News:
Lecture-performance
March 17, 2025: Practices of (Self-)Deception at Critical Media Club, Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), Canada
Fellowships
2024-25: Postdoc at Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University
Spring 2024: Postdoc at the Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainable Futures (CJSF), at Franklin University Switzerland (FUS)
Art Grants
2024-25: Production Grant, Pro Helvetia, Switzerland
2024-25: Production Grant, Kanton Zürich Kulturförderung, Switzerland
Grant Funded Research
2024: “Affective Narratives in the Age of Environmental Degradation” hosted by CJSF and the Division for Arts and Cultures at FUS
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About:
Pascal Schwaighofer is an interdisciplinary artist and postdoc fellow at the Department of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, at McGill University, Montréal. In the spring of 2024, he was a postdoc fellow in the programs of Comparative Literary and Culture Studies and Social Justice and Sustainability at Franklin University Switzerland. He has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University (May 2024) and 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 literature, 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, and the Comparative Literature Graduate Students Essay Prize, Cornell University. His artworks have been acquired by private and public collections and exhibited in major European museums. He was awarded several prizes and project grants, such as the Swiss Art Award, Project Grant Cornell Council for the Arts, ProHelvetia production and research grant.