Academic Career

2004-2023
John F. Kennedy-Institute of the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Full Professor and Chair, North American Literature.

2001
English Department, University of California, Irvine, Guest Professor.

1996-2004
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Full Professor and Chair, North American History of Literature.

1996
Institute for English and American Studies of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main, Acting Chair.

1996
Habilitation, "Poetik der Gabe. Kulturberuehrung im literarischen Text." Freie Universitaet Berlin. Venia Legendi for American Literature and Culture.

1989-1996
John F. Kennedy-Institute of the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Assistant Professor at the Cultural Studies Department.

1985-1989
Universitaet Konstanz, Assistant Professor at the Department of English Literature.

Education

1996

Habilitation, Freie Universität Berlin, American Culture and Literature: "Poetik der Gabe. Kulturberührung im literarischen Text."

1988
Dr. phil., ("summa cum laude"), "Entziffernde Hermeneutik. Studien zum Begriff der Lektuere in der psychoanalytischen Theorie des Unbewußten," Universitaet Konstanz.

1976-1983
English Literature, German Literature, Philosophy, and History at Universitaet Konstanz, Bristol University (UK), and Freie Universitaet Berlin.

1982
"1. Staatsexamen" and M.A., English Literature & German Literature, Universitaet Konstanz.

 

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Academic Service

Member, International PhD Programme in PHILOLOGICAL AND LITERARY, HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES der Universität Cagliari/Italien (2018-)

Member, Senate Committee of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for Special Research Units  (2012-2017)

Member, Editorial Board, Publication Series Northamerica Studies, Campus Verlag (2006-present)

Director, Graduate School of North American Studies, funded by the “Exzellenzinitiative”, John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin (2006-2017)

Vice-Director, John F. Kennedy Institute of North American Studies (2005-present)

Member, Excellence Council, Freie Universität Berlin (2007-present)

Member, Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, Freie Universität Berlin (2007-present)

Member, Research Cluster of Excellence „Languages of Emotion“ (2007-2012)

Director, Department of English and American Studies, University of Munich, (2003-2004)

Vice Director, Graduate Program “Literary Studies” , University of Munich (2000-2004)

Member, various evaluation committees, DFG and Wissenschaftsrat

Member, two expert commissions of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (2000-2004)

Member, State Evaluation Committee for English and American Studies in Lower Saxony (2003)

Member, Editorial Board, Amerikastudien (1997-2002)

Member, International Editorial Board, Brno Studies in English (2008-present)

Member, Advisory Board of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (German Society for American Studies) (1998-2006)

Board member, Bayerische Amerika-Akademie München (2000-2005), vice director (2003-2005)

Member, International Advisory Board, Cornelia Goethe Center for Women Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/M (1998-present)

Member, numerous search committees, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Freie Universität Berlin

Expert reviews for DFG, Studienstiftung, Thyssen-Stiftung, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Humboldt-Stiftung, Schweizer Nationalfonds, Fulbright Commission, Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF).

External reviewer for the universities of Graz, Bremen, Erlangen, Hamburg, Konstanz, International Jacobs University Bremen; peer reviews for UC Irvine, University of Harare (Zimbabwe), University of Southern Illinois.

 

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Awards and Distinctions

 

2014
Opus Magnum Grant (for 2 years), VolkswagenStiftung

2014

Organizer, DFG Symposium of Allegory, Villa Vigoni, May 19-23, 2014

2012
Mosse Lecture, Humboldt University, Berlin

2011
DRS Award for Excellent Doctoral Supervision

2009
Warburg Research Professorship, Aby Warburg Society, Hamburg

2008
Research Associate, UC Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness Program

2000
DFG Publication Grant

1993-1995
Habilitation Grant, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

1993-1994
Fellow, Center for Cultural Studies, UC Santa Cruz

1991
USIA Travel Grant

1991
DFG Publication Grant

1990
Dissertation Award, City of Konstanz Prize

1985
GraFöG Graduate Studies Grant

 

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Memberships

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien

Gesellschaft für Neuere Englischsprachige Literaturen

Bayerische Amerika-Akademie

Deutscher Hochschulverband

Modern Languages Association

American Comparative Literature Association

Teaching 

Dissertation Supervision

Current

• Bacci, Francesco. Education and Race: A Literary and Cultural Perspective on the Campus Novel. (AT). FU Berlin.

• Bockmann, Lars-Frederik; Diasporic Dilemmas: Jewish American Identity and Double Structures of Collective Memory in the Novels of Michael Chabon (AT)

• Dickson, Julie. "A Person-Shaped Outline": Constructed and Composite Bodies in Contemporary North American Short Story Cycles (AT)

• Lohmann, Sophia. The Minor Essay. Gender Knowledge, Body Politics and the Queer Poetics of Liminality in North American Essays (AT)

• Pyykkö, Sonja; Post-Confessional Subjects in Recent North American Autobiography (AT)

• Sannio, Simone. “Hated Adversaries: A Study of Unfinished Works of Art in Contemporary American Fiction“(AT). FU Berlin.

Completed

• Bahmany, Leila: A Virtual Site of Ambivalence. The Mirror and the Psychology of the Specular Reflection in the Works of Forugh Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plath (abgeschl. 2012, Latifeh Yarshater Award 2016).

• Beissenhirtz, Alexander: Affirmation and Resistance. The Politics of the Jazz Life in the Self-Narratives of Louis Armstrong, Art Pepper, and Oscar Peterson (abgeschl. 2010).

• Ben Hania, Rabeb: A Study of the Metafictional Dialectics in Margaret Atwood's Fiction from a Post-Postmodernist Perspective (abgeschl. 2023)

• Chavez, Elisabeth. Beyond the Diasporas: Transcultural/Transnational Issues in Recent South Asian-North American Texts. (abgeschl. 2019).

• Dikant, Thomas: Landschaft und Territorium: Amerikanische Literatur, Expansion und die Krise der Nation 1784-1866 (abgeschl. 2011).

• Dorson, James: Counternarrative Possibilities: Virgin Land, Homeland, and Cormac McCarthy’s Negative Imagination (abgeschl. 2011).

• Eis, Melanie: The Beat Generation - On the Road to Rebellion? The Counterculture's Investment in Whiteness and Masculinity (abgeschl. 2016).
• Feng Jie; The Representation of Transnationalism in Yiyun Li’s Fiction (abgeschl. 2020)

• Frese, Sophia: „’No Cover Up’: Jewish- and Palestinian-American Literature on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (abgeschl. 2012).

• Golubiewski, Mikołaj: The Personae of Czesław Miłosz: Self-Situating, Perspectivism, and Movement (abgeschl. 2016).

• Gorenstein, Zuzanna: New Sincerity and the Contemporary American Family Novel: Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections and Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead (abgeschl. 2015).

• Haensell, Dominique: All the World in One Place: Urban Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Diasporic Fiction (abgeschl. 2019).

• Jochum, Tobias: Reimagining the Intolerable: The Ethics in Representation in Contemporary Transnational Narratives of  Feminicide (abgeschl. 2018).

• Kohrs, Johannes: The Crisis of Representation – Race and Recognition in the Field of Contemporary African American Literature: Percival Everett (abgeschl. 2018).

• Kozyrakis, Yuliya: Post-racial Realities. Passing Narratives in Contemporary U.S. Fiction (abgeschl. 2015).

• Majewska, Magda: The Representation of Sexuality in Postmodern Literature (abgeschl. 2017).

• Manson, Richard: White Men Write Now: Deconstructed and Reconstructed Borders of Identity In Contemporary American Literature By White Men (abgeschl. 2004).

• McSherry, Siofra: Gift Exchange and the Poetry of Marianne Moore (abgeschl. 2017).

• Mittelstädt, Margot: Moments of Insight, and a Glimmer of Hope: Recognition, Self-Help, and the Novels of Anne Tyler (abgeschl. 2013).

• Motyl, Katharina: With the Face of the Enemy – Arab American Literature since 9/11 (abgeschl. 2013).

• Odabas, Janna: Ghostliness in Contemporary Asian American Literature (abgeschl. 2017).
• Potgieter, Koen: Responding to Urban Crisis: The Black Ghetto Novel since 1940 (abgeschl. 2017).

• Richardson, Dorothy: A Trip to Niagara. Play and Interplay. An Examination of William Dunlap's Play of 1828 (abgeschl. 2009).

• Sharma, Anke: Out of Many, One? Community, Consciousness, and the “We” Narrative Voice in Contemporary US Fiction (abgeschl. 2022)

• Stompor, Tomasz: Precise Intersection Points. The Textual Materiality of William S. Burroughs’ Cut-Up Experiments (abgeschl. 2014).

• Wege, Birte: Drawing on the Past: The Graphic Narrative Documentaries of Emanuel Guibert, Ho Che Anderson, Art Spiegelman, and Joe Sacco (abgeschl. 2015), 2016: Rolf-Kentner-Dissertationspreis des Heidelberg Center for Amercican Studies

INVITED SEMINARS etc.

1) Respondent, Conference „The Future of American Studies“, John-F.-Kennedy-Institut, November 2011.

2) Seminar „Von der Hermeneutik zur Deconstruction,“ Graduate Program „Öffentlichkeiten und Geschlechterverhältnisse“, Universität Frankfurt/Main, November 2007.

3) Respondent, Panel “Questions of Travel: U.S. Americans on Teaching American Studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute”, Annual Conference of the American Studies Association, Oakland, October 2006.

4) Chair, Panel „Imaginary Architectures“, Annual Conference of the American Studies Association, Washington D.C., November 2005.

5) Respondent, Conference "Modernism, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature", John F. Kennedy-Institut Berlin, April 2004.

6) Seminar "Gaben-Tausch," Universität Paderborn, October 2001 (with Michael Wetzel, Bonn).

7) Seminar „Porträts,“ Hochschule für Gestaltung Zürich, December 1999.

8)  Respondent, Conference "Democracy and the Arts," John F. Kennedy-Institut Berlin, June 1999.

9)  Respondent, Conference "Martyrdom. The Rhetoric of Fundamentalism in the Age of Globalization." Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder, November 1998.

10) Seminar „New Historicism,“ Graduate Program „Theorie der Literatur,“ Universität Konstanz, June 1996

TEACHING

 

Organization of Lecture Series

 

(1) Research Colloquium “Perspectives in American Literature and Culture,” John F. Kennedy-Institut, 2005-2023.

(2)  Lecture Series “Gender Studies – Now?!” (with Susanne Rohr and Anja Schlender), John F. Kennedy-Institut, FU Berlin, summer semester 2005.

(3)  Lecture Series "Traditions and Trades. The Making and Marketing of the Postcolonial World" (with Berndt Ostendorf and Stefan Klasen), University of Munich, winter semester 2002/03.

 

Graduate Courses                

 “Graduate Seminar: Cultural Studies” (with Prof. James Clifford)

 "Graduate Seminar: Critical Theory: Psychoanalysis” (with Prof. Joel Pfister)

 “Graduate Seminar: Critical Theory: Mimesis” (with Prof. Hayden White)

 “Graduate Seminar: Critical Theory: Theories of Reading” (with Prof. Angela Miller)

 “Graduate Seminar: Critical Theory: The Semiotics of Culture” (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 2008)

 “Graduate Seminar: Critical Theory: The Autonomy of Art” (Freie Universität Berlin, winter semester 2007/08)

 “Lessons of the Master: The Late Henry James” (with Prof. Ickstadt) (Freie Universität Berlin, winter semester 2007/08)

 “Paris, Capital of American Modernism” (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 2007)

 “Coolness” (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 2007 and winter semester 2009/10)

 “Postmodernism” (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 2007)

 “The Sixties” (Freie Universität Berlin, winter semester 2006/07)

 “Serialität als künstlerisches Prinzip” (Freie Universität Berlin, winter semester 2006/07)

 “Henry James: The Middle Years” (with Prof. Ickstadt) (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 2006)

 “Psychoanalytische Literaturtheorie” (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 2006)

 “The American Grotesque” (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 2006)

 “Diasporic Literatures” (Freie Universität Berlin, winter semester 2005/06)

 “Positionen der Literaturtheorie” (Freie Universität Berlin, winter semester 2005/06)

 “The Other American Renaissance” (Freie Universität Berlin, winter semester 2005/06)

“American Renaissance” (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 2005)

 “Primitivismus als modernistische Strategie” (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 2005)

 “Literatur und Kultur des Südens” (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 2005)

 “Theorien der amerikanischen Kultur” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, summer semester 2004)

 “American Autobiography” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, summer semester 2004)

 “Native American Literature” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, winter semester 2003/04)

 “Literarische Neuerscheinungen” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, summer semester 2003)

 “Literarische Bearbeitungen und kulturelle Debatten des Holocaust in Deutschland und in den

USA” (with Prof. Mülder-Bach) (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, summer semester 2003)

 “Manierismus: Figurationen des Künstlichen” (with Prof. Regn) (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, winter semester 2002/03)

 “American Renaissance” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, winter semester 2002/03)

 “Lacans Lektüren lesen” (with Prof. Birus) (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, summer semester 2002)

 “Die amerikanische Groteske” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, summer semester 2002)

 “Paris, Capital of American Modernism”(UC Irvine, summer semester 2001)

 “Postmoderne” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, winter semester 2000/01)

 “Oberseminar im Graduiertenkolleg: Zeitgenössische Positionen des Feminismus” (with Prof. Greber) (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, winter semester 2000/01)

 “Amerikanische Lyrik der Moderne” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, winter semester 2000/01)

 “Trickster Discourse in the Literature of the Americas” (with Prof. Huggan) (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, winter semester 1999/00)

 “Paris, Hauptstadt der amerikanischen Moderne” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, winter semester 1999/00)

 “Positionen der Literaturtheorie – Strukturalismus und Poststrukturalismus” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, summer semester 1999)

 “The American Sublime” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, summer semester 1999)

 “The American Satirical Tradition” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, summer semester 1999)

 “Oberseminar für Doktoranden” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, winter semester 1998/99)

 “Avantgarde im internationalen Kontext: Pound und Marinetti” (with Prof. Regn) (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, winter semester 1998/99)

 “The Captivity Narrative” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, winter semester 1998/99)

 “Die Heilige Familie” (with Profs. Vinken and Koschorke) (Venice International University, September 1998)

 “Primitivismus” (with Prof. Schwab) (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, summer semester 1998)

 “Emersons Essays” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, summer semester 1998)

 “Oberseminar im Graduiertenkolleg: Cultural Studies” (with Prof. Weich) (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, summer semester 1998)

 “Contemporary American Poetologics” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, winter semester 1997/98)

 “Psychoanalytische Literatur- und Texttheorie” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, winter semester 1997/98)

 “Literarische Neuerscheinungen” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, summer semester 1997)

 “Henry James und Edith Wharton” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, summer semester 1997)

 “Text und Bild: Literarische Portraits” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, winter semester1996/97)

 “American Renaissance. Epochenbegriff und Epochenkritik” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, winter semester 1996/97)

 “Derrida und die Literaturtheorie” (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 1996)

 “Gertrude Stein” (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 1996)

 “Thomas Pynchon” (with Prof. Ickstadt) (Freie Universität Berlin, winter semester 1992/93)

 “The American Sublime” (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 1992)

 “Kulturtheorien” (with Prof. Fluck) (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 1991)

 “Psychoanalytische Kulturtheorien “Der Edle Wilde - Kulturkritik und Klischee“ (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 1990)

 “Satanische Subjektivität und ihr Text“ (Universität Konstanz, summer semester 1989)

 “Die Geschichte des Erhabenen. Zur Wiederaufnahme des Begriffs in der zeitgenössischen Ästhetik-Konzeption“ (with B. Menke) (Universität Konstanz, winter semester 1987/88)

 “James Joyce, Ulysses“ (Universität Konstanz, winter semester 1987/88)

 “Weibliche Ästhetik des „anderen Blicks““ (Universität Konstanz, winter semester 1987/88)

 

 Undergraduate Courses       

 “Text and Image” (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 2008)

 “The Captivity Narrative” (Freie Universität Berlin, winter semester 2006/07)

 “Native American Autobiographies” (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 2005)

 “Literatur und Kultur des Südens” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, summer semester 2004)

 “Native American Fiction” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, winter semester 2003/04)

 “Word and Image” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, winter semester 2001/02)

 “Word and Image” (UC Irvine, summer semester 2001)

 “Los Angeles in der Literatur” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, winter semester 1999/00)

 “The Sixties” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, summer semester 1998)

 “Avantgardistische Poetik der Gertrude Stein” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, winter semester 1997/98)

 “Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, summer semester 1997)

 “Native American Autobiographies” (Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München, winter semester 1996/97)

 “Political Correctness” (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 1996)

 “Nathaniel Hawthorne” (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 1996)

 “Grundkurs Literatur/Kultur Amerikas” (Freie Universität Berlin, winter semester 1995/96)

 “Figuren des Phantastischen II” (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 1993)

 “James Baldwin” (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 1993)

 “Figuren des Phantastischen I” (Freie Universität Berlin, winter semester 1992/93)

 “Kulturtransfer” (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 1992)

 “Grundkurs Literatur/Kultur Amerikas” (Freie Universität Berlin, winter semester 1991/92)

 “Afroamerikanische Autobiographien” (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 1991)

 “Einführung in die Kultursemiotik” (Freie Universität Berlin, winter semester 1990/91)

 “Literatur und Kultur des Südens” (Freie Universität Berlin, winter semester 1990/91)

 “Der Edle Wilde - Kulturkritik und Klischee” (Freie Universität Berlin, summer semester 1990)

 “Emersons Essays” (Freie Universität Berlin, winter semester 1989/90)

 “Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft und Textinterpretation” (Freie Universität Berlin, winter semester 1989/90)

 “Der historische Roman des 19. Jahrhunderts” (Universität Konstanz, summer semester 1989)

 “Rudyard Kipling” (Universität Konstanz, summer semester 1988)

 “T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land”(Universität Konstanz, summer semester 1988)

 “Epikur im Fin de Siècle. Walter Paters „Marius the Epicurean“” (with G. Vogt) (Universität Konstanz, winter semester 1987/88)

 “Psychoanalytische Literaturinterpretation” (Universität Konstanz, summer semester 1987)

 “Theorie des Romans”  (Universität Konstanz, summer semester 1987)

 “Bloomsbury Circle” (Universität Konstanz, winter semester 1986/87)

 “William Blake” (Universität Konstanz, winter semester 1986/87)

 “Psychoanalytische Texttheorie“ (Universität Konstanz, summer semester 1986)

 “Die eigene und die fremde Kultur. Literatur des Imperialismus“ (Universität Konstanz, summer semester 1986)

 “D.H. Lawrence und die Moderne“ (Universität Konstanz, winter semester 1985/86)

 “Gothic Novel” (Universität Konstanz, winter semester 1985/86)

 

 

 

• “Gertrude Stein’s Literary Portraiture”. Funded by Volkswagen Foundation ("Opus Magnum" Grant) 2015-17.

• „Coolness: Forms and Functions of Affect Control in the U.S.“. Funded by the Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion", Freie Universität Berlin. 2009-2011.
• „Contemporary Jewish Writing“. International Research Group “Transnational America”. Funded by the Alexander v. Humboldt Foundation. 2007-2009.

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Conference Organization (Selection)

(1)  "To Be Continued:" The Novel and Forms of Narrative Continuation (with Florian Sedlmeier und EXC2020 Temporal Communities), John F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, February 17 - 18, 2023

(2)         “Milieus of Minutiae” (with Elizabeth Brogden and Christiane Frey), Conference at the ICI Berlin, May 23.-24., 2019.

(3)         65th Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA),
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, May 24-27, 2018 (with Irwin Collier (Economics), Jessica Gienow-Hecht (History), Frank Kelleter (Culture), Christian Lammert (Political Science), Harald Wenzel (Sociology))

(4)         "The Fault Lines of Democracy", Oct. 20-21, 2017,  Berlin-Brandenburger Akademie der Wissenschaften.

(5)         “The Emergence of the New”, A Symposium in Honor of Heinz Ickstadt, October 2016.

(6)         “Allegorie”, DFG-Symposium für Literaturwissenschaften, Mai 2014, Villa Vigoni, Italien.

(7)         “Coolness” (with Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Catrin Gersdorf, Elena Giannoulis). November 2010, Research Cluster Languages of Emotion, FU Berlin.

(8)         “Imagining Cultures. The Norms and Forms of American Culture” (with Heinz Ickstadt, Laura Bieger, Johannes Völz). June 2009, John F. Kennedy-Institut Berlin.

(9)         “The Pathos of Authenticity: American Passions of the Real” (with Andrew Gross and MaryAnn Snyder-Körber). June 2007, John F. Kennedy-Institut Berlin.

(10)         “Cultures In Translation: Europe and America“ (with Jürgen Gebhardt). September 2005, Akademie für Politische Bildung in Tutzing.

(11)         "The Place of the Aesthetic in American Culture” (with Klaus Benesch), internationale BAA-Jahreskonferenz, Juni 2005, München.

(12)     "Modernism, Liberalism and the Function of Literature" (with Heinz Ickstadt, Sieglinde Lemke, and Thomas Claviez), April 2004, J.F. Kennedy-Institut, Berlin.

(13)     "Cultural Interactions: 50 Years of American Studies in Germany" (with Berndt Ostendorf), June 2003, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien in München.

(14)     “Imaginary (Re-)Locations: Native American Literature and the Market” (with Helmbrecht Breinig), July 2000, Universität Erlangen.

(15)     "Iconographies of Power. The Politics and Poetics of Visual Representation" (with Berndt Ostendorf and Peter Schneck), June 1999 in München.

BOOKS

 Monographs

(1)         Entziffernde Hermeneutik. Studien zum Begriff der Lektüre in der psychoanalytischen Theorie des Unbewußten. München: Fink, 1991.

 

(2)         Die Gabe der Zivilisation: Interkultureller Austausch und literarische Textpraxis in Amerika, 1661-1861. München: Fink, 2000.

 

(3)         Gertrude Steins literarische Portraits. Konstanz: Konstanz University Press, 2019.

 

 

Edited Volumes:

 

(4)         “Lektüre der fremden Zeichen.” Special Issue Amerikastudien 38.2 (1993). Ed. Ulla Haselstein, Klaus Milich.

 

(5)         “Popular Culture.” Special Issue Amerikastudien 46.3 (2001). Eds. Ulla Haselstein, Berndt Ostendorf, Peter Schneck.

 

(6)         Iconographies of Power: The Politics and Poetics of Visual Representation. Eds. Ulla Haselstein, Berndt Ostendorf, Peter Schneck. Heidelberg: Winter, 2003.

 

(7)         Cultural Transactions: 50 Years of American Studies in Germany. Eds. Ulla Haselstein, Berndt Ostendorf. Heidelberg: Winter, 2005.

 

(8)         Aesthetic Transgressions. Eds. Thomas Claviez, Ulla Haselstein and Sieglinde Lemke. Heidelberg: Winter, 2006.

 

(9)         The Power of the Aesthetic in American Culture. Eds. Klaus Benesch, Ulla Haselstein. Heidelberg: Winter, 2007.

 

(10)     The Pathos of Authenticity. American Passions of the Real. Eds. Ulla Haselstein, Andrew Gross, MaryAnn Snyder-Körber. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010.

 

(11)     The Cultural Career of Coolness. Eds. Ulla Haselstein, Irmela Hijiya-Kischnereit, Catrin Gersdorf, Elena Giannoulis. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013.

 

(12)     Allegorie. Ed. Ulla Haselstein. DFG-Symposion 2014. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2016.

 

(13)     American Counter/ Publics. Eds. Ulla Haselstein, Frank Kelleter, Alexander Starre, Birte Wege. Heidelberg: Winter, 2019.

 

 

 

ARTICLES

 

 

(1)         “`A Cryptogrammic Paper-Chase´. Auf Schnitzeljagd in Vladimir Nabokovs Roman Lolita. ” Fragmente 7/8 (1983), 188-95.

 

(2)         “Was im Text umgeht. Über das Unheimliche an der Sprache. Zu Klaus Hoffers Bei den Bieresch”, with Joachim Perner. In: Eingebildete Texte. Affairen zwischen Psychoanalyse und Literaturwissenschaft. Eds. Jochen Hörisch and Georg Christoph Tholen. München: Fink, 1985. 146-63.

 

(3)         “`Le sujet supposé savoir lire´. Versuch eines Kommentars zur Lacan-Lektüre von Shoshana Felman.” Individualität. Poetik und Hermeneutik XIII. Eds. Manfred Frank and Anselm Haverkamp. München: Fink, 1988. 209-16.

 

(4)         “Et in Arcadia Ego. Walter Paters Gedächtniskonzept.” Gedächtnis-Kunst. Eds. Anselm Haverkamp and Renate Lachmann. Frankfurt/M: Suhrkamp, 1991. 263-94.

 

(5)         “Poets and Prophets. The Hebrew and the Hellene in Freud’s Cultural Theory.” German Life and Letters 45.1 (1992). 50-65.

 

(6)         “Vom Urwald in die Wüste: Die Metapher des Naturschutzparks bei Freud und Baudrillard.” Amerikastudien 37.3 (1992), 393-414.

 

(7)         “Die Gabe der Wilden. Mary Rowlandsons Captivity Narrative.” Ethik der Gabe. Festschrift für Jacques Derrida. Eds. Jean Michel Rabaté and Michael Wetzel. Berlin: VCH, 1993. 157-71.

 

(8)         “`I see the American world through German eyes with Harvard astigmatism´. Hugo Münsterberg als Pädagoge, Psychotechniker und interkultureller Mittler.” Amerikastudien 38.2 (1993). 237-50.

 

(9)         “Heiliger Text, realer Text - Gravity’s Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon). ” Deutsche Vierteljahresschrift 68, special edition (1994). 71-87.

 

(10)     “`Formulas for Reality´. Zur Kultur- und Medienkritik der Vietnamkriegsopposition.” Gewalt in den USA. Eds. Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl. Frankfurt/M: Fischer, 1994. 314-32.

 

(11)     “Stephen Greenblatt’s Concept of a Symbolic Economy.” REAL. Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 11 (1995). 347-70.

 

(12)     “Psychoanalytische Literaturwissenschaft.” Einführung in die Literaturwissenschaft. Eds. Miltos Pechlivanos et al. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1995. 295-98.

 

(13)     “Zur Kultur- und Mediendiskussion der `Cultural Studies´.” Montage A/V. Zeitschrift für Theorie und Geschichte audiovisueller Kommunikation 6.1 (1997). 67-73.

 

(14)     “Poetik der Gabe: Mauss, Bourdieu, Derrida und der New Historicism.” Poststrukturalismus - Herausforderung an die Literaturwissenschaft. DFG-Symposium 1995. Ed. Gerhard Neumann. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1997. 255-72.

 

(15)     “`Giving One`s Self´: Harriet Jacobs` Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and the Problem of Textual Authenticity.” Transformations of Cultural Identity. Ed. Jochen Achilles and Carmen Birkle. Heidelberg: Winter, 1998. 125-40.

 

(16)     “Mündlichkeit, Moderne, Markt als Faktoren literarischer Interkulturalität. Leslie Marmon Silkos Ceremony.” Working Paper 112, John F. Kennedy-Institut: Berlin, 1998.

 

(17)     “Seen From a Distance: Moments of Negativity in Tocqueville, Bryant, Emerson.” Amerikastudien (1998). 405-22.

 

(18)     “Stephen Greenblatt’s Concept of Symbolic Exchange.” ACOLIT, Special Issue 3 (1998). 68-72.

 

(19)     “Arabeske/Allegorie: Zum Verhältnis von Text und Bild in Edgar Allan Poes Erzählung `The Oval Portrait´.” Poetica 30.3/4 (1998). 435-452.

 

(20)     “Cultural Studies: Between Aesthetic and Sociological Paradigms.” Differences in Gender Studies. Eds. Heike Paul et al. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1999. 29-33.

 

(21)     “Mündlichkeit, Moderne, Markt als Faktoren literarischer Interkulturalität: Leslie Marmon Silkos Ceremony.” Interkulturalität. Zwischen Inszenierung und Archiv. Eds. Stefan Rieger et al. Tübingen: Narr, 1999. 65-81.

 

(22)     “Bilderflucht Los Angeles.” Stadt-Bilder. Allegorie, Mimesis, Imagination. Ed. Andreas Mahler. Heidelberg: Winter, 1999. 291-304.

 

(23)     “Vexed Images: Edgar Allan Poe’s Story `The Oval Portrait´ and Feminist Literary Theory.” Making America. Festschrift für Heinz Ickstadt. Eds. Susanne Rohr et.al. Heidelberg: Winter, 2000. 95-107.

 

(24)     “`My Middle Writing Was Painting´: Gertrude Steins Künstlerporträts.” Darstellung: Korrespondenz. Reihe Interventionen. vol. 9. Ed. Jörg Huber. Wien: Springer Edition Voldemeer, 2000. 113-132.

 

(25)     “ `You Will be Me When This You See´: Gertrude Stein und Alice B. Toklas.” Bi-Textualität. Inszenierungen des Paares. Eds. Annegret Heitmann et al. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2001. 77-90.

 

(26)     “Hawthornes heilige Familie. Zur Funktion der Bilder in The Scarlet Letter.” Grenzüberschreibungen: Feminismus und Cultural Studies. Eds. Hanjo Berressem et al. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2001. 163-180.

 

(27)     “Puritans and Praying Indians: Versions of Transculturation in Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative.” Missions of Interdependence. Ed. Gerhard Stiltz. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002. 3-14.

 

(28)     “Gertrude Steins Porträts von Dingen.” Dinge – Grenzen der Verfügbarkeit. Eds. Claudia Breger et al. Königstein: Helmer, 2002. 197-217.

 

(29)     “Selbstporträts im Konvexspiegel: Parmigianino und Ashbery.” Manier-Manieren-Manierismus. Eds. Erika Greber and Bettine Menke. Tübingen: Narr, 2003. 41-62.

 

(30)     “Collateral Advantages: Hugh Henry Brackenridge's Modern Chivalry”. REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Studies 19, 2003. 307-323.

 

(31)     “Gespenstische Präsenz: John Tanners Narrative.” Cultural Encounters in the New World. Literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Beiträge zu kulturellen Begegnungen in der Neuen Welt. Eds. Klaus Lösch and Harald Zapf. Tübingen: Narr, 2003. 239-262.

 

(32)     “Gertrude Stein‘s Portraits of Picasso and Matisse.” New Literary History 34.4(2003). 723-743.

 

(33)     “Rücksicht auf Darstellbarkeit: Jonathan Safran Foers Holocaust-Roman Everything Is Illuminated.” Philosophie und Literatur. Eds. Eva Horn et al. München: Fink, 2006. 193-210.

 

(34)     “The Power of Illusion and the Illusion of Power.” Aesthetic Transgressions. Festschrift für Winfried Fluck. Eds. Thomas Claviez, Ulla Haselstein, Sieglinde Lemke. Heidelberg: Winter, 2006. 81-94.

 

(35)     “Grammatische Details: Gertrude Steins Porträt Two.” Was aus dem Bild fällt. Figuren des Details in Kunst und Literatur. Eds. Edith Futscher et al. München: Fink, 2007. 309-332.

 

(36)     “Introduction.” With Klaus Benesch. The Power and Politics of the Aesthetic in American Culture. Eds. Klaus Benesch and Ulla Haselstein. Heidelberg: Winter, 2007. 1-11.

 

(37)     “Double Translation: James Welch, The Heartsong of Charging Elk.” Transatlantic Voices: European Interpretations of Native American Literature. Ed. Elvira Pulitano. Lincoln: Nebraska University Press, 2007. 225-248.

 

(38)     “Modernist Portraiture: Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein.”American Studies as Media Studies. Eds. Frank Kelleter and Daniel Stein. Heidelberg: Winter, 2008. 169-180.

 

(39)     “’Un réalisme d’un genre nouveau“: Trois Contes de Flaubert et Trois Vies de Gertrude Stein”. Le Flaubert réel. Eds. Barbara Vinken and Peter Fröhlicher. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2009. 165-179.

 

(40)     “A New Kind of Realism: Flaubert and Stein.” Comparative Literature 61.4 (2009). 388-399.

 

(41)     “Gertrude Stein and Seriality.” Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture: A Companion to Modern United States Fiction. Ed. David Seed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010. 229-239.

 

(42)     „Diasporische Doppelgänger: Philip Roths Operation Shylock. Identität und Unterschied. Zur Theorie von Kultur, Differenz und Transdifferenz. Eds. Cristian Alvarado Leyton and Philipp Erchinger. Bielefeld: transcript, 2010. 201-222.

 

(43)     „Ghost Dance Literature: James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk“. The Pathos of Authenticity. American Passions of the Real. Eds. Ulla Haselstein, Andrew Gross, MaryAnn Snyder-Körber. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010. 179-198.

 

(44)     „Die literarische Erfindung der Serialität: Gertrude Steins The Making of Americans.” Kunst der Serie. Die Serie in den Künsten. Ed. Christine Blättler. München: Fink, 2010. 17-32.

 

(45)     „’We went somewhere and did something’. Nachrichten aus dem Irakkrieg.” American Dream? Eine Weltmacht in der Krise. Eds. Andreas Etges, Winfried Fluck. Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 2011. 241-253.

 

(46)     “Diasporic Doubles: Philip Roth’s Diasporism”. Re-Framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies. Eds. Winfried Fluck, Donald E. Pease, John Carlos Rowe. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2011 (Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies). 49-71 (English version of no. 47)

 

(47)     “Diasporische Doppelgänger: Philip Roths Operation Shylock“ in Poetische Gerechtigkeit. Eds. Sebastian Donat, Roger Lüdecke, Stephan Packard, Virginia Richter. Düsseldorf University Press, 2012. 281-306 (rev. Version of no. 42).

 

(48)     “Psychoanalysis”. English and American Studies. Theory and Practice. Eds. Martin Middeke, Timo Müller, Christina Wald, Hubert Zapf. Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler, 2012. 214-219.

 

(49)     „Tender Buttons : Stein et ses portraits des choses (1914)“. Carrefour Stieglitz. Eds. Jay Bochner, Jean-Pierre Montier. Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2012. 339-348.

 

(50)     „Cool: Vom Dandy des 19. zum Hipster des 21. Jahrhunderts“,  Archithese 2 (2013). 33-37.

 

(51)     “The Cultural Career of Coolness“. The Cultural Career of Coolness. Eds. Ulla Haselstein, Irmela Hijiya-Kischnereit, Elena Giannoulis, Catrin Gersdorf.Lanham MD: Lexington Books, 2013. 47-64.

 

(52)     „Coolness“, Sprachen der Emotion. Kultur, Kunst, Gesellschaft. Eds. Gunter Gebauer/Markus Edler. Frankfurt/M: Campus, 2014. 211-229. Deutsche Übersetzung von Nr. 51.

 

(53)     "Response to Ruth Mayer and Mita Banerjee". Eds. Winfried Fluck et al. The Futures of American Studies in Germany. Heidelberg: Winter, 2014. 157-164.

 

(54)     „Flaubert, Cézanne und Gertrude Stein“. Vorträge aus dem Warburg-Haus, Vol. 11. Berlin/ New York: De Gruyter, 2014. 85-106.

 

(55)     “Zur Genealogie modernistischer Mimesis”. Paragrana 23.2 (2014).185-193.

 

(56)     "La carriera culturale della coolness". Ácoma. Rivista internazionale di studi nordamericani, Nuova Serie, 6 (2014). 116-132. Italian translation of no. 51.

 

(57)     “Zur Genealogie modernistischer Mimesis”. Mimesis und kulturelle Metamorphosen. Eds. Christoph Wulf, Christoph/Vladimir Mironov. Moscow 2015. 150-162. Russian translation of no. 55.

 

(58)     “Ghost Dance Literature: Spectrality in James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk”. Companion to James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk. Ed. Arnold Krupat. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. 2015. 88-110. (Reprint of no. 43).

 

(59)     “Learning from Cézanne: Stein's Working with and through Picturing“. Picturing. Perspectives on American Art. Ed. Rachael DeLue. Chicago: Terra Foundation of American Art. 2016. 150-172.

 

(60)     “Die Gegen-Öffentlichkeit der Allegorie. Einleitung.“ Allegorie. DFG-Symposion 2014. Ed. Ulla Haselstein. Berlin / New York: De Gruyter. 2016. 335-353.

 

(61)     "A Single Hurt Color". Die Farben der Prosa. Ed. Eva Esslinger et al. Freiburg: Rombach. 2016. 223-240.

 

(62)     "'If Napoleon': Gertrude Steins zweites Picasso-Porträt", Satzzeichen. Szenen der Schrift. Eds. Helga Lutz, Nils Plath, Dietmar Schmidt. Berlin: Kadmos, 2017. 94-104.

 

(63)     "'The American Thing:' Gertrude Stein on Seriality and Singularity". Modernities and Modernization in North America. Eds. In: Ilka Brasch, Ruth Mayer. Heidelberg: Winter, 2018. 65-84.

 

(64)     „Gertrude Stein on Serial Repetition.“ Repetition, Recurrence, Returns. Eds. Joan Ramon Resina, Christoph Wulf. Lanham MD: Lexington Books 2019. 171-182.

 

(65)     „Blood on the Kitchen Table,“ An Eclectic Bestiary: Encounters in a More-than-Human World. Eds. Birgit Spengler, Babette B. Tischleder. Series: Human-Animal Studies, Bielefeld: transcript, 2019. 43-52.

 

(66)     „Toni Morrison,“ Nobelpreisträgerinnen. 14 Schriftstellerinnen im Porträt. Eds. Claudia Olk, Susanne Zepp. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2019. 153-166.

 

(67)     „Gertrude Steins Laborexperimente und ihre literarischen Folgen“, Poetica 49 (2017/2018) 256-284.

 

(68)     "Only a matter of form?" On Caroline Levine`s Forms (2015). Culture²: Theorizing Theory for the 21st Century, Vol. 1. Eds. Frank Kelleter, Alexander Starre. Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag, 2021, 33-48.

 

(69)     "Parodies of Adventure: Mark Twain and Robert Cover." Ordnungen des Außerordentlichen. Abenteuer-Raum-Gesellschaft. Eds. Oliver Grill, Philip Reich. Brill/Fink: Paderborn 2023, 349-278.

 

(70)     "Ein Buch für jung und alt: Mark Twains Klassiker The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Literarische Texte lesen - Texte literarisch lesen. Festschrift für Cornelia Rosebrock. Eds. Mark-Oliver Carl, Moritz Jörgens, Tina Schulze. Metzler: Heidelberg, 2023, 33-42.

 

 

TRANSLATIONS

 

(1)         David Blackbourn and Geoff Eley. Mythen deutscher Geschichtsschreibung. Frankfurt/M: Ullstein, 1980.

 

(2)         Laurence Stone. Ursachen der englischen Revolution 1529-1642. Frankfurt/M: Ullstein, 1983.

 

(3)         Teresa de Lauretis. “Das Rätsel der Lösung. Umberto Ecos Der Name der Rose als postmoderner Roman.” Postmoderne. Zeichen kulturellen Wandels. Eds. A. Huyssen and K.R. Scherpe. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1986.

 

(4)         Shoshana Felman. “Die Lektürepraxis erneuern.” Individualität. Poetik und Hermeneutik XIII. Eds. M. Frank and A. Haverkamp, München: Fink, 1988.

 

 

 

REVIEWS

 

(1)         Review of E. Wright, Psychoanalytic Criticism. London: Methuen, 1984. In: Das Argument 159 (1986).

 

(2)         Review of H. Assu and J. Inglis, Assu of Cape Mudge. Recollections of a Coastal Indian Chief. Vancouver: U of British Columbia P, 1989. In: Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Kanadastudien 19/20 (1991).

 

(3)         Review of W. de Bruyn and H. Petersen, Indianische Zeltbemalung. Leipzig: Prisma, 1990. In: Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Kanadastudien 19/20 (1991).

 

(4)         Review of S. Krome, Das Vaterbild in ausgewählten Romanen William Styrons. Frankfurt/M: Lang, 1989. In: Amerikastudien 39.4 (1994).

 

(5)         Review of B. Vinken, Unentrinnbare Neugierde. Die Weltverfallenheit des Romans. Freiburg: Rombach, 1991. In: Comparative Literature 47.3 (1995).

 

(6)         Review of T. de Lauretis, The Practice of Love. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1994. In: Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung 8.3 (1995).

 

(7)         Review of A. Nünning, Ed., Literaturwissenschaftliche Theorien, Modelle und Methoden. Eine Einführung. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1995. In: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 46.4 (1996).

 

(8)         Review of S. L. Gilman, The Case of Sigmund Freud. Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siècle. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1993. In: Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung 9.2 (1996).

 

(9)         Review of A. Nünning, Von historischer Fiktion zu historiographischer Metafiktion. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1995. In: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 47.4 (1997).

 

(10)     Review of T. de Lauretis, Die andere Szene. Psychoanalyse und lesbische Sexualität. Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 1996. In: Die Philosophin 8.15 (1997).

 

(11)     Review of S. Gilman, Freud, Identität und Geschlecht. Frankfurt/M: Fischer, 1994. In: Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung 11.1 (1998).

 

(12)     Review of D. Farrell Krell, Of Memory, Reminiscence, and Writing. On the Verge. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990. In: Amerikastudien 43.2 (1998).

 

(13)     Review of J. Ernst, Edgar Allan Poe und die Poetik des Arabesken. Saarbrücker Beiträge zur vergleichenden Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft. Würzburg: Könighausen und Neumann, 1996. In: ZAA 48.1 (2000), 92-93.

 

(14)     Review of C. Meissner, Henry James and the Language of Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. In: ZAA 49.1 (2001) 98-99.

 

(15)     Review of H. Schnackertz. Ed., POEtic Effect and Cultural Discourses. Heidelberg: Winter, 2003. In: Amerikastudien 50.3/4 (2005).

 

(16)     Review of E. Glaser, “Why don’t you read the way I write?” Zur Analogie des Ut Pictura Poesis bei Gertrude Stein oder wie bildende Kunst Literatur verstehen hilft. Trier: WVT, 2009. Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 53 (2012) 446-449.

 

(17)     Review of Bernhard Huss/David Nelting, “Schriftsinn und Epochalität. Zur historischen Prägnanz allegorischer und symbolischer Sinnstiftung". Arbitrium. Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Literaturwissenschaft 37.3 (2019) 297-302

 

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

 

 

(1)         “To Be Continued: Forms of Narrative Continuation” (with Florian Sedlmeier), Conference at the John F. Kennedy Institute Berlin, February 24-25, 2023.

 

(2)         “Milieus of Minutiae” (with Elizabeth Brogden and Christiane Frey), Conference at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI) Berlin, May 23-24, 2019.

 

(3)         65th Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA),
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, May 24-27, 2018 (with Irwin Collier (Economics), Jessica Gienow-Hecht (History), Frank Kelleter (Culture), Christian Lammert (Political Science), Harald Wenzel (Sociology).

 

(4)         "The Fault Lines of Democracy", October 20-21, 2017,  Berlin-Brandenburger Akademie der Wissenschaften.

 

(5)         “The Emergence of the New”, A Symposium in Honor of Heinz Ickstadt, October 2016, John F. Kennedy-Institute Berlin.

 

(6)         “Allegorie”, DFG-Symposium für Literaturwissenschaften, Mai 2014, Villa Vigoni, Italy.

 

(7)         “Coolness” (with Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Catrin Gersdorf, Elena Giannoulis). November 2010, Research Cluster Languages of Emotion, Freie Universität Berlin.

 

(8)         “Imagining Cultures. The Norms and Forms of American Culture” (with Heinz Ickstadt, Laura Bieger, Johannes Völz). June 2009, John F. Kennedy-Institut Berlin.

 

(9)         “The Pathos of Authenticity: American Passions of the Real” (with Andrew Gross and MaryAnn Snyder-Körber). June 2007, John F. Kennedy-Institute Berlin.

 

(10)     “Cultures In Translation: Europe and America” (with Jürgen Gebhardt). September 2005, Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing.

 

(11)     "The Place of the Aesthetic in American Culture” (with Klaus Benesch), internationale BAA-Jahreskonferenz, Juni 2005, Munich.

 

(12)     "Modernism, Liberalism and the Function of Literature" (with Heinz Ickstadt, Sieglinde Lemke, and Thomas Claviez), April 2004, J.F. Kennedy-Institute, Freie Universität Berlin.

 

(13)     "Cultural Interactions: 50 Years of American Studies in Germany" (with Berndt Ostendorf), June 2003, Annual Conference of the German Association ofAmerican Studies, University of Munich..

 

(14)     “Imaginary (Re-)Locations: Native American Literature and the Market” (with Helmbrecht Breinig), July 2000, Universität Erlangen.

 

(15)     "Iconographies of Power. The Politics and Poetics of Visual Representation" (with Berndt Ostendorf and Peter Schneck), June 1999, University of Munich

 

 

 

 

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS/INVITED LECTURES

 

 

(1)         “The Work of Parody”, conference “To Be Continued: Forms of Narrative Continuation”, February 24-25, 2023, John F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin

 

(2)         “The End of Adventure: Robert Coover’s Huck Out West,” June 21, 2022, University of Bonn

 

(3)         “Parodies of Adventure: Mark Twain and Robert Coover,” keynote address, conference “Parodie des Abenteuers – Abenteuer als Parodie”, November 25-26, 2021, University of Munich

 

(4)         “Braiding the Strands: Contemporary Indigenous Literature, keynote address, Conference “Breaking the Boundaries,” February 12-14, 2020, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

 

(5)         „Gertrude Stein’s Portraits”, May 1, 2019, University of Lausanne (Switzerland).

 

(6)         „Gertrude Stein’s Portraits”, Conference „New American Studies,“ April 30, 2019, University of Bern (Switzerland).

 

(7)         “Seriality in Gertrude Stein”, Keynote address “New Pathways in North American Studies”, October 20, 2018, Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic).

 

(8)         “Economies of Attention”, Conference “Current Tendencies in Contemporary American   Fiction”, June 23, 2018, Warburg-Haus, Hamburg.

 

(9)         “Toni Morrison”, Ringvorlesung „Nobelpreisträgerinnen: 14 Schriftstellerinnen im Porträt“, June 5, 2018, Freie Universität Berlin.

 

(10)     “Ökonomien der Aufmerksamkeit”, conference 50 Years of Poetica, Cologne, May 11, 2018.

 

(11)     „Progressivism, Normalization, and the Novel“, June 15, 2017, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy.

 

(12)     „Progressivism, Normalization, and the Novel“, Keynote Lecture, Annual Conference of the German Society of American Studies, 2017, June 11, 2017, University of Hannover.

 

(13)     „Thinking through Form“, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere e Culture Moderne, May 5, 2017, Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy).

 

(14)     „Gertrude Stein's Autobiographies“, February 7, 2017, University of Münster.

 

(15)     „Gertrude Steins Realisationsprinzip“, LMU, June 30, 2016, University of Munich.

 

(16)     „Modernism as a Modeling Device”, Conference "Ästhetik und Praxis populärer Serialität," June 23, 2016, John-F.-Kennedy-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin.

 

(17)     „Gertrude Steins Realisationsprinzip“, Center for Literary Studies (ZFL), June 8, 2016, Berlin.

 

(18)     „Gertrude Stein’s America“,March 17, 2016, Department of Art History and of American Studies, Vanderbilt University.

 

(19)     “Gertrude Stein’s Data Fictions”, Conference “Repetition, Recurrence, Returns”, March 11, 2016, Stanford University.

 

(20)     “Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans”, Ringvorlesung, “Mein Roman”, April 22, 2014, Freie Universität Berlin

 

(21)     „Sex, Drugs and Jazz: Jack Kerouac’s Cult Novel “On the Road”. Ringvorlesung “American Popular Culture”, February 12, 2014, Freie Universität Berlin.

 

(22)     “Seriality: From Naturalism to Modernism”, Klausurtagung „New Research Perspectives“, November 13, 2013, Buckow.

(23)     „Gertrude Steins Mimesis der amerikanischen Immigranten“, Conference „Forms of Mimesis,“ November 7, 2013, Lomonossow University Moscow (RUS) .

 

(24)     „Composition as Explanation: Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans, February 27, 2013, Washington University in St Louis.

 

(25)     "Gertrude Stein's Image". Conference “American Icons and Monuments”, January 25, 2013, John F. Kennedy Institute Berlin.

 

(26)     „The beginning, really the beginning of modern writing“: Gertrude Steins The Making of Americans. Research Group “Anfänge der Moderne”, July 12, 2012, University of Munich,

 

(27)     “Gertrude Stein und das amerikanische Gesetz der Serie”. Mosse-Lecture, June 21, 2012 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

 

(28)     “Stein’s The Making of Americans as a Discussion of Cultural History”. April 3, 2012, Wesleyan University

 

(29)     “Remarks on the History of American Studies in Germany”. April 2, 2012, Wesleyan University.

 

(30)     „Coolness“. Ringvorlesung, , January 24, 2012. Cluster of Excellence „Languages of Emotion“, Freie Universität Berlin

 

(31)     „Krieg in der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur”, Ringvorlesung „American Dream – die Demokratie in der Krise”. February 10, 2011, Freie Universität Berlin.

 

(32)     „Gertrude Stein’s „Tender Buttons“, Conference “Carrefour Alfred Stieglitz”, July 2-9, 2010, Cérisy-la-Salle (France).

 

(33)     “The Allure of the Fetish, Annual Convention, German Association of American Studies, Workshop “Alternate Economies”, May 28, 2010.

 

(34)     „Gertrude Stein and Cézanne,“ April 6, 2010, Dartmouth College.

 

(35)     “Diasporic Doubles,” April 5, 2010, Humanities Center, Harvard University.

 

(36)     “Diasporic Doubles”, Annual Convention ACLA, April 2, 2010, New Orleans.

 

(37)     „Die Gabe: Reziprozität oder Exzeß?“, November 25, 2009, University of Tübingen.

 

(38)     „Coolness: Formen und Funktionen der Affektkontrolle in den USA“, November 24, 2009, University of Düsseldorf.

 

(39)     „A Haunting Presence: John Tanner’s Narrative“ (1830). Conference: Mapping the World: Migration and Border-Crossing”, October 31-November 1, 2009, National University Kaohsiung (Taiwan)

 

(40)     “Flaubert, Cézanne und Gertrude Stein”, Warburg Lecture, Aby Warburg Foundation Hamburg, July 8, 2009

 

(41)     „Fictions of the Pose: On American Coolness”, Conference Imagined Cultures, JohnF. Kennedy-Institut, Berlin, June 27, 2009.

 

(42)     “On Gertrude Stein”, Symposium “Concrete Poetry”, May 1, 2009, Berlin.

 

(43)     “With Respect to Representability: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Holocaust Novel”, UC Riverside, February 12, 2009.

 

(44)     “With Respect to Representability: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Holocaust Novel”, UC Santa Cruz, December 3, 2008.

 

(45)     “Writing and Responsibility: The Case of Philip Roth”, Conference Jenseits der Transdifferenz, Erlangen University, November 4, 2008.

 

(46)     “John Tanner’s Captivity Narrative”, Conference Transatlantic Voices, UC Santa Barbara, October 15, 2008.

 

(47)     “Ghost Dance Literature”, UC Irvine, October 9, 2008.

 

(48)     “Diasporic Doubles”, Conference Transnational America, U Potsdam/FU Berlin/ HU Berlin, September 28, 2008.

 

(49)     “Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock and the Problem of Poetic Justice”, Conference “Holocaust Representation, Art, and Taboo,” Universität Hamburg, July 25-27, 2008.

 

(50)     “Seriality in Gertrude Stein,“ Conference „L’un et le multiple. Sérialité et réproductibilité”, International Spring Academy of Art History, Museum of American Art, Giverny, June 9-13, 2008.

 

(51)     “Indianische Sklavenhalter und schwarze Missionare. Über den Diskurs der Zivilisation im Antebellum South,“ Herrigsche Gesellschaft Berlin, May 20, 2008.

 

(52)     “Double Translation: The Heartsong of Charging Elk,” Masaryk Universität Brno, April 30, 2008.

 

(53)     “On Renegades,” Jacobs University Bremen, April 23, 2008.

 

(54)     “Die Repräsentation des Politischen in Philip Roths Operation Shylock,” Conference “Poetische Gerechtigkeit,“ Siemens-Stiftung München, April 15-16, 2008.

 

(55)     “Kontaktzone Amerika: Das Motiv der indianischen Gefangenschaft,” Jahresversammlung Ernst Reuter Gesellschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, December 2007.

 

(56)     “Gertrude Stein und die Bildende Kunst,” Schwules Museum Berlin, October 2007.

 

(57)     “Double Translation: James Welch, The Heartsong of Charging Elk,” Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 2007.

 

(58)     “Modernist Portraiture,“ Universität Bern, May 2007.

 

(59)     “Gertrude Stein’s Portraiture”, Colloquium of the Dept. for American Literature and Culture, John F. Kennedy-Institut, May 2007.

 

(60)     “This New Life of Strangers,” Workshop Postcolonial Literature, LMU München, December 2006.

 

(61)     “Jewish Diasporic Literature,” Conference America Without Borders, UC Los Angeles, October 2006.

 

(62)     “Gustave Flaubert’s Trois Contes and Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives,” Conference Absolutism of Reality – Literary Realism, Venice International University, September 2006.

 

(63)     “Gertrude Stein: Text, Image, Sound,“ Annual DGfA Convention, Göttingen, May 2006.

 

(64)     “Diasporic Literatures,” The Future of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, May 2006.

 

(65)     “Gertrude Stein’s Literary Portaits,” Lecture Series American Modernism, Universität Bayreuth, May 2006.

 

(66)     “Modernist Portraiture,” University of California, Riverside, October 13, 2004.

 

(67)     "Modernist Portraiture: Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Man Ray", Universität Eichstätt, July 19, 2004.

 

(68)     “Das vergrößerte Detail: Gertrude Steins Porträt "Two",” Conference Was aus dem Bild fällt: Das Detail in Kunstgeschichte und Literatur, Universität Wien, June 14-16, 2004.

 

(69)     "Modernist Portraiture", Universität Erlangen, December 17, 2003.

 

(70)     "Porträt of the Artist As A Young Woman". Gender Studies Colloquium, LMU München, November 24, 2003.

 

(71)     “Double Translation: James Welch, The Heartsong of Charging Elk,” Conference American Ethnicities, Universität Genf, November 21-22, 2003.

 

(72)     „Literatur als interkulturelle Kontaktzone: Zum Verhältnis von Ethnologie und Literaturwissenschaft," Universität Lüneburg, January 22, 2003.

 

(73)     „Gespenstische Präsenz: John Tanners Bericht über seine Gefangenschaft bei den Indianern," Universität Bremen, January 21, 2003.

 

(74)     "Text-Bild-Bezüge im literarischen Porträt", Conference Text und Bild, Kloster Seeon. December 7, 2002.

 

(75)     "Native American Literature, Modernism, and the Market," Lecture Series Traditions and Trades: The Making and Marketing of the Postcolonial World, Universität München, October 29, 2002.

 

(76)     “Collateral Advantages: Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Modern Chivalry,” Conference Theories of American Culture, John F. Kennedy-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin. May 6-9, 2002.

 

(77)     „Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Parmigianino, Ashbery,” Conference Manie-Manieren- Manierismus, Universität Konstanz,November 8, 2001.

 

(78)     “Sich selbst geben: Opfer und Täter,“ Universität Paderborn, October 25, 2001.

 

(79)     “Gertrude Steins Porträts von Dingen, ” Universität München, February 2, 2001.

 

(80)     “Fiktionen der Pose,” Workshop: Des Kaisers Neue Kleider: Investitur - natürlicher Körper, politischer Leib und die Symbolik des Amtes, Zentrum für Literaturforschung Berlin, November 17-18, 2000.

 

(81)     „Gertrude Steins Porträts von Dingen,“ Conference Kulturelle Transformation der Dinge, Universität Paderborn, November 3-5, 2000.

 

(82)     “Gertrude Stein’s Portraits of Picasso and Matisse,” History of Consciousness Program, UC Santa Cruz, April 27, 2000.

 

(83)     “Gertrude Stein’s Literary Portraits,” UC Irvine, April 3, 2000.

 

(84)     “Giving Her Self: Harriet Jacobs‘ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” Center for Cultural Studies, UC Santa Cruz, March17, 2000.

 

(85)     “Trickster Discourse in the Literature of the Americas,” Universität München, February 18, 2000.

 

(86)     “Das literarische Porträt bei Gertrude Stein,” Universität Erfurt, February 20, 2000.

 

(87)     “Literarische Porträts: Zum Verhältnis von Bild und Text,“ Series Interventionen, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich, December 2, 1999.

 

(88)     “Gertrude Steins Künstlerporträts,“ Conference Medien und Mnemosyne, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München, November 29, 1999.

 

(89)     “Captured by Savages: Literary and Cinematic Figurations of Cultural Difference in the Captivity Genre,” DuBois-Lecture, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, June 29, 1999.

 

(90)     “The Gift of the Wild.” Conference Cultures – Colonies – Missions, Universität Tübingen, April 7, 1999.

 

(91)     “The Oval Portrait,” Universität Bielefeld, February 2, 1999.

 

(92)     “Post-Colonial Literature and Its Institutions,” Workshop Postcolonial Passages: American Studies and Transnationality, DGfA Convention, Universität Leipzig, June 4, 1998.

 

(93)     “Mündlichkeit, Moderne, Markt bei Leslie Marmon Silko,“ J.F. Kennedy-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, February 11, 1998.

 

(94)     “Klimatisierter Alptraum Los Angeles,“ Lecture Series Stadttexte - Textstädte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, January 29, 1998.

 

(95)     “`Returning the Gift`? Leslie Marmon Silkos Ceremony,“ Conference Interkulturalität - Zwischen Inszenierung und Archiv,SFB Literatur und Anthropologie, Universität Konstanz, October 22-26, 1997.

 

(96)     “Arabeske/Allegorie. Zum Verhältnis von Bild und Text in Edgar Allan Poes Erzählung „The Oval Portrait“,“ Inaugural Lecture, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, June 4,1997.

 

(97)     “Los Angeles - The Air-Conditioned Nightmare,“ Amerika-Haus München, May 18, 1997.

 

(98)     “Cultural Studies,“ Lecture Series Positionen der Literaturtheorie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, February 17, 1997.

 

(99)     “Trapping Appearances: Edgar Allan Poe`s Story „The Oval Portrait“,”J.W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/M, February 5, 1997.

 

(100) “On Literary Portraits.” Conference The Making of American Culture, John F. Kennedy-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, 8.11.1996.

 

(101) “Mauss, Bourdieu, Derrida und der New Historicism,“ Universität Konstanz, June 21, 1996.

 

(102) “Poetik der Kultur,“ Universität Konstanz, June 20, 1996.

 

(103) “Sich selber geben: Harriet Jacobs Slave Narrative,“ J.W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/M, May 8, 1996.

 

(104) “Poetik der Gabe,“ DFG Colloquium Poststrukturalismus - Herausforderung an die Literaturwissenschaft, Steinheim b. Marbach, October 9-13, 1995.

 

(105) “`If There Is Any Sympathy to Give`: The Reconfiguration of the Captivity Narrative in the Slave Narrative,” Symposium (Trans)Formations of Cultural Identity in the English-Speaking World, Joh. Gutenberg Universität Mainz. July 8, 1995.

 

(106) “Stephen Greenblatt`s Concept of Symbolic Exchange,” Conference Postcolonial Theory, J.W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/M, December 17, 1994.

 

(107) “Die Gabe der Zivilisation,“ John F. Kennedy-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, December 9, 1994.

 

(108) “Displacing the Gift,” University of California at Berkeley, Conference Displacements - Cultural Theory, Cultural Critique, March 5, 1994.

 

(109) “The Gift of the Wild Mary Rowlandson`s Captivity Narrative,” University of California, Irvine, November 30, 1993.

 

(110) “The Gift of the Wild. Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative,” University of California at Santa Cruz, November 18, 1993.

 

(111) “Gravity`s Rainbow als realer und als heiliger Text,” Literaturhaus Berlin, March 19, 1993.

 

(112) “Die Gabe der Wilden,“ Gesamthochschule Essen, February 11, 1993.

 

(113) “Ästhetische Kriegsberichtserstattung,“ John F. Kennedy-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, December 18, 1992.

 

(114) “Die Gabe der Wilden,“ RWTH Aachen, June 29, 1992.

 

(115) “Concepts of Cultural Transfer,“ ZENAF Convention, Universität Frankfurt: American Studies in Germany: European Contexts and Intercultural Relations, Bad Münster a. Stein, June 4, 1992.

 

(116) “Die Gabe der Wilden,“ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 28, 1992.

 

(117) “The Unused or the Unusable Past. Über alte und neue Versuche, die amerikanische Literaturgeschichte zu konzipieren,“ John F. Kennedy-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, May 22, 1992.

 

(118) “Tausch-Verhältnisse. Frauen berichten aus indianischer Gefangenschaft,“ Universität Konstanz, July 8, 1991.

 

(119) “Ein deutscher Professor in Amerika. Hugo Münsterberg als Pädagoge, Psychotechniker und interkultureller Mittler,“ Annual DGfA Convention, Universität Münster, May 23, 1991.

 

(120) “Jean Baudrillards Lektüre Amerikas“, John F. Kennedy-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, May 15, 1991.

 

(121) “From the Jungle to the Desert. The Metaphor of the Natural Park in the Discourse of Cultural Critique,” Conference Discourse and Cultural Identity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, June 1990.

 

(122) “Idealization and Identification,” John F. Kennedy-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, December 12, 1989.

 

(123) “Walter Paters Memoria-Konzept,” DFG-Symposium Mnemotechnics, Universität Konstanz, December 4, 1989.

 

(124) “The Primal Scene of Psychoanalysis,” Tagung der British Comparative Literature Association, University of Leicester, July 14, 1989.

 

(125) “Bloowho? The Name of the Father in James Joyce`s Ulysses,” Conference The Making of the Self, Universität Konstanz, October 29, 1988.

 

(126) “`Knotting Into`: On Thomas Pynchon`s Gravity`s Rainbow,” Conference Theories of American Literature, Universität Konstanz, June 7, 1986.

 

(127) “Traumatische Texte,“ Zentrum für Psychoanalyse, Gesamthochschule Kassel, November 13, 1984.

 

(128) “Der böse Blick der Psychoanalyse,“ Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst, August 10, 1984.

 

(129) “`Horror and Hilarity`. Zur Dialektik von Form und Abwehr bei Vladimir Nabokov,” J.F. Kennedy-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, May 25, 1984.

(130) With J. Perner. "Was im Text umgeht. Das Unheimliche im literarischen Text." Conference Psychoanalyse und Literaturwissenschaft, Gesamthochschule Kassel, November 15, 1983.