
Biodiversified me - Cogito ergo cum
This coessence puts essence itself in the hyphenation - "being-singular-plural" - which is a mark of union and also a mark of division, a mark of sharing that
effaces itself, leaving each term to its isolation and its being-with-the others.
- Jean-Luc Nancy, Being Singular Plural (2000/1996)
1964
1982 1983 1988 1994-95 2003-08 2008 2011 2014 2021 2022 |
Born in Basel on 23 November.
Worked as a nanny in Camberley (UK) and … … in Berlin. Travel and research in Mexico and Guatemala. Caerdydd. Life in the Netherlands was good (mostly). Home again. Nesting with partner. Musil, l'animal que donc je suis. Life-saving surgery. The lightness of darkness in Uppsala. Beginning of my training as mediator. Still (re)searching after all those years. A decisive year, I sense. |
University degrees
1991
1995 2002 |
MA (lic.phil.) in English and Spanish Philology, University of Basel
MA in Critical and Cultural Theory, University of Wales, College of Cardiff PhD in English Literature, University of Basel |
Research Fellowships
2003-2004
2004-2008 2014 |
Institute for Gender Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen
ASCA Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam Centre for Gender Research, University of Uppsala |
Academic Positions and Research Management
2022- Teacher of German as a Foreign Language, K5 (Basler Center for German and Integration Courses), Basel
2020-2021 Executive Manager, Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich
2015-2020 Project Manager Doctoral Education, President's Board, University of Basel
2013-2014 Coordinator of the Friedrich Dürrenmatt Guest Professorship in World Literature, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bern
2009-2014 Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences and Coordinator (now:
Walter Benjamin Kolleg) of the interdisciplinary Graduate School, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bern
2008-2012 Project Manager at the Network for Transdisciplinary Research (td-net) of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences
2007-2010 Co-Director, Electronic Text+Textiles Organisation, Riga (residency e-t-t) – Basel (residency Text + Textil) – London – Chicago
1999-2002 Coordinator of the Proposal for a National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR):
NCCR “Gender: Performance and Interpretation”, Department of History, University of Basel
1995-2000 Lecturer, Department of English, University of Basel
1992-1994 Research Assistant for the English-German Critical Edition of Shakespeare’s King Lear, English Department,
University of St. Gallen
Editorial activities
Book series Function: General Editor, together with Stephan Besser, Christoph Brunner, Elisabeth Friis, Ines Kleesattel
Latest editorship
Please write to me at rossini.privat(at)gmail.com
2020-2021 Executive Manager, Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich
2015-2020 Project Manager Doctoral Education, President's Board, University of Basel
2013-2014 Coordinator of the Friedrich Dürrenmatt Guest Professorship in World Literature, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bern
2009-2014 Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences and Coordinator (now:
Walter Benjamin Kolleg) of the interdisciplinary Graduate School, Faculty of Humanities, University of Bern
2008-2012 Project Manager at the Network for Transdisciplinary Research (td-net) of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences
2007-2010 Co-Director, Electronic Text+Textiles Organisation, Riga (residency e-t-t) – Basel (residency Text + Textil) – London – Chicago
1999-2002 Coordinator of the Proposal for a National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR):
NCCR “Gender: Performance and Interpretation”, Department of History, University of Basel
1995-2000 Lecturer, Department of English, University of Basel
1992-1994 Research Assistant for the English-German Critical Edition of Shakespeare’s King Lear, English Department,
University of St. Gallen
Editorial activities
Book series Function: General Editor, together with Stephan Besser, Christoph Brunner, Elisabeth Friis, Ines Kleesattel
- Critical Posthumanisms
Function: Editorial board member
- Genealogy of the Posthuman, curated by the Critical Posthumanism Network
Function: General Editor, together with Ivan Callus and Stefan Herbrechter;
Editors: Megen de Bruin-Molé, Marija Grech, Christopher John Müller.
Latest editorship
- The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism
Completed. Print version coming soon, open access chapters available on the Springer website: referenceworks
Please write to me at rossini.privat(at)gmail.com