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Prof. em. Dr. Heinz Ickstadt
Department of Literature
Lansstraße 7-9
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Room
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14195
Berlin
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+49 30 838-54015
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+49 30 838-52641
E-mail: ickstadt@zedat.fu-berlin.de
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Education and Teaching
Since fall 2003
Professor Emeritus.
1978 - 2003
Full professor, Department of American Literature, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universitaet Berlin.
1970 - 1978
Assistant Professor, Amerika-Institut, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich.
Ph.D. 1968
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Berlin, Dissertation: "Dichterische Erfahrung und Metaphernstruktur: Eine Untersuchung der Dichtersprache Hart Cranes."
Student of American, English, and German literature at the Johannes-Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (1956/57), Universitaet Freiburg (1957/58), Freie Universitaet Berlin (1958-1968), University of Notre Dame, Indiana (1960/61).
Awards, Grants, Honors
Spring 2004
F.Ross Johnson/Connaught Distinguished Visitor, Centre for the Study of the United States, Toronto, Canada.
March 1993
Research Grant, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy.
1983
Faculty Enrichment Award: Research on Canadian literature in libraries at Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver.
1974 - 1975
Research Grant, American Council of Learned Societies, Harvard University, Massachusetts.
1960 - 1961
Fulbright Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
Research Interests
American Romanticism
Late Nineteenth Century Literature
Fin-de-siècle & Early Modernism
Modernism & Postmodernism
Concepts of Democracy and the Nation in American Literature
Urban Literature
The Twentieth Century Canadian Novel
Publications
Monographs
1. Dichterische Erfahrung und Metaphernstruktur: Eine Untersuchung der Dichtersprache Hart Cranes(Heidelberg: Winter, 1970).
[English title: Poetic Experience and the Structure of Metaphor: The Language of Hart Crane]
2. Der amerikanische Roman im 20. Jahrhundert(Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1998).
[English title: Transformations of the Mimetic: The American Novel in the 20th Century]
3.Faces of Fiction: Essays on American Literature and Culture from the Jacksonian Period to Postmodernity, ed. by Susanne Rohr and Sabine Sielke (Heidelberg: Winter, 2001).
Edited Books
1. Crossing Borders: Inner- and Intercultural Exchanges in a Multicultural Society (Frankfurt: Lang, 1997).
2. Ordnung und Entropie: Zum Romanwerk von Thomas Pynchon(Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1981).
[English title: Order and Entropy: The Novels of Thomas Pynchon]
3. with R. Kroes/B. Lee: The Thirties: Politics and Culture in a Time of Broken Dreams(Amsterdam: Free University Press, 1987).
4. with T. Gaethgens: American Icons: Transatlantic Perspectives on 18th and 19th Century American Art(University of Chicago Press, 1992).
5. with T. Alves/ T. Cid:Ceremonies and Spectacles: Performing American Culture(Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2000).
6. with E. Hesse: Englische und amerikanische Dichtung, Bd. IV (Beck: Muenchen, 2000), 700 pages, bi-lingual edition with introduction and comments.
[English title: English and American Poetry]
7. with Thomas Greven: Meeting Global and Domestic Challenges: Canadian Federalism in Perspective (Berlin: Kennedy-Inst. Publ., 2004).
Articles
1. "Gesichter Babylons: Zum Bild der Großstadt im amerikanischen Roman." Jahrbuch fuer Amerikastudien16 (1971), 60-76.
[English title: Faces of Babylon: The Image of Metropolis in the American Novel]
2. "Der Vietnamkrieg in der amerikanischen Lyrik." In: G. Raeithel et al. (eds.), Vietnamkrieg und Literatur(Muenchen: Fink, 1972), 114-126.
[English title: The Vietnam War in American Poetry]
3. "Hart Cranes 'The Broken Tower'." In: K. Lubbers (ed.), Die amerikanische Lyrik(Duesseldorf: Bagel, 1974), 306-316.
4. "Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49." In: R. Schmidt-von Bardeleben (ed.), Amerikanische Erzaehlliteratur, 1950 1970(Muenchen: Fink, 1975), 126-141.
5. "Oeffentliche Fiktion und buergerliches Leben: der amerikanische Roman der Jahrhundertwende als kommunikatives System." In: M. Christadler/G. Lenz (eds.), Amerikastudien Theorie, Geschichte, interpretatorische Praxis(Stuttgart: Metzler, 1976), 223-247.
[English title: Public Fiction and Middle-Class Life: The American Novel of the Turn of the Century as Communicative System]
6. "'Fiction Shows Fact the Future': Amerikanische Utopien des spaeten 19. Jahrhunderts." Amerikastudien22 (1977), 295-308.
[English title: American Utopian Novels of the Late 19th Century]
7. "The Novel and the People: Aspects of Democratic Fiction in late 19th Century American Literature." In: M. Sienicka (ed.), Symposium on American Literature(Poznan, 1979), 89-106.
8. with H. Keil: "A Forgotten Piece of Working Class Literature: Gustav Lyser's Satire on the Hewitt Hearings of 1877." Labor History20 (1979), 127-140.
9. with H. Keil: "Elemente deutscher Arbeiterkultur in Chicago, 1880 1890." Geschichte und Gesellschaft5:1 (1979), 103-127.
[English title: Elements of German Working-Class Culture in Chicago, 1880-1890]
10. "Amerika Traum und Depression: Ueberlegungen zu einer Ausstellung." Englisch-Amerikanische Studien(May 1981), 122-130.
[English title: "America - Dream and Depression: Reflections on an Exhibition]
11. with T. Piltz: "Fluchtwege in die Paranoia." Frankfurter Rundschau, February 27, 1982.
[English title: Escape Into Paranoia]
12. "Exploring the Abyss: Die Entdeckung des sozialen Untergrunds im amerikanischen Roman des spaeten 19. Jahrhunderts." In: B. Ostendorf (ed.), Gettoliteratur(Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1983), 27-49.
[English title: The Discovery of the Social 'Underground' in the American Novel of the Late 19th Century]
13. "Concepts of Society and the Practice of Fiction: Symbolic Responses to the Experience of Change in Late-Nineteenth-Century America." In: M. Chénetier/R. Kroes (eds.), Impressions of a Gilded Age The American Fin de Siècle(Amsterdam: Free University Press, 1983), 77-95.
14. "Howells's Idea of the Reading Public." Revue Francaise d'Etudes Americaines17 (1983), 257-263.
15. "Province and Metropolis in the Literature of the American Twenties." Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik8 (1983), 117-128.
16. "History, Fiction, and the Designs of Robert Coover." In: W. Fluck/ H. Ickstadt (eds.), "History and Fiction." Amerikastudien28:3 (1983), 347-360.
17. with K. Ensslen: "German Working Class Culture in Chicago: Continuity and Change in the Decade from 1900 to 1910." in H. Keil/ J. Jentz (eds.), German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850 1910(DeKalb: University of Northern Illinois Press, 1983), 236-252.
18. "Black vs. White City: Kultur und ihre soziale Funktion im Chicago der 'Progressive Period'." Amerikastudien29 (1984), 199-215.
[English title: Culture and Its Social Function in Progressive Chicago]
19. "Utopia and Catastrophe Ignatius Donnelly and the Rhetoric of Nineteenth Century Radical Fiction in America." In: R. Kroes (ed.), Nineteen Eighty-Four(Amsterdam: Free University Press, 1984), 140-157.
20. "'The Salt that Saves': Fiction and History in the Late Work of Henry James." In: D. Meindl/F. W. Horlacher (eds.), Mythos und Aufklaerung in der amerikanischen Literatur(Erlangen: Erlanger Forschungen Bd. 38, 1985), 299-320.
21. "Instructing the American Democrat: Cooper and the Concept of Popular Fiction in Jacksonian America." In: R. Clark (ed.), James Fenimore Cooper: New Critical Essays(London: Vision, 1985), 15-38 (repr. in Amerikastudien(1986), 17-30).
22. "New York und der Stadtroman der amerikanischen Moderne." In: F. Knilli/M. Nerlich (eds.), Medium Metropole: Berlin, Paris, New York(Heidelberg: Winter, 1986), 111-124. [English title: New York and the Modern City Novel].
23. with A. Thiemann: "Die Faszination des Befremdlichen: Berlin in der amerikanischen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts." In: J. Helbig (ed.), Welcome to Berlin: das Image Berlins in der englischsprachigen Welt von 1700 bis heute(Berlin: Strapp, 1987), 71-82.
[English title: Fascinated by the Uncanny: Berlin in 20th Century American Literature]
24. "The Writing on the Wall: American Painting and the Federal Arts Project." In: H. Ickstadt/R. Kroes/B. Lee (eds.),The Thirties - Politics and Culture in a Time of Broken Dreams(Amsterdam: Free University Press, 1987), 211-247.
25. "Mythos und Geschichte: Symbolisierungen der Frontier im amerikanischen und kanadischen Roman." In: Berliner Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Jahrbuch 1986(Berlin, 1987), 218-235.
[English title: Myth and History: Symbolizations of the Frontier in US American and Canadian Novels of the 19th and 20th Century]
26. "Painting, Fiction, and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion in the American 1850s." In: W. Binder (ed.), Westward Expansion in America (1803-1860)(Erlangen: Palm & Enke, 1987), 3-30.
27. "Transformations of the Cultural Ideal: High Culture, Mass Culture, and Ideal Images in the American Novel from 1900 to 1920." In: R. Kroes (ed.), High Brow Meets Low Brow(Amsterdam: Free University Press, 1988), 101-115.
28. "Workers' Literature in Chicago Old Forms in New Contexts." In: H. Keil (ed.), German Workers' Culture in the United States, 1850-1920 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1988), 203-220.
29. "A Tale of Two Cities: Culture and Its Social Function in Chicago During the Progressive Period." In: H. Keil (ed.), German Workers' Culture in the United States, 1850-1920 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1988), 289-314.
30. with H. Keil: "Elements of German Working–Class Culture in Chicago, 1880 1890." In: H. Keil (ed.), German Workers' Culture in the United States, 1850-1920 (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1988), 81-108.
31. "Kommunikationsmuell und Sprachcollage: Die Stadt in der amerikanischen Fiktion der Postmoderne." In: K. Scherpe (ed.), Die Unwirklichkeit der Staedte(Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1988), 197-224.
[English title: Communicative Waste and Language Collage: The City in American Postmodern Fiction]
32. "Fiktion, Geschichte und die Spiele Robert Coovers." In: G. Hoffmann (ed.), Der amerikanische Roman, vol. 3 (Muenchen. Fink, 1988), 94-114.
[English title: Fiction, History, and the Games of Robert Coover]
33. with K. Poenicke: "Zum Romanwerk Thomas Pynchons." In: G. Hoffmann (ed.), Der amerikanische Roman, vol. 3 (Muenchen. Fink, 1988), 246-276.
[English title: The Fiction of Thomas Pynchon]
34. "Westward." in T. Gaehtgens (ed.), Bilder aus der Neuen Welt: Amerikanische Malerei des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts(Muenchen: Prestel, 1988), 80-86.
35. "Das Kaleidoskop der Bilder: Momentaufnahme und Wahrnehmungsfluß in der amerikanischen Stadtliteratur des fruehen 20. Jahrhunderts." In: G. Großklaus/E. Laemmert (eds.), Literatur in einer industriellen Kultur(Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1989), 162-184.
[English title: Caleidoscope of Images: Snapshot and Experiential Flow in City Literature of the early 20th Century]
36."The Rhetoric of Expansionism in Painting and Fiction." In: S. Ricard (ed.), An American Empire: Expansionist Cultures and Policies, 1881 1917(Aix Marseille: Publication d'Université de Provence, 1990), 9-29.
37. "Trash and Collage: The City in Post Modern American Fiction." over here: reviews in american studies10:1 (Summer 1990), 7-23.
38. "Fitzgerald's 'May Day'." In: K. Lubbers (ed.),Die englische und amerikanische Kurzgeschichte(Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1990), 255 264.
39. Introduction to: S. Ickringill (ed.), Looking Inward Looking Outward From the 1930s to the 1940s(Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1990), 1 6.
40. "Modernisierung und die Tradition des Neuen: Aspekte der amerikanischen Moderne 1900 1920." Amerikastudien35 (1990), 175-188.
[English title: Modernization and the Tradition of the New: Aspects of American Modernism 1900-1920]
41. "Technologie, Geschichte und offene Romanform: Pynchons Gravity's Rainbow." In: T. Elm/H. Hiebel (eds.), Medien und Maschinen: Literatur im technischen Zeitalter(Freiburg: Rombach, 1991), 258-270.
[English title: Technology, History and Open Form: Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow]
42. "A Letter from Berlin." Critical Inquiry17 (Spring 1991), 650-654.
43. "Plot, Komplott oder Herrschaft des Zufalls: Die Findung und Erfindung von Geschichte im postmodernen amerikanischen Roman." In: H. U. Gumbrecht/R. Weimann (eds.), Postmoderne globale Differenz(Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1991), 265-277.
[English title: Plotting, plot, and the reign of chance: The construction of history in postmodern American fiction]
44. "Plotting to What End? Doctorow, Coover, and the Invention(s) of History." In: A. Sanchez Macarro (ed.), Studies in American Literature: Essays in Honor of Enrique Garcia Diez(Valencia, 1991), 251-262.
45. "The City in Canadian and US-American Fiction." Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft fuer Kanada Studien19/20 (1991), 163-173.
46. "Die unstabile Postmoderne oder wie postmodern ist der zeitgenoessische amerikanische Roman?" In: K. Hempfer (ed.),Poststrukturalismus Dekonstruktion – Postmoderne(Stuttgart: Steiner, 1992), 39-51.
[English title: How postmodern is contemporary American Fiction?]
47. "Versions of Public Art: National Self-Representation in the Iconographies of Nazi Germany and the New Deal." American Studies in Scandinavia 24:1 (1992), 1-16.
48. "Trans-national Democracy and Anglo Saxondom: Fears and Visions of a Dominant Minority in the 1920s." In: W. Binder (ed.), Ethnic Cultures in the 1920s in North America(Frankfurt: Lang, 1993), 1-15.
49. "Gewalt im amerikanischen Roman." In: H. Joas/W. Knoebl (eds.), Gewalt in den USA(Frankfurt/M: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1994), 175-190.
[English title: Violence in the American Novel]
50. "Urban Life and Utopian Phantasies in the 1960s." In: Li. Kerjan (ed.), Urban America in the Sixties(Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 1994), 177-188.
51. "The Status of Literature Within the Changing Self-Definition of American Studies." In: G. Blaicher/B. Glaser (eds.), Anglistentag 1993 Eichstaett(Tuebingen: Niemeyer, 1994), 112-122.
52. with G. Lenz: "After Postructuralism and Deconstruction a New American Exceptionalism?." in G. Hoffmann/A. Hornung (eds.), Affirmation and Negation in Contemporary American Culture(Heidelberg: Winter, 1994), 177-194 <189-194>.
53. "Amerikanische Literatur in den fuenfziger und sechziger Jahren." Funkkolleg: Literarische Moderne, Studienbrief 8 (Tuebingen: DIFF, 1994), 4-42.
[English title: American Literature in the Fifties and Sixties]
54. "Loose Ends and Patterns of Coincidence in Don DeLillo's Libra." In: B. Engler/ K. Mueller (eds.), Historiographic Metafiction in Modern American and Canadian Literature(Paderborn: Schoeningh, 1994), 299-312.
55. "Zwischen neuer und alter Welt. Amerikanische Literatur in den fuenfziger und sechziger Jahren." In: R. Grimminger et al. (ed.), Literarische Moderne(Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1995), 581-607.
[English title: Between a new and an old world: American literature in the fifties and sixties]
56. Introduction to: R. Wellek/A. Warren, Theorie der Literatur(Beltz-Athenaeum, 1995), 3-6.
57. "Geschichte, Theorie und Praxis der deutschen Amerikastudien." In: B. Korte/P. Mueller (eds.), Anglistische Lehre Aktuell(Trier: WVT, 1995), 195-202.
[English title: History, Theory, and Practice of German American Studies]
58. "Réconstruire la langue: John Dos Passos entre réalisme et avantgarde." Europe: Revue littéraire mensuelle74:803 (March 1996), 99-111.
59. "Berlin: The Centre of German Modernism." and "Germany After the War." In: M. Bradbury (ed.),The Atlas of Literature(London: DeAgostini Editions, 1996), 182-185, 228-232.
60. "Die amerikanische Moderne." In: H. Zapf (ed.), Geschichte der amerikanischen Literatur(Stuttgart: Metzler-Verlag, 1996), 218-280; re-issued 2004.
[English title: American Modernism]
61. "Masks, Role Play, and Transgression - Crossing Boundaries as Topos and Strategy in American Literary Modernism." In: H. Ickstadt (ed.), Crossing Borders: Inner- and Intercultural Exchanges in a Multicultural Society (Frankfurt: Lang, 1997), 1-10.
62. "In the Wake of the Formal Revolution." Hungarian Journal of American Studies3:1 (1997), 29-36.
63. "La cultura letteraria americana nella Germania postbellica." Àcoma11 (1997), 75-84.
64. "The Discourse of Race and the 'Passing' Text: Faulkner'sLight in August." Amerikastudien42:4 (1997), 529-536.
65. "Portraits of Ladies: von Henry James bis Edith Wharton." In: S. Sielke (ed.), Gender Matters (Berlin: JFK-Institut Publ., 1997), 17-22.
66. "Der Roman als kommunikatives Medium - die Medien im amerikanischen Roman." In: H. Wenzel (ed.),Die Amerikanisierung des Medienalltags(Frankfurt: Campus, 1998), 287-314.
[English title: The Novel as Communicative Medium – the Media in the American Novel]
67. "Liberated Women, Reconstructed Men, and 'Wandering' Texts." Amerikastudien43:4 (1998), 593-598.
68. "Re-visioning the Re-visionists: Dilemmas and Possibilities of American Studies in Europe." In: H. Krabbendam/J. Verheul (eds.), Through the Cultural Looking Glass: American Studies in Transcultural Perspective(Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1999), 216-225.
69. "Imperium als Fiktion und Fiktion als Imperium: Melvilles Moby-Dick."In: T. Greven/O. Jarasch (eds.), Fuer eine lebendige Wissenschaft des Politischen(Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1999), 336-349.
[English title: Empire as Fiction and Fiction as Empire: Melville’s Moby-Dick]
70. "Westward the Empire Takes Its March! Das Ende der Frontier und der Traum vom Imperium im amerikanischen Roman der Jahrhundertwende." In: M. Berg et al. (eds.), Macht und Moral: Beitraege zur Ideologie und Praxis amerikanischer Außenpolitik im 20. Jhd. (Muenster: Litt-Verlag, 1999), 29-46.
71. "'Frosted eyes there were that lifted altars': Modernism and the Postulate of Deity." In: S. Ricard (ed.), Religion et Culture Aux États-Unis(Aix/Marseille: l'Harmattan, 1999), 91-102.
72. "European Perspectives on American Study." Aedean23 (December 1999), 79-87.
73. "America as Literary and Cultural Model in Postwar Germany." In: R. Kroes (ed.), Predecessors: Intellectual Lineages in American Studies(Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1999), 266-274.
74. "Appropriating Difference: German-Turkish Rap in Berlin." Amerikastudien/American Studies44:4 (1999), 571-578.
75. "Haunted by Ghosts of a Dream: Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon."Amerikastudien/American Studies44:4 (1999), 555-568.
76. "The (Re)Construction of American Identity in Literary Modernism." In: R. Hagenbuechle/ J. Raab (eds.), Negotiations of America’s National Identity, vol. II (Tuebingen: Stauffenburg, 2000), 206-228.
77. Introduction: "‘Like shingles after a tornado’: On the Beginning and End of National Self-Definition in American Literature." In: R. Hagenbuechle/ J. Raab (eds.), Negotiations of America’s National Identity, vol. II (Tuebingen: Stauffenburg, 2000), 3-7.
78. "The Creation of Normalcy." Revue Francaise D’Études Américaines85 (June 2000), 6-22.
79. "'Not a disentanglement from but a progressive knotting into': (Sprach-)Spiel, Paranoia und der Traum vom freien Selbst im Erzaehlwerk Thomas Pynchons." In: G. Bauer/R. Stockhammer (eds.), Moeglichkeitssinn: Phantasie und Phantastik in der Erzaehlliteratur des 20. Jahrhunderts(Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2000), 225-238.
80. "Globalization and the National Paradigm." The European English MessengerIX: 2 (Autumn 2000), 19-21.
81. Articles on William Gaddis, John Hawkes, Joseph McElroy und Thomas Pynchon, in: B. Engler/ K. Mueller (eds.), Metzler Lexikon Amerikanischer Autoren(Stuttgart: Metzler, 2000), 265-268, 308-309, 445-446, 552-556.
82. "Ich will nur Brust sein, sonst nichts [ueber das Romanwerk von Philip Roth]." Berliner Zeitung,6./7. (Januar 9, 2001).
[Newspaper article on the novels of Philip Roth]
83. "Emily Dickinson’s Place in Literary History; or, the Public Function of a Private Poet." The Emily Dickinson Journal10:1 (2001), 55-69.
84. "Deconstructing/Reconstructing Order: The Faces of Transatlantic Modernism." In: M. Klepper/ J. Schoepp (eds.), Transatlantic Modernism(Heidelberg: Winter, 2001), 15-34.
85. "Towards a Pluralist Aesthetics." In: E. Elliott (ed.), Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age(Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002), 263-278.
86. "’A clean wind through the chaff of truth’ – William Carlos Williams as Critic." In: C. Giorcelli (ed.), special issue: ‘The Poet as Critic’, Litterature d’AmericaXIX-XX: 83-84 (1999/2000), [publ. 2002], 81-101.
87. "Rueckkehr zum Neubeginn – Amerikanische Formen der Innovation und die ‘Tradition des Neuen von Ralph Waldo Emerson bis Gertrude Stein (und die Harlem Renaissance)." In: M. Moog-Gruenewald (ed.), Das Neue: Eine Denkfigur der Moderne (Heidelberg: Winter, 2002), 247-264.
[English title: Return to New Beginnings – American Forms of Innovation and ‘The Tradition of the New’]
88. "Bilder des Terrors und der Terror der Bilder in den Romanen Don DeLillos." In: S. Silke (ed.), Der 11. September 2001 (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2002), 97-110.
[English title: Images of Terror and the Terror of Images in DeLillo’s Novels]
89. "The Image as Collective Mirror: On Portraits and Their Function in American Literature and Culture." In: J. Durczak (ed.), American Portraits and Self-Portraits (Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodowska UP, 2002), 37-58.
90. "Constructing Self - Inventing the Other in (White) North American Fiction." In: M. Messmer/J. Raab (eds.), American Vistasand Beyond(Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2002), 229-251.
91. "American Studies in an Age of Globalization." American Quarterly54:4 (December 2002), 543-562.
92. "For Love and Language: The Poetry of Robert Creeley." In: E. Mengel et al. (eds.),Anglistentag 2002 Bayreuth: Proceedings(Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2003), 17-28; re-published In: V. Patea (ed.), Modernism revisited: transgressing boundaries and strategies of renewal in American poetry(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007), 189-206.
93. "A Literature of the Eye: The Image and the Moving Image in Modern American Literature." In: U. Haselstein et al. (eds.), Iconographies of Power: The Politics and Poetics of Visual Representation(Heidelberg: Winter, 2003), 111-130.
94. "Troubles in a (transatlantic) marriage of convenience." The American Ethnologist 30:4 (November 2003), 502-503.
95. "The Impact of John F. Kennedy – A Generational View." In: A. Graff (ed.), John F. Kennedy: The Man and the Myth (Warsaw: American Studies Centre, 2004), 61-70.
96. "Geschichte als Familienepos – Tendenzen des US-amerikanischen Gegenwartsromans." In: H.-P. Burmeister (ed.), Die US-amerikanische Gesellschaft im Spiegel ihrer zeitgenoessischen Literatur,Loccumer Protokolle 74/03 (Rehburg-Loccum: 2004), 11-26.
[English title: History as Family Epic – Tendencies of American Contemporary Fiction]
97. "Uniting a divided nation: Americanism and anti-Americanism in post-war Germany." European Journal of American Culture23:2 (2004), 157-170.
98. Foreword to: C. Malcolm/J. Nyman (eds.), eros.usa – essays on the culture and literature of desire (Gdansk: The U. of Gdansk P., 2005), 9-17.
99. "Order and Disorder in American Modern and Postmodern Fiction." In: Z. Levicki (ed.), American Freedoms American (Dis)Orders, vol. 1 (Warsaw: American Studies Center, 2005), 177-193.
100. "Americanization, Anti-Americanism, and American Studies."in: K. Delaney/R. Janssens (eds.), Over (T)Here: Transatlantic Essays in Honor of Rob Kroes (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2005), 148-160.
101. "Il mondo narrative di Don DeLillo."in: D. Daniele (ed.), special issue: Don DeLillo,nuova corrente136 (2005), 207-232.
102. "Aesthetic Experience and the Collective Life: John Dewey’s Democratic Aesthetics and the Peculiarities of American Modernism."in: T. Claviez/U. Haselstein/S. Lemke (eds.), Aesthetic Transgressions: Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature (Heidelberg: Winter, 2006), 261-287.
103. "William Carlos Williams and German Post-war Poetry." In: B. Waldschmidt-Nelson et al. (eds.), Europe and America: Cultures in Translation(Heidelberg: Winter, 2006), 131-145.
104. "Does American Studies Still Make Sense? (an Interview)." The AmericanistXXIII (2006), 17-33.
105. "Surviving in the Particular? Uni(versali)ty and Multiplicity in the Novels of Richard Powers." European Journal of American Studies2007 (online issue).
106. "Finding Voice in Fragmentation – Negotiations of (Female) Identity in North American Migrant Texts."In: N. Pascal/L. Alonso-Gallo/F. Collado-Rodriguez (eds.), Masculinities, Femininities and the Power of Hybrid in U.S. Narratives – Essays on Gender Borders(Winter: Heidelberg, 2007), 49-66.
107. "Traditionen des paranoiden Denkens: Der 11. September und die Krise des amerikanischen Selbstbewusstseins." In: H. Grunwald/M. Pfister (eds.), Krisis! – Krisenszenarien, Diagnosen, Diskursstrategien(Muenchen: Wilhelm Fink, 2007), 252-266.
[English title: Traditions of Paranoid Thought: September 11 and the Crisis of American Self-Perception]
108. "’The Problem is to Make the Story’: Rudy Wiebe, ‘Where Is the Voice Coming From?.’“ In: R. M. Nischik (ed.),The Canadian Short Story – Interpretations (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2007), 261-270.
109. "Epilogue," and "Richard Powers. Operational Wondering."mono.kultur# 12 (June & July 2007), n.p.
110. "Die neue Universitaet der Exzellenz. Globalisierung, Interdisziplinaritaet und American Studies." In: "Das verspielte Erbe: Re-structuring Humboldt’s University." kritische berichte35:2 (2007), 45-53.
[English title: The New University of Excellence: Globalization, Interdisciplinarity, and American Studies]
111. "Hart Crane’s Columbus – The Poet’s Voyage in Search of the Incarnate Word." in Jadwiga Maszewska and Zbigniew Maszeweski (eds.), Walking on a Trail of Words: Essays in Honor of Professor Agnieszka Salska(Lodz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lozkiego, 2007), 119-134.
112."American Studies as Area Studies as Transnational Studies? A European Perspective." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East27:3 (2007), 633-640.
113. "History, Utopia, and Transcendence in the Spacetime of Pynchon’s Against the Day." Pynchon Notes (Spring 2008), 205-234.
Administration and Service
Planning and Organization of International Conferences
Planning and organization of the annual conferences of the German Association of American Studies (DGfA) in Muenster (1991), Berlin (1992), Mainz (1993); of the biannual conferences of the European Association of American Studies (EAAS) in Lisbon (1998) and Graz (2000), as well as several conferences at the John F. Kennedy Institute. Lectures at international conferences throughout Europe (e.g. at annual conferences of various national and international American Studies organizations), the United States (Harvard, UC at Irvine, Riverside, UCLA, CUNY, UNC) and Canada.
Participation in Research Projects
Member of the interdisciplinary research project "German Workers in Chicago, 1860-1910" (financed by the VW-Foundation, 1978-1983)
Member of the interdisciplinary "Graduiertenkolleg" "Problems of Democracy" (financed by the German Research Association, DFG, 1991-2000)
Participation in academic boards and organizations
Director of the John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universitaet Berlin, 1980-1982 and 2001-2003.
Deputy Director of the John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universitaet Berlin, 1982-1984, 1987 1989, 1993-95, 1998-2000.
President of the German Association of American Studies, 1990-1993.
President of the European Association of American Studies, 1996-2000.
National Evaluator for the German Research Association (DFG), 1996-2000.
Board of the Institute for Literary Research, Berlin, 1991-2001 (chairman from 1994-2000).
Member of the Governing Board, European Association of American Studies, 1993-2000.
Board Member of the German Association of American Studies, 1986-1996.
Member of the Editorial Board of Amerikastudien - American Studies, 1990-2002.
President of ASA (American Studies Network in Europe), 1995-1996.
Member of the German Association of American Studies.
Member of the Association of Canadian Studies.
