Michael Maupin is a doctoral student with Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Bronfen. He holds a Master’s degree in English literature from the University of Zurich as well as a Bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of Connecticut. His dissertation is a study of the representation of blood in literature, film and television. More

Frederik Martin studied English Literature and Linguistics as well as History at the University of Zürich. He is currently working on a PhD thesis on George Orwell's dystopian fiction under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Allen Reddick. In addition, he is studying to become a secondary school teacher and he teaches English part-time. More

Roland Seelentag graduated from the University of Zurich in English, Film Studies and Art History in May 2011 and is now a doctoral candidate at the English Department of the University of Zurich. He is currently working on a dissertation on the representation of the Vietnam War in 'low-culture' texts, supervised by Prof. Dr. Martin Heusser. The research for said dissertation deals with fundamental concepts of culture analysis and how they are implemented in these low-culture texts. More

Sabin Jeanmaire holds both a BA (2010) and an M.A. (2013) degree in English Literature and Linguistics, as well as Spanish Literature and Linguistics, from the University of Zurich. She completed parts of her BA studies at the University of Valencia, Spain, and parts of her MA studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her research interests include metafiction, adaptation, and psychoanalytic criticism. She wrote her MA thesis on metafictional elements in Ian McEwan’s Atonement, and is now working on her doctoral thesis on the Canadian author Timothy Findley, focusing on the topics of trauma and witnessing in his oeuvre. More

Hannah Schoch holds a BA in English Language and Literature, Film Studies, and Philosophy and an MA in English Literature and Gender Studies from the University of Zurich. In 2011, she spent two terms at the University of Cambridge, Pembroke College, reading American Literature and Shakespeare. She wrote her MA thesis on early American (Puritan) women writers entitled On the Domestic Front: America's Writing Mothers. A Puritan Triptych: Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Abigail Adams. More 

Lisann Anders is a teaching and research assistant at the English Department of the University of Zurich. She is currently working on her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Barbara Straumann and Elisabeth Bronfen. Lisann holds an M.A. in Screenwriting from the National University of Ireland Galway. She also studied English Literature and Linguistics, Media & Communication as well as History at the University of Zurich, receiving her M.A. in 2015. While her M.A. thesis analyzed friend relations in Shakespeare, her PhD work focuses on American studies, in particular imagined crimes within the borders of the city. More

Stella Castelli holds a BA in English Literature and Linguistics and Theory and History of Photography as well as an MA in English Literature and Linguistics from the University of Zurich. Currently she is the coordinator of the English Department's Doctoral Program in English and American Literary Studies. She wrote her MA thesis on Aestheticized Representations of Death in American Literature and Film exploring repressions of death and their symptomatic reappearance in contemporary American culture. She has recently completed her doctoral dissertation Death Is Served: American Recipes for Murder - A Serial Compulsion. More

BA in English Language and Literature in 2013 from the University of Zurich, with a minor in Modern History.
MA in English Literature in 2015 from the University of Zurich, with minors in English Language and Gender Studies. More

Murièle Weber graduated from the University of Zurich in 2014 with a Lizentiat/MA in English Language and Literature, Film Studies and Popular Literature. She wrote her Lizentitat thesis about the process of identity formation and the representation of the night in films titled: “Formations of Identity in the Night in Collateral, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Se7en.” She is writing for the Züritipp and the NZZ am Sonntag about film, music, theatre and culture. More

Pascal Sigg holds a B.A  in Communication from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and a B.A. in English Languages and Literatures from the University of Bern. From the University of Zurich, he obtained an M.A. degree with his thesis titled The Responders: The Sincere Narrative Nonfiction of David Foster Wallace and George Saunders. Sigg is a freelance journalist and writer and a founding editor at Coup Magazin, a digital-only publication devoted to longform journalism stories about Switzerland. More

Rebekka Nordmann holds both a BA (2015) and MA (2017) in English Literature and Linguistics and History from the University of Zurich. Her MA thesis entitled “Transgressing Frontiers in Nineteenth-Century American Literature – Nature, Civil War, and Women’s Rights” focused on reading the frontier not only as the westward movement of a nation but also as a social movement key to the tumultuous 19th-century America. She is currently working on her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Bronfen, looking at the work of Fitz-James O’Brien in 1850s New York. More

Alan Mattli 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. He is currently enrolled in the Doctoral Program in English and American Literary Studies, developing his MA thesis, “Anything for the Truth.” Detective Fiction and Reality from Poe to Postmodernism, into a doctoral thesis. His research, supervised by Prof. Dr. Martin Heusser, focuses on the detective genre and its changing conceptions of reality and fixed social hierarchies over time. More

Stefan Buttliger holds a BA in German, English and Sanskrit from the Universities of Zurich and Aberdeen and an MA in German and English from the University of Zurich. His MA thesis entitled Eckhart liest Eckhart: Zur Reflexion des Verstehens in den deutschen Predigten („Eckhart reads Eckhart: on the reflexion of understanding in the German sermons“) explores Meister Eckhart’s strategies when reflecting the paradox that his sermons posit an all-encompassing unity and yet presuppose a subject which reads and understands them. More

Manuel Vogelsang holds a BA in English Literature and Linguistics, Comparative Literature and Latin Literature and an MA in English Literature and Linguists and Gender Studies from the University of Zurich as well as an MA in Comparative Literature from Paris-Sorbonne University. He wrote his MA thesis on The Object of Melodrama: Fantasy, Focalization and Self-Reflexivity in Poe, James, and 1930s Hollywood, an attempt at defining melodrama in narratological terms and reading of some of Poe’s fiction as instances of melodramatic fiction. More