SANAS • Swiss Assocation for North-American Studies
Website: http://www.sagw.ch/en/sanas.html
President: Prof.Dr. Barbara Straumann
Associate Professor
University of Zurich
English Department
Plattenstrasse 47
CH-8032 Zurich
Office #: +41 44 634 3680
Secretary: Roman Bischof
Assistant "Literatures in English / North American Literature and Culture"
Department of English
University of Bern
Länggassstrasse 49
CH-3012 Bern
Office #: +41 31 631 83 61
Treasurer & SAGW Delegate: Dr. Scott Loren
Senior Lecturer
University of St. Gallen
Seminarweg 33
CH-8057 Zurich
EAAS Delegate: Cécile Heim
Doctoral Assistant
University of Lausanne
English Department
Anthropole 5124
CH-1015 Lausanne - Chamberonne
Office #: +41 21 692 44 77
SANAS Activities since 2014:
Conferences:
2014:
Biennial SANAS Conference: Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives. University of Basel, 21-22 November 2014.
2016:
Biennial SANAS Conference: American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political. University of Bern, 4-5 November 2016.
2018:
Biennial SANAS Conference. The Genres of Genre: Forms, Formats, and Cultural Formations. University of Lausanne, 2-3 November 2018.
Other Activities:
2019: SANAS opened the new year with its annual Spring Reading Group which took place in Zürich on March 16. Novelist Jennifer Clement was our guest and we discussed her recent Gun Love, which was also performed as a play at the Theater Neumarkt in Zürich the same day.
Publications:
2014:
Langlotz, Andreas, and Agnieszka Soltysik-Monnet, eds. Emotion, Affect, Sentiment: The Language and Aesthetics of Feeling. Narr, Swiss Papers of English Language and Literature (SPELL), vol. 30, 2014.
2015:
Askin, Ridvan, and Philipp Schweighauser, eds. Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives. Narr, Swiss Papers of English Language and Literature (SPELL), vol. 32, 2015.
2017:
Etter, Lukas, and Julia Straub, eds. American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political. Narr, Swiss Papers of English Language and Literature (SPELL), vol. 35, 2017.
2019:
Heim, Cécile, Boris Vejdovsky, and Benjamin Pickford, eds. The Genres of Genre: Forms Formats, and Cultural Formations. Narr, Swiss Papers of English Language and Literature (SPELL), vol. 38, 2019.
