Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Monographs:

• Spectres of Pessimism: A Cultural Logic of the Worst.Palgrave/Springer Nature, 2023. 

Reviews:

John Storey, in : Utopian Studies 35:1/2024

Dilâra Yilmaz, in: Journal for the Study of British Cultures 31:1/2024

Wieland Schwanebeck, in: Medienwissenschaft Reviews 3/2023;

Michael Rustin, in: Political Quarterly, 10 July 2023)

Shortlisted for the 2025 Habilitation Prize of the German Association for the Study of English (Anglistikverband)

Winner of the 2025 BritCult Award for best habilitation thesis, awarded by the German Association for the Study of British Cultures

• British White Trash: Figurations of Tainted Whiteness in the Novels of Irvine Welsh, Niall Griffiths and John King. Transcript, 2018.

Winner of the 2019 Rudolf-Chaudoire-Preis, TU Dortmund

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:

• "Moral Economies Revisited: Riots, Luddism, and the Production of Affect." In: Journal for the Study of British Cultures 32:2 (2025): 163-180.
• “La Fin Absolue du Monde: John Carpenters kosmischer Pessimismus.” In: Pelle Felsch, Andreas Rauscher & Marcus Stiglegger (eds.): John Carpenter. St. Ingbert: Deadline, 2025. 177-196.
• (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.