Biography

Sofie Behluli is a postdoctoral researcher in North American Literature and Culture at the University of Bern. She received her doctorate, which was fully funded by the Berrow Foundation Scholarship, from the University of Oxford for her thesis on Women Writing Novels on Art. Sofie also holds a BA and MA in Languages and Literatures in English, with a Minor in German Languages and Literatures from the University of Bern. Her research covers Anglo-American literature from the nineteenth century to the present and is particularly interested in intermedial, word-image configurations. Sofie has numerous publications and regularly presents her research at national and international conferences. Her first monograph, Art in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction: The Ekphrastic Novel, will appear with OUP in May 2025. Currently, Sofie is working on a Habilitation project on Dis/affection in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture. More information and the full CV can be found here: https://www.ens.unibe.ch/about_us/staff/dr_behluli_sofie/index_eng.html.