Dr. Ursula Ganz-Blättler

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Dr. Ursula Ganz-Blättler Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Ursula Ganz-Blättler studied history, communication and arts before pursuing a career as film journalist. After ten years in the field she returned to academics and aspired for a professorship in the area of film and television studies. While the primary goal was dead-ended by some serious health issues (i.e. breast cancer and treatment-related chronic fatigue), the respective qualification project resulted in an interdisciplinary habilitation thesis analysing the cumulative narrative strategies of US-American television series. Ten Years of teaching entertainment and communication studies as a senior lecturer at the University of St. Gallen followed. In December 2025 Ganz-Blättler started working part-time as a scientific collaborator in the context of the PACE project (PAtient-CEntered care and partnerships between healthcare professionals and patients with chronic fatigue. A patient-initiated study; see https://www.bfh.ch/de/forschung/forschungsprojekte/2025-139-800-296/ for details).