Publications

Articles

“Asking for Consent,” in Forum, “Backwardness: Rethinking Modernity, Conceptualizing Change,” edited by Kathleen Loock and Ruth Mayer, Amerikastudien/American Studies. Forthcoming.

“Jubal Early in Space: The Settler Colonial Hauntings of Joss Whedon’s Firefly.” In U.S. American Culture as Popular Culture, ed. Astrid Böger and Florian Sedlmeier. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2022.

“The Citizen as Self-Abnegating: Othering the Drunkard in the Early Republic,” in “Storied Citizenship: Imagining the Citizen in North American Literature,” ed. Ina Batzke and Katja Sarkowsky, special issue, Amerikastudien/American Studies 65, no. 4 (2020). Honorable Mention for Best Article in Published in Amerikastudien/American Studies in 2020.

Interpellating Django: The Functions of the Gaze in Tarantino’s Django Unchained.” Žižek Studies: The Greatest Hits (So Far), edited by Paul Taylor and David Gunkel. Peter Lang, 2020. Previously published as “Interpellating Django: The Functions of the Gaze in Tarantino’s Django Unchained.” International Journal of Žižek Studies 7.3 (2013).


Book Reviews

Review of The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom, by Eddie R. Cole, Amerikastudien/American Studies, 67, no. 3 (2022): 390-392.

Review of Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women, by Brittney C. Cooper, GRAMMA: Journal of Theory and Criticism 25 (2018): 140-141.


Translations (from the German)

Dietrich Grünewald. “Abstract Comics: A Challenge to the Audiences’‘ Imaginative Capacities.” International Journal of Comic Art Vo. 20, No. 2 (Fall/Winter 2022): 395-413.

Ruth Mayer and Shane Denson. “Border crossings: Serial figures and the evolution of media.” NECSUS (Autumn 2018).

Carmen-Francesca Banciu. Berlin is My Paris: Stories from the Capital. Berlin: PalmArtPress, 2016.

Manfred Giesler. The Yellow Wallpaper: A Monologue. Berlin: PalmArtPress, 2016.