According to Wikipedia, Philipp Schweighauser is a Swiss literary scholar and professor of North American and General Literature at the University of Basel. Biography 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. 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. In 2009, he was appointed Assistant Professor of North American and General Literature at the University of Basel. In 2013, he was promoted to Associate Professor and to Full Professor in 2019. From 2012 to 2020, Schweighauser served as President of the Swiss Association for North American Studies. He was a research associate at the University of California, Irvine and a visiting scholar at Harvard University and Boston University. 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.
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Published Works
The Noises of American Literature, 1890-1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics (2006) (19)
Terrorism, media, and the ethics of fiction : transatlantic perspectives on Don Delillo (2010) (13)
Teaching nineteenth-century American poetry (2007) (6)
The Desire for Unity and Its Failure: Reading Henry Adams through Michel Serres (2005) (5)
Early American Studies Now: A Polemic from Literary Studies (2013) (1)
Resources for the study of nineteenth-century American poetry : a selective guide (2007) (0)
The Noises of Modernist Form: John Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer, Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, and the Soundscapes of Modernity (2015) (0)
[Review of] Archaeologies of the Future:The Desire Called Utopia and Other ScienceFictions (2005) by Fredric Jameson (2007) (0)
