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Books<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Austenfeld, Thomas, and Grzegorz Kosc (eds.). <\/em><\/strong>Robert Lowell in Context. <\/a> <\/em>Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austenfeld, Thomas, and Aur\u00e9lie Zurbr\u00fcgg (eds.). <\/strong>Who Tells Your Story? SPELL 42. <\/a> <\/em>Heidelberg: Universit\u00e4tsverlag Winter, 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austenfeld, Thomas (ed.).  <\/strong>Robert Lowell in a New Century: European and American Perspectives. <\/a><\/em> Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House (an imprint of Boydell & Brewer), 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austenfeld, Thomas (ed.).  <\/strong>Katherine Anne Porter\u2019s Ship of Fools: New Interpretations and Transatlantic Contexts<\/a><\/em>.  Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austenfeld, Thomas, Jens Herlth, Dimiter Daphinoff (eds.).<\/strong>  Terrorism and Narrative Practice<\/a>. <\/em> M\u00fcnster: Lit Verlag, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austenfeld, Thomas (ed.)<\/strong>. Critical Insights: Barbara Kingsolver<\/em>. <\/a> Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austenfeld, Thomas, and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet (eds.)<\/strong>. Writing American Women<\/a><\/em>. <\/a>T\u00fcbingen: Gunter Narr, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austenfeld, Thomas (ed.)<\/strong>. Kay Boyle for the Twenty-First Century: New Essays<\/a><\/em>. <\/a>Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austenfeld, Thomas. <\/strong> American Women Writers and the Nazis:  Ethics and Politics in Boyle, Porter, Stafford, and Hellman<\/em>.<\/a> Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-editor, with Veronica Alfano<\/strong> (Macquarie University) of the series Anglophone Lyric Poetry and Poetics<\/a> (Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Articles and Chapters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. “Reading the Sestina.” Handbook of Poetic Forms<\/em>. Ed. Irmtraud Huber and Jessica Bundschuh. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2025, 563-576. DOI 10.1515\/9783111296371-033 <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. \u201cPoetry is Tuning!\u201d In: Poetry. Experience. Attention.<\/em> Papers from the 2023 Oslo Conference of the International Network for the Study of Lyric<\/em>. Berlin: Brill (forthcoming<\/strong>).   <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. \u201cReligion.\u201d<\/a> In: Robert Lowell in Context<\/em>, eds. Thomas Austenfeld and Grzegorz Kosc.  <\/em>Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, 173-184.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. (with Aur\u00e9lie Zurbr\u00fcgg) \u201cIntroduction: Telling Stories, Writing Lives.\u201d<\/a> Who Tells Your Story? SPELL 42.  <\/em>Heidelberg: Universit\u00e4tsverlag Winter, 2023, 9-15. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. \u201cAmerican Sestinas: A Century of Aesthetic Paradoxes.\u201d <\/a> Contrainte Cr\u00e9atrice: La Fortune Litt\u00e9raire de la Sextine dans le Temps et dans l\u2019Espace.<\/em> Textes r\u00e9unis par Luca Barbieri et Marion Uhlig avec la collaboration de David Moos et Pauline Quarroz. \u201d Firenze: Edizioni del Galluzzo, per la Fondazione Enzio Franceschini, 2023, 179-197. DOI 10.36167\/QSMI12PDF<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. \u201cQui chante? <\/a><\/em>The Lyric<\/a>\u2019s <\/a><\/em>Voice as Impersonation.\u201d <\/a> Internationale Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Kulturkomparatistik<\/em>, <\/em>Vol. 2: Contemporary Lyric Poetry in Transitions between Genres and Media<\/em>, ed. Ralph M\u00fcller and Henrieke Stahl. IZfK <\/em>2 (2021): 135-143.  DOI:  10.25353\/ubtr-izfk-ce7d-f942.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. \u201cThe Other Chimamanda Adichie: Beyond the Feminist Icon.\u201d<\/a> Peter Weiss Jahrbuch f\u00fcr Literatur, Kunst und Politik im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert<\/em>. Vol. 29. Ed. Arnd Beise and Michael Hofmann. St. Ingbert: R\u00f6hrig Universit\u00e4tsverlag, 2020. 213-224.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. \u201cQuestions of Epic and Lyric: The Challenge of Walt Whitman.\u201d<\/a> IdeAs<\/em> [Online Journal of the Institut des Am\u00e9riques, http:\/\/www.institutdesameriques.fr<\/a>] 14 (2019), posted October 1, 2019. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4000\/ideas.6618 . OPEN ACCESS.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. \u201cNot for an Age? Robert Lowell\u2019s Historical Moment.\u201d<\/a> Anglia <\/em>134.4 (2016): 683-699. DOI: 10.1515\/anglia-2016-0074 .<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. \u201cLowell\u2019s Dolphin<\/em>: Shame, Guilt, and the Fate of Confessional Poetry.\u201d <\/a> Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives<\/em>, eds. Ridvan Askin and Philipp Schweighauser. T\u00fcbingen: Narr, Francke, Attempto, 2015. 59-72. ISBN 978-3-8233-6967-7<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. \u201cConfess\u2013Disclose\u2013Proclaim: The Trope of Self-Revelation in American Poetry Since the Sixties.\u201d<\/a> New Perspectives on American Poetry: From Walt Whitman to the Present<\/em>, eds. Jiri Flajsar and Pavlina Flajsarova. Olomouc: Universita Palackeho v Olomouci, 2015. 53-70. ISBN 978-80-244-4762-9<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. \u201cThe Drama of Shaping a Lyrical Moment: An Approach to the Poetry of Dana Gioia.\u201d<\/a> <\/strong>New Pilgrimages: Selected Papers from the IAUPE Beijing Conference in 2013<\/em>, eds. Li Cao and Li Jin. Beijing: Tsinghua University Press, 2015. 244-258. ISBN 978-7-302-38569-1<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. Austenfeld, Thomas; Reynes-Delobel, Anne. <\/strong>\u201cKay Boyle.\u201d Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature<\/em>. Eds. Jackson Bryer, Richard Kopley, and Paul Lauter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. www.oxfordbibliographies.com<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. \u201cFleeing, Flying, Staying, Leaving: The Persistence of Escape in American Literature.\u201d<\/a> In Fuga. Temi, Percorsi, Storie. L\u2019Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria<\/em>. Eds. Federico Bellini and Giulio Segato. Milano: Facolt\u00e0 di Scienze Linguistiche e Letterature Straniere, Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 12.1-2 (2014): 69-76.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. \u201cNobody\u2019s Nation. Multiculturalism in American Society and American Literature.\u201d<\/a> Tertium Datur! Formen und Facetten interkultureller Hybridit\u00e4t \/ Formes et facettes d\u2019hybridit\u00e9 interculturelle. <\/em>Ed. Sabine Haupt. M\u00fcnster: LIT Verlag, 2014. 23-35.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. \u201cLouise Erdrich in Company: The American Writer and Her Communities.\u201d<\/a>  Critical Insights: Louise Erdrich<\/em>. Ed. Jane Hafen. Pasadena: Salem Press, 2013. 68-85.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. \u201cRazor\u2019s Edge: Robert Lowell Shaving.\u201d<\/a> Pacific Coast Philology<\/em> 47 (2012): 1-16.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  18. \u201cPreface.\u201d Being and Becoming. Reading Arthur Miller\u2019s Focus and \u201cThe Crucible\u201d through Giorgio Agamben<\/em>. By Cinzia Minervini Jordan. Ed. Thomas Austenfeld. Basel: Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, 2012. 1-4.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  19. \u201cLe paradoxe d\u2019une Sudiste, femme et catholique. Une triple libert\u00e9.\u201d<\/a> [Flannery O\u2019Connor, \u00e9crivain catholique?] Pierre d\u2019angle <\/em>17 (2011): 11-20. [Tr. Simone de Reyff. Published April, 2012].<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  20. \u201c\u2018Poets alone are summoned as witness\u2019: Kay Boyle as Poet.\u201d The Wolf<\/em> (London, UK), ed. James Byrne. Vol. 26 (2012): 91-99.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  21. \u201cCan Terrorism be Satirized? The Case of Chuck Palahniuk\u2019s Pygmy.\u201d Terrorism and Narrative Practice<\/em>, eds. Thomas Austenfeld, Jens Herlth, Dimiter Daphinoff. M\u00fcnster: Lit Verlag, 2011. 189-199.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  22. \u201cPigs, Ghosts, and a Ship of Fools: Katherine Anne Porter\u2019s Response to Totalitarian Europe.\u201d<\/a>  Colloquium Helveticum<\/em> 41 (2010): 35-51.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  23. \u201cComparison and Contrast: Discovering Family Relations.\u201d<\/a> Vergleichen? \/ Comparer? Komparatistische Wissenschaften im Vergleich \/ La comparaison dans les sciences. <\/em>Eds. Gilbert Casasus & Sabine Haupt. M\u00fcnster: Lit Verlag, 2011. 19-22.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  24. \u201cGenre, Voice, Identity: Nonfiction Prose and the Personal Essay.\u201d<\/a> Colloquium Helveticum<\/em> 40 (2009): 19-35.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  25. \u201cThe Spinet and the Coffin: Katherine Anne Porter and the Art of Music.\u201d<\/a> Mississippi Quarterly<\/em> 62:1-2 (2009): 195-212.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  26. \u201cLooking for Academic Family: Learning and Teaching in David Levin\u2019s Exemplary Elders<\/em> and Frank McCourt\u2019s Teacher Man<\/em>.\u201d<\/a> Prose Studies<\/em> 31.3 (2009): 181-189.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  27. \u201cLocked Up Underground: Kay Boyle and Prisons.\u201d<\/a> Writing American Women, <\/em>eds. Thomas Austenfeld and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet. T\u00fcbingen: Gunter Narr, 2009. 165-178.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  28. \u201cKay Boyle\u201d. The Literary Encyclopedia<\/em>. 24 March 2009. <http:\/\/www.litencyc.com\/php\/speople.php?rec=true&UID=521<\/a>><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  29. \u201cKay Boyle.\u201d Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction<\/em>. <http:\/\/www.literatureencyclopedia.com\/public\/<\/a>> DOI: 10.1111\/b.9781405192446.2011.x<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  30. \u201cLa Peur dans la litt\u00e9rature am\u00e9ricaine des ann\u00e9es 1920 et 1930.\u201d La Peur et ses Miroirs<\/em>. Ed. Michel Viegnes. Paris: Editions Imago, 2009. 325-345.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  31. \u201cWhy Does Daisy Die? Teaching Late 19th-Century American Literature in Switzerland.\u201d The American Literary Naturalism Newsletter<\/em> 3.1-2 (2009): 7-11.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  32. \u201cTeaching Lowell Beyond the Alps: A Multilingual Approach to Imitations<\/em>.\u201d The Robert Lowell Society Newsletter<\/em> 1.1 (2008): 7-9.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  33. \u201cDr. Schumann\u201d [in Katherine Anne Porter\u2019s Ship of Fools<\/em>].  Student\u2019s Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters<\/em>. Ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Judith S. Baughman. 4 vols. New York: Facts on File\/Manly, 2008. Vol. 3, 1063-1064.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  34. \u201cA Happy Naturalist? Jeremy Bentham and the Cosmic Morality of The Octopus<\/em>.\u201d<\/a> Studies in American Naturalism <\/em>2.1 (Summer 2007): 33-45.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  35. \u201cOnly Sensations Remain: The Hypertrophy of the Aesthetic in Philip Roth\u2019s Everyman<\/em>.<\/a> \u201d American Aesthetics<\/em>, ed. Deborah Madsen (SPELL vol. 20).  T\u00fcbingen: Gunter Narr, 2007. 207-221.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  36. \u201cThe Persistence of Desire (John Updike).\u201d  Entry in  Facts on File Companion to the American Short Story<\/em>, ed. Abby Werlock, 2nd. edition. New York: Facts on File, 2010. Vol II, 529.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  37. \u201cHow to Begin a New World: Dante in Walcott\u2019s Omeros<\/em>.\u201d<\/a> South Atlantic Review<\/em> 71.3 (2006): 15-28.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  38. \u201cGerman Heritage and Culture in Louise Erdrich\u2019s The Master Butchers Singing Club<\/em>.\u201d  Great Plains Quarterly<\/em> 26 (Winter 2006): 3-11.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  39. \u201cThe Mountain Lion.\u201d The Facts on File Companion to the American Novel<\/em>, ed. Abby H.P. Werlock. New York: Facts on File, 2006. Vol. II: 923-925.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  40. \u201cPlagued by the Nightingale.\u201d The Facts on File Companion to the American Novel<\/em>, ed. Abby H.P. Werlock. New York: Facts on File, 2006. Vol. III: 1045-1046.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  41. \u201cA River Runs Through It.\u201d The Facts on File Companion to the American Novel<\/em>, ed. Abby H.P. Werlock. New York: Facts on File, 2006. Vol. III: 1108-1110.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  42. \u201cPeter Taylor\u2019s A Summons to Memphis<\/em>: Duty Ethics in the American South.\u201d Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht<\/em> 36.3 (2004): 231-37.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  43. \u201cA Brief Meditation on Pedagogy.\u201d  The Department Chair: A Resource of Academic Administrators<\/em> 14.2 (2003): 24-25.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  44. \u201cJosef Pieper\u2019s Contemplative Assent to the World<\/a>.\u201d Modern Age<\/em> 42.4 (2000): 372-382.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  45. \u201cTravellers, Not Tourists:  The Trope of Travel as Acculturation.\u201d  Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas<\/em> (ISSEI), 16-21 August, 1998, Haifa University, Israel.  ISSEI: 2001.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  46. \u201cLanguage as a Tool of Honesty: The Example of Kay Boyle.\u201d  Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas<\/em> (ISSEI), 16-21 August, 1998, Haifa University, Israel.  ISSEI: 2001.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  47. \u201cThomas Wolfe and Katherine Anne Porter in Germany: The Ethical Dimension of Fiction.\u201d<\/a> The Thomas Wolfe Review <\/em>23.1 (1999): 11-19.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  48. \u201cMemory, Literature, and European Politics.\u201d In: Memory, History and Critique. European Identity at the Millennium. Proceedings of the 5th International ISSEI Conference<\/em>. August 1996, University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands, eds. Frank Brinkhuis & Sascha Talmor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  49. \u201cNo Sentimental Education: An Essay on Transatlantic Cultural Identity.\u201d <\/a>Reflections on Multiculturalism. <\/em>Ed. Robert Eddy. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1996, 155-164<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  50. \u201cWhat Makes a Western Writer? The Case of Katherine Anne Porter.\u201d Southwestern American Literature<\/em> 20.2 (1995): 35-42.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  51. \u201cThe Necessary Imagination: European Authors Encounter the West.\u201d Heritage of the Great Plains<\/em> 27.1 (1994): 13-18.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  52. \u201cKatherine Anne Porter Abroad: The Politics of Emotion.\u201d Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht <\/em>26.1 (1994): 27-33.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  53. \u201cRituals of Reading in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens.\u201d<\/a> South Atlantic Review<\/em> 58 (1993): 67-83.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  54. \u201c\u2018But, come, I\u2019ll set your story to a tune\u2019: Berlioz\u2019s Interpretation of Byron\u2019s \u2018Childe Harold.’\u201d <\/a>Keats-Shelley Journal<\/em> XXXIX (1990): 83-94. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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