Research Projects before 2016 (Archive)

News on SNF research funding 2015

Basel:

• SNF project (Locher): "Language and Health Online" (prolongation 2015-2016).

Geneva:

• SNF-project (Erne): "Belvedere (1600) and Its Literary Contexts" (2015-2018)
• SNF-project (Erne): "Editing Early Modern German Shakespeare: Tito Andronico (a Version of Titus Andronicus) and Kunst über alle Künste, ein bös Weib gut zu machen (a Version of The Taming of the Shrew)" (2015-2018)

Johns Hopkins University:

• SNF-project (Lawtoo): “Interdisciplinary Conrad: Affect, Mimesis, and Theory ” (prolongation 2015-2016).

Queen’s University Belfast:

• SNF International short visit (Baccianti): “The Revelatio Esdrae in Medieval Nordic Culture” (Sept-Dec 2015)

News on SNF research funding 2014

Basel:

• SNF project (Habermann): “British Literary and Cultural Discourses of Europe” (2014-2017).
• SNF project (Schweighauser et al.): “Of Cultural, Poetic, and Medial Alterity: The Scholarship, Poetry, Photographs, and Films of Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead” (2014-2017)

Bern:

• Marie Heim-Voegtlin scholarship (Kluwick): “Fictions of Fluctuation: Water in the Victorian Age” (2014-2016).
• SNF Sinergia (Claviez, Wetzel, Imesch Oechslin, Sweers, Hennard Dutheuil de la Rochère): “Theory and Practice of Authenticity in Global Cultural Production” (2014-2017)
• SNF project (Britain): "English in Paradise?: emergent varieties in Micronesia" (2015-2017)

Fribourg:

• SNF Project (Dutton): "Early Drama at Oxford" (100015_153494)
• SNF Project (Maillat): “Biased Communication: The Cognitive Pragmatics of Fallacies” (2014-2017)
• Ambizione scholarship (Zufferey): “MULDIS - Discourse Connectives: From Multiple Languages to Multilingual Minds” (2014-2017)

Geneva:

• SNF project (Haeberli): "Studying Variation in Syntax: A Parsed Corpus of Swiss German" (2014-2016)

Lausanne:

• SNF project (Stirling): “Space, place and image in the poetry and prose of John Donne” (2014-2017)

Neuchâtel:

• SNF project (Hilpert): “Why is there regularity in grammatical semantic change? Reassessing the explanatory power of asymmetric priming” (2014-2016)

News on SNF research funding 2013

Bern: 

• SNF project (Britain): "Contact, mobility and authenticity: Language ideologies in koineisation and creolisation" (2013-2016)

Geneva:

• SNF project (Bolens Guillemette ): "Kinesic Knowledge in Anthropology and Literature"  2013-2015)
• SNF project (Haeberli): "The History of English Auxiliaries: Evidence from Adverb Placement"  (2013-2015)

Lausanne:

• SNF project (Renevey): “Late Medieval Religiosity in England: The Evidence of Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century Devotional Compilations” (2013-2016).

Zurich:

• SNF project (Hundt): "Large-scale Annotation and Alignment of Parallel Corpora for the Investigation of Linguistic Variation" (2013-2016)
• Ambizione (Bevan Zlatar): " Making and Breaking Images in John Milton" (2013-2015)

News on SNF research funding 2012

Basel:

• SNF project (Locher): "Language and Health Online" (2012-2015)
• SNF project  extension (Locher/Kiss/Gygax): "Life (Beyond) Writing: Illness Narratives" (2012-2013)

Bern:

• SNF project (Richter): "Liminal Communities in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels" (2012-2015)
• Marie Heim-Voegtlin scholarship (Lehmann Imfeld): "Towards a Theology of the Ghost Story" (2012-2014)

Fribourg:

• SNF project (Austenfeld): "Raw Sensibilities: Elizabeth Bishop and the Philosophy of Beatitude" (2012-2015)

Lausanne:

• Ambizione (Nievergelt): "Allegory, Hermeneutics and Epistemology: Guillaume Deguileville’s Pilgrimage trilogy in England 1350-1450" (2012-2015)

News on SNF research funding 2011

Geneva:

• SNF project (Haeberli): "Revisiting the Loss of Verb Movement in the History of English: Adverb Placement in Middle and Early Modern English" (2011-2012)

News on SNF research funding 2010

Basel:

• Marie Heim-Voegtlin scholarship (Caci Haag): "Locating gender in space: Emily Dickinson's conception of gender" (2010-2012)

Bern:

• SNF project (Rippl): "The Poetics and Politics of Cosmopolitanism in English Literatures of South Asian Background" (2010-2013)
• SNF project (Rippl): "Seriality and Intermediality in Graphic Novels" (2010-2014)

Fribourg:

• SNF project (Austenfeld): "Illusionism in the "Riddling" School of American Poetry" (2010-2012)
• SNF project (Berthele/Maillat/Morretti/Werlen): "Mehrsprachigkeit und Lebensalter" (2010-2014)

Geneva:

• SNF project (Erne): "The Textual Life of William Shakespeare" (2010-2011)

News on SNF research funding 2009

Basel:

• SNF project (Locher/Kiss/Gygax): "Life (Beyond) Writing: Illness Narratives" (2009-201/2)
• SNF project (Engler): "Passages We Live By: Shakespeare's Hamlet as an example. A new corpus concept for intertextuality research" (2009-2010)

News on SNF research funding 2008

Geneva:

• SNF project (Erne): "The Textual Life of William Shakespeare, 1593-1623" (2008-2010)

Neuchâtel:

• SNF project (Vincent): "Revolutionary-Era British Travellers in Switzerland (1779-1803): Editing Three Major Texts" (2008-2010)

News on SNF research funding 2007

Zurich:

• SNF project (Reddick): "Thomas Hollis's 'Liberty' Donations to the Cities of Bern and Zürich, Harvard College, and other Destinations in Europe and the American Colonies" (2007-2011)

News on SNF research funding 2006

Basel:

• SNF project (Engler): "Passages We Live By: Shakespeare's Hamlet as an example. A new corpus concept for intertextuality research" (2006-2009)

Zurich:

• SNF project (Tudeau-Clayton): "I. Shakespeare's Englishes-Shakespeare and the ideology of linguistic practices in early modern England. II. This England, That Shakespeare: new Angles on Englishness and the Bard" (2006-2007)

News on SNF research funding 2001

Fribourg:

• SNF project (Allerton/Trudgill/Watts): "Language contact and focussing: the linguistics of English in Switzerland" (2001-2005)

News on SNF research funding 2000

Basel:

• SNF project (Engler): "At the piano: Domestic music making in English literature (1600 to the present); a contribution to literary and gender history" (2000-2003)

Geneva:

• SNF project (Coray-Dapretto): "Etude des formes de l'oralité comme contribution à l'étude de la perfomance" (2000-2001)

Zurich:

• SNF project (Reddick): "Zürich Johnson Project: Publication and Analysis of the Writings of Samuel Johnson" (2000-2003)
• SNF project (Wolfensperger): "Herausgabe von King Henry VIII im Rahmen der englisch-deutschen Studienausgabe der Dramen Shakespeares" (2000-2002)