Boasian Verse

Philipp Schweighauser is Professor of North American and General Literature at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He received his PhD in Anglophone Literary Studies from the same university. After a research stay at the University of California, Irvine (2000–2001), a postdoc position at the University of Berne (2003–2007), and an assistant professorship at the University of Göttingen (2007–2009), he returned to the University of Basel in 2009. From 2012 to 2020, Schweighauser served as the president of the Swiss Association for North American Studies. He is the co-editor of eight edited volumes or special issues and the author of two monographs: Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art (U of Virginia P, 2016) and The Noises of American Literature, 1890–1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics (UP Florida, 2006).

• Introduction1. Soothing Blindness, Piercing Insight: Ruth Benedict’s Verse Concealing Disclosures Yearning for Lost Plenitude Of Syncretisms, Foils, and Cautionary Examples2. Margaret Mead: How to Make It New, Differently Reinventing the Social World Toward an Anthropology of the Senses The Public and the Private, In and Out of Verse3. Exerting Poetic License: Edward Sapir’s Poetry Little Canadian Flowers Poetry Magazine Playing Seriously with Genres Of Desert Sirens Conclusion