Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Publications

 

Books:

  • Memories of Harlem: Literarische (Re)Konstruktionen eines Mythos der zwanziger Jahre. Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 2002.
  • CinematoGraphies: Visual Discourses and Literary Strategies in 1990s' New York. co-ed. with Günter H. Lenz and Karl-Heinz Magister. Heidelberg: Winter, 2006.
  • Other Modernisms in an Age of Globalization. co-ed. with Djelal Kadir, Heidelberg: Winter, 2002.

 

 

Published Articles:

  • “Richard Bruce Nugent and the Queer Memory of Harlem.” in: Andrew M. Fearnley, Daniel Maitlin, eds., Race Capital? Harlem as Setting and Symbol. New York: Columbia UP, 2019. 221-240.

  • “The Country and the City: Complicated Places in Toni Morrison’s Jazz.” Approaches to American Cultural Studies. Eds. Antje Dallmann, Eva Boesenberg, Martin Klepper.  New York: Routledge, 2016. 81-90.

  • "Walking in the City: The Homeless Figure and the Artist in Late-Twentieth Century New York Novels," in: Heike Paul et al (eds.), Pirates, Drifters, Fugitives: Figures of Mobility in the US and Beyond. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 195-226.
  • "Pornotopic Economies: Samuel R. Delany’s The Mad Man," in: Eva Boesenberg, Martin Klepper (eds.), American Economies. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 389-401.
  •  "Harlem Then and Now: Concepts of Home," in: Bonaventure S.B. Ndikung (ed.), Nomadic Settlers – Settled Nomads. Exhibition catalogue. Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2011. 14-15.
  •  "Fashion/ing Statements: Reading Homeless Bodies in Contemporary Fiction" Expositions: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities. Vol 5, No. 1 (Spring 2011). http://expositions.journals.villanova.edu/index
  •  "Repräsentation und Serialität: Bret Easton Ellis", in: Christine Blättler (ed.), Kunst  der Serie. Die Serie in den Künsten. München: Wilhelm Fink (Trajekte), 2010. 57-70.
  •  "Race, Place und Gender: Triangulierungen am Nordpol." LWU–Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 40.3/4 (2007): 229-244. (publ. 2010)
  •  "Exploring Post/Modern Urban Space: Homelessness and American Literature," in: W. Moser, A. Pires, P.Gin, (eds.), Modernité en transit / Modernity in Transit, Ottawa: University of Ottowa Press, 2009. 203-234.
  •  "Pläne von Städten, Pläne von Texten: Die kartografische Imagination von Karen Tei Yamashita und Robert Majzels", in: Volker Pantenberg, Susanne Stemmler (eds.), Metropolen im Maßstab. Der Stadtplan als Matrix des Erzählens in Literatur, Film und Kunst. Berlin: transcript, 2009. 265-287.
  •  "Mapping Transculturation: Spatial Metaphor in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange," in: Wilfried Raussert, Reinhard Isensee (ed.), Transcultural Visions of Identities in Images and Text: Transatlantic American Studies  / Festschrift in Honor of Günter H. Lenz. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2008. 263-279.
  •  "No Room of One's Own/Kein Zimmer für sich allein: Standorte des Erzählens obdachloser Autobiographen," in: Renate Hof, Susanne Rohr, (eds.), Inszenierte Erfahrung: Gender und Genre in Tagebuch, Autobiographie, Essay. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2008. 131-149.
  •  "The Renaissance's Harlem: Representing Race and Place," in: Michael Soto, (ed.), Teaching the Harlem Renaissance. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. 13–27.
  •  "The Homeless Body and New York City: Spectacle, Representation, Embodiment," in: Günter H. Lenz, Dorothea Löbbermann und Karl-Heinz Magister, (ed.), CinematoGraphies: Visual Discourses and Literary Strategies in 1990s' New York. Heidelberg: Winter, 2006. 121–139.
  •  "Weg(be)schreibungen, Ortserkundungen: Transients in der amerikanischen Stadt," in: Robert Stockhammer (ed.),  Topographien der Moderne. München: Fink, 2005. 263–185.
  •  "Transient Figures in New York: Tourists and Street People," in: Theo D'haen, Paul Giles, Djelal Kadir, Lois Parkinson Zamora (ed.), How Far is America From Here? Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. 617–625.
  •  "'Making Strange' in Tourism: Harlem Through European Eyes in the 1920s and 1930s," in: Carmen Birkle, William Boelhower, Rocío Davis (ed.), Comparative Sites of Ethnicity: Europe and the Americas. Heidelberg: Winter, 2004. 63–78.
  •  "Productions of Ethnic Space: Tourism's Narrations," in: Postmodern New York City: Günter H. Lenz, Utz Riese (ed.), Transfiguring Spaces/Raum-Transformationen. Heidelberg: Winter, 2003. 111–135.
  •  "Touristische Begierde: Harlem als New Yorker Attraktion," in: Eva Lezzi, Monika Ehlers (ed.), Fremdes Begehren. Repräsentationsformen transkultureller Beziehungen. Köln: Böhlau, 2003. 121–131.
  •  "Modernism in Black and White: Samuel R. Delany's 'Atlantis: Model 1924' and the Aesthetics of Difference," in: Djelal Kadir, Dorothea Löbbermann (ed.), Other Modernisms in an Age of Globalization. Heidelberg: Winter, 002. 157–167.
  •  "Harlem as a Memory Place: Reconstructing the Harlem Renaissance in Space," in: Geneviève Fabre, Michel Feith (ed.), "Temples for Tomorrow": Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2001. 210–221.
  •  "Looking for Harlem: (Re)Konstruktionen Harlems als queer Mecca, 1925–1995", in: Amerikastudien/American Studies 46.1 (2001): 55–69.

 

Peer Reviews:

 The African American Review (2011)

 Reviews:

  •  Ulfried Reichardt, Alterität und Geschichte: Funktionen der Sklavereidarstellung im amerikanischen Roman (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2001); in: Zeitschrift Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 1.1. (2004): 92–94.
  •  W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk, German translation by Jürgen u. Barbara Meyer-Wendt as Die Seelen der Schwarzen (Freiburg: Orange Press, 2003); in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung 204 (4. Sept. 2003): 35.
  •  Wilfried Raussert, Negotiating Temporal Differences: Blues, Jazz and Narrativity in African American Culture (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2000); in: Amerikastudien 48.2 (2003): 275–277.

 Journalism:

  •  "Die Seelen des schwarzen Volkes," Interview mit David Levering Lewis, Der Tagesspiegel (13.04.2008): B4.
  •  "Harlem erleben: In New Yorks ältestem schwarzen Stadtteil," Neue Zürcher Zeitung 147 (28. Juni 2001): 74.
  •  "Flug in den Kanon: Zum 70. Geburtstag von Toni Morrison," Neue Zürcher Zeitung 40 (17./18. Feb. 2001): 34.
  •  "Bruchstücke statt Denkmälern: Geschichte und Gedächtnis bei Toni Morrison," Neue Zürcher Zeitung 210 (9./10. September 2000): 83–84.