Eleonora Wicki is a doctoral candidate and teaching and research assistant at the Chair of General Education. She completed her Bachelor's degree in Political Science and English Studies at the University of Lausanne and her Master's degree in Comparative Literature at King's College London. In her PhD thesis with the working title "Motherhood and Identity", she examines the process of becoming a mother on the basis of contemporary fictional literature.

Other areas of work and research include:

• Philosophy and theory of education
• Cultural analysis
• Gender studies and feminist theory
• Ethics and aesthetics
• Contemporary literature

• Since 2022: Research Assistant at the Chair of General Educational Science, Prof. Dr. Roland Reichenbach, University of Zurich
• Since 2022: Representative of junior researchers at the Institute of Educational Science, University of Zurich
• Since 2020: Teaching assignments at the University of Zurich
• 2020 - 2022: Assistant at the Department of Methods at the Institute of Educational Science in the educational history project "Digital edition of the copybooks from Pestalozzi's Yverdon Institute", Dr. Rebekka Horlacher, University of Zurich
• 2012 - 2014: Studies in Literary Writing at the School of Applied Linguistics in Zurich
• 2011 - 2020: Teacher at primary and secondary level in Zurich
• 2009 - 2010: MA in Comparative Literature at King's College in London. Title of the Master thesis: "The Figure of the Guest in the Modern Short Story"
• 2004 - 2008: BA in English and Political Science at the University of Lausanne
• 2004: Primary school teaching diploma at the Lucerne Pedagogical Training Center