Ursula Kluwick

PD Dr. Ursula Kluwick

Former position at the English Department:
Associate Professor at the Chair of English Literature | Fludernik

Ursula Kluwick studied English and Russian Literatures and Languages at the University of Vienna, Austria, before coming to Bern in 2007. She holds a PhD from the University of Vienna, and received her venia legendi for English Literature and Cultural Studies in 2017. From 2014 – 2016, she held a Marie Heim-Vögtlin fellowship, awarded by the Swiss National Science Foundation for her post-doctoral work on representations of water in Victorian literature.

From 2013 – 2015, Ursula Kluwick was a member of the DFG-Netzwerk Ethik und Ästhetik in literarischen Repräsentationen ökologischer Transformationen at the University of Freiburg (network leader: JunProf. Dr. Evi Zemanek).

CURRENT PROJECT

Bodies on the Beach. The Mediterranean as Fugitive Space

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Victorian literature & culture
Contemporary literature (especially fiction)
Representations of nature (especially water, the beach, and climate change)
Ecocriticism
Postcolonial literatures and cultures
'Alternative realisms' (especially magic realism and the fantastic)

EDUCATION

05/2017	Habilitation \| venia docendi for English Literature and Cultural Studies University of Bern
03/2001 – 02/2005	PhD \| summa cum laude in English Literature Title of thesis: ""It was and it was not so:' Salman Rushdie’s Magic Realism as a Discourse of Ambiguity" University of Vienna
10/1995 – 03/2001	M.Phil \| 1^st Class in English Language and Literature/Russian Language and Literature Title of thesis: "Narrative Technique in the Fiction of Michael Ondaatje" University of Vienna
09/1998 – 03/1999	Socrates Exchange Programme University College London, Department of English

WORK HISTORY

Since 08/2016	Senior Assistant (Oberassistentin) in English Literature Department of English \| University of Bern, Switzerland
03/2014 – 07/2016	Marie Heim-Vögtlin Fellow, SNF Department of English \| University of Bern, Switzerland
10/2007 – 02/2014	Assistant in Modern English Literature Department of English \| University of Bern, Switzerland
01/2004 – 09/2007	Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural Studies English Department \| University of Vienna, Austria
03/2003 – 06/2003	Research Assistant for Prof. Margarete Rubik English Department \| University of Vienna, Austria
10/2000 – 01/2004	Academic Tutor English Department \| University of Vienna, Austria

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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