First dissertation of HKB research
The 32-year-old literary scholar Johanne Mohs has completed her doctorate as part of a Swiss National Science Foundation professorship on the subject of intermateriality. This means that UAS research in Bern is also positioning itself in the third cycle of academic education.
In her dissertation Photographs and attributions - literary modes of writing the photographic act in Flaubert, Proust, Perec and Roche Johanne Mohs has examined literary discussions of photography since its invention by Louis Daguerre in 1839.
Using three examples, she was able to show how in the mid-19th century with Gustave Flaubert, at the beginning of the 20th century with Marcel Proust and in the 1960s and 1970s with Denis Roche and Georges Perec, important representatives of French literary history transferred photographic recording principles to their writing.
As part of the Intermateriality Professorship, which the literary scholar and concert flutist Thomas Strässle brought to Bern University of the Arts (HKB) in 2009, the conference proceedings edited by Strässle, Christoph Kleinschmidt and Johanne Mohs and published by transcript-Verlag have also been published. The interplay of materials in the arts. Theories - Practices - Perspectives published.
