PUBLICATIONS

Books

Austenfeld, Thomas, and Grzegorz Kosc (eds.). Robert Lowell in Context.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.  

Austenfeld, Thomas, and Aurélie Zurbrügg (eds.). Who Tells Your Story? SPELL 42.  Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2023. 

Austenfeld, Thomas (ed.).  Robert Lowell in a New Century: European and American Perspectives.  Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House (an imprint of Boydell & Brewer), 2019.

Austenfeld, Thomas (ed.).  Katherine Anne Porter’s Ship of Fools: New Interpretations and Transatlantic Contexts.  Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2015.

Austenfeld, Thomas, Jens Herlth, Dimiter Daphinoff (eds.).  Terrorism and Narrative Practice.  Münster: Lit Verlag, 2011.

Austenfeld, Thomas (ed.). Critical Insights: Barbara Kingsolver.  Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010.

Austenfeld, Thomas, and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet (eds.). Writing American Women. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2009.

Austenfeld, Thomas (ed.). Kay Boyle for the Twenty-First Century: New Essays. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2008.

Austenfeld, Thomas.  American Women Writers and the Nazis:  Ethics and Politics in Boyle, Porter, Stafford, and Hellman. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001.

Co-editor, with Veronica Alfano (Macquarie University) of the series Anglophone Lyric Poetry and Poetics (Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield).

Articles and Chapters

  1. “Poetry is Tuning!” In: Poetry. Experience. Attention. Papers from the 2023 Oslo Conference of the International Network for the Study of Lyric. Berlin: Brill (forthcoming).   
  2. “Religion.” In: Robert Lowell in Context, eds. Thomas Austenfeld and Grzegorz Kosc.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, 173-184.
  3. (with Aurélie Zurbrügg) “Introduction: Telling Stories, Writing Lives.” Who Tells Your Story? SPELL 42.  Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2023, 9-15. 
  4. “American Sestinas: A Century of Aesthetic Paradoxes.”  Contrainte Créatrice: La Fortune Littéraire de la Sextine dans le Temps et dans l’Espace. Textes réunis par Luca Barbieri et Marion Uhlig avec la collaboration de David Moos et Pauline Quarroz. ” Firenze: Edizioni del Galluzzo, per la Fondazione Enzio Franceschini, 2023, 179-197. DOI 10.36167/QSMI12PDF
  5. “Qui chante? The Lyric’s Voice as Impersonation.”  Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik, Vol. 2: Contemporary Lyric Poetry in Transitions between Genres and Media, ed. Ralph Müller and Henrieke Stahl. IZfK 2 (2021): 135-143.  DOI:  10.25353/ubtr-izfk-ce7d-f942.
  6. “The Other Chimamanda Adichie: Beyond the Feminist Icon.” Peter Weiss Jahrbuch für Literatur, Kunst und Politik im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Vol. 29. Ed. Arnd Beise and Michael Hofmann. St. Ingbert: Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 2020. 213-224.
  7. “Questions of Epic and Lyric: The Challenge of Walt Whitman.” IdeAs [Online Journal of the Institut des Amériques, http://www.institutdesameriques.fr] 14 (2019), posted October 1, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4000/ideas.6618 . OPEN ACCESS.
  8. “Not for an Age? Robert Lowell’s Historical Moment.” Anglia 134.4 (2016): 683-699. DOI: 10.1515/anglia-2016-0074 .
  9. “Lowell’s Dolphin: Shame, Guilt, and the Fate of Confessional Poetry.”  Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives, eds. Ridvan Askin and Philipp Schweighauser. Tübingen: Narr, Francke, Attempto, 2015. 59-72. ISBN 978-3-8233-6967-7
  10. “Confess–Disclose–Proclaim: The Trope of Self-Revelation in American Poetry Since the Sixties.” New Perspectives on American Poetry: From Walt Whitman to the Present, eds. Jiri Flajsar and Pavlina Flajsarova. Olomouc: Universita Palackeho v Olomouci, 2015. 53-70. ISBN 978-80-244-4762-9
  11. “The Drama of Shaping a Lyrical Moment: An Approach to the Poetry of Dana Gioia.” New Pilgrimages: Selected Papers from the IAUPE Beijing Conference in 2013, eds. Li Cao and Li Jin. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2015. 244-258. ISBN 978-7-302-38569-1
  12. Austenfeld, Thomas; Reynes-Delobel, Anne. “Kay Boyle.” Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Eds. Jackson Bryer, Richard Kopley, and Paul Lauter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. www.oxfordbibliographies.com 
  13. “Fleeing, Flying, Staying, Leaving: The Persistence of Escape in American Literature.” In Fuga. Temi, Percorsi, Storie. L’Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria. Eds. Federico Bellini and Giulio Segato. Milano: Facoltà di Scienze Linguistiche e Letterature Straniere, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 12.1-2 (2014): 69-76.
  14. “Nobody’s Nation. Multiculturalism in American Society and American Literature.” Tertium Datur! Formen und Facetten interkultureller Hybridität / Formes et facettes d’hybridité interculturelle. Ed. Sabine Haupt. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2014. 23-35.
  15. “Louise Erdrich in Company: The American Writer and Her Communities.”  Critical Insights: Louise Erdrich. Ed. Jane Hafen. Pasadena: Salem Press, 2013. 68-85.
  16. “Razor’s Edge: Robert Lowell Shaving.” Pacific Coast Philology 47 (2012): 1-16.
  17. “Preface.” Being and Becoming. Reading Arthur Miller’s Focus and “The Crucible” through Giorgio Agamben. By Cinzia Minervini Jordan. Ed. Thomas Austenfeld. Basel: Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, 2012. 1-4.
  18. “Le paradoxe d’une Sudiste, femme et catholique. Une triple liberté.” [Flannery O’Connor, écrivain catholique?] Pierre d’angle 17 (2011): 11-20. [Tr. Simone de Reyff. Published April, 2012].
  19. “‘Poets alone are summoned as witness’: Kay Boyle as Poet.” The Wolf (London, UK), ed. James Byrne. Vol. 26 (2012): 91-99.
  20. “Can Terrorism be Satirized? The Case of Chuck Palahniuk’s Pygmy.” Terrorism and Narrative Practice, eds. Thomas Austenfeld, Jens Herlth, Dimiter Daphinoff. Münster: Lit Verlag, 2011. 189-199.
  21. “Pigs, Ghosts, and a Ship of Fools: Katherine Anne Porter’s Response to Totalitarian Europe.”  Colloquium Helveticum 41 (2010): 35-51.
  22. “Comparison and Contrast: Discovering Family Relations.” Vergleichen? / Comparer? Komparatistische Wissenschaften im Vergleich / La comparaison dans les sciences. Eds. Gilbert Casasus & Sabine Haupt. Münster: Lit Verlag, 2011. 19-22.
  23. “Genre, Voice, Identity: Nonfiction Prose and the Personal Essay.” Colloquium Helveticum 40 (2009): 19-35.
  24. “The Spinet and the Coffin: Katherine Anne Porter and the Art of Music.” Mississippi Quarterly 62:1-2 (2009): 195-212.
  25. “Looking for Academic Family: Learning and Teaching in David Levin’s Exemplary Elders and Frank McCourt’s Teacher Man.” Prose Studies 31.3 (2009): 181-189.
  26. “Locked Up Underground: Kay Boyle and Prisons.” Writing American Women, eds. Thomas Austenfeld and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2009. 165-178.
  27. “Kay Boyle”. The Literary Encyclopedia. 24 March 2009. <http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=521>
  28. “Kay Boyle.” Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction. <http://www.literatureencyclopedia.com/public/> DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405192446.2011.x
  29. “La Peur dans la littérature américaine des années 1920 et 1930.” La Peur et ses Miroirs. Ed. Michel Viegnes. Paris: Editions Imago, 2009. 325-345.
  30. “Why Does Daisy Die? Teaching Late 19th-Century American Literature in Switzerland.” The American Literary Naturalism Newsletter 3.1-2 (2009): 7-11.
  31. “Teaching Lowell Beyond the Alps: A Multilingual Approach to Imitations.” The Robert Lowell Society Newsletter 1.1 (2008): 7-9.
  32. “Dr. Schumann” [in Katherine Anne Porter’s Ship of Fools].  Student’s Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters. Ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Judith S. Baughman. 4 vols. New York: Facts on File/Manly, 2008. Vol. 3, 1063-1064.
  33. “A Happy Naturalist? Jeremy Bentham and the Cosmic Morality of The Octopus.” Studies in American Naturalism 2.1 (Summer 2007): 33-45.
  34. “Only Sensations Remain: The Hypertrophy of the Aesthetic in Philip Roth’s Everyman. ” American Aesthetics, ed. Deborah Madsen (SPELL vol. 20).  Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2007. 207-221.
  35. “The Persistence of Desire (John Updike).”  Entry in  Facts on File Companion to the American Short Story, ed. Abby Werlock, 2nd. edition. New York: Facts on File, 2010. Vol II, 529.
  36. “How to Begin a New World: Dante in Walcott’s Omeros.” South Atlantic Review 71.3 (2006): 15-28.
  37. “German Heritage and Culture in Louise Erdrich’s The Master Butchers Singing Club.”  Great Plains Quarterly 26 (Winter 2006): 3-11.
  38. “The Mountain Lion.” The Facts on File Companion to the American Novel, ed. Abby H.P. Werlock. New York: Facts on File, 2006. Vol. II: 923-925.
  39. “Plagued by the Nightingale.” The Facts on File Companion to the American Novel, ed. Abby H.P. Werlock. New York: Facts on File, 2006. Vol. III: 1045-1046.
  40. “A River Runs Through It.” The Facts on File Companion to the American Novel, ed. Abby H.P. Werlock. New York: Facts on File, 2006. Vol. III: 1108-1110.
  41. “Peter Taylor’s A Summons to Memphis: Duty Ethics in the American South.” Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 36.3 (2004): 231-37.
  42. “A Brief Meditation on Pedagogy.”  The Department Chair: A Resource of Academic Administrators 14.2 (2003): 24-25.
  43. “Josef Pieper’s Contemplative Assent to the World.” Modern Age 42.4 (2000): 372-382.
  44. “Travellers, Not Tourists:  The Trope of Travel as Acculturation.”  Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), 16-21 August, 1998, Haifa University, Israel.  ISSEI: 2001.
  45. “Language as a Tool of Honesty: The Example of Kay Boyle.”  Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), 16-21 August, 1998, Haifa University, Israel.  ISSEI: 2001.
  46. “Thomas Wolfe and Katherine Anne Porter in Germany: The Ethical Dimension of Fiction.” The Thomas Wolfe Review 23.1 (1999): 11-19.
  47. “Memory, Literature, and European Politics.” In: Memory, History and Critique. European Identity at the Millennium. Proceedings of the 5th International ISSEI Conference. August 1996, University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands, eds. Frank Brinkhuis & Sascha Talmor.
  48. “No Sentimental Education: An Essay on Transatlantic Cultural Identity.” Reflections on Multiculturalism. Ed. Robert Eddy. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1996, 155-164
  49. “What Makes a Western Writer? The Case of Katherine Anne Porter.” Southwestern American Literature 20.2 (1995): 35-42.
  50. “The Necessary Imagination: European Authors Encounter the West.” Heritage of the Great Plains 27.1 (1994): 13-18.
  51. “Katherine Anne Porter Abroad: The Politics of Emotion.” Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 26.1 (1994): 27-33.
  52. “Rituals of Reading in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens.” South Atlantic Review 58 (1993): 67-83.
  53. “‘But, come, I’ll set your story to a tune’: Berlioz’s Interpretation of Byron’s ‘Childe Harold.’” Keats-Shelley Journal XXXIX (1990): 83-94. 

Review Essays

  • “German Contributions to American Literary Scholarship.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 2008. Ed. David Nordloh. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010. 474-489.
  • “German Contributions to American Literary Scholarship.”  American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 2007. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2009. 474-489.
  • “German Contributions to American Literary Scholarship.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 2006. Ed. David Nordloh. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2008. 471-489.
  • “German Contributions to American Literary Scholarship.”  Dual chapter for publications in 2004 and 2005. American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 2005. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007. 471-494.

Bibliographic Essays

  • Editor, “Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature, 1997.” Western American Literature 32.4 (1998): 353-383.
  • Editor, “Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature, 1996.” Western American Literature 31.4 (1997): 321-363.
  • Editor, “Annual Bibliography of Studies in Western American Literature, 1995.” Western American Literature 30.4 (1996): 375-408.

Book Reviews 

  • Review of Matthew Scully, Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U. S. Literature (New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2024) in Anglia 143.1 (2025): 260-262.  https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2025-0020
  • Review of Julia Nitz, Belles and Poets: Intertextuality  in the Civil War Diaries of White Southern Women (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018) in Amerikastudien / American Studies 68.1 (2023): 25-127. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2023/1/12.
  • Review of Timo Müller, The African American Sonnet: A Literary History (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018) in Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 69.2 (2021): 199-201. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2021-2042.
  • Review of Jewel Spears Brooker, T.S. Eliot’s Dialectical Imagination (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2018) in Anglia 137.2 (2019): 360-363. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2019-0029.
  • Review of Barbara Korte and Frédéric Regard (eds.), Narrating “Precariousness”: Modes, Media, Ethics (Heidelberg: Winter, 2014) in Anglia 134.1 (2016): 188-191. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2016-0019 .
  • Review of Guerre de Troie, guerres des cultures et guerres du Golfe, by Gaël Grobéty (Bern, etc.: Peter Lang, 2014), in Museum Helveticum 71/2 (2014): 253.
  • Review of Louise Erdrich: Tracks, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, The Plague of Doves, ed. by Deborah L. Madsen (London: Continuum, 2011), in Great Plains Quarterly 32.4 (2012): 292.
  • Review of Janis P. Stout, Picturing a Different West: Vision, Illustration, and the Tradition of Cather and Austin (Texas Tech UP, 2007) in Great Plains Quarterly 29.1 (2009): 79.
  • Review of Darlene Harbour Unrue, Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist (Mississippi UP, 2005), in Great Plains Quarterly 27.4 (2007): 302-303.
  • 10. Review of Rüdiger Heinze, Ethics of Literary Forms in Contemporary American Literature (Münster: Lit Verlag, 2005), in Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 32.2 (2007): 356-359.
  • Review of Mary Titus, The Ambivalent Art of Katherine Anne Porter (Georgia UP, 2005), in South Atlantic Review 71.3 (2006): 133-135.
  • Review of Pascale Casanova, The World Republic of Letters (Harvard UP, 2004), in South Atlantic Review 71.1 (2006): 141-144.
  • Review of Catherine Paul, Poetry in the Museums of Modernism (University of Michigan Press, 2002) in South Atlantic Review  69.3-4 (2004): 123-126.
  • “Humility and Method.”  Review of Ciriaco Morón Arroyo, The Humanities in the Age of Technology (Catholic University of America Press, 2002) in Modern Age (Spring 2003): 178-181.
  • Review of Kay Boyle, Process, ed. Sandra Spanier (University of Illinois Press, 2001) in South Atlantic Review 67.3 (2002): 99-101.
  • Review of Alan Williamson, Almost a Girl: Male Writers and Female Identification (University Press of Virginia, 2001) in South Atlantic Review 67.2 (2002): 74-75.
  • Review of Susan Rosowski, Birthing a Nation (University of Nebraska Press, 1999) in Resources for American Literary Study 28 (2002), 189-191.
  • Review of Darlene Harbour Unrue (ed.), Katherine Anne Porter’s Poetry (University of South Carolina Press, 1996) in Resources for American Literary Study 24.2 (1998): 288-290.
  • Review of Janis Stout, Katherine Anne Porter: A Sense of the Times (University of Virginia Press, 1995) in Rocky Mountain Review 50.1 (Spring 1996).
  • Review of Ruth M. Alvarez and Thomas Walsh (eds.), Uncollected Early Prose of Katherine Anne Porter (University of Texas Press, 1994) in Western American Literature (May 1995).
  • Review of Robert Brinkmeyer, Katherine Anne Porter’s Artistic Development (Louisiana State University Press, 1993) in South Atlantic Review (May 1994).
  • Review of Thomas Walsh, Katherine Anne Porter and Mexico (University of Texas Press, 1992) in South Atlantic Review (September 1993).
  • Review of David Axelrod, Jerusalem of Grass (1992) and Gerrye Payne, The Year-God (1992) in Western American Literature (August 1993).
  • Review of Roger Fanning, The Island Itself (1991) in Western American Literature (November 1992).

Occasional Writings

  • “Der dissonante Wüstenchor.”  Universitas: Magazin der Universität Freiburg (03| 2021/2022): 34-35.
  • “Foreword.” English Without Boundaries. Reading English from China to Canada. Edited by Jane Roberts and Trudi L. Darby. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. x-xi.
  • “Memory Culture.”  Universitas: Magazin der Universität Freiburg (März 2015): 27-28.
  • Interview mit Claudia Brülhart, “Wo ist der Glamour hin?”  Universitas: Magazin der Universität Freiburg (März 2015): 10-12.
  • “MOOCs, Museen und Kultur.” Universitas: Magazin der Universität Freiburg (October 2013): 18-20.
  • “Playing the Prodigal: Walcott’s Variations on a Biblical Parable.” Proceedings of the Second Edition of ELLE International Conference, Oradea, 14-15 September 2012. Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2013. 135-142.
  • Austenfeld, Thomas (ed. and pref.). Minervini Jordan, Cinzia. Being and Becoming. Reading Arthur Miller’s Focus and “The Crucible” through Giorgio Agamben. Basel: Friedrich Reinhardt, 2012. [Epiphania / Egregia # 9]. ISBN 978-3-7245-1871-6.
  • “Neue Strukturen an der Philosophischen Fakultät.” Universitas: Magazin der Universität Freiburg (September 2009): 4-6
  • “Ein Schwarzer im Weissen Haus?” Universitas: Magazin der Universität Freiburg (Dezember 2008): 10-11.
  • “A Brief Meditation on Pedagogy.” The Department Chair: A Resource of Academic Administrators 14.2 (2003): 24-25.
  • “Simulating Battle, Educating for Reality: A Visit to Fort Benning, GA.” The Digest: NGCSU Faculty and Staff Newsletter 11,19 (May 27, 2003): 3-4.