Hannah Spahn has recently completed her second monograph, Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2024), which has been named a finalist for the 2025 Kenshur Book Prize. She has been Principal Investigator of “Cosmopolitanism and Character in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature” (German Research Foundation, 2017-2021), Visiting Professor at the University of Potsdam, Assistant Professor at the Kennedy-Institute, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Edinburgh, and Gilder Lehrman Junior Research Fellow at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies in Charlottesville, Virginia. She has edited the German translation of Frederick Douglass’s first autobiography, Mein Leben als amerikanischer Sklave (Stuttgart: Reclam, 2022/ Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung/ Federal Agency for Civic Education, 2022) and co-edited, with Peter Nicolaisen, Cosmopolitanism and Nationhood in the Age of Jefferson (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013). Her other books include Thomas Jefferson und die Sklaverei: Verrat an der Aufklärung? (Berlin: Berliner Beiträge zur Amerikanistik, 2002) and Thomas Jefferson, Time, and History (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011).

Summer 2026: Talks and Panels

• April 17, 2026. Roundtable "U.S. History from the Inside/Outside," OAH Conference on American History: Re-Thinking American History at 250 (https://www.oah.org/conferences/oah2026/) Philadelphia.
• April 21, 2026. "Involuntary Opinion in Early America," Medieval and Early Modern Studies Seminar, Montclair State University.
• June 5, 2026. "The African American Declaration of Independence and the Emergence of Modern Universalism," America's 1776: Independence and Its Enduring Legacies, (https://www.amphilsoc.org/americas-1776-independence-and-its-enduring-legacies-june-4-6-2026) American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. 
• June 25, 2026. "The Black Enlightenment," Universität Siegen. 
• September 1-4, 2026. Panel "Stories of Unfreedom: New Approaches to the American Slave Narrative in the Twenty-First Century," EEAS 36th Biennial Conference 1776-2026: Visions of Freedom (https://site.unibo.it/visions-of-freedom/en) Università di Bologna.
   

Berlin 

Winter 2025/26:

• “1776/2026: The American Revolution at 250” (graduate lecture)

Winter 2024/25: 

• “Dependence and Independence in American Culture” (graduate seminar)
• “Rhetorics of Continuity and Change: A Survey of American Cultural History” (undergraduate seminar)

Summer 2024:

• “Democracy, Reform, and Cultural Nationalism in the Age of Romanticism” (graduate lecture)
• “Authorship and Race in American Culture” (graduate seminar)

Winter 2023/24:

• “Discourses and Practices of Colonization and Settlement” (graduate lecture)
• “Diffusing Knowledge: Transformations of American Print Culture” (graduate seminar)
• Master’s Colloquium Literature and Culture

Summer 2023: 

• “Before Harlem” (graduate seminar)
• “Cultures of Contagion” (graduate seminar)

Winter 2022/23: 

• “Representations of War in American Culture” (graduate seminar)
• “Rhetorics of Continuity and Change: A Survey of American Cultural History” (undergraduate seminar)

Summer 2022: 

• “History as Memoir” (undergraduate seminar)  
• “Narratives of Enslavement and Emancipation” (undergraduate seminar)
• “Theorizing American Culture” (undergraduate seminar)
• B.A. Colloquium Literature and Culture

Potsdam

Winter 2019/20:

• “1776” (graduate seminar)
• “African American World Making” (graduate seminar)
• “Slavery and Abolition” (undergraduate seminar)
• “American Pedagogies” (undergraduate seminar)

Winter 2016/17:

• “The American Revolution in Cultural Memory” (graduate seminar) 

Summer 2016: 

• “Afropolitanism” (graduate seminar)
• “Modern Poetry” (undergraduate seminar) 
• “Contemporary African American Fiction" (undergraduate seminar)

Winter 2015/16: 

• “Neo-Slave Narratives” (graduate seminar) 
• “Reading American Poetry” (undergraduate seminar) 
• “Introduction to African American Literature” (undergraduate seminar)
• “Anglophone Modernities” (departmental lecture series)

Summer 2015: 

• “Literature and the Visual Arts” (undergraduate seminar) 
• “Introduction to Literary Studies” (undergraduate seminar)
• “Introduction to Literary Studies” (undergraduate seminar)

Winter 2014/15:

• “Mobility in American Culture” (undergraduate seminar)
• “Introduction to Literary Studies” (undergraduate seminar)
• “Anglophone Modernities” (departmental lecture series)

Summer 2014: 

• “Literature of New York” (undergraduate seminar)
• “Introduction to Literary Studies” (undergraduate seminar)
• “Introduction to Literary Studies” (undergraduate seminar)

Winter 2013/14: 

• “Charles W. Chesnutt” (undergraduate seminar)
• “Introduction to Literary Studies” (undergraduate seminar)
• “Introduction to Literary Studies” (undergraduate seminar)

Summer 2013: 

• “American Autobiography” (undergraduate seminar)
• “Literature of the Black Atlantic” (undergraduate seminar)
• “Introduction to Literary Studies (undergraduate seminar)

Berlin

Winter 2012/13:

• “Narratives of Passing” (graduate seminar)
• “Introduction to Cultural Theory” (undergraduate seminar) 

Summer 2012:

• “Character, Self, and Identity in American Culture” (graduate seminar)
• “American Popular Culture and Memory” (with Frank Mehring, undergraduate seminar)

Winter 2011/2012:

• “African American Intellectuals” (graduate seminar) 
• “Key Concepts of American Culture” (undergraduate seminar) 
• “Traveling Cultures” (undergraduate seminar)

Winter 2009/2010:

• “Literature of the American South” (undergraduate seminar)

Summer 2009:

• B. A. Colloquium Literature and Culture

Winter 2007/08:          

• “Cosmopolitanism in American Culture” (graduate seminar) 

Summer 2007:

• “Slavery and Race before the Civil War (1820-1860)” (graduate seminar) 
• “Amerikanische Architektur von der Kolonialzeit zur Postmoderne” (undergraduate seminar)

Winter 2006/07:

• “Slavery and Race in the American Enlightenment” (undergraduate seminar) 
• “American Travelers, 1780-1930” (undergraduate seminar)

Research interests

• Enlightenment and Enlightenment reception
• African American literature and culture
• Theories of time and history
• Intellectual history of the American Revolution and Early Republic
• Cultures of enslavement and emancipation
• Discourses of character, identity, cosmopolitanism, nationhood

Grants and External Funding

• February 2025. Coordinator Grant, Universität Graz, FWF-Project: “Spectral Identities: Denunciation and Creative Resistance in the Culture of American Modernity.”
• April 2017-June 2021. Principal Investigator Grant, Program “Eigene Stelle,” “Cosmopolitanism and Character in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature” (SP 1700/1-1) DFG/ German Research Foundation.
• August 2016. Peter Nicolaisen Fellowship, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, Virginia. 
• September 2008-May 2009. The Gilder Lehrman Junior Research Fellowship 2008/2009, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, Virginia.
• May-August 2008. Postdoctoral Bursary, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) University of Edinburgh.
• 2005-2006. Dissertation completion award (12 months) Berliner Graduiertenförderung/NaFöG.
• 2002-2004. Dissertation Fellowship (24 months), FAZIT-Foundation; Dissertation Fellowship, Berliner Graduiertenförderung/NaFöG (declined).
• September-October 2003. Short-Term Fellowship (2 months), Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, Virginia.
• May-June 2003. Travel Grant, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC. 

Invited Lectures and Conference Papers

• October 2025: “Wartime Transformations of the Declaration of Independence in the Black Enlightenment,” Conference For 2026: Wartime Transformations, Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA.
• July 2025: “Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition,” Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg. 
• March 2025: “Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition,” Séminaire Nineteenth-Century Worlds (W 19), Centre des Recherches Anglophones CREA/LARCA, Université Paris Cité.
• December 2024: “‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?’ Afroamerikanische Aufklärung von Phillis Wheatley bis Frederick Douglass,” Lecture series Un-macht / Selbst-ermächtigung, IZP/IZEA, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
• November 2024: “’Not always visible upon the surface of things’: Media Rhetorics of the Haitian Revolution in Charles W. Chesnutt’s PaulMarchand, F.M.C.,” Université Fribourg.
• November 2024: Roundtable Participant, US Elections, Universität Graz.
• July 2024: “What is Black Enlightenment?,” Panel “The Haitian Enlightenment,” International Summer Schoolorganized by Iwan d’Aprile, Universität Potsdam.
• June 2024: “Transforming Jefferson's Enlightenment,” Beyond Jefferson's Futures, LIAS, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg.
• February 2024: “Generations and Generational Sovereignty in African American Thought,” Totalizing Temporalities: Time and History in Nationalist Movements," LIAS, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg.
• July 2023: “Narrative der Pandemie bei William Maxwell und Alice Munro,” Habilitation Lecture, Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin.
• March 2023: “A View from Somewhere: Embodiment and Perspective in Thomas Jefferson’s Enlightenment of Feeling,” Disincarnate: Art Histories of Nationhood Past, Present, and Future, Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study/University of London.
• August 2022: “Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition,” Leonard J. Sadosky Memorial Book Talk, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies/Jefferson Library, Charlottesville, VA. 
• August 2022: “Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition,” Early American History Seminar, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
• December 2021: Roundtable Participant, “The Future of the Humanities in Europe,” Colonisations, Revolutions and Reinventions in Early America and the Atlantic World, 1600-1848, EEASA Biannual Meeting, Université de Poitiers (Zoom).
• October 2021, Commentator, “Cultures of Denunciation—Defamation, Canceling, and Creative Resistance in Nineteenth-Century American Literature,” Annual Conference of the American Studies Association (ASA), San Juan (Zoom).
• June 2021: “’Extremely difficult to identify me’: Pedagogies of Character in Samuel Ringgold Ward's Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro,“ Department of American Studies, Universität Graz (Zoom).
• May 2019: “Jefferson’s History of the Mind.” ‘Necessary to Form a Lawyer’: A Symposium on Law, History, and Political Thought in Thomas Jefferson’s Legal Commonplace Book, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. 
• December 2018: “Prejudice, Enlightenment, and National Identity in Jefferson’s Republic of Letters.” The Making and Unmaking of Identities and Connections in Early America and the Atlantic World, 1650-1850, EEASABiannual Meeting, Queen Mary University of London and King’s College, London.
• June 2018: “Public Feeling in Ida B. Wells’s Anti-Lynching Campaign.” American Counter/Publics, German Society for American Studies Annual Meeting, Freie Universität Berlin.
• January 2018: “’Wean yourselves from those narrow prejudices’: White Uplift and Character Building in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature,” Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen. 
• July 2017: “African American Literature and the 'Gold' of Character,” Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. 
• May 2017: “Character and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Studies,” Department of Jewish Studies, Universität Potsdam.
• August 2016: “Jefferson as Character and Caricature in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature,” Fellow’s Forum, International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, VA. 
• April 2016: “Literary Origins of the Facebook-Self,” Sprache und Kommunikation in einer Digitalen Welt, Stipendiatentreffen des DAAD, Potsdam. 
• July 2015: “Citizens of Africa or Africans of the World? Afropolitanism and Cosmopolitanism in Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go,” Leibniz-Universität Hannover. 
• May 2015: “Enlightenment Futures and the Ends of Analogy,” Enlightenment Futures, International Symposium, Università di Torino. 
• May 2015: “Alternative Sites of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Black New York,” Knowledge Landscapes North America, German Society for American Studies Annual Meeting, Universität Bonn.
• February 2013: “Captivating Traits: Leonora Sansay and the Secret History of Character,” Narratives of Dis/Possession, Symposium organized by MaryAnn Snyder-Körber, John F. Kennedy-Institute f, Freie Universität Berlin. 
• May 2012: “Beyond the Tragic Mulatta: Crossracialism and Social Passing in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Life Writing,” American Lives, German Society for American Studies Annual Meeting, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
• April 2012: “Questions of Character: The Biographical War and the Haitian Revolution,” Hemispheric Encounters: The Early United States in a Transnational Perspective, Universität Leipzig. 
• December 2010: “Cosmopolitan Imperfections: Jefferson, Nationhood, and the Republic of Letters”, Cosmopolitanism and Nationhood in the Age of Jefferson, International Symposium, John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.
• December 2010: “Remembering a ‘Heroic Age’: American Autobiographies after the Revolution,” Looking Back: The Past, History, and History Writing in Early America and the Atlantic World, EEASA Biannual Conference, Institut Charles V, Paris.
• June 2009: Response to Edward Blum’s “From National Loyalty to Racial Supremacy,” Symposium Reconstruction, Representation, and the ‘Rules of the Democratic Game, Freie Universität Berlin.
• May 2009: “The Transformation of Revolutionary Cosmopolitanism,” Cosmopolitan America? The United States in Transition, NAAS Conference, University of Copenhagen.
• May 2009: Gilder Lehrman Manuscript Workshop on “Thomas Jefferson, Time, and History,” International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, Virginia.
• August 2008: “American Cosmopolitanism in the Revolutionary Period,” Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. 
• July 2008: “Revolutionary Times: Jefferson, Temporality, and Historical Consciousness,” Time Beyond Borders, International Conference, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, and Haifa University. 
• May 2008: “Domesticity and Politics in Jefferson’s Presidency”, The American Presidency and Political Leadership, German Society for American Studies Annual Meeting, Universität Heidelberg.
• April 2008: “The Modernization of Philosophical History,” Journée d’études ReDEHJA, GREAM/ Université François Rabelais, Tours. 
• March 2007: “The ut pictura poesis-Problem in Jefferson’s Conception of History,” Scottish Association for the Study of America Annual Meeting, University of Edinburgh.
• July 2006: “’Those who come after us will fill up the canvas we begin’: Jefferson, History, and the Painting Metaphor,” SHEAR Annual Meeting, Université de Montréal.
• December 2005: “Thomas Jefferson, Temporality, and the Problem of Enlightenment History,” Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. 
• November 2005: “The Problem of Exemplary History,” Scottish Association for the Study of America, Annual Meeting, University of St. Andrews. 
• November 2005: “Return to Timelessness? Thomas Jefferson’s Changing Views of History”, STAR Seminar (Scotland’s Transatlantic Relations), Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.
• March 2005: “’Beyond Example in the History of Man’: The Problem of Enlightenment History in Jefferson’s Retirement,” International Conference: Jefferson and the Founding Fathers in Retirement, International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, VA. 
• December 2004: “Jefferson and Slavery as a Problem in Intellectual History,” Universität Potsdam. 
• January 2004: “Jefferson’s Concepts of Time and the Gradual Abolition of Slavery,” Research Colloquium Literature and Culture, John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, FU Berlin.
• October 2003: “Jefferson’s Vision of the Future and the Dialectics of the Master-Slave Relationship,” Fellow’s Forum, International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, VA. 
• May 2003: “Jefferson’s Attitude to Slavery as a Problem in Cultural History,” Young Scholars’ Forum, German Historical Institute at Washington, DC. 

Monographs

• Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2024.

Publisher website: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5897/

Marshal Zeringue, “The Page 99 Test,” Campaign for the American Reader. https://page99test.blogspot.com/2024/05/hannah-spahns-black-reason-white-feeling.html 

“Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars,” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: https://jbhe.com/2024/05/recent-books-of-interest-to-african-american-scholars-431/ 

Reviews: 1. American Nineteenth Century History, 25.3 (2025): 306-307 (C. Cameron); 2. Perspectives on Politics, 23.2 (2025): 756-758 (L. Williams); 3. Journal of the Early Republic, 45.1 (2025): 114-117 (G. Oberle); 4. Esclavages et post-esclavages, 11, “Esclavages, couleur et religion(s)” (2025): 1-5. (M.-J. Rossignol); 5. CHOICE (April 2025): 765 (M. G. Spence); 6. Studies in Romanticism, 64.2 (Summer 2025): 188-190 (M. Sandler); 7. William and Mary Quarterly, 82.4 (October 2025): 723-728 (J. Brooks); 8. American Historical Review, 130.4 (December 2025): 1887-1888 (R. Brannon); 9. Journal of American History, 112.4 (March 2026): 782-784 (C. Walker).

Finalist, Kenshur Book Prize, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Indiana Bloomington (June 2025).

• Thomas Jefferson, Time, and History. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.

Publisher website: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/4072/          

“Books in Summary,” History and Theory, 51 (October 2012): 481-82.

Reviews: 1. American Political Thought, 2.1 (2013): 149-152 (T. Ball); 2. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 121.3 (2013): 288-290 (R. B. Bernstein); 3. Journal of Southern History, 79.2 (2013): 458-459 (A. Cayton); 4. History of Intellectual Culture, 10.1 (2012/13) (K. Gutzman); 5. Reviews in History (8 March 2012) (D. Clinkman); 6. Journal of the Early Republic, 33.2 (2013): 359-363 (S. Harvey); 7. Historian, 75.3 (2013): 588-589 (M. Schwarz); 8. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 137.2 (2013): 208-209 (E. Shalev); 9. American Historical Review, 118.1 (2013): 180 (P. Thompson), 10. Amerikastudien/American Studies, 58.2 (2013): 303-305 (J. Trautsch); 11. Journal of American History, 100 (Dec. 2013): 818 (P. Ziesche).

• Thomas Jefferson und die Sklaverei: Verrat an der Aufklärung? (Berliner Beiträge zur Amerikanistik). Berlin: Freie Universität, 2002.

Edited Works

• Frederick Douglass, Mein Leben als amerikanischer Sklave, trans. Hans-Christian Oeser. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2022. 

Reissued as vol. 10906 of Schriftenreihe der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung [Federal Agency for Civic Education]. Bonn: bpb, 2022.

• with Peter Nicolaisen, Cosmopolitanism and Nationhood in the Age of Jefferson. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013.

Reviews: 1. Journal of American History, 102.1 (June 2015): 237-238 (D. Staloff); 2. Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, 56 (2016), online: library.fes.de/pdf-files/afs/81674.pdf (M. Hinrichsen); Amerikastudien/American Studies, 62.4 (2017) (H. Wellenreuther).

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

• “Beyond Self-Evident Lies: Opinion and Principle in the (African) American Declaration of Independence.” Special Issue, “The Cultural Politics of 1776: Rethinking an American Moment.” Guest eds. Alexandra Hartmann and Antonia Purk. Amerikastudien/American Studies, forthcoming.
• “Shadows of the Past: Defamation, Creative Resistance, and Metafiction in Charles W. Chesnutt’s Northern Stories.” Cultures of Denunciation: Defamation and Creative Resistance in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Eds. Stefan L. Brandt and Alexandra Urakova. Basingstoke: Palgrave, forthcoming.
• “Cosmopolitanism, Character, and the Theories of Early African American Literature.” African American Literature: In Transition, 1750-2015. Ed. Joycelyn Moody, Vol. 3: 1830-1850, ed. Benjamin Fagan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 177-201.
• “Jefferson and Me: A View from Abroad.” Critical Insights: Thomas Jefferson. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Amenia, NY: Salem Press, 2020. 221-232.
• “Public Feeling in Ida B. Wells’s Anti-Lynching Campaign.” American Counter/Publics. Eds. Frank Kelleter, Ulla Haselstein, Alexander Starre, Birte Wege. Heidelberg: Winter, 2019. 103-116.
• “Erasing the Stamp of Toussaint L’Ouverture? The Haitian Revolution and the Question of Character.” Hemispheric Encounters: The Early United States in a Transnational Perspective. Eds. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez and Markus Heide. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2016. 133-153.
• “Blood and Character in Early African American Literature.” The Politics of Blood, 1500-1900. Eds. Kimberley Anne Coles, Ralph Bauer, Carla L. Peterson, Zita Nunes. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2015. 146-167.
• “’Cruel war against human nature itself’: Krieg und Kosmopolitismus in der amerikanischen Revolution.” Krieg und Frieden im achtzehnten Jahrhundert. Ed. Stephanie Stockhorst. Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2015. 331-346.
• “Eliza Potter’s ‘Barberous Profession’: Self, Race, and Nation in A Hairdresser’s Experience in High Life.” American Lives. Ed. Alfred Hornung. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013. 189-206.
• “Introduction.” Cosmopolitanism and Nationhood in the Age of Jefferson. Eds. Peter Nicolaisen and Hannah Spahn. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013. 3-22.
• “Cosmopolitan Imperfections: Jefferson, Nationhood, and the Republic of Letters.” Cosmopolitanism and Nationhood in the Age of Jefferson. Eds. Peter Nicolaisen and Hannah Spahn. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013. 113-135.
• “Lost in a Boudoir of Mirrors: The Pursuit of Recognition in the Biographical War of the Early Republic.” Special Issue: “Tocqueville’s Legacy: Towards a Cultural History of Recognition in American Studies.” Ed. Winfried Fluck. Amerikastudien/American Studies, 57.4 (2012): 533-552.
• “’The Silent Course of Happiness’: Domesticity and Politics in Jefferson’s Presidency.” The American Presidency: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Eds. Dietmar Schloss, Martin Thunert, Wilfried Mausbach. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 187-209.
• “Character and Cosmopolitanism in the Scottish-American Enlightenment.” Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment. Eds. Susan Manning and Thomas Ahnert. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011. 207-224.
• “Thomas Jefferson, Cosmopolitanism, and the Enlightenment.” A Companion to Thomas Jefferson. Ed. Francis D. Cogliano. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2011. 364-379.

Selected Encyclopedia Articles 

• “Nordamerikanische Revolution.” Der Neue Pauly. Supplemente. Vol. 13: Das 18. Jahrhundert. Lexikon zur Antikerezeption in Aufklärung und Klassizismus. Eds. Joachim Jacob and Johannes Süßmann. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2018. 567-577.
• “Thomas Jefferson.” The Literary Encyclopedia, May 2009. www.litentencyc.com.

Reviews 

In American Historical Review, American Political Thought, Early American Literature, Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert, Journal of American Studies, Journal of the Early Republic, Journal of Southern History, Intellectual History Review, New England Quarterly.