Alexander Honold has been Professor of Modern German Literature at the German Department of the University of Basel since 2004. He took over the management of the Forum Basiliense from its founding director Oliver Nachtwey in May 2024. Alexander Honold completed his doctorate at the Freie Universität Berlin on Robert Musil's novel The Man Without Qualities and his habilitation at Humboldt University on astronomy in the work of Friedrich Hölderlin. Honold has held numerous fellowships, guest lectureships and research residencies, in Santa Barbara, Stanford, Vienna, Hamburg, Bamberg and Munich, among others. In 2021, he received the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Society. His areas of work include narrative research, intercultural literary studies, nature writing, letter corpora and network formation as well as literature and music. His current project is a history of German post-war literature.

Contact:
alexander.honold@unibas.ch

Julia Büchele has been a member of the University of Basel since 2012. Together with Director Prof. Oliver Nachtwey, she has set up the Forum Basiliense. As the Managing Director she is in charge of administrative matters and responsible for incoming fellows. During her PhD, she conducted field research in Uganda and Tanzania and was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University from 2015-16. Since completing her PhD in Sociology at the Center for African Studies in 2017, she coordinates the Graduate School of Social Sciences (G3S) at the University of Basel.

Contact:
Tel: +41 207 28 26
j.buechele@clutterunibas.ch

Clara Balzer-Nelson is a student in sociology and gender studies at the University of Basel. She has been a student assistant at Forum Basiliense since the founding phase in 2022. In this role, she supports all administrative matters as well as event organization, the selection process of the fellows and digital communication.

Contact:
clara.balzer-nelson@unibas.ch

Michelle Blaser is a student in cultural anthropology and ethnology at the University of Basel. She has been a student assistant at Forum Basiliense since the end of 2023. In this role, she is primarily responsible for the website as well as the content and visual communication of our social media channels.

Contact:
michelle.blaser@clutterunibas.ch