Talks and Publications
Doctoral Dissertation
Boss, Aleksandra. Of Opaque Bodies and Transparent Eyeballs. Democracy as Rhizomatic Panopticism in Paine’s The Age of Reason and Emerson’s Nature. Dissertation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2018. <https://doi.org/10.18452/19153>
Publications
Boss, Alke. “Televangelist Tranquility: Joyce Meyer, Joel Osteen, and the Management of Negative Emotions.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 68.1 (2023): 75-96. <https://doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2023/1/7>
Boss, Aleksandra. “Temperance Beyond Discipline: Considerations on the Functions of US Temperance Drama.” Skenè Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies 5.1 (2019): 65-86. <http://skenejournal.skeneproject.it/index.php/JTDS/article/view/230/221>
Boss, Aleksandra, and Martin Klepper. “How to Win Friends and Find a Will – Self-Improvement in 1930s Popular Culture.” LWU Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 6.3 (2018): 221-233.
Boss, Aleksandra, and Martin Klepper. “Toward a Poetics of Practice: Self-Improvement, Nancy Drew, and the Chicago Defender.” Projecting American Studies. Eds. Frank Kelleter and Alexander Starre. Heidelberg: Winter, 2018. 95-108.
Boss, Aleksandra, and Martin Klepper. “What Nancy Knew, What Carol Knew: Mass Literature and Knowledge.” What Literature Knows. Forays into Literary Knowledge Production. Eds. Antje Kley and Kai Mertens. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2018. 193-213.
Boss, Aleksandra. “Between Protest and Privilege. South Asian Religious Signifiers and the US Counterculture.” South Asia Chronicle 7 (2017): 319-349. <https://doi.org/10.18452/18777>
Talks
Boss, Alke. “Religions of Expansion: From East to West with Emerson and Thoreau.” Les États-Unis, Une Nation En Construction 1815-1860 : Nouvelles perspectives historiographiques, travaux actuels et regards transnationaux. Université Paris Cité, 19-20 Jan. 2023.
Boss, Alke. “Mesmerism and the Multitude: Representing the Uncanniness of Jacksonian Democracy with Edgar Allan Poe.” International Autumn School “The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Democracy: From the Interwar Years to the Present.” Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 29 Aug. -2 Sep. 2022.
Boss, Aleksandra. “Pulp Fictions of the Self: Biography and Self-Improvement in 1930s Pulp Magazines.” Kosmos Workshop “Body and Mind”, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 15-17 November 2018.