Malaika Sutter is a first-year PhD student at the University of Bern. She studied English Languages and Literatures and Contemporary History at Bern and earned a second Master’s degree in English from the University of Rochester, NY, as a Fulbright grantee in 2019/20. She received a four-year grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for her interdisciplinary doctoral thesis project “Crafting the Needle: Text(ile)-Image Constellations in Contemporary North American Fiction and Art”, which is supervised by Prof. Gabriele Rippl and Prof. Janet Catherine Berlo.
