Introducing the FUS Faculty: Pascal Schwaighofer

Postdoc Fellow at the FUS Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainable Futures

Pascal Schwaighofer is a postdoc teaching fellow in the programs of Comparative Literary and Culture Studies (CLCS), Art History, and Social Justice and Sustainability (SJS) at Franklin University Switzerland. He has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University (conferral May 2024) and holds an MA in Fine Arts from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. His research is grounded in environmental humanities, visual culture, and critical theory. Starting from the material culture of apiculture, his dissertation titled Domesticating Metaphors—The Use(s) of Honeybees in Times of Extinction explores the modern Western fascination with honeybees and its transdisciplinary influence on linguistics, cybernetics, economy, and ecology. In 2022-23, Pascal was a Mellon Graduate Fellow at the Society for the Humanities, Cornell University. His work has been awarded the Peter Uwe Hohendahl Graduate Essay Prize in Critical Theory, Cornell University and the Comparative Literature Graduate Students Essay Prize.

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Pascal Schwaighofer

Postdoc Fellow at the FUS Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainable Futures