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Prof. Dr. Daniel Stein

Daniel Stein

John F. Kennedy Institute

Department of Culture

DFG Research Unit "Popular Seriality—Aesthetics and Practice"

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Daniel Stein now teaches at the University of Siegen (more)

Education and Professional Experience / Akademische Laufbahn

  • Promotion Englisches Seminar/Nordamerikastudien Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (2009) 

  • Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Englisches Seminar/Nordamerikastudien Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (2004-2010).

  • Lecturer, English Department,  University of Michigan, USA (2001-2003)

  • M.A. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (2001)

Administration and Organisation / Verwaltung und Organisation

  • Koordination der DFG-geförderten Forschergruppe "Ästhetik und Praxis populärer Serialität" (2010)
  • Auswahlkommission Master-Studiengang American Studies (2009-2010)
  • Organisation "Performing Profest: A Student Symposium" (2010)
  • Organisation Symposium "Authors. Theories of Literary Authorship (and American Case Studies)" (2006)
  • Modulbeauftragter Nordamerikastudien (2005-2006)
  • Koordination BA-Fach "American Studies" (2005-2006)

Academic Awards / Auszeichnungen

  • 6/2013: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize 2013 for outstanding scholarly achievements. Awarded by the German Research Foundation and the German Ministry for Education and Research.
  • 10/2010: Rolf-Kentner Dissertation Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of American Studies. Awarded by the Heidelberg Center for American Studies for the Dissertation "Intermedial Satchmo: A Study of Louis Armstrong’s Jazz Autobiographics."
  • 11/2010: "Christian-Gottlob-Heyne-Preis 2010" for the best Dissertation completed by a member of the Graduiertenschule für Geisteswissenschaften Göttingen (Graduate School of the Humanities Göttingen) in 2009. Awarded by the "Graduiertenschule für Geisteswissenschaften Göttingen."

Memberships / Mitgliedschaften

  • American Studies Association (ASA)
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA)
  • Modern Language Association (MLA)
  • Zentrum für Theorie und Methodik der Kulturwissenschaften Göttingen (ZTMK)
  • Gesellschaft für Comicforschung (ComFor)

Courses Taught / Lehrveranstaltungen

University of Göttingen

  • The City in American Literature and Culture (Late Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century)
  • Dramas of Race and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century America
  • Early American Life Narratives (Proseminar)
  • Political Literature and Literary Politics in the Early Republic (Proseminar)
  • More Than a Fish Book: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (Proseminar)
  • Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Proseminar)
  • The Graphic Novel in North America and Great Britain (Proseminar)
  • The Poetry of the Beat Generation (Proseminar)
  • Performing Protest: A Student Symposium
  • Theories of the Popular (Hauptseminar; mit Frank Kelleter und Andreas Jahn-Sudmann)
  • Introduction to the Study of American Literature and Culture
  • Introduction to American Cultural History I (Grundstudium)
  • Introduction to American Cultural History II: Jazz and American Culture (Hauptstudium)
  • American Literature and Culture from the Sixteenth Century to the Revolution (Tutorial)
  • Realism, Naturalism, Early Modernism: U.S. Literature from the Civil War to the Armory Show" (Tutorial)
  • U.S. Literature from the Armory Show to the Second World War (Tutorial)
  • U.S. Literature from the Second World War to the Age of Hegemony (Tutorial)
  • Doing Research and Composing Papers in American Studies (Tutorial)


University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  • Freshmen Composition: Personal Writing
  • Freshmen Composition: Writing About Music
  • Argumentative Writing: Writing About American Culture
  • Literary Studies: Science Fiction (Tutorial)


Austin College, Texas

  • German Conversation
  • Richardson Summer Institute for Language Teachers

Current Project / Aktuelles Projekt

Habilitation: "Autorisierungspraktiken seriellen Erzählens am Beispiel der Gattungsgenese von Batman- und Spider-Man Comics" (Teil der DFG-geförderten Forschergruppe "Ästhetik und Praxis populärer Serialität") / "Authorization Practices of Serial Narration: The Generic Development of Batman and Spider-Man Comics" (Part of the Research Group "Popular Seriality - Aesthetics and Practice" funded by the German Research Foundation)

Conference Papers and Presentations / Konferenzbeiträge und Vorträge

  • “Media Transformation as Genre Musealization: Superhero Comics in the Digital Age.” Media Transformations/Transformative Media. Bologna Conference 2014. Freie Universität Berlin, June 27, 2014.
  • “Transatlantic Politics and Literary Practices in the German-American Mystery Novel, 1850-1855.” Traveling Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Negotiations of Cultural Concepts in Transatlantic Intellectual Networks. Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, April 17, 2014.
  • “Serial Politicization in Antebellum America: On the Cultural Work of the City Mystery Genre.” Popular Seriality International Conference, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, June 7, 2013.
  • “Amerikanische Superheldencomics als Gegenstand der Serialitätsforschung.” Award Ceremony for the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prizes 2013. Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German Research Foundation. Magnus-Haus, Berlin, June 3, 2013.
  • “Animating Batman: Serial Storytelling, Cartoon Animation, and the Multiplicities of Contemporary Superhero Comics.” Illustration, Comics, and Animation Conference, Dartmouth College, April 20, 2013.
  • "The Politics of Serial Storytelling: American City Mysteries and Popular Culture in the Antebellum Era." The Ohio State University, April 18, 2013.
  • "Serielles Erzählen in Superheldencomics," Göttinger philologisches Forum, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Feb. 7., 2013.
  • "Onkel Satchmo Behind the Iron Curtain: The Politics of Louis Armstrong's Visit to East Germany," ASA annual conference, "Dimensions of Empire and Resistance: Past, Present, and Future," San Juan, Puerto Rico, Nov. 18, 2012.
  • "Seriality and Cultural Distinction." Position Paper. Workshop "Popular Seriality." Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, June 8, 2012.
  • "Das Krokodil und seine kulturpoetische Funktion im US-amerikanischen Rassendiskurs." Archetypen, Artefakte. Kulturelle Repräsentationen von Tieren im intermedialen Vergleich. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, May 11, 2012.
  • "Another Kind of Modernism George Herriman’s Krazy Kat and Early American Newspaper Comics," University of Berne, Oct. 18, 2011.
  • "Authorship in Comics: Theoretical and Historical Reflections," Interdisciplinary Methodology: The Case of Comics Studies, University of Berne, Oct. 14, 2011.
  • "Featured Thinker: Hayden White," Position Paper, Zentrum für Theorie und Methodik der Kulturwissenschaften, June 7, 2011, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • mit Frank Kelleter. "Autorisierungspraktiken seriellen Erzählens am Beispiel von Batman- und Spider-Man Comics". Eröffnungskonferenz der DFG-Forschergruppe "Ästhetik und Praxis populärer Serialität". Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, April 6, 2011.
  • "Practicing Authorship and Authorizing Practices in Serial Superhero Comics." American Studies Association, San Antonio, November 19, 2010.
  • "Neue Helden braucht das Land? Busch, Goethe und der deutsche Gegenwartscomic." Austin College, Sherman, November 15, 2010.
  • "'Two Fingerly Speaking': Louis Armstrong's Jazz Writing." Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Nov. 10, 2010.
  • "Louis Armstrong und die intermediale Autobiografie." Speech at Award Ceremony, Christian-Gottlob-Heyne Dissertation Prize, awarded by the Graduate School of Humanities Göttingen, Nov. 4, 2010.
  • "'My Life Has Always Been an Open Book: Louis Armstrong, American Autobiographer." Keynote Address, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Rolf Kentner Dissertation Prize, Oct. 21, 2010.
  • "Spoofin' Spidey - Rebooting the Bat: Superheroes, Immersive Story Worlds, and the Narrative Complexities of Fan Video Production." Remake/Remodel: New Perspectives on Remakes, Film Adaptations, and Fan Productions. Interdisciplinary Conference. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, July 2, 2010.
  • "'Can a Proud African Get Some Kool Aid?' Aaron McGruder, Keith Knight, and Contemporary African-American Comics." Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Jan. 26, 2010.
  • "Vom Comic Strip zur Graphic Novel: Amerikanische Comics als kulturelles Medium." Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Jan. 25, 2010.
  • "The Long Shadow of Wilhelm Busch: Max & Moritz and German Comics." MLA annual conference, Philadelphia, Dec. 29, 2009.
  • with Frank Kelleter. "Practices of Authorization in Serial Narratives: The Example of Batman and Spider-Man Comics," Nov. 11, 2009, Leibniz University Hannover.
  • "Practicing Dissent and Teaching Political Engagement: Aaron McGruder's Comic Strip The Boondocks," ASA annual conference, "Practices of Citizenship, Sustainability, and Belonging," Washington DC, Nov. 8, 2009.
  • "'Where do we turn now?' (Inter-)disziplinäre Nachlese und Ausblick kulturwissenschaftlicher Theorie- und Methodenbildung," Position Paper, Zentrum für Theorie und Methodik der Kulturwissenschaften, Oct. 21, 2009, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
  • "Herbariums of Artistic Life: Louis Armstrong's Writings, Recordings, and Photo-Collages," July 7, 2009, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg.
  • "Serializing and Popularizing Cultural Conflict: Morgan Spurlock's TV-Documentary Series 30 Days as Educational Resource and Didactic Model," DGfA annual conference, "Teaching and America," June 5, 2009, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.
  • "'Autobiography, Memoir, Family History, or Something Else': Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father," Nov. 4, 2008, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
  • "From Primitivist Modernism to Popular Cultural Primitivism: Louis Armstrong, Robert Goffin, and the Transatlantic Jazz Debate," EAAS biannual conference, "'E pluribus unum' or 'E pluribus plura?'" May 10, 2008, University of Oslo.
  • & Frank Kelleter. “Of Kids and Kats: Zur Geburtsstunde des Comic in den USA,” Ringvorlesung Komparatistik, “Bild/Schrift: Intermediales Erzählen im Comic,” April 17, 2008, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
  • "From Musico-Textual Intermediality to Cultural Intermediality: Rethinking Intermedia Studies as Cultural Studies," DGfA annual conference, "American Studies as Media Studies," June 9, 2006, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
  • “Intermedial Satchmo: Louis Armstrong’s Jazz as a Model for Intermedia Theory,” Special Session: Dancing About Architecture: Creating Intermedia Theory, MLA annual conference, Dec. 30, 2005, Washington D.C.
  • “Intermedialität und Selbstinszenierung: Die Musikalisierung der Jazz Autobiographie,” Literatur und Musik in der klassichen Moderne (Forschungssymposium), March 18, 2005, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
  • “The Things That Jes’ Grew?: Toward an Expressive Cultural Theory of The Blues and African-American Autobiographics,” NEMLA annual conference, March 5, 2004, Pittsburgh.
  • “Jazz Musicians as Improvisers and Mythologists of the Self: The Elusive Performance of Jazz Autobiography,” SAMLA annual conference, Nov. 14, 2003, Atlanta.
  • “Thelonious Monk and the Changing Iconicity of the Black Jazzman,” AAAS annual conference, "U.S. Icons and Iconicity," Nov. 4, 2003, University of Graz.
  • “Performing Elusive Ethnic Identities: Louis Armstrong’s Sachmo and Mezz Mezzrow’s Really the Blues,” Graduate student conference "Performing Ethnicity," Feb. 14, 2003, Harvard University.
  • “‘I Ain’t Never Seen a Nigger: The Discourse of Denial in Lee Smith’s The Devil’s Dream,” Graduate student conference "Southern Writers, Southern Writing," July 18, 2002, University of Mississippi.

Literary Events / Panel Chairs

  • Panel Chair: "Old and New Media: Historical Dynamics in the Digital Age." Cultures of Obsolescence in North America: Aesthetics, Materiality, History, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, June 29, 2013.
  • Panel Chair: "Media (In)Specificities." International Conference: Popular Seriality, June 6, 2013.
  • Workshop with Featured Scholar Jason Mittell. November 29, 2011, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
  • An Afternoon with American Cartoonist Keith Knight, Georg-August-Universität, November 8, 2011.
  • Steven Bloom, Die menschliche Schwäche. 20. Göttinger Literaturherbst. October 19, 2011.
  • "The Transcultural Work of Comics and Graphic Narratives," workshop co-organized with Christina Meyer, DGfA annual conference, "Transnational American Studies," June 18, 2011, Universität Regensburg.
  • Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God. 19. Göttinger Literaturherbst. October 9, 2010.
  • Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God. Hamburger Bücherhallen, Zentralbibliothek. October 11, 2010.
  • Ulli Lust. Heute ist der letzte Tag vom Rest deines Lebens. September 15, 2010, Literarisches Zentrum Göttingen.
  • Panel Chair: "Remakes and U.S. Politics." Remake/Remodel: New Perspectives on Remakes, Film Adaptations, and Fan Productions. Interdisciplinary Conference. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, July 1, 2010.
  • Panel Chair: "Darwin and Modern Cultures," International Conference "Darwin Among the Disciplines," November 20, 2009, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.
  • Ulrich Blumenbach: Unendlicher Spaß. 18. Göttinger Literaturherbst. October 24, 2009.
  • Joey Goebel: Heartland. 18. Göttinger Literaturherbst. October 21, 2009.

Monographs / Monographien

  • Authorizing Superhero Comics: On the Evolution of a Serial Genre. In preparation.
  • Music Is My Life: Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. [Reviews in Popular Music and Society (Feb. 2013); Jazz Research News 42 (2013); Popular Music 33.1 (2014): 173-75; Fontis Artis Musicae (2014)]
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Edited Books and Journal Issues / Herausgeberschaften 

  • with Martin Butler. Musical Autobiographies. Special Issue of Popular Music & Society. In preparation.
  • with Jan-Noël Thon. From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013). [Reviews in MEDIENwissenschaft 4 (2013): 445-47.; Image [&] Narrative 14.4 (2013): 60-62.; Diegesis 3.1 (2014): 82-88.; European Comic Art 7.1 (2014): 112-16.]
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  • with Shane Denson and Christina Meyer, eds. Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads (London: Bloomsbury, 2013).
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  • with Micha Edlich and Christina Meyer, eds. American Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies 56.4 (2011).
  • with Stephan Ditschke and Katerina Kroucheva. Comics: Zur Geschichte und Theorie eines populärkulturellen Mediums. Bielefeld: transcript, 2009.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                [Reviews in interjuli: Internationale Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 2 (2010): 109-114; Amerikastudien/American Studies 56.3 (2011): 491-94]. Info and Excerpts (Publisher Website)
  • with Frank Kelleter. American Studies as Media Studies. Heidelberg: Winter, 2008.
  • [Reviews in MEDIENwissenschaft 3/2009: 267-68; Journal of American Studies 45.4 (2011)]

Articles in Books / Aufsätze

  • "Der Alligator und seine kulturpoetischen Funktionen in der Geschichte der USA." Archetypen, Artefakte: Komparatistische Beiträge zur kulturellen und literarischen Repräsentation von Tieren. Ed Alena Diedrich, Julia Hoffmann, and Niels Penke. Frankfurt/Main: Lang, 2013. 91-115.
  • with Jan Thon. “Introduction: From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels.” From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative. Ed. Daniel Stein and Jan-Noël Thon. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. 1-23.
  • "Superhero Comics and the Authorizing Functions of the Comic Book Paratext." From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative. Ed. Daniel Stein and Jan-Noël Thon. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013. 155-89.
  • with Shane Denson and Christina Meyer. "Introducing Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads." Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads. Ed. Shane Denson, Christina Meyer, and Daniel Stein. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. 1-12.
  • "Of Transcreations and Transnational Adaptations: Investigating Manga Versions of Spider-Man." Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads. Ed. Shane Denson, Christina Meyer, and Daniel Stein. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. 145-61.
  • "Popular Seriality, Authorship, Superhero Comics: On the Evolution of a Transnational Genre Economy." Media Economies. Ed. Marcel Hartwig and Gunter Süß. Trier: WVT, forthcoming 2013.
  • with Frank Kelleter. "Autorisierungspraktiken seriellen Erzählens: Zur Gattungsentwicklung von Superheldencomics." Populäre Serialität: Narration-Evolution-Distinktion. Zum seriellen Erzählen seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. Hg. Frank Kelleter. Bielefeld: transcript, 2012. 259-290.
  • "Spoofin' Spidey - Rebooting the Bat: Immersive Story Worlds and the Narrative Complexities of Video Spoofs in the Era of the Superhero Blockbuster." Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake/Remodel. Ed. Kathleen Loock and Constantine Verevis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 231-47.
  • "The Black Politics of Newspaper Comic Strips: Teaching Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks and Keith Knight’s The K Chronicles." Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives: Essays on Theory, Strategy and Practice. Ed. Lan Dong. Jefferson: McFarland, 2012. 26-39.
  • "The Comic Modernism of George Herriman". Crossing Boudaries in Graphic Narratives: Essays on Forms, Series, and Genres. Ed. Jake Jakaitis and James F. Wurtz. Jefferson: McFarland, 2012. 40-70.
  • "Teaching Poetry Through Song Adaptation: Abel Meeropol’s and Billie Holiday’s 'Strange Fruit'". Adaptation and American Studies: Perspectives on Research and Teaching. Ed. Nassim Winnie Balestrini. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011. 171-94.
  • "American Cultural Studies, Media Studies, and Intercultural Competence: Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days as Educational Resource and Didactic Model." Education and the USA. Ed. Laurenz Volkmann. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011. 205-23.
  • with Stephan Ditschke and Katerina Kroucheva. "Birth of a Notion: Comics als populärkulturelles Medium." Comics: Zur Geschichte und Theorie eines populärkulturellen Mediums. Ed. Stephan Ditschke, Katerina Kroucheva, and Daniel Stein. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2009. 7-27.
  • with Frank Kelleter. "Great, Mad, New: Populärkultur, serielle Ästhetik und der frühe amerikanische Zeitungscomic." Comics: Zur Geschichte und Theorie eines populärkulturellen Mediums. Ed. Stephan Ditschke, Katerina Kroucheva, and Daniel Stein. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2009. 81-117.
  • "Was ist ein Comic-Autor? Autorinszenierung in Selbstporträts und autobiografischen Comics." Comics: Zur Geschichte und Theorie eines populärkulturellen Mediums. Ed. Stephan Ditschke, Katerina Kroucheva, and Daniel Stein. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2009. 201-237.
  • "The Glorious Polyphony of Multi-Tongued Eloquence: Joseph O'Connor's Star of the Sea and Redemption Falls as Irish Historiographic Metafiction." "My Age Is As a Lusty Winter": Essays in Honour of Peter Erlebach and Thomas Michael Stein. Ed. Bernhard Reitz. Trier: WVT, 2009. 149-162.
  • “From Text-Centered Intermediality to Cultural Intermediality; or, How to Make Intermedia Studies more Cultural.” American Studies as Media Studies. Ed. Frank Kelleter and Daniel Stein. Heidelberg: Winter, 2008. 181-90.
  • with Frank Kelleter. “American Studies as Media Studies.” American Studies as Media Studies. Ed. Frank Kelleter and Daniel Stein. Heidelberg: Winter, 2008. ix-xvi.
  • “Walter Mosley’s RL’s Dream and the Creation of a Bluetopian Community.” Finding a Way Home: A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosley's Fiction. Ed. Derek C. Maus and Owen E. Brady. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2008. 3-17.
  • “Rememorizing Uncle Tom’s Cabin: The Transformation of Race Melodrama in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” Melodrama! The Mode of Excess from Early America to Hollywood. Ed. Frank Kelleter, Barbara Krah, and Ruth Mayer. Heidelberg: Winter, 2007. 263-282.
  • “Jazz-Autobiographie und kulturelle Intermedialität: Theoretische und praktische Überlegungen zur Beziehung von autobiographischem Text und improvisierter Jazzmusik.” Literatur und Musik in der klassischen Moderne: Mediale Konzeptionen und intermediale Poetologien. Ed. Joachim Grage. Würzburg: Ergon, 2006. 327-346.

Articles in Journals / Zeitschriftenartikel

  • “Onkel Satchmo Behind the Iron Curtain: The Transatlantic Politics of Louis Armstrong’s Visit to East Germany.” Americana: The Journal of
    American Popular Culture 13.1 (2014).
  • with Christina Meyer and Micha Edlich. "American Comic Books and Graphic Novels." American Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies 56.4 (2011): 501-29.
  • "'I was writing about racism long before I was making fun of presidents': An Interview with Cartoonist Keith Knight." Studies in Comics 2.2 (2011): 243-56.
  • "Negotiating Primitivist Modernisms: Louis Armstrong, Robert Goffin, and the Transatlantic Jazz Debate." Oslo Conference Special Issue. European Journal of American Studies 2, document 8 (2011).
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  • "Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father and African American Literature." European Journal of American Studies 1, document 7 (2011).
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  • “Louis Armstrong as a Model for Intermedia Theory.” Special feature, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Annual Report 2009/10 (2010): 164-73.
  • "The Long Shadow of Wilhelm Busch: 'Max & Moritz' and German Comics," International Journal of Comic Art 12.2/3 (fall 2010): 291-308.
  • "The Things That Jes' Grew? The Blues "I" and African-American Autobiographies.” Interdisciplinary Humanities, Special Issue Blues and Jazz, 26.2 (fall 2006): 43-54.
  • "Hearing, Seeing, and Reading Thelonious Monk: Toward a Theory of Changing Iconotexts." Amerikastudien/American Studies 50.4 (2005): 603-627.
  • "The Performance of Jazz Autobiography." Blue Notes: Toward a New Jazz Discourse. Ed. Mark Osteen. Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 37.2 (2004): 173-199.
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  • "'I Ain’t Never Seen A Nigger’: The Discourse of Denial in Lee Smith’s The Devil’s Dream." European Journal of American Culture 22.2 (2003): 139-157.

Online Publications and Blog Entries / Online-Publikationen und Blog-Beiträge

Encyclopedia Entries / Lexikonartikel

  • "The Singing Detective." Klassiker der Fernsehserie. Ed. Thomas Klein and Christian Hißnauer. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2012. 190-195.
  • “Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father,” “Toni Morrison, A Mercy,” “James Purdy, erzählerisches Werk,” Kindlers Neues Literatur Lexikon (Online Supplement). Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2010.
  • “The Left Behind Series, Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye.” The Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction. Ed. Geoff Hamilton and Brian Jones. New York: Facts on File, 2009.
  • "Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm"; "William Burroughs, erzählerisches Werk"; "Charles Chauncy, Prosawerk"; "Samuel Clemens, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"; "Countee Cullen, lyrisches Werk"; "Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man"; "Ralph Ellison, Shadow and Act"; "Louise Erdrich, Tracks"; "Stephen Greenblatt, literaturtheoretisches Werk"; "Alain Locke, The New Negro"; "N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn"; "Toni Morrison, Beloved"; "Toni Morrison, Love"; "Toni Morrison, Paradise"; "Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark"; "Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon"; "Toni Morrison, Sula"; "Toni Morrison, Tar Baby"; "Chuck Palahniuk, erzählerisches Werk"; "Ishmael Reed, Flight to Canada"; "Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory"; "Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God"; "Jerome D. Salinger, erzählerisches Werk"; "Samuel Sewall, Diary"; "Thomas Shepard, Autobiography"; "Nathaniel Turner, The Confessions of Nat Turner"; "Alice Walker, The Color Purple." Kindlers Neues Literatur Lexikon. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009.
  • "African American Musicals"; "Jewish American Musicals." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2005. 68-70; 1156-1160.
  • "James P. Johnson"; "Musical Theater." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature. Ed. Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2005. 877-879; 1144-1150.

Reviews / Rezensionen

  • Alexander J. Beissenhirtz, Affirmation and Resistance: The Politics of the Jazz Life in the Self-Narratives of Louis Armstrong, Art Pepper, and Oscar Peterson. In: ZAA Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 61.4 (2013): 413-16.
  • Jared Gardner, Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling. Amerikastudien/American Studies, forthcoming.
  • Susanne Hamscha, The Fiction of America: Performance and the Cultural Imaginary in Literature and Film. In: Journal of American Studies 48.2 (2014): doi: 10.1017/S0021875814000371.
  • Matthew Pustz (ed.), Comic Books and American Cultural History: An Anthology. Transformative Works and Cultures (2013). 
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  • Frederick Luis Aldama (ed.), Multicultural Comics: from Zap to Blue Beetle, Dec. 3, 2012, Gesellschaft für Comicforschung.
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  • Stephen Knight, The Mysteries of the Cities: Urban Crime Fiction in the Nineteenth Century. Clues: A Journal of Detection 30.2 (2012): 109-11.
  • Jörn Ahrens and Arno Meteling (ed.), Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence. Studies in Comics 1.2 (2010): 387-89.
  • Mark Berninger, Jochen Ecke, and Gideon Haberkorn (ed.), Comics as a Nexus of Cultures: Essays on the Interplay of Media, Disciplines and International Perspectives. Studies in Comics 1.2 (2010): 390-92.
  • Vincent Carretta, Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man. Wasafiri 48 (2006): 100-101.
  • Andrea Most, Making Americans and John Bush Jones, Our Musicals, Ourselves. Amerikastudien/American Studies 51.1 (2006): 127-129.