Curriculum Vitae#

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl:

Full Professor and Chair of “Literatures in English/North American Literature”,

Director of the Department of English Languages and Literatures, University of Bern, Switzerland

Date of Birth: 1st February 1962, Ravensburg, Germany

Nationality: Swiss & German/EU

Home address: A.-Schöni-Str. 59, CH-2503 Biel

Phone: 079 848 40 10

gabriele.rippl@ens.unibe.ch



Education:

2002: ‘Habilitation’ at the University of Constance, venia legendi for English and General Literary Studies

1995: PhD in English and American Studies at the University of Constance

1989–1995: DFG doctoral grant at the postgraduate school “Theory of Literature and Communication”



Curreent Research Projects:-

Anglophone Life Writing Today: Transcultural Figurations – Intermedial Constellations -

Mediating the Ecological Imperative: Modes and Formats of Engagement -

Interdisciplinary Autobiography/Autofiction Studies

- Cultural Sustainability -

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Professorial Positions and Academic Experience:

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

2020–: Member of the Presiding board of the Swiss National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation/SNSF

2020–: President of the Specialised Committee Careers of the Swiss National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation/SNSF

2019–2021: Vice-Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities, University of Bern

2019–: Member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation/SNSF (‘Forschungsrätin’, Div. 1)

2018–2019: President of the local Swiss National Science Foundation/SNSF research committee at the University of Bern

2015: Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles

2009–: Member of the advisory board and selection committee of the Berrow Foundation, Lincoln College, Oxford

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

2006–2008: Head of Department at the University of Bern, Switzerland, Department of English

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