Graduate School of the Arts and Humanities (GSAH)

Doctoral Students

Malaika Sutter

Department of English

E-Mail
malaika.sutter@ens.unibe.ch
Postal Address
Graduate School of the Arts and Humanities
Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies
Walter Benjamin Kolleg
Universität Bern
Muesmattstrasse 45
CH-3012 Bern

Malaika Sutter

Malaika Sutter studied English Languages and Literatures and Contemporary History at the University of Bern. She earned a second master’s degree in English from the University of Rochester, NY, as a Fulbright grantee in 2019/20. She is currently working as an assistant to Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl  (Chair of Literatures in English / North American Studies) and will start her SNF-funded Doc.CH project “Crafting the Needle: Text/ile-Image Constellations in Contemporary North American Fiction and Art” in January 2021 under Prof. Dr. Rippl’s supervision.

Title of PhD Project

Crafting the Needle: Text/ile-Image Constellations in Contemporary North American Fiction and Art

Research Foci

Contemporary North American literature | anglophone literature (especially 20th and 21st centuries) | needlework arts and textiles | quilt studies | intermediality | intertextuality | materiality | subjectivity | visual arts | feminist theory | queer theory | critical theory | postcolonial literatures and postcolonial theory | storytelling and historiography.