Publications

Book

• Anders als die Andern, Queer Film Classics Series, eds. Jonathan Crago, Matthew Hays, and Thomas Waugh (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023).

  Reviewed in: Journal of Homosexuality (2024); German Studies Review (2024); CEU Review of Books (2024); The British Columbia Review of Books (2024)

Edited Volumes & Special Issues of Scholarly Journals

• “Refuge and Displacement: Solidarity, Care, Worldmaking,” co-edited with Beverly Weber, Special Issue of English Language Notes (ELN), 63.1 (2025) (forthcoming)

• “Queer Time and Contemporary German Cinema,” co-ed. with Kyle Frackman. Special Issue of The Germanic Review 97.4 (2022).  

• “Rupture, Slowness, Untimeliness: Queer Time and History in German Studies,” co-ed. with Kyle Frackman. Special Issue of Monatshefte 114.3 (2022).

• Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion, co-ed. with Alena E. Lyons (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021; paperback published in 2023).

  Reviewed in: Monatshefte (2024)

• Market Strategies and German Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century, co-ed. with Vance Byrd, Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies Series (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020).

  Reviewed in: German Studies Review 44.1 (2021); The German Quarterly 95.2 (2022); Goethe Yearbook 29 (2022)

• Diversity & Decolonization in German Studies, co-ed. with Regine Criser (New York: Palgrave, 2020).

  Reviewed in: German Studies Review 44.1 (2021); The German Quarterly 94.3 (2021); Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies (2022); Monatshefte (2022)

Journal Articles

• “Divinatory Intimacy: Marianne Raschig’s Palmistry Guide and the Democratization of Film Knowledge Production in Weimar Film Print Culture” Modernism/modernity (forthcoming)

  “Stretch Marks on the Soul: Reanimating Solidarity Work in the Face of Its Structural Suppression,” Diacritics 52.1 (2025). (forthcoming)

• “Introduction: Burdened Solidarities Beyond the Impasse,” co-authored with Beverly Weber for English Language Notes 63.1 (2025) (forthcoming)

• “Feeling Bad, Together: The Pedagogy of Unwellness in German Studies,” co-authored with Maggie Rosenau for Feminist German Studies 40.1 (2024): 15-29.

• “Courasche and the Queer Life of Objects,” Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik vol. 152 (2024): 55–73.

• “Queer Occultism,” Forum on Queer German Studies, The German Quarterly 97.2 (2024): 222–24.

• “Queer Time and the Cinematic Pleasures of the locus amoenus in Free Fall” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 29.2 (2023): 237–260.

• “Introduction: Queer Time and Contemporary German Cinema,” with Kyle Frackman, The Germanic Review 97.4 (2022): 299–309.

• “Untimeliness and the Balkan Queer Diaspora in Dennis Todorović’s Saša,” The Germanic Review 97.4 (2022): 340–358.

• “Approaches to Queer Temporalities in German Studies,” with Kyle Frackman, Monatshefte 114.3 (2022): 353–62.

• “DDGC and Misfit Archives,” with Regine Criser, Seminar 57.3 (2021): 295–302.

• “A Comparative Analysis of Cultural Representations in Collegiate World Language Textbooks,” with Baburhan Uzum, Bedrettin Yazan, Samar Zahrawi, and Siham Bouamer, Linguistics and Education 61 (2021).

• “Announced but Not Enacted: Anti-Racist German Studies as Process,” with Andrea Dawn Bryant, Nichole M. Neuman, and David Gramling, Applied Linguistics 42.4 (2021): 347–54.

• “Advocating for Queer of Color Studies in German Graduate Programs,” with Priscilla Layne. Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German 52.2 (2019): 194–202.

• “Queer Derailment and Pederast Adoration in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Michael (1924),” German Quarterly 92.3 (2019): 311-327.

• “The Emotive Textualities of Wilhelm Jensen’s Karin von Schweden,” Neophilologus 102.1 (2018): 59–74.

• “Richard Oswald, Magnus Hirschfeld, and the Possible Impossibility of Hygienic Melodrama,” Studies in European Cinema 14.3 (2017): 216–30.

• “Teaching an Honors Seminar on #BlackLivesMatter in East Texas,” with Jeffery L. Littlejohn, Kimberly Bell, Patrick Lewis, and Julia May, Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council 18.2 (2017): 3–15.

Chapters

• “On Debility in Helma Sanders-Brahms’s Die Berührte,” New German Cinema and its Global Contexts, eds. Marco Abel and Jaimey Fisher (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2024).

• “An Inventory of Feeling: Ferdinand Karsch and the Matter of Frustration in Early Sexological Writing,” Taking Stock: Media Inventories in the German Nineteenth Century, eds. Sean Franzel, Ilinca Iurascu, and Petra McGillen (Berlin: de Gruyter), 95-104.

• “Bertha von Suttner’s Inventarium einer Seele and the Business of Inventorying Experience,” Taking Stock: Media Inventories in the German Nineteenth Century, eds. Sean Franzel, Ilinca Iurascu, and Petra McGillen (Berlin: de Gruyter), 267-74.

• “Die Suche nach einer iranisch-deutschen Queer-of-Color Filmform in Faraz Shariats Futur Drei,” Text/Körper. Ästhetiken und Praktiken literarischer (Un-)Sichtbarkeit, eds. Vanessa Höving and Lena Wetenkamp (Freiburg: Rombach, 2024), 155-75. (forthcoming)

• “Aerial Aesthetics, Queer Intimacy, and the Politics of Repose in the Cinema of Nils Bökamp and Monika Treut,” At the End of Neoliberalism: The Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary German Film, eds. Claudia Breger and Olivia Landry (Rochester: Camden House, 2024), 202-18. (forthcoming)

• “Resisting the Traps of Hegemony: Variation in Contemporary German Queer of Color Cinema,” with Priscilla Layne, Routledge Companion to European Cinema, ed. Gábor Gergely & Susan Hayward (New York: Routledge, 2022), 374-384.

• “Introduction: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Slapstick,” “Introduction: History of Slapstick,” “Introduction: Instruments of Slapstick,” “Introduction: Narrative Structures of Slapstick,” “Introduction: Bodies of Slapstick,” “Introduction: Politics of Slapstick,” with Alena Lyons. Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion, ed. Ervin Malakaj and Alena E. Lyons (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021).

• “Lubitsch’s Queer Slapstick Aesthetics,” Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion, ed. Ervin Malakaj and Alena E. Lyons (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021): 333-50.

• “Diversity Programming, Student Outreach, and the Politics of Visible Inclusivity for Small German Programs,” Outreach Strategies and Innovative Teaching for Small German Programs, ed. Gabi Eichmanns and Melissa Etzler (New York: Routledge, 2020), 64-74.  

• “Alfred Rosenthal’s Rhetoric of Collaboration and Weimar Film Print Culture,” Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Film, ed. Barbara Hales and Valerie Weinstein (New York: Berghahn Books, 2020): 111–31.

• “The State of Diversity and Decolonization in North American German Studies,” Transnational Education and German Studies, ed. Ben Nickl, Deane Blackler, and Stefan Popenici (New York: Springer, 2020): 85-101.

• “Introduction: Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies,” with Regine Criser, Diversity & Decolonization in German Studies, ed. Regine Criser and Ervin Malakaj (New York: Palgrave, 2020): 1-22.

• “Introduction: Market Strategies and German Literature in the Nineteenth Century,” with Vance Byrd, Market Strategies and German Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. Vance Byrd and Ervin Malakaj (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020): 1-22.

• “Carl Emil Franzos’s Deutsche Dichtung and the Politics of Painstaking Editorial Labor,” Market Strategies and German Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. Vance Byrd and Ervin Malakaj (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020): 171-93.

• “Senescence and Der Stechlin,” Fontane in the Twenty-First Century, ed. John Lyon and Brian Tucker (Rochester: Camden House, 2019): 232-47.

• “Cruel Optimism and Post-68 Nostalgia in Helma Sanders-Brahms’ Unter dem Pflaster ist der Strand,” Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968, ed. Christina Gerhardt and Marco Abel (Rochester: Camden House, 2019): 237-53.

Shorter Contributions or Entries

• “Techno Romanticism and Early German Film” Cultural Critique 124 Summer (2024): 179-84.

• “Relational Models for Language Learning,” ADFL Bulletin 47.1 (2022): 30–32.

• “Germany: A Historical Overview,” “Doris Dörrie,” and “Jutta Brückner,” Women Screenwriters: An International Guide, ed. Jill Nelmes and Jule Selbo (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015): 363-74, 390-91, 394-96.

• “Wilhelm Raabe: Der Hungerpastor,” The Literary Encyclopedia. September 2014.

• “Wilhelm Raabe,” The Literary Encyclopedia. May 2014.

• “Hotel,” “Das Mädchen Rosemarie,” “Subjektitüde,” and “Die Trapp Familie.” Directory of World Cinema: Germany Volume II (Bristol: Intellect, 2014): 295-96, 224-26, 291-92, 222-24.

• “Hungerjahre – in einem reichen Land” and “Shirins Hochzeit.” Directory of World Cinema: Germany Volume I (Bristol: Intellect, 2011): 248-50, 153-55.

Selected Reviews

• “Transverse Disciplines: Queer-Feminist, Anti-racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University, eds. Simone Pfleger and Carrie Smith.” The German Quarterly (forthcoming)

• “Precarious Intimacies: The Politics of Touch in Contemporary Western European Cinema, Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber.” Seminar 58.3 (2022): 354–56.

• “Sex, Politics, and Comedy: The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch, Rick McCormick.” German Studies Review 44.1 (2021): 195-96.

• “German in the World: The Transnational and Global Contexts of German Studies, eds. James Hodkinson and Benedict Schofield,” Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur und Kulturwissenschaft 14 (2021): 173-75.

• “Autorschaft und Bibliothek: Sammlungsstrategien und Schreibverfahren. Stefan Höppner, et al., eds.” Monatshefte 112.3 (2020): 531-32.

• “Who Can Speak & Who is Heard/Hurt? Facing Problems of Race, Racism, & Ethnic Diversity in the Humanities in Germany, M. Arghavan et al., eds.” German Studies Review 43.2 (2020): 448-50.

• “The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction, Nora M. Alter.” Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature 43.2 (2019): Article 17.

• “The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907­-1933, Anton Kaes, Nicholas Baer, and Michael Cowan, eds.” Seminar 55.2 (2019): 193-94.

• “Anti*Colonial Fantasies: Decolonial Strategies, Imayna Caceres, Sunanda Mesquita, Sophie Utikal, eds.” H-Black-Europe, H-Net Reviews. April 2019.

• “Approaches to Kurban Said’s Ali und Nino: Love, Identity, and Intercultural Conflict, Carl Niekerk and Cori Crane, eds.” Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature 43.1 (2018): Article 9.

• “Archiv/Fiktionen: Verfahren des Archivierens in Literatur und Kultur des langen 19. Jahrhunderts. Daniela Gretz & Nicolas Pethes.” Goethe Yearbook 23 (2018): 322-23.

• “Afterlives: Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Germany. Steve Choe.” Studies in European Cinema 17 (2020): 269–271. (published online first in 2017)

• “Realism and Romanticism in German Literature. Ed. Dirk Göttsche and Nicholas Saul.” Monatshefte 107.3 (2015): 504-06.

Public-Facing Publications

• “Between Cine-anthropology and Distraction: Revisiting Béla Balázs’s Visible Man at 100,” co-authored with Paul Dobryden, Senses of Cinema, Issue 111, November, 2024.

• “Research and Teaching Dossier on Anders als die Andern,” with Shoshana Schwebel, WeimarCinema.org. September 20, 2024.

• “Anders als die Andern,” New Books Network Podcast. December 11, 2023.

• “Cozy Methodologies and Queer German Studies,” The New Fascism Syllabus. November 16, 2023.

• "The Enduring Appeal of a Century-Old German Film about Queer Love,” The Conversation. September 27, 2023.

• “It’s Hard to Love Your Literary Studies,” Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach | blog. April 28, 2022.

• “What Can We Learn from Slapstick Comedy?,” with Alena E. Lyons, de Gruyter Conversations. April 26, 2022.

• “Historical Injury and Multidirectional Solidarity in Times of Crisis,” The New Fascism Syllabus. March 6, 2022.

• “The Long Century’s Long Shadow: Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern by Kenneth S. Calhoon,” EuropeNow Journal. Issue 45, 9 November, 2021.

• “Glacial Innovation,” Re-Imagining the Discipline: German Studies, the Humanities, and the University. Proceedings for conference held at Cornell University’s Institute for German Cultural Studies, 2020.

• “Diskussion um das queere Kulturhaus in Berlin: Eine queere Institution, die Transfeindlichkeit unterstützt, ist nichts wert,” Der Tagesspiegel. 2 March, 2020. With Jennifer Evans, Anna Hájkova, Sabine Hark, Iris Rachamimov, Laurie Marhoefer, and Katie Sutton.

• “Peter Handke Nobel Prize controversy: Literature Can’t be Judged on Esthetics Alone,” The Conversation. 27 January, 2020.

• “A New Language-Teaching Narrative for a 21st-Century Democracy,” Academe Blog: The Blog of Academe Magazine. September 23, 2019. With Yuliya Komska, David Gramling, Roberto Rey Agudo, and Alberto Bruzos Moro.