Gabriele Rippl#
| Membership Number: | 5425 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ens.unibe.ch/about_us/staff/prof_dr_rippl_gabriele/index_eng.html#pane84790 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1447-0129 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since Sept. 2005 Full Professor and Chair of Literatures in English/North American Literature and Culture, Department of English, University of Bern, Switzerland; Director of the Department of English
- 2017 Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Morphomata Kolleg, Cologne
- 2015 Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles
- 2006 Lecturer at the University of Freiburg, Switzerland, American Studies
- 2006 - 2007 Lecturer at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, Department of English Languages and Literatures
- 2003 - 2005 Full Professor and Chair of English Literature (C4 Professor) at the University of Göttingen, Germany, Head of the Department of English Literature and Cultural Studies; Deputy Head of the Center for Comparative Studies, University of Göttingen, Germany
- 2003 Visiting Professor at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, English Languages and Literatures
- 2002/03 Lecturer at the University of Bern, Switzerland, Department of English Languages and Literatures
- 2002/03 Visiting Professor at the University of Tübingen, Germany, English Languages and Literatures
- 2002 Visiting Fellowship at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Cultural sustainability: literature, culture and ecology
- Reception / construction of classical antiquity in Anglophone literature
- Postcolonial and transcultural ekphrasis
- Anglophone world literatures
- Intermediality (text-picture relationships, esp. ekphrasis; eco-ekphrasis)
- Autobiography and life writing
- Literary theory
- Literature and religion
- Literature and anthropology
- Seriality - original/copy
Honours and Awards
- 2020 - present member of the Presiding Board of the Swiss National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation/SNSF
- 2020 - present President of the Specialised Committee Careers of the Swiss National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation/SNSF
- 2019 - present Member of the Swiss National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation/SNSF (‘Forschungsrätin’, Div. 1)
- 2018 - 2019 President of the Swiss National Science Foundation/SNSF research committee, at the University of Bern
- 2017 Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Morphomata Kolleg, Cologne
- 2015 - present Member of the Swiss National Science Foundation/SNSF evaluation committee Doc.CH
- 2015 Visiting Scholarship at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA (supported by the SNSF)
- 2014 - present Appointment to AcademiaNet – European Expert Database of Outstanding Female Academics
- 2013 - present Member of the Swiss National Science Foundation/SNSF committee Ambizione (president of Ambizione since 2020)
- 2013 - 2019 Member of the board of the Hans-Sigrist Foundation (Stiftungsrat), University of Bern
- 2011 - present Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Anglia and the Anglia Book Series
- 2008 Fellowship/Faculty Enrichment Program, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
- 2007 - 2015 President of the Collegium generale, University of Bern
- 2003 Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Wales, University of Lampeter, UK
- 2002 Visiting Fellowship at the Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1991 - 1993 DFG PhD scholarship at the Constance postgraduate school Theory of Literature & Communication
