Melanie Küng is a PhD candidate at the Department of English, University of Basel, and a member of the project “British Literary and Cultural Discourses of Europe”. Her thesis examines how the English Channel has been constructed, represented and imagined as Anglo-French in-between space and British-European contact zone in British fiction and travel writing. Her research interests include 20th and 21st-c. British&Irish literature, the relationship between memory&space, and constructions of national identity. Website