Generate a tailored SOP for Dr. Larissa Dätwyler. Improve your application with a focused, well-structured draft.
Larissa Dätwyler studied Art History and Philosophy at the University of Basel, graduating with a Master's degree in 2017. Her MA thesis focused on the relationship between Cubism and machine aesthetics in the work of Fernand Léger. In 2022, she received her PhD with a dissertation examining the history of ideas and pentimenti in French art discourse since 1750, particularly the visual revision processes in aesthetic modernism relevant to the works of Henri Matisse. As of October 2022, she is a postdoctoral assistant at the Chair of Modern Art History and is currently working on a habilitation project that investigates the themes of shame and shamelessness as an aesthetic category within European modernism. Dätwyler has also held positions as a student assistant at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Basel and worked on a research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) focused on media precision.
Chair of Modern Art History, University of Basel • Basel, Switzerland
Researching and assisting in teaching Modern Art History.
SNSF-SINERGIA project 'Media Exactitude',' University of Basel • Basel, Switzerland
Participated in a research project focusing on media precision.
Institute of Art History, University of Basel • Basel, Switzerland
Contributed to art history research and projects.
The University of Basel generally requires C1 level proficiency in the language of instruction. For most English-taught Masters, TOEFL (min 92-95) or IELTS (min 7.0) is the standard.