Nicola Gess is Professor of Modern German and General Literature at Basel University (Switzerland). Most recently, she has directed two large research projects on „Half-Truths. Truth, Fiction and Conspiracy in the Post-Factual Age“ and on „The Power of Wonder. The Instrumentalization of Admiration, Astonishment and Surprise in Discourses of Knowledge, Power, and Art“. She has published widely on these topics, as well as on literary primitivism, the cultural history of listening, and connections between literature and music.
Please visit her academic profile: https://germanistik.philhist.unibas.ch/de/personen/nicola-gess/
E-mail: [email protected]
