Research Interests
Soundscape studies; 18th to 20th American literature and culture; literary, cultural, and media theory; the social functions of literature and other media; literary, cultural and media history; and aesthetics.
Select Bibliography
- Ph. Schweighauser, The Noises of American Literature, 1890-1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics (Gainesville 2006).
- Ph. Schweighauser, "'Sound all around': Sonic Mysticism and Acoustic Ecology in Don DeLillo's White Noise." in: Profils Américains 16 (2003), 107-21.
- Ph. Schweighauser, "'You must make less noise in here, Mister Schouler': Acoustic Profiling in Late Nineteenth-Century Texts." in: Studies in American Fiction 30.1 (2002), 85-102.
- Ph. Schweighauser, "The Soundscapes of American Realist Fiction." in: Philologie im Netz 19 (2002), 55-78.
- Ph. Schweighauser, "The Noises of Modernist Form: Dos Passos, Hurston, and the Soundscapes of Modernity." in: Frank Kelleter and Daniel Stein (Eds.), American Studies as Media Studies (Heidelberg 2008), 47-55.
- Ph. Schweighauser, "Toward a History of Literary Acoustics: The Noises of American Literature, 1860-1980." in: English and American Studies in German 2003. Summaries of Theses and Monographs (Tübingen 2004), 144-46.
- Ph. Schweighauser, "Rauschende Kommunikationen und Kanalreiniger: Repräsentationen des Widerläufigen bei Howells, Toomer und Pynchon." in: Elke Huwiler and Nicole Wachter (Eds.), Integrationen des Widerläufigen: Ein Streifzug durch geistes- und kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungsfelder (Hamburg 2004), 59-68.