Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Monographien/Books

• The Discovery of Point of View: Observation and Narration in the American Novel 1790-1910. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011. Review: Anglia 130.2 (2012): 316-19. Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 01/2013.
• Pynchon, Auster, DeLillo - Die amerikanische Postmoderne zwischen Spiel und Rekonstruktion. Frankfurt: Campus, 1996.

Sammelbände/Editions/Sonderhefte

• Thema: Self-Help and Ability, LWU. Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (1/2022). Ed. with Daphne Beers and Kristina Graaff.
• Approaches to American Cultural Studies. Ed. with Antje Dallmann and Eva Boesenberg. Milton Park: Routledge, 2016. 
• Rethinking Narrative Identity: Persona and Perspective. Ed. with Claudia Holler. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2013. Review: Linguist List 24.2740 (Jul 07 2013).
  

  Review of Rethinking Narrative Identity, appeared in "Amerikastudien", Volume 61:1 (2016)

• American Economies. American Studies – A Monograph Series 219. Ed. with Eva Boesenberg, Reinhard Isensee. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. Review: Anglia 2013, 131 (2–3): 463–467.

• Thema: Medien, Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht XLII 1/2, 2009. Ed. with Antje Kley.

• Transatlantic Modernism. Ed. with Joseph C. Schöpp. Heidelberg: Winter, 2001.

• Hyperkultur - Zur Fiktion des Computerzeitalters. Ed. with Ernst-Peter Schneck and Ruth Mayer. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 1996.

Aufsätze/Papers

• “Positive Thinking and the Production of Ability in U.S. Self-Help Cultures.” With Daphne Beers and Kristina Graaff. LWU. Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (1/2022). Ed. Daphne Beers, Kristina Graaff and Martin Klepper. 5-24.
• “How to Win Friends and Find a Will – Self-Improvement in 1930s Popular Culture.” With Aleksandra Boss. LWU – Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht LI, 3 (2018): 221-233.
• “Self-Help and/in Mass Cultures: Performatives of (Self-)Management and Race between 1890 and 1930.” With Kristina Graaff. Fictions of Management: Efficiency and Control in American Literature and Culture, edited by James Dorson and Jasper Verlinden. Winter Verlag, 2018, pp. 73-99.
• “What Nancy Knew, What Carol Knew: Mass Culture and Knowledge.” With Aleksandra Boss. What Literature Knows. Forays into Literary Knowledge Production. Ed. Antje Kley and Kai Mertens. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2018. 193-213.
• “Towards a Poetics of Practice: Self-Improvement, Nancy Drew, and the Chicago Defender.” with Aleksandra Boss. Projecting American Studies. Essays on Theory, Method, and Practice. Ed. Frank Kelleter and Alexander Starre. Heidelberg, Winter, 2018. 95-108.
• “American Studies and/as Cultural Studies.” Approaches to American Cultural Studies. Ed. with Antje Dallmann and Eva Boesenberg. Milton Park: Routledge, 2016. 47-67.
• “'From rags to riches' and the self-made man.” Approaches to American Cultural Studies. Ed. with Antje Dallmann and Eva Boesenberg. Milton Park: Routledge, 2016. 123-131.
• “Critical Topographies in Depression Era Lives.” (mit Alexandra Wagner) Life Writing and Space. Ed. Eveline Kilian and Hope Wolf. Farnham: Ashgate, 2016. 105-119.
• “What if Icarus Hadn’t Hurtled into the Sea?” Some Remarks towards a Theory of Historical Narratology.” Diegesis. Interdisziplinäres E-Journal für Erzählforschung 3.2 (2014).
• “The Development of Literature as Art and the Authority of Fiction.” Intellectual Authority and Literary Culture in the US, 1790-1900. Ed. Günter Leypoldt. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. 101-114.
• "Experiential Approaches to Narrative: 'Discordant Concordance' in Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," New Approaches to Narrative. Cognition — Culture — History. Ed. Vera Nünning. Trier: WVT, 2013. 31-42.
• "Rethinking Narrative Identity: Persona and Perspective," Rethinking Narrative Identity: Persona and Perspective. Ed. Claudia Holler, Martin Klepper. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2013. 1-32.
• "The Process of Seeing and Henry James's Concept of Point of View." LWU XLIV,1 (2011): 15-29.
• "Retrofitting Vision. Ridley Scott's Blade Runner." Moving Images — Mobile Viewers. 20th Century Visuality. Ed. Renate Brosch. (Kultur und Technik, Band 20). Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2011. 93-101.
• "The Emergence of Literature as Art and the Refinement of Literary Perspective." Addressing Modernity. Social Systems Theory and U.S. Cultures. Ed. Hannes Bergthaller and Carsten Schinko. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2011. 35-62.
• "American (Cultural) Studies as Media Studies: Two Readings." American Studies/Shifting Gears. A Publication of the DFG Research Network 'The Futures of (European) American Studies. Ed. Birte Christ, Christian Kloeckner, Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche und Michael Butter. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010. (With Steffi Brümer) 223-248.
• "Mit den Coen Brothers auf der Bowlingbahn: The Big Lebowski." Die Filmkomödie der Gegenwart. Ed. Jörn Glasenapp and Claudia Lillge. München: Fink, 2008. 109-124.
• "Emergent Art: Textual Identity in Art Spiegelman's Maus." Anglistik 18,2 (2007): 83-101.
• "Visualität und Textualität—Symptome einer schwierigen Beziehung am Beispiel der Geschichte der literarischen Perspektive." Visualisierungen: Textualität — Deixis — Lektüre. Ed. Renate Brosch und Ronja Tripp. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007. 87-107.
• "'Treacherous Heart': Excess and Control in Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple." Melodrama! The Mode of Excess from Early America to Hollywood. Ed. Frank Kelleter, Barbara Krah and Ruth Mayer. Heidelberg: Winter, 2007. 35-54.
• "Die Großstadt schärft den Blick: Der Schriftsteller James T. Farrell und die Chicago School in der Soziologie." Chicago—Portrait einer Stadt. Ed. Johann N. Schmidt und Hans-Peter Rodenberg. Frankfurt: Insel Verlag, 2006. 191-208.
• "From Mary Rowlandson to Jessica Lynch: Metamorphoses of a Cultural Script." Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht XXXVIII, 3 (2005): 207-217.
• "Metamorphosen der Metamorphosen: Paul Austers City of Glass (1981/82) und die amerikanische Postmoderne." Europäische Romane der Postmoderne. Ed. Anselm Maler, Angel San Miguel, Richard Schwaderer. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2004. 73-87.
• "Virtuelle Welten: Die phantastischen Räume der Postmoderne und des Cyberspace." Cyberfiktionen: neue Beiträge. Ed. Jörn Glasenapp. München: R. Fischer, 2002. 57-83.
• "Strategies of Re-integration in Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer (1925) and Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929)." Transatlantic  Modernism. Ed. Martin Klepper and Joseph C. Schöpp. Heidelberg: Winter, 2001. 125-138.
• "Moon Palace im Kontext der Postmoderne." 7.Oktober 2000. Englisch. Oberschulamt Freiburg.
• "The Language of Poetry and Advertising: An Interdisciplinary Teaching Project at Hamburg University." With Ingrid Piller. Erfurt Electronic Studies in English EESE 2000 (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Erfurt).
• "The 'miracle' of hybridity in Marge Piercy's He, She and It." Crossover. Ed. Therese Steffen. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2000. 169-176.
• "Schüler produzieren Videos. Ein Vorschlag zum kreativen Umgang mit Zeitgeschichte in der Sekundarstufe I." GEP Geschichte Erziehung Politik 3 (Mai/Juni 1997): 151-156.
• "Geheimnisvolle Vergeltung - Thomas Pynchons Vineland." Literaturmagazin 39: Der neue amerikanische Roman. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, April 1997. 52-63.
• "‘Zwischenland’ - William Gibsons Cyberspace-Trilogie und Marge Piercys He, She And It." Hyperkultur - Zur Fiktion des Computerzeitalters. Ed. Martin Klepper, Ernst-Peter Schneck and Ruth Mayer. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 1996. 202-220.
• "'I want to live in a city that never sleeps' - New York - Romane aus und über The Big Apple." FU-Nachrichten, Das Magazin der Freien Universität Berlin 7/94 (Juli 1994): 28-29.
• "Die Moderne entläßt ihre Kinder - Pynchons V. und die Probleme des postmodernen Wissens." Amerikastudien/American Studies 38 (1993): 601-623.
• "The Novel in the Times of ‘Communifiction’." Problems of Democracy in the United States. Ed. Willi Paul Adams et. al. (John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin, Materialien 31). Berlin: John F. Kennedy-Institut, 1993. 247-256.

Rezensionen/Reviews

• “Eckart Voigts und Alessandra Boller (2015): Dystopia, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalypse: Classics – New Tendencies – Model Interpretations. Trier, WVt,” Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung 5.2 (2015): 119-122.
• "Susanne Rohr and Miriam Strube (2012): Revisiting Pragmatism. William James in the New Millenium. Heidelberg, Winter." Amerikastudien/American Studies 59.2 (2014). Web.
• "Winfried Fluck (2009): Romance with America? Essays on Culture, Literature, and American Studies. Heidelberg, Winter." Amerikastudien/American Studies 57.3 (2012): 505-510.
• "Greta Olson (2011): Current Trends in Narratology. Berlin: De Gruyter." Anglia 130.2 (2012): 313-316.
• "Willie Van Peer and Seymour Chatman (2001): New Perspectives on Narrative Perspective. Albany: State University of New York Press." Discourse Studies 4.4 (December 2002): 552-53.
• "Walter Grünzweig und Andreas Solbach (1999): Grenzüberschreitungen: Narratologie im Kontext/Transcending Boundaries: Narratology in Context. Tübingen: Narr." Amerikastudien/American Studies 46.2 (Summer 2001): 312-15.
• "Renate Brosch (2000): Krisen des Sehens. Henry James und die Veraenderung der Wahrnehmung im 19. Jahrhundert. Tuebingen: Stauffenburg." PhiN 17 (2001) Ed. Paul Gévaudan, Hiltrud Lautenbach, Peter Schneck und Dietrich Scholler. 62-79. http://www.phin.de/

 Responses

• „Visual Cultures.“ Response to Udo Hebel. American Studies Today. New Research Agendas. Eds. Winfried Fluck, Erik Redling, Sabine Sielke, Hubert Zapf. Heidelberg: Winter, 2014. 433-438.
   

Lexikoneinträge/Handbook Entries

• “Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897): Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by herself (1861).” Handbook Autobiography/Autofiction: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook 3 Vols. Ed. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2019. Vol. III, 1603-17.
• “Alison Bechdel (*1960): Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006).” Handbook Autobiography/Autofiction: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook 3 Vols. Ed. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2019. Vol. III, 2074-88.
• “Autobiographical/Autofictional Comics.” Handbook Autobiography/Autofiction: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook 3 Vols. Ed. Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2019. Vol. I, 441-445.
• “Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1880/81).” Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century, Ed. Christine Gerhardt. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2018. 434-454.
• "William Gibson: Neuromancer." Kindler Literaturlexikon.
• "Richard Brautigan." Metzler Lexikon amerikanischer Autoren. Ed. Bernd Engler. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2000.

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