Thomas Claviez Editor & Author

Thomas Claviez is Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Bern. He is the author of Grenzfälle: Mythos— Ideologie— American Studies (1998) and Aesthetics and Ethics: Otherness and Moral Imagination from Aristotle to Levinas and from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” to “House Made of Dawn” (2008). He has published essays on pragmatism, ecology, American studies, American literature, ethics and aesthetics, and Native American literature.