Dr. des. Melanie Küng
Assistance to the Scientific Management
Institute for European Global Studies,
University of Basel
Riehenstrasse 154
CH-4058 Basel
Office 00.001
Tel: +41 (0)61 207 48 68
- Cultural perspectives on British attitudes to Europe and Brexit
- Englishness and Britishness
- Theories and methods of border studies
- Postcolonial Europe
- Migration narratives
From January 2022: Assistant and deputy to the scientific management at the Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel
January 2022: PhD in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Basel. Title of PhD thesis: “Bordering Europe: The English Channel in British Literature and Culture from the Second World War to Brexit”.
September 2017 – December 2021: Associated researcher at the English Department of the University of Basel
August 2019 – August 2020: Director ad interim of the Language Center of the University of Basel
March 2014 – August 2017: Member of the SNSF research project “British Literary and Cultural Discourses of Europe” (Prof. Ina Habermann)
2010 – 2013: Various Positions in administration, communications and public relations (e.g. at WWF Schweiz)
October 2002 – December 2009: MA in English, Sociology and Egyptology at the University of Basel and the National University of Ireland, Galway