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.”

Study of American, English and German Literature at the Johannes-Guttenberg Universitaet Mainz (1956/57), University of 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.

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 Münster (1991), Berlin (1992), Mainz (1993); of the biannual conferences of the European Assosictaion of American Studis (EAAS) in LIsbon (1998) and Graz (2000) as well as several conferences at the John F. Kennedy Institut. 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.

Member of the German Assocation of American Studies

Member of the Association of Canadian Studies.

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.

 

 

 

Research Interests

 

American Romanticism

Late Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Fin-de- siècle & Early Modernism

Modernism & Postmodernism in fiction and poetry

Concepts of Democracy and the Nation in American Literature

Urban Literature

The Twentieth-Century North American Novel

 

Monographs & Essay Collections:

 

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 20the 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)

4. Aesthetic Innovation and the Democratic Principle: Essays on Twentieth-Century American Poetry and Fiction, ed. by Susanne Rohr, Peter Schneck und Sabine Sielke (Heidelberg: Winter, 2016)

 

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).

8. with Eva Hesse and Manfred Pfister, Ezra Pound, Die Cantos, zweisprachige Ausgabe (Arche Verlag, 2012, 2. Auflage 2013), 1499 pp., Commentary, 1191-1427; "Nachwort", 1429-1456.

 

Articles and Chapters

1. "Gesichter Babylons: Zum Bild der Großstadt im amerikanischen Roman", Jahrbuch fuer Amerikastudien 16 (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", Amerikastudien 22, (1977), 295-308. [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 History 20 (1979), 127-140.

9. with H. Keil: "Elemente deutscher Arbeiterkultur in Chicago, 1880‑1890", Geschichte und Gesellschaft 5:1, (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, 27.2. 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 Americaines 17 (1983), 257-263.

15. "Province and Metropolis in the Literature of the American Twenties", Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 8 (1983), 117-128.

16. "History, Fiction, and the Designs of Robert Coover", in: W. Fluck/ H. Ickstadt (eds.), "History and Fiction", Amerikastudien 28:3, (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'", Amerikastudien 29 (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. [New York and the Modern City Novel]

23. with A. Thiemann: "Die Faszination des Befremdlichen: Berlin in der amerkanischen 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: Snap-shot 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 studies 10:1, (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", Amerikastudien 35 (1990), 175-188. [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 Inquiry 17 (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‑Studien 19/20 (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 1920's in North America, (Frankfurt:Lang, 1993), S.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 and 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. "Einfuehrung", in: 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 mensuelle 74:803 (Mars 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 Studies 3:1 (1997), 29-36. 

63. "La cultura letteraria americana nella Germania postbellica," Àcoma 11, (1997), 75-84. 

64. "The Discourse of Race and the 'Passing' Text: Faulkner's Light in August," Amerikastudien 42:4 (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: Fiction as Communicative Medium – the Media in American Fiction]

67. "Liberated Women, Reconstructed Men, and 'Wandering' Texts", Amerikastudien 43:4 (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: Melville 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 Ficton 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. Jh., (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,“ Aedean 23 (December 1999), 79-87. 

73. “America as Literary and Cultural Model in Postward 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 Studies 44: 4 (1999), 571-578. 

75. “Haunted by Ghosts of a Dream: Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon”, Amerikastudien/American Studies 44:4 (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 Américaines 85 (Juin 2000), 6-22.

79. “'Not a disentaglement 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 Messenger IX:2 (Autumn 2000), 19-21.

81. Beitraege zu 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 2001, 9.

83. “Emily Dickinson’s Place in Literary History; or, the Public Function of a Private Poet”, The Emily Dickinson Journal 10:1 (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.), ‘The Poet as Critic’, Special Number, Litterature d’America XIX-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 Vistas and Beyond, (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2002), 229-251.

91. “American Studies in an Age of Globalization,” American Quarterly 54: 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 bounderies and strategies of renewal in American, (Amsterdam et al : 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 Culture 23:2, (2004), 157-170.

98. “Foreword” in; 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”, 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 corrente 136, (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 Americanist XXIII (2006), 17-33.

105. “Surviving in the Particular? Uni(versali)ty and Multiplicity in the Novels of Richard Powers”, European Journal of American Studies 2007 (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“ [Traditions of Paranoid Thought: September 11 and the Crisis of American Self-Perception], in: H. Grunwald/M. Pfister (eds.), Krisis! – Krisenszenarien, Diagnosen, Diskursstrategien, (Muenchen: Wilhelm Fink, 2007), 252-266.

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”, “Richard Powers. Operational Wondering”, mono.kultur # 12, June & July 2007, n.p.

110. “Die neue Universitaet der Exzellenz. Globalisierung, Interdisziplinaritaet und American Studies“ [The New University of Excellence: Globalization, Interdisciplinarity, and American Studies], in: „Das verspielte Erbe: Re-structuring Humboldt’s University“, kritische berichte, 35:2., 2007, 45-53.

111. "Hart Crane’s Columbus – The Poet’s Voyage in Search of the Incarnate Word,” Walking on a Trail of Words: Essays in Honor of Professor Agnieszka Salska, Jadwiga Maszewska and Zbigniew Maszeweski, eds. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lozkiego: Lodz 2007), 119-134.

112. “American Studies as Area Studies as Transnational Studies? A European Perspective”, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 27:3, (2007), 633-640.

113. “Történelem, elbeszélés és a fotográfia kimerevített pillanata Richard Powers Három földmüves táncmulatságba készül és Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Dictée címü müvében ("History, Narration and the Frozen Moment of Photography in Richard Powers' Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (1985) and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee" [1982]), Exponált Emlék: Családi képek a magán-és közösségi emlékezetben, Bán, Zsofia és Turai Hedvig, eds. (Budapest: Magyar Tagozata, 2008), 59-68.

114. “Conformism and Non-Conformity as Categories of Literary Analysis,” Conformism, Non-Conformism and Anti-Conformism in the Culture of the United States, Antonis Balasopouöos, Gesa Mackenthun, Theodora Tsimpouki, eds. (Heidelberg: Winter, 2008), 45-63.

115. “History, Utopia, and Transcendence in the Spacetime of Pynchon’s Against the Day”, Pynchon Notes, 54-55 (Spring - Fall 2008): 216-244.

116. "Verbal Abstraction and the Democratic Promise of Natural Speech: Tensions and Temptations in Contemporary American Poetry", Kornelia Feitag, Katharina Vester, eds. Another Language: Poetic Experiments in Britain and North America (Berlin: LIT, 2008), 53-65.

117. “Losing the Canon - to Gain What? Teaching American Literature in a Time of Cultural Studies,” Letterature D’America, Anno XXVII, 121-122 (2007-2008): 77-106.

118. “Manners and Contemporary American Fiction,” in Dietmar Schloss, ed., Civilizing America: Manners and Civility in American Literature and Culture (Heidelberg: Winter, 2009), 327-354.

119. “’…helping my people know themselves’” - Late William Dean Howells,” in Guillaume Tanguy, ed. William Dean Howells. Profiles américains 21 (PIM: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2009), 31- 57.

120. “Replacing the ‘Urban Sublime’: The City in Contemporary American Fiction”, Nathalie Conchoy/Sylvie Maurel, eds. The Art of the City/L’art de la ville (Toulouse: Presses Universitaires Dui rail, 2009), 249-258.

121. « Envisioning Metropolis—New York as Seen, Imaged and Imagined », E-rea, 7.2 | 2010, [En ligne], mis en ligne le 24 mars 2010. URL : http://erea.revues.org/index1069.html.

122. “Constructing Self – Inventing the Other: Race in 20^th Century American Fiction”, The Americanist: Rethinking American Nationalism, XXV (Warsaw 2009/2010): 79-96.

123. “Setting Sail Against the Day: The Narrative World of Thomas Pynchon”, Sascha Pöhlmann, ed. Against the Grain: Reading Pynchon's Counternarratives(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010), 35-48.

124. “Why I Don't Like Holocaust Studies Yet See No Escaping From It”, Sophia Komor/Susanne Rohr, The Holocaust, Art and Taboo: Transatlantic Exchanges on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Representation (Heidelberg: Winter, 2010), 251-264.

125. "Dagli Usa alla Germania: la Frontera come metafora del cambiamento culturale", in: Stefano Rosso, Hg. L'invenzione del west(ern9: Fortuna di un genere nella cultura del Novecento (Verona: ombre corte, 2010), 51-62.

126. "Motion, Mobility, and American Modernism," Marcel Arbeit & Roman Tusnik, eds. America in Motion (Olomouc: Palacky University, 2010), 11-35.

127. “Making It New: Constructions of Modernisms,” Paul Lauter, ed. A Companion to American Literature and Culture. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, 377-393.

128. "Response to Joan Richardson", "Response to Herwig riedl," in: Susanne Rohr & Miriam Strube, Hg., Revisiting Pragmatism: William James in the New Millennium (Heidelberg: Winter, 2012), 43-49 und 71-76.

129. "Robert in the House of Tales," The Review of Contemporary Fiction ("Robert Coover Festschrift"), vol. XXXII (Spring 2012): 238-257.

130/131. Kommentar und Nachwort in Hesse, Ickstadt, Pfister, Hgg. Ezra Pound, Die Cantos, zweisprachige Ausgabe (Arche 2012), pp. 1191-1427 and "Warum Pound? Nachwort", S. 1428-1456.

132. "Modernism", English and American Studies, Martin Middeke, Timo Müller, Christina Wald, and Hubert Zapf, eds. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2012, pp. 132-145.

133. "'Our America': Transnational (and Transatlantic Mirrors and Reflections", AMERICA WHERE? Transatlantic Views of the United States in the Tewnty-First Century, Isabel Caldeira, Maria José Canelo, Irene Ramalho Santos, eds. Transatlantic Aesthetics and Culture, Vol. 6. Bern: Peter Lang, 2012, pp. 21-38.

134. "'A-synchronous messaging': The Multiple Functions of Richard Powers' Fictions", Ideas of Order: Narrative Patterns in the Novels of Richard Powers, Antje Kley, Jan D. Kucharzewski, eds. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012, pp. 23-43.

135. "Imaginaries of American Modernism," in: The Imaginary and Its Worlds, ed. by Laura Bieger, Ramón Saldívar, and Johannes Voelz. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth Colege Press, 2013, 42-63.

136. "Frank O'Hara and the "New York School": Poetry and Painting in the 1950s," in: Modern American Poetry: Points of Access, ed. by Kornelia Freitag and Brian Reed. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013, 115-138.

137. "The Reign of Consciousness – Late Henry James", Revista Anglo Saxonica, ser. III, N.8 (2014): 41-65.

138. “Vectors of Desire: Pynchon’s Space Travels,” Peter Freese, ed. The Journey of Life in American Life and Literature. Heidelberg: Winter, 2015, 139-158.

139. "Variations on High Modernism: T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and Ezra Pound's "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley," Oliver Scheiding, René Dietrich, Clemens Spahr, eds. A History of American Poetry. Trier: WVT,2015, 171-185.

140. "'Historical imagination gathers in the missing': History, Memory and Strategies of Commemoration in the Poetry of Susan Howe," in Kornelia Freitag, ed. Recovery and Transgresseion: Memory in American Poetry. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, 71-88.

141. "Envisioning Metropolis: New York as Seen, Images, and Imagined," Sabine Sielke, ed. New York! New York!: Urban Spaces, Dreamscapes, Contested Territories. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2015, 17-45. [reprint of 121]

142. "Stoner: John Williams's Academic Novel against Academia," Knowledge Landscapes North America, Christian Kloeckner, Simone Knewitz, Sabine Sielke, eds. Heidelberg: Winter, 2016, 139-150.

143. ”My Sixty Years as an Americanist” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, 7,2  2019, 335-342.

144. with Ezra Pound, Hart Crane and William Carlos Williams: “Walt Whitman's Antagonistic Inheritors.” Winfried Herget (ed): Revisiting Walt Whitman: On the Occasion of his 200th Birthday. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019, 255-276.

145. “Thomas Pynchon's Stylistic Transformations: from “V. to Bleeding Edge." Jasmin Herrmann et al (Hg): Revisiting Style in Literary and Cultural Studies. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019, 357- 368.

 

in print:

- U.S. Postmodernism In International Context

- The Fiction of Suburbia

- Whitman and his Antagonistic Inheritors

- My Sixty Years as an Amerikanist

- Plot and Anecdote in Henry Jamse and Julian Barnes

- Thomas Pynchon's Stylistic Transformations