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Nationality | Swiss |
Alma mater | University of Basel |
Occupation(s) | Literary scholar and writer |
Philipp Schweighauser is a Swiss literary scholar and professor of North American and General Literature at the University of Basel.
Biography
[edit]Schweighauser studied English and German Literature and Linguistics at the University of Basel, where he also received his doctorate in 2003, for a thesis that introduced the notion of 'literary acoustics': The Noises of American Literature, 1890-1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics. His second book, Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art, published in 2016, establishes connections between the early American novel and the emergence of aesthetics in Europe.[1] He was Senior Lecturer at the University of Bern from 2003 to 2007 and Christian-Gottlob-Heyne Assistant Professor of American Studies at Georg August University of Göttingen from 2007 to 2009.[2] In 2009, he was appointed Assistant Professor (with tenure track) of North American and General Literature at the University of Basel.[3] In 2013, he was promoted to Associate Professor and to Full Professor in 2019.[4] From 2012 to 2020, Schweighauser served as President of the Swiss Association for North American Studies.[5] He was a research associate at the University of California, Irvine and a visiting scholar at Harvard University and Boston University.[citation needed] In 2022, he published his third book Boasian Verse: The Poetic and Ethnographic Work of Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead, dealing with the poetry and anthropological work of the three titular individuals.[6]
Research work
[edit]Schweighauser's research areas include 18th to 21st century American literature and culture, literary history, literary, cultural, and media theory, literature and science, literature and anthropology, life writing, sound studies and aesthetics.
- "Beckett's Media System: A Comparative Study in Multimediality," funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, 2015-2019
- "Of Cultural, Poetic, and Medial Alterity: The Scholarship, Poetry, Photographs, and Films of Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead," funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, 2014-2017
Publications
[edit]Books
[edit]- Boasian Verse: The Poetic and Ethnographic Work of Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead. New York: Routledge, 2022. ISBN 978-1-032-21141-1[6]
- Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-813-93903-2[7][8]
- The Noises of American Literature, 1890-1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. ISBN 978-0-813-02947-4[9][10]
Edited books
[edit]- Boasian Aesthetics: American Poetry, Visual Culture, and Cultural Anthropology (ed., with Gabriele Rippl, Silvy Chakkalakal and A. Elisabeth Reichel). Special issue Amerikastudien/American Studies 63.4 (2018).
- Literatur und Politische Philosophie: Subjektivität, Fremdheit, Demokratie (ed., with Michael G. Festl). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2018.
- Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives (ed., with Ridvan Askin). Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2015.
- Aesthetics in the 21st Century (ed., with Ridvan Askin, Paul J. Ennis and Andreas Hägler). Special issue Speculations V (2014).
- Haunted Narratives: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma (ed., with Gabriele Rippl, Tiina Kirss, Margit Sutrop and Therese Steffen). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.[11]
- Terrorism, Media, and the Ethics of Fiction: Transatlantic Perspectives on Don DeLillo (ed., with Peter Schneck). New York: Continuum, 2010.[12]
- Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry (ed., with Paula Bernat Bennett and Karen L. Kilcup). New York: MLA, 2007.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ Schweighauser, Philipp (2016). Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art. ISBN 9780813939032. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
- ^ Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. "Namen und Nachrichten" [Names and News] (PDF). Uni|in|form. 6 Jahrgang, Ausgabe 3, August 2007: 12. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
- ^ "Profile Prof. Dr. Philipp Schweighauser". University of Basel.
- ^ Regierungsrat des Kantons Basel-Stadt. "Im Jahr 2018 beförderte Professorinnen und Professoren" [Professors promoted in 2018] (PDF). Berichterstattung zum Leistungsauftrag 2018 der Universität Basel Partnerschaftliches Geschäft. p. 87. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
- ^ SANAS Members’ Activities 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- ^ a b Schweighauser, Philipp. "Boasian Verse: The Poetic and Ethnographic Work of Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead".
- ^ Carso, Kerry Dean (2018). "Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art by Philipp Schweighauser (review)". Early American Literature. 53 (1): 237–241. doi:10.1353/eal.2018.0019. ISSN 1534-147X. S2CID 165767699.
- ^ Walsh, Megan (2017). "Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art by Philipp Schweighauser (review)". The William and Mary Quarterly. 74 (2): 379–382. doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.74.2.0379. ISSN 1933-7698.
- ^ Moffett, Alex (2006). "The Noises of American Literature 1890-1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics (review)". Studies in American Fiction. 34 (2): 255–256. doi:10.1353/saf.2006.0001. ISSN 2158-5806. S2CID 161968288.
- ^ "Review of Schweighauser, Philipp. The Noises of American Literature, 1890-1985. Toward a History of Literary Acoustics. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006. $59.95 (cloth)". liminalities.net (Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies).
- ^ Segeral, Nathalie (2014). "Review of Haunted Narratives: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma". Biography. 37 (3): 817–819. ISSN 0162-4962. JSTOR 24570281.
- ^ Tseti, Angeliki (3 October 2011). "Terrorism, Media, and the Ethics of Fiction: Transatlantic Perspectives on Don DeLillo.Eds.Peter Schneck and Philipp Schweighauser". European Journal of American Studies. doi:10.4000/ejas.9393. ISSN 1991-9336. S2CID 159533010.
- ^ Barrett, Faith (2010). "Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry (review)". Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. 27 (1): 214–215. ISSN 1534-0643.