| Fields of research |
- Literature and Philosophy
- English Literature from 1600
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| Further fields of research |
- History of rhetoric
- Education studies
- Deconstruction
- Music and Philosophy
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| Teaching Activities |
At HSG, courses taught on the history, theory and practice of rhetoric
(written and oral); on Deleuze and Guattari in the context of
organisation studies; and on art and ideology (with Ulrich Schmid) |
| Projects |
Monograph project on the poetry of John Milton; collective project on Jacques Derrida’s Glas; bibliographical and related projects on Harold Bloom; collective project on calculation and quantification in higher education |
| Affiliations |
Swiss Association of University Teachers of English; Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies; International Association for Philosophy and Literature; International Network for the Study of Lyric; international reading group on Jacques Derrida; research group on materiality, University of Geneva; research group on the Anthropocene, University of Southern Denmark |
| Additional Information |
- Degrees held: B. A. (English), M. A. (English) and D. Phil. (English), Oxford University
- Teaching or research positions held at: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Philipps-Universität Marburg; Département de langue et littérature anglaises, Université de Genève; Society for the Humanities and Department of Comparative Literature, Cornell University; Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore; Howard V. and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College; Département d’anglais, Université de Lausanne; English programme, University of Southern Denmark
- Research profile: literature and philosophy; poetry; history of rhetoric; deconstruction; negative dialectics; Harold Bloom; music and philosophy; materiality and waste
- 2009-12 Research assistant to Prof. Dr. Alan Robinson, University of St. Gallen
- 2012- Research Associate, University of St. Gallen
- 2017- English Department Administrator, University of St. Gallen
- 2017- Guest researcher, University of Southern Denmark, Odense
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