Nicola Gess becomes Associate Professor
Nicola Gess, Assistant Professor of Modern German Literature since 2010, has been appointed Associate Professor at the University of Basel; her research focuses on poetics and aesthetics as well as the history, aesthetics and practice of music theater.
Nicola Gess, born in Bielefeld in 1973, studied German, musicology and flute in Hamburg and Princeton and received her doctorate from HU Berlin and Princeton University in 2004 with a thesis on the "violence of music" in literature and music aesthetics around 1800.
In 2007/08 she was a guest lecturer at the University of Zurich. In 2012, she habilitated at the Free University of Berlin with her habilitation thesis "Primitives Denken. Wilde, Kinder und Wahnsinnige in der literarischen Moderne (Müller, Musil, Benn, Benjamin)". Since fall 2010, she has held an assistant professorship with tenure track for Modern German Literature at the University of Basel.
