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Ridvan ASKIN

PD Dr Ridvan ASKIN

SNSF Researcher

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Ridvan Askin studied at the Universities of Vienna, Freiburg, and Essex and holds an MA in Philosophy, English, and Portuguese from the AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Freiburg and a PhD in English Literature from the AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Basel, where he also obtained his venia docendi in North American and General Literature. Before joining Geneva’s Department of English, he taught at the Universities of Freiburg, Basel, Upper Alsace, and Fribourg. He was a visiting scholar at The Pennsylvania State AV¶ÌÊÓƵ, the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, and the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.

He is the author of (Edinburgh AV¶ÌÊÓƵ Press 2016), and the co-editor of three essay collections and a journal special issue: (Edinburgh AV¶ÌÊÓƵ Press 2019), (Routledge 2018), (Narr 2015), and (2014, Speculations 5). He is also the translator of several of Steven Shaviro’s essays published as (Merve 2018).

He was the convener of the lecture series, which ran from 2014-2022. His main research interests are 19^th-21^st century North American literature, aesthetics, literary and cultural theory, narrative theory, philosophy and literature, poetry and poetics, and romanticism.

American Literature