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ISEK - Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies Popular Culture Studies

Natalie Borsy

Natalie Borsy, PhD

  • Academic Associate
  • Student Advisory Services: Mobility
  • Conact for Conflict Resolution
Phone
+41 44 634 92 96
Room number
AFL-G-208

Research Interests

  • Food Studies, Recipe media
  • Fan Studies
  • Forms and genres of popular literature and media: Fantasy, Adventure, Neo-Victorian literature, parodies.
  • Steampunk
  • Nostalgia
  • Disney

Profile

Education

  • July 2023: PhD at the University of Zurich: Fiktionales Essen. Über das Konstruieren und Konsumieren von authentischen Welten; supervised by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Tomkowiak and Prof. Dr. Christine Lötscher
  • 2015–2017 Graduate student at Zurich University (Popular Culture Studies, Cultural Analysis)
  • 2011–2014 Undergraduate student Zurich University (Popular Culture Studies, English Literature, Film Studies)

Work Experience

  • From August 2023: Academic associate at ISEK – Popular Culture Studies
  • April 2019– July 2023 Teaching and Research Assistant (Popular Literature and Media) supervised by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Tomkowiak and Prof. Dr. Christine Lötscher (from 2021) Professor of Popular Literature and Media with focus on Children’s and Youth Media, ISEK – Popular Culture Studies, University of Zurich
  • Sept 2017 – Dec 2023: Administration Assistant, administration office ISEK – Popular Culture Studies, University of Zurich
  • 2011 –2016: Customer Service administrator, IKEA AG, Spreitenbach

Publications

Membership of Professional Bodies and Learned Societies

  • Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde SGV
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft DGEKW
  • Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung GKJF

Awards

  • 2014 Semester Award granted by Zurich University for the paper «Abenteurerinnen-Konzepte im Archäologie-Action-Adventure Film - Croft & Co im patriarchalen Kontext»