Mettler Melanie

Melanie Mettler offers academic language training, editing and coaching in English to PhD students at the WTI/NCCR. She works with doctoral students to identify difficulties in their writing and provides resources and materials to improve their academic English skills. Proof-reading portions of chapters is as much part of her work as supporting writers in establishing the logic of an argument, improving structure or practising self-editing skills and the use of resources. The specific needs of individual PhD students are assessed during a personal consultation.Melanie’s life outside the WTI/NCCR includes writing her doctoral thesis in Modern English Literature on “Cosmopolitanism, Belonging and the Family in Second Generation South Asian Authors in Britain”. She graduated from the University of Bern with a degree in English Literature, Philosophy and English Linguistics in 2008 and has since been working and teaching at the English Department. Melanie is currently on a scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation and is also a member of the interdisciplinary Gender Studies graduate school “Gender: Prescripts and Transcripts”.