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Research Interests / Recherches

Michael Röösli holds a degree in English, a complementary degree and an MAS in Computational Linguistics, as well as a PhD in Contemporary English Literature from the University of Geneva. His teaching and research mostly involve the fields of literary theory, visual culture, and inter- as well as transmedia approaches to the process of reading. In his dissertation, The Photograph and the Literary Text: A Transmedia Hermeneutics, he shows that the bracketing of epistemological media boundaries in favour of a shared or transmedia perspective can help to solve a number of persisting theoretical problems. The argument opens at the same time a space where formerly contradictory theories appear in a different light, and can engage in new and fertile dialogues.

Publications

“Picturing the Depression: Ambivalent Politics of Representation in FSA Photography.” To be published in The Visual Culture of Modernism. Eds. Deborah Madsen and Mario Klarer. SPELL (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature) 24. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2011: 185-96.

“Photography and the Death of the Author in Julio Cortázar's 'Blow-Up'.” Mediality/Intermediality. Eds. Martin Heusser, Andreas Fischer and Andreas H. Jucker. SPELL (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature) 21. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2008: 75-86.

Recent Presentations / Conférences récentes

"Invisible Monsters and the Fashioned 'I': A Postmodern Vaudeville" at the CUSO (Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale) conference "Designing the Body: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Fashion, Practice and Embodiment" in Geneva, 2-3 December 2011.

"Picturing the Depression: Ambivalent Politics of Representation in FSA Photography" at the joint AAAS (Austrian Association of American Studies) and SANAS (Swiss Association of North American Studies) conference "The Visual Culture of Modernism" in Innsbruck, 12-14 November 2010.

"Jeff Wall and the Materiality of Photographic Texts" at the CUSO (Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale) conference "Material Texts: Means and Conditions of Publication and Reception" in Geneva, 1-2 October, 2010.

"Reading Walker Evans and James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" at the 3e Cycle Conference "Theory after 'Theory'" in Geneva, 25-26 May, 2007.

"The Death of the Author in Julio Cortázar's short story 'Las Babas del Diablo'" at the SAUTE (Swiss Association of University Teachers of English) Conference "Mediality and Intermediality" in Zurich, May 4-5, 2007.