Alan Mattli, Dr.
- Teaching and Research Assistant in English Literature
- Assistant Prof. Dr. Michael C. Frank
- Phone
- +41 44 634 36 71
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Alan Mattli is a teaching and research assistant in English Literature, working at Prof. Dr. Michael C. Frank's Chair of English Literatures of the 19th and 20th Centuries.
He received a PhD in English Literature from the University of Zurich in 2023. His dissertation, entitled "The Conservative Mystery Lover Will Object": Revisionist Crime Fiction in the U.S., offers an illustrative analysis of post-war American crime fiction as a key theatre of postmodern literature, identifying its seemingly disparate subgenres as an internally and ideologically coherent rebuttal to traditional detective fiction in the Sherlock Holmes mold.
Alan Mattli also holds a BA in English Literature and Linguistics, Film Studies, and Swiss History as well as an MA in English Literature and Linguistics and Film Studies, both from the University of Zurich.
| Spring 2024 | Queer Theory (BA seminar, co-taught with Dr. Olivia Tjon-A-Meeuw) |
| Autumn 2023 | The American Century in Retrospect (BA seminar) |
| Spring 2023 | Adaptation (BA seminar) |
| Autumn 2022 | Postmodern Aesthetics (BA seminar) |
| Spring 2021 | Revisionist Crime Fiction in the U.S. (BA Seminar) |
| Spring 2020–present | Supervision of BA theses |
| Autumn 2019 | "Under Siege from Within": American Horror Fiction and Film (BA seminar) |
| Autumn 2018–present | Examiner and invigilator for Reading List oral exams |
| Autumn 2018–present | English Literature: Textual Analysis (introductory module, 2 semesters) |
Forthcoming: Mattli, Alan. "'Where the City Started and the Suburbs Ended': The (Sub)urban Confinement of Post-Industrial America in David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows." Narratives of Confinement in American Popular Culture, edited by Firuze Güzel, De Gruyter, Anglia Book Series.
Mattli, Alan. "'They Weren't All Fakes': Feminist Crime Fiction as an 'Authentic Copy' in Marcia Muller's Edwin of the Iron Shoes." Crime Fiction, Femininities and Masculinities: Proceedings of the Eighth Captivating Criminality Conference, edited by Kerstin-Anja Münderlein, U of Bamberg P, 2024, pp.102–113.
Mattli Alan. Review of Noir Fiction and Film: Diversions and Misdirections, by Lee Clark Mitchell. Crime Fiction Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2023, pp. 136–139.
Mattli, Alan. "Policing the Border in Lucas Pope's Computer Game Papers, Please." Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature, vol. 41, 2022, pp. 99–117.
Upcoming: 26–30 August 2024. "Murderous Slapstick: Humour in Chester Himes' The Real Cool Killers. ESSE Conference 2024, University of Lausanne.
Upcoming: 27–29 June. "The Last Detective: Disassembling a Genre Through Historiographic Metafiction in Joyce Carol Oates' Mysteries of Winterthurn." Captivating Criminality 11, Esterházy Károly Catholic University, Eger.
Upcoming: 14–16 May 2024. "Processes of Adaptation in Werner Herzog's America." Literature, Cinema, and the Transatlantic Dimensions of Adaptation between Mitteleuropa and the U.S., Ca'Foscari University of Venice.
Upcoming: 9–11 May 2024. "Visualising the Colonisation of the Arctic in Zacharias Kunuk's One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk." GAPS Conference 2024, University of Zurich.
16 November 2022. "Postmodernism and American Literature." Guest lecture in the lecture course Modernism, Postmodernism, and Popular Modernism, taught by Dr. Thomas Keller, University of Zurich.
29 August–2 September 2022. "Men, Women, and Children: Gendered Violence in Sara Paretsky's Indemnity Only." ESSE Conference 2022, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz.
30 June–2 July 2022. "'They Weren't All Fakes': Feminist Crime Fiction as an 'Authentic Copy' in Marcia Muller's Edwin of the Iron Shoes." Captivating Criminality 8, University of Bamberg.
14–15 October 2021. "The (Sub)urban Horrors of Post-Industrial America in David Robert Mitchell's It Follows." FRINGE/ALUS Symposium, University of Alcalá, Madrid/Online.
14–15 May 2021. "Policing Borders in Lucas Pope's Computer Game Papers, Please." SAUTE Conference 2021, University of Zurich/Online.
20–23 February 2019. "'Deeply Marked with All Bestiality and Cruelty': Challenging Detective Fiction's Racialised Others." SWPACA Conference 2019, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Upcoming: 7–8 June. Women and Crime Fiction. Workshop organised with Dr. Olivia Tjon-A-Meeuw, English Department, University of Zurich. Call for Papers
Spring semester 2023. Co-organisation of the lecture course Lecture Series in English Studies: Space, University of Zurich (with Prof. Dr. Michael C. Frank and Dr. Olivia Tjon-A-Meeuw).
8–9 November 2019. Assistance of Prof. Dr. Michael C. Frank and Dr. Maria Flood in the organisation of the conference The Figure of the Terrorist in Literature, Film and Media, University of Zurich.
"Alice Diop shares her views on the future of cinema on a grand tour of Switzerland." Swissinfo, 13 Apr. 2024.
May December. SVFJ panel discussion with Denise Bucher. Houdini, Zurich, 25 Feb. 2024.
"The Swiss film harvest for 2024: taking stock of migration and the right to protest." Swissinfo, 11 Feb. 2024.
"Las Toreras grabs Spanish-Swiss tragedy by the horns." Swissinfo, 1 Dec. 2023.
"Zurich Film Festival's balancing act: #DontRockTheBoat." Swissinfo, 3 Oct. 2023
"Documentary shows the concrete reality of Le Corbusier’s Indian utopia." Swissinfo, 31 Aug. 2023.
"Die Kunst der niederschwelligen Unterhaltung." Maximum Cinema, 14 Aug. 2023.
"Radu Jude and the joys of making a cinema masterpiece." With Eduardo Simantob, Swissinfo, 13 Aug. 2023.
"Betreibst du noch Filmkritik oder influenct du schon?" Locarno Film Festival panel discussion with Annina Hasler, Stephan Henz, Monika Schärer, and Sebastian Seidler. Spacio Cinema, Locarno, 4 Aug. 2023.
The Lighthouse. Screening introduction for KinoKonkav. Stadtkino, Basel, 23 May 2023.
"This Brunner, Hollywood’s best Swiss friend, shares star-studded memories." Swissinfo, 15 May 2023.
"Agnès Varda." Screening introduction for Poolkino. Neubad, Lucerne, 8 Mar. 2023.
"Schottland." Screening introduction for Poolkino. Neubad, Lucerne, 11 Jan. 2023.
"Queer Cinema." Screening introduction for Poolkino. Neubad, Lucerne, 14 Dec. 2022.
"What chansonnier Mani Matter can (still) tell us about Switzerland." Swissinfo, 24 Nov. 2022.
"Swiss myths fall apart at the Zurich Film Festival." Swissinfo, 2 Oct. 2022.
Jackie. Screening introduction for Poolkino. Neubad, Lucerne, 15 June 2022.
"Waiting as an act of resistance: six films by Nicolas Wadimoff." Swissinfo, 23 May 2022.
"Zweiteiler." Screening introduction for Poolkino. Neubad, Lucerne, 27 Apr. 2022.
"Black Spider: horror made in Switzerland." Swissinfo, 19 Apr. 2022.
"The (Hi)stories of Cinema: Film Analysis in Practice." Project day talk for high school students. Kantonsschule Zürcher Oberland, Wetzikon, 10 Mar. 2022.
"Filme der Grossstadt." Screening introduction for Poolkino. Neubad, Lucerne, 20 Jan. 2022.
"Thomas Imbach, a filmmaker unafraid of masculinity." Swissinfo, 22 Nov. 2021.
"Spaghettiwestern." Screening introduction for Poolkino. Neubad, Lucerne, 17 Nov. 2021.
"Growing pains: Zurich Film Festival turns 17." Swissinfo, 28 Sep. 2021.
"Locarno shows the two faces of Swiss cinema." Swissinfo, 10 Aug. 2021.
The Father. SVFJ panel discussion with Christoph Schelb and Selim Petersen. Kosmos, Zurich, 27 June 2021.
The Simpsons. Screening introduction for Poolkino. Neubad, Lucerne, 9 Jan. 2019.
"Scarlett Johansson." Screening introduction for Poolkino. Neubad, Lucerne, 14 Nov. 2018.
"Queer Romance." Screening introduction for Poolkino. Neubad, Lucerne, 14 Feb. 2018.
"Im Kino-Konzert." Frame, Feb. 2018.
"Da staunt Hollywood Bauklötze." NZZ am Sonntag, 19 Feb. 2017.
"Games erobern die Leinwand." Frame, Nov. 2016.
"Animationsfilm." Screening introduction for Poolkino. Neubad, Lucerne, 9 Mar. 2016.
"Bill Murray." Screening introduction for Poolkino. Neubad, Lucerne, 14 Oct. 2015.
"Martin Scorsese." Screening introduction for Poolkino. Neubad, Lucerne, 25 Feb. 2015.