Nicola Gess

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Nicola Gess is Professor of German Literature at University of Basel. She is also a trained musicologist and musician and is currently involved in several research projects on the history of listening as well as on the aesthetics of opera, such as the German-based research network Auditory Knowledge in Transition or the research module Visuality of Baroque Opera at the Swiss-based NCCR Iconic Criticism. She is author and editor of several books, including Primitives Denken. Kinder, Wilde und Wahnsinnige in der literarischen Moderne (Fink 2013), Gewalt der Musik. Literatur und Musikkritik um 1800 (Rombach 2011, second edition), Barocktheater als Spektakel. Maschine, Blick und Bewegung auf der Opernbühne des Ancien Régime (co-edited, Fink 2015), Wissens-Ordnungen. Zu einer historischen Epistemologie der Literatur (co-edited, De Gruyter 2014), Barocktheater heute. Wiederentdeckungen zwischen Wissenschaft und Bühne (co-edited, Transcript 2008), and Hörstürze. Akustik und Gewalt im 20. Jahrhundert (co-edited, Königshausen und Neumann 2005). 


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