Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rippl (Bern / Köln): Ekphrasis in the Digital Age: Teju Cole's Word-Image Configurations.
Guest Lecture, 20 June 2017 // 18:15 - 20:00 // US-F 304
Gabriele Rippl is full professor at the Department of English of the University of Bern and current holder of a Morphomata Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Cologne. Both the history of ekphrasis and the oeuvre of Teju Cole are among her fields of expertise, a summary of which can be found online at:
http://www.ens.unibe.ch/about_us/staff/prof_dr_rippl_gabriele/index_eng.html
http://www.morphomata.uni-koeln.de/fellows/aktuelle-fellows/prof-dr-gabriele-rippl/