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 | 1st 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 |
| 03/2014 – 07/2016 |
Marie Heim-Vögtlin Fellow, SNF |
| 10/2007 – 02/2014 |
Assistant in Modern English Literature |
| 01/2004 – 09/2007 |
Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural Studies |
| 03/2003 – 06/2003 |
Research Assistant for Prof. Margarete Rubik |
| 10/2000 – 01/2004 | Academic Tutor English Department | University of Vienna, Austria |