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Directors of Department and Research Interests
Prof. Dr. M. Bridges
Medieval English Language and Literature
Email: bridges@ens.unibe.ch
Prof. Dr. Virginia Richter
Modern English Literature
Email: richter@ens.unibe.ch
Prof. Dr. R. Watts
Modern English Language
Email: watts@ens.unibe.ch
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl
Literatures in English
Email: rippl@ens.unibe.ch
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl
Research interests and teaching profile Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl
Intermediality (text-image relations, ecphrasis in particular); cultural studies;
literary theory; interculturality and postcolonialism; transculturalism; history and
anthropology of the media; literature and anthropology; early modernity (frühe Neuzeit);
19th and 20th century women writers in English; semiotics; autobiography research;
feminist literary theory.
Gabriele Rippl's teaching profile covers seminars and lectures for students in their basic and main studies in English, North American and Post-colonial literatures. She has been teaching introductory seminars and survey lectures as well as courses on individual authors e.g. Charles Dickens, Henry James, Aphra Behn, Walter Pater, periods (e.g. Anglo-American Modernisms) or theories and concepts (e.g. intermediality, Feminist literary theory, reception of Greek antiquity).
Assistant Professors and Research Interests
Prof. Dr. Christiane Schlote
Post-Colonial Literature
Email: schlote@ens.unibe.ch
Research interests and teaching profile Prof. Dr. Christiane Schlote
Christiane Schlote is Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the University of Berne. She has published extensively on postcolonial, transnational and diasporic literatures, contemporary British and American drama, urban fiction, Latina/o and Asian American Studies and documentarism. She is the author of Bridging Cultures: Latino- und asiatisch-amerikanisches Theater in New York City (1997) and co-editor of New Beginnings in 20th Century Theatre and Drama (2003).
She is currently editing the manuscript for a book on transnationalism in the work of South Asian writers, playwrights and filmmakers and co-editing an essay collection on literature from the Middle East and its diasporas.
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