Olivia Biber
Olivia Biber is a PhD student and assistant at the Department of English. She is working on her PhD project situated at the intersection of literature, gender studies and economics. Before joining the team at the University of Bern, she was a Research and Teaching Assistant at the University of Zurich. This is also where she completed her MA degree in English Literature and Gender Studies.
Title of PhD Project
Keeping the Political in Economics: The Economic Concerns of Female Victorian Writers
Research Foci
Victorian literature and culture | Literary economic criticism | Feminist economics | Gender studies | Queer theory