Profile PD Dr. Ladina Bezzola Lambert
Ladina Bezzola Lambert is lecturer in the field of English Literature. She holds a first degree (in English and Italian literature) and a doctorate (in Comparative Literature) from the University of Zurich. For her doctoral research on early modern astronomical texts, she spent two years as a visiting fellow at Harvard University (Department of the History and Philosophy of Science) and New York University (English Department). Her main fields of interest include the early modern period, Shakespeare, rhetoric, metaphor, the relation between literature and science, eighteenth-century journalism and the novel.
Beside her essay-contributions to journals and books, she is the author of Imagining the Unimaginable: The Poetics of Early Modern Astronomy (Amsterdam, 2002) and the co-editor of three essay collections: Shifting the Scene: Shakespeare in European Culture (Delaware, 2003); Moment to Monument: The Making and Unmaking of Cultural Significance (Bielefeld, 2008) and Ortlose Mitte: Das Ich als kulturelle Hervorbringung (Göttingen: 2013). Her second monograph (Habilitationsschrift), which focuses on Shakespeare's strategies of fictionalizing his authorship in his narrative poems and the Sonnets, is being prepared for publication. Another current research project is concerned with the concept of ‘form’ in seventeenth-century natural philosophy.