Publications
Monographs
- On their Own Terms: The Legacy of National Socialism in Post-1990 German Fiction. Birmingham University Press, 2004.
- Der Landvermesser auf der Suche nach der poetischen Heimat. Hanns-Josef Ortheils Romanzyklus, Stuttgart, Heinz, 1997.
Edited volumes
- Narratives of Trauma. Discourses of German Wartime Suffering in National and International Perspective (with Annette Seidel-Arpaci), Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2011 (German Monitor 73).
- Autobiographie und historische Krisenerfahrung (with Heinz-Peter Preußer), Heidelberg, Winter, 2010 (Jahrbuch Literatur und Politik 4).
- Von der nationalen zur internationalen Literatur. Transnationale deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur im Zeitalter globaler Migration, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2009 (Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 69).
- A Nation of Victims? Representations of German Wartime Suffering from 1945 to the Present, Amsterdam and New York, Rodopi, 2007 (German Monitor 67).
- Between Historisation, Nostalgia and Mythmaking: Contemporary German Culture looking back at the two Germanys, Special Issue for SEMINAR (as Guest Editor), May 2007.
- German Culture and the Uncomfortable Past. Representations of National Socialism in contemporary Germanic Literature, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2001.
- Entgegenkommen. Dialogues with Barbara Köhler, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2000 (with Georgina Paul).
Articles
- 'The "nachtseite des abendlands". Barbara Köhler's Niemands Frau and the Dialectic of Enlightenment', in: Georgina Paul (ed.), An Oddyssey for our Time. Barbara Köhler's Niemands Frau. Amsterdam, Rodopi (German Monitor 78), 2013, 139-61.
- ‘Hanns-Josef Ortheil. Das Erzählen der Welt’, in: Allo Allkemper, Norbert Otto Eke, Hartmut Steinecke (eds.), Poetologisch-poetische Interventionen: Gegenwartsliteratur schreiben. Munich, Wilhelm Fink, 2012, 143-60.
- ' Robert Schindel's Born-Where', in: Stuart Taberner (ed.), The Novel in German since 1990. Cambridge, CUP, 2011, 19-34.
- 'Foundational Traumas: On a Figure of Thought in Recent German Literature on Wartime Suffering', in: Helmut Schmitz, Anette Seidel-Arpaci (eds.), Narratives of Trauma. Discourses of German Wartime Suffering in National and International Perspective (with Annette Seidel-Arpaci). Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2011 (German Monitor 73), 143-62.
- ‘Catastrophic History, Trauma and Mourning in W.G.Sebald and Jörg Friedrich’, in: Christine Anton and Frank Philipp (eds.), Beyond Political Correctness. Remapping German Sensibilities for the 21. Century. Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2010 (German Monitor 72), 27-50.
- ‘Zweierlei Allegorie: W.G.Sebalds Austerlitz und Stephan Wackwitz’ Ein unsichtbares Land’, in: Gerhard Fischer (ed.), W.G. Sebald. Schreiben ex patria/ Expatriate Writing. Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2009 (Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 72), 257-76.
- ‘“Ich bin der einzige Erbe”. Family, Heritage and German Wartime Suffering in Hanns-Josef Ortheil, Stephan Wackwitz, Thomas Medicus, Dagmar Leupold and Uwe Timm’, in: Stuart Taberner, Karina Berger (eds.), Germans as Victims' in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic. Rochester, Camden House, 2009, 70-85.
- ‘Traumatische Räume: Autobiographie, Raumerfahrung und Heimat in Hanns-Josef ‘Nachkriegs’-Zyklus’. In: Stephanie Catani, Friedhelm Marx, Julia Schöll (eds.), Kunst der Erinnerung, Poetik der Liebe. Das erzählerische Werk Hanns-Josef Ortheils. Göttingen, Wallstein, 2009, 31-49.
- ‘Literature and German Wartime Suffering’, in: Stuart Taberner (ed.), German Literature in the Berlin Republic. Cambridge, CUP, 2007, 142-58.
- 'Annäherung an die Generation der Großväter: Stephan Wackwitz' Ein unsichtbares Land und Thomas Medicus' In den Augen meines Großvaters'. In: BIOS 2/2006, 247-66 (Schwerpunkt Nationalsozialismus und Krieg in literarischen Autobiographien, ed. by Ilse Bürmann, Ortrun Niethammer and Helmut Schmitz).
- ‘The Birth of the Collective from the Spirit of Empathy. From the Historians’ Debate to German Suffering’, in: Bill Niven (ed.), Germans As Victims: Remembering The Past In Contemporary Germany. Basingstoke MacMillan, 2006, 93-108.
- ‘Reconciliation between the Generations: The Normalisation of the Image of the Ordinary German Soldier in recent Literature’, in: Stuart Taberner, Paul Cooke (eds.), German Culture, Politics and Literature into the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Normalization. Rochester, Camden House, 2006, 151-66.
- ‘Umkreisen, Wiederholen, Weitergeben. Zu Erzählerfiguren und Erzählkonstruktionen in Ortheils "Nachkriegs”- Zyklus’, in: Hans-Rüdiger Müller (ed.), Die Kunst der Benennung. Autobiographische Bildungsforschung am Beispiel von Hanns-Josef Ortheils Essay ‘Das Element des Elefanten’. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005, 107-124.
- ‘Grammatik der Differenz - Barbara Köhlers Suche nach einer nichtidentischen Subjektivität’, in: Bettina Gruber, Heinz-Peter Preußer (eds.), Weiblichkeit als Politisches Programm. Tübingen, Königshausen & Neumann, 2005, 167-181.
- 'Denouncing Globalisation. Ingo Schramm's Fitchers Blau', in: Stuart Taberner (ed.) German Literature in the Age of Globalisation. University of Birmingham Press, 2004, 145-167.
- ‘Malen nach Zahlen? Bernhard Schlinks Der Vorleser und die Unfähigkeit zu trauern’, German Life and Letters, 3, 2002, 296-311.
- ‘Viele Ausgänge? On some Motifs in Barbara Köhler’s Poetry’, in: Georgina Paul, Helmut Schmitz (eds.), Entgegenkommen: Dialogues with Barbara Köhler. German Monitor 48, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2000, 127-146.
- ‘The Return of the Past. Post-Unification Representations of National Socialism: Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser and Ulla Berkéwicz’s Engel sind schwarz und weiß’, in: Claire Flanaghan, Stuart Taberner (eds.), 1949-1989. Cultural Perspectives On Division and Unity in East and West. German Monitor 50, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2000, 259-276.
- ‘Dealing with the obscenity of Death: Aesthetics, Ritual and Memory in Jutta Schutting’s Der Vater’, in: Harriet Murphy (ed.), Critical Essays on Jutta/Julian Schutting. Riverside CA, Ariadne Press, 2000, 64-88
- ‘Unification as Pornographic Nightmare: Thomas Hettche’s Nox.’ In: Arthur Williams, Stuart Parkes, Julian Preece (eds.), Literature, Media and Markets. Berne, Peter Lang, 2000, 213-227.
- ‘“Eigenart” vs. “das Eigene”: German Intellectuals in Search of a Concept of Nationhood and National Identity after Unification’, debatte, vol 6:2, 1998, 129-147.
- 'The Continuation of War Trauma in the Novels of Hanns-Josef Ortheil', in: New Readings, vol 3 (1997), ed. by Charles Burdett and Claire Gorrara, 37-51.
- ‘The Land Surveyor. Hanns-Josef Ortheil's Quest for his Poetic Home’, in: Arthur Williams, Stuart Parkes, Julian Preece (eds.), Contemporary German Writers, Their Aesthetics and Their Language. Berne, Peter Lang, 1996, 97-108.
- 'Ich-Fiktionen und Landvermessungen. Der Schriftsteller Hanns-Josef Ortheil’, in: Manfred Durzak/Hartmut Steinecke (eds.), Hanns-Josef Ortheil. Im Innern seiner Texte. Munich, Piper, 1995, 13-36.
- ‘Der Geodät im wilden Westen. Hanns-Josef Ortheils Konzept des Zeitromans am Beispiel von Abschied von den Kriegsteilnehmern’, in: Osman Durrani, Colin Good, Kevin Hilliard (eds.), The New Germany. Literature and Society after Unification. Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1995, 321-336.
- Werner Riegel and Finismus. Between Commitment and Retreat’, German Life and Letters, 4, 1993, 368-384.
