Philipp Schweighauser

Schweighauser studied English and German Literature and Linguistics at the University of Basel, where he also received his doctorate in 2003, for a thesis that introduced the notion of 'literary acoustics': The Noises of American Literature, 1890-1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics. His second book, Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art, published in 2016, establishes connections between the early American novel and the emergence of aesthetics in Europe.^[1] He was Senior Lecturer at the University of Bern from 2003 to 2007 and Christian-Gottlob-Heyne Assistant Professor of American Studies at Georg August University of Göttingen from 2007 to 2009.^[2] In 2009, he was appointed Assistant Professor (with tenure track) of North American and General Literature at the University of Basel.^[3] In 2013, he was promoted to Associate Professor and to Full Professor in 2019.^[4] From 2012 to 2020, Schweighauser served as President of the Swiss Association for North American Studies.^[5] He was a research associate at the University of California, Irvine and a visiting scholar at Harvard University and Boston University.^{[citation needed]} In 2022, he published his third book Boasian Verse: The Poetic and Ethnographic Work of Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead, dealing with the poetry and anthropological work of the three titular individuals.^[6]

Schweighauser's research areas include 18th to 21st century American literature and culture, literary history, literary, cultural, and media theory, literature and science, literature and anthropology, life writing, sound studies and aesthetics.

• "Beckett's Media System: A Comparative Study in Multimediality," funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, 2015-2019
• "Of Cultural, Poetic, and Medial Alterity: The Scholarship, Poetry, Photographs, and Films of Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead," funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, 2014-2017

• Boasian Verse: The Poetic and Ethnographic Work of Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead. New York: Routledge, 2022. ISBN 978-1-032-21141-1^[6]
• Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-813-93903-2^[7][8]
• The Noises of American Literature, 1890-1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. ISBN 978-0-813-02947-4^[9][10]

• Boasian Aesthetics: American Poetry, Visual Culture, and Cultural Anthropology (ed., with Gabriele Rippl, Silvy Chakkalakal and A. Elisabeth Reichel). Special issue Amerikastudien/American Studies 63.4 (2018).
• Literatur und Politische Philosophie: Subjektivität, Fremdheit, Demokratie (ed., with Michael G. Festl). Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2018.
• Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives (ed., with Ridvan Askin). Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2015.
• Aesthetics in the 21st Century (ed., with Ridvan Askin, Paul J. Ennis and Andreas Hägler). Special issue Speculations V (2014).
• Haunted Narratives: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma (ed., with Gabriele Rippl, Tiina Kirss, Margit Sutrop and Therese Steffen). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.^[11]
• Terrorism, Media, and the Ethics of Fiction: Transatlantic Perspectives on Don DeLillo (ed., with Peter Schneck). New York: Continuum, 2010.^[12]
• Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry (ed., with Paula Bernat Bennett and Karen L. Kilcup). New York: MLA, 2007.^[13]