PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

  • The Rise of New Media, 1750-1850: Transatlantic Discourse and American Memory. The New Urban Atlantic Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 
  • A Victorian Muse: The Afterlife of Dante’s Beatrice in Nineteenth-Century Literature. London: Continuum, 2009 (Hardback edition); A Victorian Muse: The Afterlife of Dante’s Beatrice in Nineteenth-Century Literature. London: Continuum, 2011 (Paperback). 

Edited volumes

  • with Kilian Schindler. Trust and Uncertainty: Perspectives from Linguistics and Literary Studies. SPELL Series. Heidelberg: Winter, 2024.
  • with Lukas Etter. American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political. SPELL Series. Tübingen: Narr, 2017.
  • Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016.
  • with Gabriele Rippl. Melodrama: Staging Emotions in the Anglophone World. Anglia special edition 132.2 (2014).
  • Paradoxes of Authenticity: Studies on a Critical Concept. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2012.

Articles (Journal and essay collections)

  • With Kilian Schindler. Introduction. Trust and Uncertainty: Perspectives from Linguistics and Literary Studies. SPELL Series. Heidelberg: Winter, 2024. 9-18.
  • “Celebrity 2.0: Female Influencer Figures in Contemporary American Fiction.” The Politics of Transparency: Fear, Secrecy and Exposure in Modern American Fiction. Eds. Sascha Poehlmann and Paula Martin Salván, 2024. 296-313.
  • “Intermedial Configurations in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Reception of the Vita Nuova.” The Afterlife of Dante’s ‘Vita Nuova’ in the Anglophone World. Ed. Federica Coluzzi and Jacob Blakesley. London: Routledge, 2023. 107-121.
  • “Canon Theory and the Velocity of Book Histories in Times of Digitization.” Anglia 39.1 (2021): 224-241.
  • “Surveillance in Jennifer Egan’s Novels of the Information Age.” Surveillance, Society, and Narrative. Ed. Betiel Wasihun. Würzburg: Ergon, 2019. 111-128.
  • with Lukas Etter. “Introduction.” American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political. SPELL Series. Tübingen: Narr, 2017. 11-17.
  • “The Magazine as Museum in the Eighteenth Century: Transatlantic Perspectives.” Transatlantic Cultures and Literary Forms, 1780-1850. Eds. Annika Bautz and Kathryn Gray. London: Routledge, 2017. 149-70.
  • “The Transatlantic Dante in the Nineteenth Century: Cultural Authority and Reception Histories.” Traveling Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Cultural Contexts. Ed. Erik Redling. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016. 79-93.
  • “Introduction”. (together with Gabriele Rippl). Melodrama: Staging Emotions in the Anglophone World. Anglia special edition 132.2 (2014): 217-24.
  • “Melodrama and Narrative Fiction: Towards a Typology.” Anglia 132.2 (2014): 225-41. 
  • “Transmediality and Myths: Dante’s Beatrice in Victorian Britain.” Transmediality and Transculturality. Eds. Nadja Gernalzick and Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. 93-106.
  • “Bad Timing and Bad Tidings: Discontinuities in Melodrama.” Melodrama – zwischen Populärkultur und ‘Moralisch-Okkultem’? Ed. Marion Schmaus. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. 227-42.
  • “The Stigma of the Autobiographical: Response to Aija Sakova’s ‘Fighting Fear with Writing: Christa Wolf’s Kindheitsmuster and Ene Mihkelson’s The Sleep of Ahasuerus.’” Haunted Narratives: The Politics and Poetics of Identity Formation and Twentieth-Century Life-Writing. Eds. Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, Margit Sutrop, Therese Steffen and Tiina Kirss. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2013. 225-29. 
  • “Richard Wollheim’s Germs: Life-Writing as Therapy, Despite Theory.” Haunted Narratives: The Politics and Poetics of Identity Formation and Twentieth-Century Life-Writing. Eds. Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, Margit Sutrop, Therese Steffen and Tiina Kirss. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2013. 85-100. 
  • “Mobility and the Canon: Discussing Literary Value in Early American Writing.” Mobility in Literature and Culture, 1500-1900. REAL 28. Eds. Ingo Berensmeyer, Christoph Ehland and Herbert Grabes. Tübingen: Narr, 2012. 177-95.
  • “Dante’s Beatrice and Victorian Gender Ideology.” Dante in the Long Nineteenth Century: Nationality Identity and Appropriation. Eds. Aida Audeh and Nick Havely. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 204-22.
  • “Coming Home: Bret Easton Ellis’s Lunar Park, Authorship, and Heidegger’s Concept of Authenticity.” Authenticity: Studies on a Critical Concept. Ed. Julia Straub. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2012. 263-79.
  • “Introduction: Authenticity in Literary and Cultural Studies.” Authenticity: Studies on a Critical Concept. Ed. Julia Straub. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2012. 9-29.
  • “Transatlantic Mobility and British-American Periodical Literature of the Eighteenth Century.” Proceedings: Anglistentag 2010 Saarbrücken. Eds. Joachim Frenk and Lena Steveker. Trier: wvt, 2011. 309-17.
  • “Early American Literature: Canon Theory in a Transatlantic Context.” Comparative American Studies 9.2 (2011): 104-16. 
  • “Pathetic Copycats: Female Victimhood and Visuality in Melodramatic Films.” The Visual Culture of Modernism. Eds. Mario Klarer and Deborah Madsen. SPELL 26. Tübingen: Narr, 2011. 226-37. 
  • “Morphing and Mourning Beatrice. Mythopoesis in Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Julia Margaret Cameron.” The Irreducibility of Images. Intermediality in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Studies. Eds. Christian Emden and Gabriele Rippl, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2011. 147-66.
  •  “Diaphaneitè” and Dante: A New Perspective on Pater’s Early Essay.” Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens 67 (2008): 105-22.
  • “George Eliot’s Romola and Its Shattered Ideals.” Spring Issue 2008 of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, http://www.ncgsjournal.com/.
  • “Diaphanous Angels: Julia Margaret Cameron’s and Walter Pater’s Go-Betweens.” Textus 21 (2008): 65-282.

Reviews

  • Linda K. Hughes, Sarah Ruffing Robbins and Andrew Taylor with Heidi Hakimi-Hood and Adam Nemmers (eds.). 2022. Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures, 1776–1920: An Anthology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Anglia 140 3-4 (2022): 657-660.
  • Carsten Junker. Patterns of Positioning: On the Poetics of Early Abolition. Heidelberg: Winter, 2016 in Anglia 136.4 (2018): 760-763.
  • Reingard Nischik, ed. The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 in Anglia 135.2 (2017): 407-09.
  • Paul Giles. Antipodean America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014 in Amerikastudien/American Studies 60.2+3 (2016) (online).
  • Jennifer Clark. The American Idea of England, 1776-1840: Transatlantic Writing. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013 in Amerikastudien/American Studies 60.2+3 (2016) (online).
  • Tim Lanzendörfer. The Professionalization of the American Magazine. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2013, in Anglia 132.4 (2014): 849-52.
  • Jared Gardner. The Rise and Fall of the American Magazine. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2012, in Anglia 131.2-3 (2013): 392-95.
  • A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature. Hrsg. Garry L. Hagberg & Walter Jost. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy 44. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, in Anglia 129.3-4 (2011): 514-16.
  • (together with Gabriele Rippl) Rhodes, Kimberly. Ophelia and Visual Culture: Representing Body Politics in the Nineteenth Century. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008 and Smith, Graham. ‘Light That Dances in the Mind’, Photographs and Memory in the Writings of E. M. Forster and His Contemporaries. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007. [CISRA 2], in ZAA 4 (2009): 414-17.
  • Birch, Dinah. Our Victorian Education. Malden, MA & London: 2007, in European English Messenger 19.2 (2010): 76-78.

Handbook and Encyclopedia Contributions

  • “Lyrical Style, Poetic Language, Stylistic Devices.” Poetry in Notions: The Online Compendium of Lyric Poetry. Ed. By Gustavo Guerrero et al. 2025 www.poetry-in-notions.net
  • “Neo-Classicism and Nation-Building: The Poetry of Phillis Wheatly and Philip Freneau.” Handbook of American Poetry. Ed. Sabine Sielke. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2025. 113-129.
  • “Canon Formation and the American Short Story.” Handbook of the North American Short Story. Ed. Erik Redling and Oliver Scheiding. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022. 39-52.
  • “Walter Pater: Marius the Epicurean.” Handbook of the English Novel, 1830-1900. Eds. Martin Middeke and Monika Pietrzak-Franger. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2020. 431-444.
  • “John Stuart Mill: The Subjection of Women.” Kindlers Literaturlexikon Online. Ed. Heinz-Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2018.
  • “Introduction: Transatlantic Literary Studies.” Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies. Ed. Julia Straub. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016. 1-17.
  • “Nineteenth-Century Literature and Photography.” Intermediality: Literature – Image – Sound –Music. Ed. Gabriele Rippl. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2015. 156-72.
  • “The Poetry of the New Nation: Philip Freneau’s ‘The Wild Honey Suckle’ and Joel Barlow’s ‘The Hasty-Pudding’.” A History of American Poetry. Eds. Oliver Scheiding, René Dietrich and Clemens Spahr. Trier: wvt, 2015. 37-48.
  • Together with Gabriele Rippl. “Kanon und Macht (Gender, Race, Postcolonialism).” Handbuch Kanon und Wertung. Eds. Gabriele Rippl and Simone Winko. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2013. 110-19.
  • “Englischsprachiges Rezensionswesen: Geschichte und Gegenwart.” Handbuch Kanon und Wertung. Eds. Gabriele Rippl and Simone Winko. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2013. 153-59.
  • “Walter Pater: Marius the Epicurean.” Kindlers Literaturlexikon. Ed. Heinz-Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009.