Publications
Monographs:
- Spectres of Pessimism: A Cultural Logic of the Worst.Palgrave/Springer Nature, 2023. (Reviewed by John Storey, in : Utopian Studies 35:1/2024; by Dilâra Yilmaz, in: Journal for the Study of British Cultures 31:1/2024; by Wieland Schwanebeck, in: Medienwissenschaft Reviews 3/2023; by Michael Rustin, in: Political Quarterly, 10 July 2023)
- British White Trash: Figurations of Tainted Whiteness in the Novels of Irvine Welsh, Niall Griffiths and John King. Transcript, 2018.
Edited Volumes and Special Issues:
- (with Ariane de Waal) "Becoming Ahuman." Special issue of Journal for the Study of British Cultures 30:2 (2023).
- (with Cyprian Piskurek) "Housing in Britain." Special issue of Hard Times: Deutsch-englische Zeitschrift no. 105 (2021).
- (with Solvejg Nitzke) "Crowd(ed) Futures". Special issue of Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power no. 7, 2020.
- (with Evangelia Kindinger) The Intersections of Whiteness. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.
- (with Johannes Fehrle) Adaptation as Cultural Translation. Special Issue of Komparatistik Online, 2018.
- (with Solvejg Nitzke) Katastrophen. Konfrontationen mit dem Realen. Bochum / Essen. Ch. A. Bachmann Verlag, 2012.
Articles:
- (with Sarah Heinz) “Home on the Estate: (Un)Mapping British Homelands in Attack the Block.” In: Journal for the Study of British Cultures 31:1 (2024), pp. 95-110.
- ""No Happiness without (B)order": Brexit Hauntology, Collective Ecstasy, and Transgression in Niall Griffiths’s Broken Ghost." In: Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 34:3 (2023): 111-124.
- (with Ariane de Waal) "Towards Ahuman Futures? Cultural Studies for the End of the World (Introduction)." In: Journal for the Study of British Cultures 30:2 (2023): 139-157.
- "No more remoaning: Ben Wheatleys post-britische Genreexperimente in A Field in England und Happy New Year, Colin Burstead." In: Sascha Seiler (ed.): Ben Wheatley: Film-Konzepte no. 69 (2023): 29-42.
- ""The Kinda People I Hate": Social Abjection and Focalisation in Steve Hollyman's Lairies." In: Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 34:1 (2023): 61-72.
- "The World Turned Upside Down, Again: Hauntings of the English Revolution and Archaeologies of Futures Past in Contemporary Films." In: Journal of British Cinema and Television 20:1 (2023): 25-45.
- (with Matthew W. Hughey) "The Social Antagonism between Whiteness and Antiracism: How and Why White Antiracists Lose their Whiteness." In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 51:1 (2022): 66-82.
- "What Do Cultural Figurations Know about Global Whiteness?" In: Shona Hunter, Christi van der Westhuizen (eds.): Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022 . 66-76.
- "Folk Horror as Dark Ecological Allegory in The Wicker Man and Apostle." In: Journal for the Study of British Cultures 27:2 (2020): 159-172.
- "Riots: Crowds, Bodies, Temporalities, Utopias." Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power no. 7 (2020): "Crowd(ed) Futures": 73-87.
- (with co-author Solvejg Nitzke) "Crowd(ed) Futures: A Conversation." Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power no. 7 (2020): "Crowd(ed) Futures.: 1-16.
- ""They're Bad People – They Should Suffer": Post-British Crime Films and the Ethics of Retributive Violence." In: Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image 11 (2019): 152-168.
- (with Evangelia Kindinger) "Introduction." In: Evangelia Kindinger, Mark Schmitt (eds.): The Intersections of Whiteness. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019. 1-16.
- "Beyond the Future: Crisis and Precarious Temporality in Post-Capitalist Discourse." In: Journal for the Study of British Cultures 24:2 (2018): 189-203.
- (with co-author Johannes Fehrle) "Introduction: Adaptation as Translation: Transferring Cultural Narratives." In: Johannes Fehrle, Mark Schmitt (eds.): Adaptation as Cultural Translation - Special Issue of Komparatistik Online, 2018: 1-7.
- "'The whites have become black': Plan B's and George Amponsah's Representations of the 2011 English Riots and the Echoes of Stuart Hall's "New Ethnicities."" In: Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power no. 3 (2018): "Culture, Power and Identity: The Theoretical Legacy of Stuart Hall": 43-61.
- „The Other Dublin: Homelessness, Abject Comedy and Challenges to the Urban Order in Lenny Abrahamson’s Adam & Paul.“ In: Christoph Ehland, Pascal Fischer (eds.): Resistance and the City: Negotiating Urban Identities: Race, Class and Gender. Leiden / Boston: Brill | Rodopi, 2018. 112-129.
- "From Privilege to Precarity (and Back): Whiteness, Racism and the New Right." In: Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power no. 2 (2018): "The Challenge of the New Right": 48-64.
- "Dysfunctional Capitalism: Mental Illness, Schizoanalysis and the Epistemology of the Negative in Contemporary Cultural Studies." In: Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 22:3 (2017): 298-316. doi:10.1057/s41282-017-0057-9.
- "Re-Thinking Cinema and the City in Crisis: Film, Narrative Agency and Urban Transformation in Selected Recent Publications." In: Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 3:3 (2016): 373-380.
- „Revoltierende Körper: Prostitution, Pornographie und soziale Abjektion in Virginie Despentes’ und Coralie Trinh Thi's Baise-moi.“ In: Simone Sauer-Kretschmer (ed.): Körper kaufen. Prostitution in Literatur und Medien. Berlin: Ch. A. Bachmann Verlag, 2016. 117-136.
- „‚A world separate yet within‘: Welsh Devolution and the Paradoxes of Post-British Community in Niall Griffiths’s Sheepshagger.“ In: Anglistik. International Journal of English Studies 26:1 (2015): 93-102.
- (with co-author Sarah Heinz): „Blighted Past – Lost Future? Denaturalising Narratives of Rural Irishness in Leonard Abrahamson’s Garage and Patrick McCabe’s The Holy City.“ In: Nordic Irish Studies 13:1 (2014): 77-94.
- „Lynchian Road Movies. David Lynchs Spiel mit der Wissensordnung eines Genres am Beispiel von Wild at Heart und The Straight Story.“ In: Achim Geisenhanslüke, Rasmus Overthun (eds.): Kino der Blinden. Figurationen des Nichtwissens bei David Lynch. Bielefeld: transcript, 2012. 207-230.
- „A Blade of Ice to Write Across. Susan Howes lyrischer Nomadismus am Lake George.“ In: Kurt Röttgers, Monika Schmitz-Emans (eds.): Wasser und Gewässer. (Philosophisch-literarische Reflexionen 14). Essen: Die Blaue Eule, 2012. 123-134.
- „The Blowback of Reality: Jean Baudrillards und Slavoj Žižeks philosophische Reaktionen auf 9/11 und Matt Reeves’ Monsterfilm Cloverfield.“ In: Solvejg Nitzke, Mark Schmitt (eds.): Katastrophen. Konfrontationen mit dem Realen. Bochum / Essen: Ch.A. Bachmann Verlag, 2012. 149-166.
- (with co-author Solvejg Nitzke): „Vorwort.“ In: Solvejg Nitzke, Mark Schmitt (eds.): Katastrophen. Konfrontationen mit dem Realen. Bochum / Essen: Ch.A. Bachmann Verlag, 2012. 9-16.
- „Narrating Brooklyn. Erzählen und urbane Identität in Paul Austers und Wayne Wangs Smoke.“ In: Christian A. Bachmann, Simone Sauer-Kretschmer (eds.): Paul Austers Werk und Poetik. Bochum / Essen: Ch. A. Bachmann Verlag, 2012. 165-176.
- „Eden. Apokalyptisches Chaos und paradiesische Ordnung in Alex Garlands The Beach und Cormac McCarthys The Road.“ In: Kurt Röttgers, Monika Schmitz-Emans (eds.): Gärten. (Philosophisch-literarische Reflexionen 13). Essen: Die Blaue Eule, 2011. 156-165.
- (with co-author Neil Hickey) „De-Claiming the Streets. Constructing and Surveying the Homeless in Ireland.“ In: Hard Times. Deutsch-Englische Zeitschrift 87 (2010). 3 7-41.
- (with co-author Solvejg Nitzke) „Monströse Blicke. Zur visuellen Struktur der Subjekt/Objekt-Beziehung von Mensch und Monster in Literatur und Film.“ In: Kurt Röttgers, Monika Schmitz-Emans (eds.): Monster. (Philosophisch-literarische Reflexionen 12). Essen: Die Blaue Eule, 2010. 90-99.
- „Redneck Apocalypse: Der amerikanische Süden als Raum des Anderen in Literatur und Film.“ In: Linda Simonis (ed.): Geopolitische Fiktionen. Beobachtungen in Moderne und Gegenwart. Bochum / Essen: Ch. A. Bachmann Verlag, 2010. 55-72.
- „Language Surrounds Chaos: Gelingen und Scheitern von Susan Howes dichterischen Inszenierungen von Geschichte und Sprache.“ In: Annette Simonis, Linda Simonis (eds.): Komparatistik Online 3 (2008). 83-89.
- „This World Rejects Them: Das Stereotyp des white trash und seine Aufbrechung in den Filmen Rob Zombies.“ In: Magalit 3 (2008). 20-25.
- „Undisciplined Cells. Körperdarstellungen bei David Cronenberg, William Burroughs und James Ballard.“ In: Magalit 2 (2007). 19-22.
Handbook Articles, Short-Form Articles and Miscellanea:
- (with Ariane de Waal) "Ahuman Escape Routes: An Interview with Patricia MacCormack." In: Journal for the Study of British Cultures 30:2 (2023): 159-173.
- "What Constitutes a Democratic University: A German Perspective." In: Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture 84-85 (2023): 148-153.
- (with Jan Gerstner) "Schaf/Ziege." In: J. Gerstner, J. Heller and C. Schmitt (eds.): Handbuch Idylle. Stuttgart: Metzler/Springer, 2022. 531-533.
- "The Emptiness of British Politics: Loss, Melancholia, Hauntings (Politics column)." In: Hard Times: Deutsch-englische Zeitschrift no. 105 (2021): 80-85.
- "'Ghosts Never Leave You': Remi Weekes' His House (Film column)." In: Hard Times: Deutsch-englische Zeitschrift no. 105 (2021): 86-89.
- (with Cyprian Piskurek) "'It's Building Up This Massive Inferiority Complex Inside You.' An Interview with Lynsey Hanley." In: Hard Times: Deutsch-englische Zeitschrift no. 105 (2021): 1-15.
- (with Cyprian Piskurek) "Housing in Britain: Editorial." In: Hard Times: Deutsch-englische Zeitschrift no. 105 (2021): i-iii.
- "Zukunft (neu) erzählen: Gestürzte Statuen und post-imperiale Erinnerungskultur." In: Kulturpolitische Mitteilungen no. 171 (2020): 48-49.
- „Tagungsbericht: Lexikographik als künstlerisch-literarische Schreibweise.“ In: Achim Hölter (Hg.): Komparatistik. Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 2008/2009. Heidelberg: Synchron, 2010. 253-256.
Reviews:
- “Review: Michael Butter: From Panem to Pandemic: An Introduction to Cultural Studies.” In: Archiv für das Studium der neuen Sprachen und Literaturen 26:1 (2024): 216-218.
- "Review: Caroline Edwards: Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel." In: Utopian Studies 34:3 (2023): 595-600.
- "The Gift of the Mediator: Stuart Hall's Selected Writings on Marxism." In: Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture 83 (2023): 136-141.
- "Review: Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference; Selected Writings on Marxism; Writings on Media." In: Journal for the Study of British Cultures 29:2 (2022): 261-265.
- "Review: Henriette Gunkel, kara lynch (eds.): We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments, and Diffractions." In: Medienwissenschaft 4 (2020): 376-377.
- "Review: Joel Burges, Amy Elias (eds.): Time: A Vocabulary of the Present." In: Journal for the Study of British Cultures 24:2 (2018): 205-208.
- "Review: Cecile Sandten, Claudia Gualtieri, Roberto Pedretti, and Eike Kronshage (eds.): Crisis, Risks and New Regionalisms in Europe: Emergency Diasporas and Borderlands." In: Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 29:2 (2018): 170-171.
- „Review: Joel Gwynne (ed.): Transgression in Anglo-American Cinema: Gender, Sex and the Deviant Body.“ In: Medienwissenschaft 2 (2017): 265-266.
- „Review: Aaron Michael Kerner, Jonathan L. Knapp: Extreme Cinema. Affective Strategies in Transnational Media.“ In: Medienwissenschaft 2 (2017): 263-265.
- „Review: Paul Elliott: Studying the British Crime Film.“ In: Medienwissenschaft 2 (2016). 229-230.
- „Review: Scott Loren, Jörg Metelmann: Irritation of Life. The Subversive Melodrama of Michael Haneke, David Lynch and Lars von Trier.“ In: Medienwissenschaft 2/3 (2014): 262-265.
- „Review: Julia Meier: Die Tiefe der Oberfläche. David Lynch – Gilles Deleuze – Francis Bacon.“ In: Medienwissenschaft 2/3 (2014): 265-267.
- „Review: Beate Schappach: AIDS in Literatur, Theater und Film. Zur kulturellen Dramaturgie eines Störfalls.“ In: Medienwissenschaft 4 (2013): 442-445.
- „Review. Sebastian Nestler: Performative Kritik. Eine philosophische Intervention in den Begriffsapparat der Cultural Studies.“ In: Medienwissenschaft 4 (2012): 428-430.
- „Rezension: Miriam Havemann: The Subject Rising Against Its Author. A Poetics of Rebellion in Bryan Stanley Johnson’s Œuvre.“ In: Achim Hölter (Hg.): Komparatistik. Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 2011. Heidelberg: Synchron, 2012. 144-147.