Summer Semester 2026

• S: Introduction to Literary Studies
• S: Performing America: Race, Gender, and Politics in Recent U.S. Plays (Post-Civil War)

Winter Semester 2025/2026

• S: Introduction to Literary Studies
• S: Reclaiming the Narrative: Contemporary Indigenous Storytelling in North America

Summer Semester 2025

• S: 19th-Century Politics in and through Literary Writing (Pre- and Post-Civil War)
• S: Beyond the Mask: African-American Theater (Post-Civil War)

Books

• Ed. with Oliver Scheiding, and Jan Stievermann. Simplify, simplify! Brevity, Plainness and Their Complications in American Literature and Culture: Festschrift for Bernd Engler on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Beiträge zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur, vol. 37, Schöningh, 2019.
• Kulturelle Leitfiguren: Figurationen und Refigurationen. Eds. Bernd Engler, and Isabell Klaiber. Schriften zur Literaturwissenschaft, vol. 30. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2007.
• Gender und Genie: Künstlerkonzeptionen in der amerikanischen Erzählliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Mosaic: Studien und Texte zur amerikanischen Kultur und Geschichte, vol. 22. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2004.

Articles & Essays

• “A Meeting of Minds: Narrative Co-Construction in Collaborative Literary Fiction.” Narrative Co-Construction: Author-Audience Interactions and Their Contexts, ed. by Margarida McMurray, Malcah Effron, and Virginia Pignagnoli, Theory and Interpretation of Narrative Series, Ohio University Press (forthcoming).
• "The Material Conditions and Impacts of the Narrative Dynamics in Collaborative Narrative Literature." The Materiality of Narrative Dynamics. Ed. by Evan Van Tassell and Stefan Iversen, Narratologia, vol. 94, De Gruyter, 2025, pp. 31-54.
• “Collaborative Fiction Writing Off- and Online: Toward a Genealogy.” Routledge Companion to Literary Media, ed. by Astrid Ensslin, Julia Round, and Bronwen Thomas, London: Routledge, 2023, pp. 221-232.
• "Joking Her Way into Suffrage: Irony in Alice Duer Miller’s ‘Are Women People?’” Simplify, simplify! Brevity, Plainness and Their Complications in American Literature and Culture: Festschrift for Bernd Engler on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. Ed. Isabell Klaiber, Oliver Scheiding, and Jan Stievermann. Beiträge zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur, vol. 37, Schöningh, 2019, pp. 85-102.
• “Wreading Together: The Double Plot of Collaborative Digital Fiction.”Analyzing Digital Fiction. Ed. Alice Bell, Astrid Ensslin, and Hans Kristian Rustad. London: Routledge, 2014. 124-40.
• “Feminine Intellectuals in 19th-Century Domestic Fiction.” Intellectual Authority and Literary Culture in the US, 1790-1900. Ed. Günter Leypoldt. American Studies Monograph Series vol. 242. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. 185-204.
• “Multiple Implied Authors: How Many Can a Single Text Have?” Style 45.1 (Spring 2011), Implied Author: Back from the Grave or Simply Dead Again? Ed. Brian Richardson: 146-60.
• “Making Black Icons: Pauline E. Hopkins' 'Famous Men of the Negro Race.'” American Cultural Icons: The Production of Representative Lives. Ed. Günter Leypoldt, and Bernd Engler, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neuhaus, 2010. 171-92.
• “Women's Roles in American Society: Difference, Separateness, and Equality.” Key Concepts in American Cultural History: A Study Guide. Eds. Bernd Engler, and Oliver Scheiding. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2009. 303-30.
• (with Bernd Engler) "Kulturelle Leitfiguren: Prozesse und Strategien ihrer Funktionalisierung." Kulturelle Leitfiguren: Figurationen und Refigurationen. Eds. Bernd Engler, and Isabell Klaiber. Schriften zur Literaturwissenschaft, vol. 30. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2007, 9-27.
• “Fanny Fern: Konstruktion und Demontage einer 'True Woman'.” Kulturelle Leitfiguren: Figurationen und Refigurationen. Eds. Bernd Engler, and Isabell Klaiber. Schriften zur Literaturwissenschaft, vol. 30. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2007. 239-64.
• “Gender und Ethnizität in der amerikanischen Erzählliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts.” Ins Wort gesetzt, ins Bild gesetzt: Gender in Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur. Eds. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, and Schamma Schahadat. Bielefeld: transcript, 2007. 207-33.
• "Women's Roles in American Society" (introduction to section and selection of documents). Key Concepts in American Cultural History: From the Colonial Period to the End of the 19th Century. Eds. Bernd Engler, and Oliver Scheiding, 2nd ed. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2007. 475-77 (introduction), 478-551 (documents).
• “Erzählte Exilerfahrung - Hans Sahls Die Wenigen und die Vielen.” Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 46 (2005): 259-75.
• “'A Woman Could (Not) Do It' - Role Play as a Strategy of 'Feminine' Self-Empowerment in L.M. Alcott's 'Behind a Mask,' 'La Jeune,' and 'A Marble Woman.'” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 52 (2004): 213-30.

Reviews

• "Elizabeth J. West, African Spirituality in Black Women’s Fiction: Threaded Visions of Memory, Community, Nature and Being." Amerikastudien/American Studies 5.2 (2013): 308–309
• “Rachel Farebrother, The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance.” Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie 129.3-4 (2011): 548-550.
• Dietmar Schloss. Die tugendhafte Republik: Politische Ideologie und Literatur in der amerikanischen Gründerzeit. American Studies: A Monograph Series, vol. 103. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2003. In: Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 45 (2004): 370-74.