Monograph
Landschaft und Territorium: Amerikanische Literatur, Expansion und die Krise der Nation, 1784-1866 (Landscape and Territory: American Literature, Expansion, and National Crisis, 1784-1866). Paderborn: Fink, 2014.
Reviewed in Amerikastudien / American Studies 61:1 (2016), Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 64:2 (2016): 235-238.
Articles
“Causation.” In Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, edited by Robert Spoo and Simon Stern. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, (submitted).
“Poetry at War: Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Stephen Crane.” In Handbook of American Poetry, edited by Sabine Sielke. Berlin: De Gruyter (forthcoming).
“‘Oracles of the Law’: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s Legal Futurism.” Law and Literature (2023).
“‘Shedding a Little Ink’: Melville’s Victorian War Poetry.” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, 21:3 (2019): 115-132.
“Settler Colonial Statistics: Jefferson, Biopolitics, and Notes on the State of Virginia.“ Early American Literature 54:1 (2019): 69-96.
“‘The Spectre of Uncertainty:’ Chance in Bellamy’s Utopian Fictions.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 60:4 (2015): 417-434.
“Melville’s Battle-Pieces and the Environments of War.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 60:4 (2014): 495-532.
“Die Politik des Perfektionismus” (“The Politics of Perfectionism”). In Happy Days: Lebenswissen nach Cavell, edited by Kathrin Thiele and Katrin Trüstedt. Paderborn: Fink, 2009: 187-191
“Helen Levitt: 10 Photographs.” PhiN: Philologie im Netz 25 (2003): 1-30. <http://www.fu-berlin.de/phin/phin25/p25t1.htm>
Reviews
Justice in a New World: Negotiating Legal Intelligibility in British, Iberian, and Indigenous America, edited by Brian P. Owensby and Richard J. Ross . ALH Online Review 30:1 (2022)
Beyond the Civil War Hospital: The Rhetoric of Healing and Democratization in Northern Reconstruction Writing, 1861–1882, by Kirsten Twelbeck. Anglia: Journal of English Philology 138:1 (2020)
Enemies of All Humankind: Fictions of Legitimate Violence, by Sonja Schilling. ZAA/Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 67:2 (2019)
Surveyors of Customs: American Literature as Cultural Analysis, by Joel Pfister. Amerikastudien/American Studies 63:1 (2018)
American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production 1500 – 1900, edited by Martin Brückner and Hsuan L. Hsu. Amerikastudien/American Studies 55:1 (2010): 165-167.
Translations
Martin Harries. “Das Ende einer Trope der Welt” (“The End of Trope for the World”). In Theatrum Mundi: Die Metapher des Welttheaters von Shakespeare bis Beckett, edited by Björn Quiring. Berlin: August Verlag, 2012: 61-87.
Andreas Höfele. “Porträts der Hydra: Das Theater und die vielköpfige Menge” (“Portraits of Hydra: Theatre and the Many-headed Multitude”). In Theatrum Mundi: Die Metapher des Welttheaters von Shakespeare bis Beckett, edited by Björn Quiring. Berlin: August Verlag, 2012: 191-217.