Dr. Roman Bischof Vegh

Biography

Roman Bischof-Vegh is an Affiliated Researcher in North American Literature and Culture at the University of Bern. He holds a Master of Arts from the University of Basel, where he analyzed embodied concepts of war and war experience in First World War poetry. His academic background includes studies in English, German Literature at the University of Konstanz, and Biology at ETH Zurich. His PhD thesis focuses on representations of mental illness in contemporary Anglo-American novels, titled 'Narrating Neurons? Perspectives on Mental Illness in British and American Novels in the Age of Neuroscience.' Since September 2017, he has worked at the Department of English at the University of Bern, where he started as an assistant and became a lecturer in October 2021. He has taught various courses in literary and cultural studies, both at the University of Bern and as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Latvia. His research interests bridge literary studies and natural sciences, examining the interface between literature and cognitive science, with emphasis on cognitive poetics, conceptual metaphor, mental space theory, and neuro-literature.

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