M.A. Ridvan Askin

Assistant in American and General Literatures
ridvan.askin-at-unibas.ch

Ridvan Askin studied Philosophy, Anglophone, Lusophone and Hispanophone literatures and cultures at the Universities of Vienna (A), Freiburg (D) and Essex (UK). He graduated from the University of Freiburg in 2006 with a thesis on Paul Ricoeur and the relation of memory, history and narrative. After graduation he worked as Teaching Assistant, Lecturer and M.A. Coordinator at the North American Studies Section of the University of Freiburg. In August 2009 he transferred to Basel where he is currently appointed as assistant to the Chair of American and General Literatures.
        He is currently working on his PhD on Gilles Deleuze and narrative theory. His main research interests are the relation of philosophy and literature, postmodernism, literary and narrative theory, contemporary North American fiction, and the Western.

Ridvan will be on sabbatical during the autumn term 2011.