Publications
Books
Germany from the Outside: Rethinking German Cultural History in an Age of Displacement. Ed. Laurie Ruth Johnson. Series: New Directions in German Studies (ed. Imke Meyer). New York: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. 352. Paperback edition April 18, 2024.
Forgotten Dreams: Revisiting Romanticism in the Cinema of Werner Herzog. Series: Screen Cultures - German Film and the Visual (eds. Johannes von Moltke and Gerd Gemünden). Rochester: Camden House, 2016. Pp. 312. Paperback edition 2019.
Aesthetic Anxiety: Uncanny Symptoms in German Literature and Culture. Series: International Studies in Comparative Literature (ed. Alberto Martino). Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2010. Pp. 267.
The Art of Recollection in Jena Romanticism: Memory, History, Fiction, and Fragmentation in Texts by Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis. Series: Studien zur deutschen Literatur (eds. Wilfried Barner, Georg Braungart, Richard Brinkmann, and Conrad Wiedemann). Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2002. Pp. 196.
Journal Issues
Editor, special issue of The German Quarterly, on "German Fairy Tales and Folklore in a Global Context." A crossover project with Die Unterrichtspraxis (ed. Angelika Kraemer). 94.2 (Spring 2021).
Editor, special issue of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, on “The New German Romanticism.” 50.3 (2014).
Articles/Essays
“Teaching Freud, Dora, and Fin-de-siècle Culture.” With Carl Niekerk. Options for Teaching German Literature and Culture of the 20th and 21st Century. Eds. David Kim and B. Venkat Mani. New York: Publications of the Modern Language Association. Forthcoming in 2024.
“On the Inside Looking Out: Fichte, the University, and the Psychopolitics of German Idealism.” Germany from the Outside: Rethinking German Cultural History in an Age of Displacement. Ed. Laurie Johnson. London and New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2022. 61-83.
“Introduction.” Germany from the Outside: Rethinking German Cultural History in an Age of Displacement. London and New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2022. 1-10.
“Introduction: German Fairy Tales and Folklore in a Global Context.” With Angelika Kraemer and Carl Niekerk. The German Quarterly 94.2 (Spring 2021) 160-164.
“The Cinematic Afterlife of German Romanticism.” The Palgrave Handbook of German Romantic Philosophy. Ed. Elizabeth Millán. London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020. 317-344.
“Fascism in the Classroom: Dark Arts in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.” Lessons from Hogwarts: Essays on the Pedagogy of Harry Potter. With Carl Niekerk. Eds. Marcie Panutsos Rovan and Melissa Wehler. London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020. 121-135.
“Romantic Vision as Romantic History in Werner Herzog’s Invincible.” Estetica. Studi e ricerche 1 (2020) 25-41.
"Romantic Apperception in Werner Herzog's Documentary Cinema." Von der Idee zum Medium - Resonanzfelder zwischen Aufklärung und Gegenwart. Eds. Felix Lenz and Christine Schramm. Munich: Fink, 2019. 441-467.
"The Studies on Hysteria and the Haunted Past of Psychoanalysis." Ordnungen des Unheimlichen. Kultur - Literatur - Medien. Ed. Florian Lehmann. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2016. 99-113.
"Toward a Psychological History of Philosophy: Kant's Dreams of a Spirit-Seer." PsyArt: Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts 20 (2016) 69-83. Web.
“Prairie Tales: The Life of the Lecture at Illinois.” An Illinois Sampler: Teaching and Research on the Prairie. Eds. Mary-Ann Winkelmes and Antoinette Burton, with Kyle Mays. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014. 49-53.
“The Conquest of Dreams.” The Werner Herzog Collection. London: British Film Institute, 2014.
“German Romanticism Renewed.” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. Special Issue on "The New German Romanticism."
50.3. (2014) 251-257.
“Documentary, Revisited. Claude Lanzmann’s The Last of the Unjust.” Days and Memory. A blog of the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. March 2014. http://hgmsblog.weebly.com/
“Recovered Voices: Viktor Ullmann’s Der zerbrochene Krug (1942).” Heinrich von Kleist – Style and Concept: Explorations in Literary Dissonance. Eds. Christoph Zeller and Dieter Sevin. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2013. 325-337.
“Werner Herzog’s Romantic Spaces.” Companion to Werner Herzog. Ed. Brad Prager. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. 510-527.
“Das 'ewig ringende, nie seyende Sein.' Schelling und das Unheimliche.” Phantasmata. Techniken des Unheimlichen. Eds. Martin Doll, Rupert Gaderer, Fabio Camilletti, and Jan Niklas Howe. Vienna and Berlin: Turia + Kant, 2011. 241-257.
“The Curse of Enthusiasm: William Lovell and Modern Violence.” Violence, Aesthetics, Culture: Germany, 1789-1938. Eds. Carl Niekerk and Stefani Engelstein. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. 91-114.
“Uncanny Love: Schelling's Meditations on the Spirit World.” Image & Narrative 11.3 (2010) 64-86.
“Die Lesbarkeit des romantischen Körpers – Über Psychosomatik und Text in Fallstudien von Karl Philipp Moritz und Friedrich Schlegel.” Die Lesbarkeit der Romantik. Material, Medium, Diskurs. Ed. Erich Kleinschmidt. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. 105-135.
"Upload Now: On William Gibson's Spook Country." Kritik. The blog for the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois. July 2008. http://unitcrit.blogspot.com/2008/07/upload-now-on-william-gibsons-spook.html
“The Romantic and Modern Practice of Animal Magnetism: Friedrich Schlegel's Protocols of the Magnetic Treatment of Countess Lesniowska.” Women in German Yearbook 23 (2007) 10-33.
“Enlightenment According to Don Alfonso: Perilous Progress in Mozart's Cosí fan tutte.” Practicing Progress: The Promise and Limitations of Enlightenment, eds. Richard E. Schade, Dieter Sevin, and Frank Trommler. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 59-74.
“Dorothea Veit-Schlegel's Florentin and the Early Romantic Model of Alterity.” Monatshefte 97.1 (2005) 33-62.
“Psychic and Corporeal Displacement in Kleist's Die Familie Schroffenstein.” Kleists Erzählungen und Dramen. Neue Studien. Eds. Paul Michael Lützeler and David Pan. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2001. 121-133.
“Geschichte als Erinnerungsfragment in der Philosophie Friedrich Schlegels.” Zeitenwende - Die Germanistik auf dem Weg vom 20. ins 21. Jahrhundert (Akten des X. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses, Wien 2000). Ed. Peter Wiesinger. Bern: Peter Lang, 2002. 201-206.
“Bringing Chaos Into the System: The Aesthetic Authority of Disorder in Friedrich Schlegel's Philosophical Fragments.” Disrupted Patterns: On Chaos and Order in the Enlightenment. Eds. Theodore E. D. Braun and John A. McCarthy. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000. 119-133.
“‘Wenn man endlich selbst Briefe schreiben will, so vergesse man die Exempel’: The Construction of Imitation as Originality in C. F. Gellert's Epistolary Theory.” Wezel-Jahrbuch (Studien zur europäischen Aufklärung) 2 (1999) 97-114.
“‘Wozu überhaupt ein Anfang?’ Memory and History in Heinrich von Ofterdingen.” Colloquia Germanica 31.1 (1998) 21-36. Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (NCLC) 178. Detroit, New York, London: Thomson Gale, 2007. 86-94.
“Reading the Excursus on Women as a Model of 'Modern' Temporality in Gottfried's Tristan.” Neophilologus 82.2 (1998) 247-257. Reprinted in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (CMLC) 96. Detroit, New York, London: Thomson Gale, 2008. 153-158.
Translation
English Translation of "Die Nähe des Fremden," by Klaus Hoffer. World Literature Today (Norman: Oklahoma University Press, 1995) 517-520.
Lexicon Entries
"Germany, Austria, Switzerland: Romanticism and Life Writing." Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms. Ed. Margaretta Jolly. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001. 368-370.
"Heinrich Heine." Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms. Ed. Margaretta Jolly. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001. 420-421.
"German Poetry 1750-1850." With Carl Niekerk. Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation. Ed. Peter France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 309-313.
Book Reviews in Monatshefte, The German Quarterly, German Studies Review, Women in German Newsletter, GDR Bulletin
Work in Progress (selection)
Ethics and storytelling, fairy tales, creative non-fiction, teaching in the twenty-first century
Books
Germany from the Outside: Rethinking German Cultural History in an Age of Displacement. Ed. Laurie Ruth Johnson. Series: New Directions in German Studies (ed. Imke Meyer). New York: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. 352. Paperback edition April 18, 2024.
Forgotten Dreams: Revisiting Romanticism in the Cinema of Werner Herzog. Series: Screen Cultures - German Film and the Visual (eds. Johannes von Moltke and Gerd Gemünden). Rochester: Camden House, 2016. Pp. 312. Paperback edition 2019.
Aesthetic Anxiety: Uncanny Symptoms in German Literature and Culture. Series: International Studies in Comparative Literature (ed. Alberto Martino). Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2010. Pp. 267.
The Art of Recollection in Jena Romanticism: Memory, History, Fiction, and Fragmentation in Texts by Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis. Series: Studien zur deutschen Literatur (eds. Wilfried Barner, Georg Braungart, Richard Brinkmann, and Conrad Wiedemann). Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2002. Pp. 196.
Journal Issues
Editor, special issue of The German Quarterly, on "German Fairy Tales and Folklore in a Global Context." A crossover project with Die Unterrichtspraxis (ed. Angelika Kraemer). 94.2 (Spring 2021).
Editor, special issue of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, on “The New German Romanticism.” 50.3 (2014).
Articles/Essays
“Teaching Freud, Dora, and Fin-de-siècle Culture.” With Carl Niekerk. Options for Teaching German Literature and Culture of the 20th and 21st Century. Eds. David Kim and B. Venkat Mani. New York: Publications of the Modern Language Association. Forthcoming in 2024.
“On the Inside Looking Out: Fichte, the University, and the Psychopolitics of German Idealism.” Germany from the Outside: Rethinking German Cultural History in an Age of Displacement. Ed. Laurie Johnson. London and New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2022. 61-83.
“Introduction.” Germany from the Outside: Rethinking German Cultural History in an Age of Displacement. London and New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2022. 1-10.
“Introduction: German Fairy Tales and Folklore in a Global Context.” With Angelika Kraemer and Carl Niekerk. The German Quarterly 94.2 (Spring 2021) 160-164.
“The Cinematic Afterlife of German Romanticism.” The Palgrave Handbook of German Romantic Philosophy. Ed. Elizabeth Millán. London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020. 317-344.
“Fascism in the Classroom: Dark Arts in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.” Lessons from Hogwarts: Essays on the Pedagogy of Harry Potter. With Carl Niekerk. Eds. Marcie Panutsos Rovan and Melissa Wehler. London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020. 121-135.
“Romantic Vision as Romantic History in Werner Herzog’s Invincible.” Estetica. Studi e ricerche 1 (2020) 25-41.
"Romantic Apperception in Werner Herzog's Documentary Cinema." Von der Idee zum Medium - Resonanzfelder zwischen Aufklärung und Gegenwart. Eds. Felix Lenz and Christine Schramm. Munich: Fink, 2019. 441-467.
"The Studies on Hysteria and the Haunted Past of Psychoanalysis." Ordnungen des Unheimlichen. Kultur - Literatur - Medien. Ed. Florian Lehmann. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2016. 99-113.
"Toward a Psychological History of Philosophy: Kant's Dreams of a Spirit-Seer." PsyArt: Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts 20 (2016) 69-83. Web.
“Prairie Tales: The Life of the Lecture at Illinois.” An Illinois Sampler: Teaching and Research on the Prairie. Eds. Mary-Ann Winkelmes and Antoinette Burton, with Kyle Mays. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2014. 49-53.
“The Conquest of Dreams.” The Werner Herzog Collection. London: British Film Institute, 2014.
“German Romanticism Renewed.” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. Special Issue on "The New German Romanticism."
50.3. (2014) 251-257.
“Documentary, Revisited. Claude Lanzmann’s The Last of the Unjust.” Days and Memory. A blog of the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. March 2014. http://hgmsblog.weebly.com/
“Recovered Voices: Viktor Ullmann’s Der zerbrochene Krug (1942).” Heinrich von Kleist – Style and Concept: Explorations in Literary Dissonance. Eds. Christoph Zeller and Dieter Sevin. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2013. 325-337.
“Werner Herzog’s Romantic Spaces.” Companion to Werner Herzog. Ed. Brad Prager. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. 510-527.
“Das 'ewig ringende, nie seyende Sein.' Schelling und das Unheimliche.” Phantasmata. Techniken des Unheimlichen. Eds. Martin Doll, Rupert Gaderer, Fabio Camilletti, and Jan Niklas Howe. Vienna and Berlin: Turia + Kant, 2011. 241-257.
“The Curse of Enthusiasm: William Lovell and Modern Violence.” Violence, Aesthetics, Culture: Germany, 1789-1938. Eds. Carl Niekerk and Stefani Engelstein. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. 91-114.
“Uncanny Love: Schelling's Meditations on the Spirit World.” Image & Narrative 11.3 (2010) 64-86.
“Die Lesbarkeit des romantischen Körpers – Über Psychosomatik und Text in Fallstudien von Karl Philipp Moritz und Friedrich Schlegel.” Die Lesbarkeit der Romantik. Material, Medium, Diskurs. Ed. Erich Kleinschmidt. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. 105-135.
"Upload Now: On William Gibson's Spook Country." Kritik. The blog for the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois. July 2008. http://unitcrit.blogspot.com/2008/07/upload-now-on-william-gibsons-spook.html
“The Romantic and Modern Practice of Animal Magnetism: Friedrich Schlegel's Protocols of the Magnetic Treatment of Countess Lesniowska.” Women in German Yearbook 23 (2007) 10-33.
“Enlightenment According to Don Alfonso: Perilous Progress in Mozart's Cosí fan tutte.” Practicing Progress: The Promise and Limitations of Enlightenment, eds. Richard E. Schade, Dieter Sevin, and Frank Trommler. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 59-74.
“Dorothea Veit-Schlegel's Florentin and the Early Romantic Model of Alterity.” Monatshefte 97.1 (2005) 33-62.
“Psychic and Corporeal Displacement in Kleist's Die Familie Schroffenstein.” Kleists Erzählungen und Dramen. Neue Studien. Eds. Paul Michael Lützeler and David Pan. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2001. 121-133.
“Geschichte als Erinnerungsfragment in der Philosophie Friedrich Schlegels.” Zeitenwende - Die Germanistik auf dem Weg vom 20. ins 21. Jahrhundert (Akten des X. Internationalen Germanistenkongresses, Wien 2000). Ed. Peter Wiesinger. Bern: Peter Lang, 2002. 201-206.
“Bringing Chaos Into the System: The Aesthetic Authority of Disorder in Friedrich Schlegel's Philosophical Fragments.” Disrupted Patterns: On Chaos and Order in the Enlightenment. Eds. Theodore E. D. Braun and John A. McCarthy. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000. 119-133.
“‘Wenn man endlich selbst Briefe schreiben will, so vergesse man die Exempel’: The Construction of Imitation as Originality in C. F. Gellert's Epistolary Theory.” Wezel-Jahrbuch (Studien zur europäischen Aufklärung) 2 (1999) 97-114.
“‘Wozu überhaupt ein Anfang?’ Memory and History in Heinrich von Ofterdingen.” Colloquia Germanica 31.1 (1998) 21-36. Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (NCLC) 178. Detroit, New York, London: Thomson Gale, 2007. 86-94.
“Reading the Excursus on Women as a Model of 'Modern' Temporality in Gottfried's Tristan.” Neophilologus 82.2 (1998) 247-257. Reprinted in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism (CMLC) 96. Detroit, New York, London: Thomson Gale, 2008. 153-158.
Translation
English Translation of "Die Nähe des Fremden," by Klaus Hoffer. World Literature Today (Norman: Oklahoma University Press, 1995) 517-520.
Lexicon Entries
"Germany, Austria, Switzerland: Romanticism and Life Writing." Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms. Ed. Margaretta Jolly. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001. 368-370.
"Heinrich Heine." Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms. Ed. Margaretta Jolly. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001. 420-421.
"German Poetry 1750-1850." With Carl Niekerk. Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation. Ed. Peter France. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 309-313.
Book Reviews in Monatshefte, The German Quarterly, German Studies Review, Women in German Newsletter, GDR Bulletin
Work in Progress (selection)
Ethics and storytelling, fairy tales, creative non-fiction, teaching in the twenty-first century