RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS

2012

Ina Habermann's article "'I shall have share in the most happy wreck' - Shakespeare's Topology of Shipwrecking" has appeared in Shakespeare-Jahrbuch 148, 2012, 1-18.

Therese Steffen, Bettina Dennerlein and Elke Frietsch co-edited the book Verschleierter Orient - Entschleierter Okzident ? (Un)sichtbarkeit in Politik, Recht, Kunst und Kultur seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. (München: Willhelm Fink Verlag)

2011

Ina Habermann’s article “Reaching Beyond Silence: Metaphors of Ineffability” has appeared in Literary Metaphor After the Cognitive Revolution, ed. Monika Fludernik (London: Routledge).

Ina Habermann’s article “Shakespeare’s Comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night” is due to appear in: Sibylle Baumbach, Birgit Neumann and Ansgar Nünning (eds.), A History of British Drama: Genres, Developments, Interpretations (Trier: WVT).

Ina Habermann’s article (written with Nikolaus Kuhn) “Sustainable Fictions – Geographical, Literary and Cultural Intersections in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings” is due to appear in: The Cartographic Journal 4 (2011), special issue edited by Barbara Piatti and Lorenz Hurni.

Ina Habermann, in the context of the Centre of Competence Cultural Topographies, has successfully applied to the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft for the funding of an Assistant Professorship “Kulturelle Topographien Osteuropas”. A hiring committee for this 5-year job is currently selecting the suitable candidate.

Ina Habermann gave a keynote lecture on “Theoretical Approaches to Space in Literature” on September 7 at the Summer School “Spaces of Projection”, organized by graduate students and held at the Universities of Bern and Basel.

Ina Habermann helped to organize the opening day of the Doktoratsprogramm Literaturwissenschaft on September 30 and taught a workshop on Joseph Conrad, Roger Casement and the Congo.

Andrew Shields published his translation of Gottfreid Schatz's science
essays "A Matter of Wonder" with Karger in the spring of 2011.

Ridvan Askin was awarded a fellowship for prospective researchers by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The grant enables him to spend the fall term 2011 as a research associate at Penn State.

Peter Burleigh has had the article “The Beach as a Space of Defamiliarisation” written in collaboration with Sophie Jung published in the 2011 Journal of Visual Art Practice 9:3. doi: 10.1386/jvap.9.3.245_1.

2010

Balz Engler edited Volume 26 of the ‘Kolloquien der Schweizerischen Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften‘ entitled Erzählen in den Wissenschaften: Positionen, Probleme, Perspektiven, published by Academic Press Fribourg.

Ina Habermann’s book Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow: Priestly, Du Maurier and the Symbolic Form of Englishness was published by Palgrave Macmillan.

After four years of research funded by the SNF, Sixta Quassdorf, Regula Hohl Trillini and Tobias Roth (Deutsches Seminar) completed the HyperHamlet database, initiated by Balz Engler, with nearly 10'000 quotations and allusions to Shakespeare's most famous play.

Regula Hohl Trillini was invited to be part of the panel “Anglistik und Mediengesellschaft” which opened the Deutscher Anglistentag in September 2010. Her opening contribution has just been published in the conference volume as “’Don't Worry, Be Trendy’: Shakespeares Rezeption als ermutigender Modellfall.”

Regula Hohl Trillini had an article published in Literary and Linguistic Computing. “A ‘Key to all Quotations’? A corpus-based parameter model of intertextuality” is an account of the analytic parameters realized in the HyperHamlet database (co-written with Sixta Quassdorf).

Miriam Locher and Sage L. Graham co-edited the book Interpersonal Pragmatics published by Mouton de Gruyter.

Markus Marti’s book Sonnets – Sonette, Englisch, Deutsch und Wallisertitsch was published by Dozwil.

Philip Schweighauser and Peter Scheck co-edited the book Terrorism, Media and the Ethics of Fiction: Transatlantic Perspectives on Don DeLillo was published by Continuum.

Andrew Shields co-translated Durs Grünbein’s The Bars of Atlantis: Selected Essays (ed. Michael Eskin) with John Crutchfield and Michael Hofmann, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.