Austria

Past projects and courses:

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