PD Dr. Gero Bauer

Victorianism, Modernism, 21st-century anglophone literature, film and series, gender and queer studies, ecocriticism, new materialism, post-/decolonial studies, literary and cultural history

• since 2022: Associate Professor of English, University of Tübingen
• since 2017: Managing Director of the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, University of Tübingen
• 2026: Shortlisted ('Zweiter Listenplatz') for the position of Professor of English Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Freiburg
• 2024: Shortlisted ('Zweiter Listenplatz') for the position of Professor of English Cultural Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin
• 2023-2024: Interim Professor of English, University of Dortmund
• 2022: Habilitation at the University of Tübingen; 'venia legendi' for English Literature and Cultural Studies
• 2021: Visiting Professor at the Department of English and Scholar in Residence at the Honors College, University of Maryland, College Park
• 2012-2021: Lecturer at the English Department, University of Tübingen
• 2017-2020: Academic Coordinator of the research training group "The Persistence of Gender Binaries"
• 2014-2017: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, University of Tübingen
• 2014-2015: Visiting Researcher at the Department of English, King's College London
• 2015: Doctoral Award of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tübingen
• 2014: Dr. phil. at the University of Tübingen under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hotz-Davies (University of Tübingen) and Prof. Mark Turner (King's College London); summa cum laude
• 2012-2014: Doctoral Scholar of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
• 2013: Visiting Researcher at the English Faculty, University of Cambridge
• 2010-2012: Freelancer at theatres and archives in Stuttgart, London, and Tübingen
• 2010: Scholar of the EU Leonardo da Vinci Programme
• 2008-2009: Scholar of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
• 2008-2009: Research Assistant at the Institut für Geschichtliche Landeskunde und Historische Hilfswissenschaften and the English Department, University of Tübingen
• 2006-2009: Degree (Staatsexamen) in English and History, University of Tübingen

Monographs

• Hope and Kinship in Contemporary Fiction: Moods and Modes of Temporality and Belonging. New York et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. Publisher's Website
• Houses, Secrets, and the Closet: Locating Masculinities from the Gothic Novel to Henry James. Bielefeld: transcript, 2016. Publisher's Website

Edited Volumes

• Ed. with Ingrid Hotz-Davies and Marion Müller. Open Cultural Studies (Special Issue "Writing Across Differences"). [forthcoming]
• Ed. with Nicole Hirschfelder and Fernando Resende. Un-Mapping the Global South. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2024. Publisher's Website
• Ed. with Maria Kechaja, Sebastian Engelmann and Lean Haug. Diskriminierung und Antidiskriminierung: Beiträge aus Wissenschaft und Praxis. Bielefeld: transcript, 2021. Publisher's Website
• Ed. with Anya Heise-von der Lippe, Nicole Hirschfelder and Katharina Luther. Kinship and Collective Action in Literature and Culture. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2020. Publisher's Website
• Ed. with Regina Ammicht Quinn and Ingrid Hotz-Davies. Die Naturalisierung des Geschlechts: Zur Beharrlichkeit der Zweigeschlechtlichkeit. Bielefeld: transcript, 2018. Publisher's Website

Articles in Journals and Edited Volumes

• "Das Unbehagen mit dem Geschlecht oder: Wer hat Angst vor 'Gender'?" Frauen an der Universität Tübingen. Ed. Tjark Wegner. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2026. 269-293. [forthcoming]
• "Das instabile 'Ich': Queeres Erzählen - Autosoziales Lesen." Gender und Queer Studies. Ed. Maria Irod, Maria Pober. Wien: Praesens, 2026. [forthcoming]
• "Of Hair and Wallpaper: Economies of Texture and Taste in Victorian Literature and Culture." Textures in Nineteenth-Century Material and Literary Cultures. Ed. Ariane de Waal, Anja Hartl. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. [forthcoming]
• "Queer Temporality and Ideological Closure in André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name and Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles." Untimely Encounters: Queer Temporalities and the Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Ed. Quintus Immisch, Saskia Schomber. Leiden und Boston: Brill. [forthcoming]
• "Reading for Connection: Fictional Reading Communities in Contemporary Mulitmodal Metafiction." Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik (AAA) 50.1 (2025; special issue "Social Reading: Configurations in Eighteenth-Century and Contemporary Literary Cultures", Ed. Dorothee Birke, Helga Schwalm): 59-76.
• "Moral Matters: Power, Coloniality and Narrative in Hanya Yanagihara's The People in the Trees." Literary Materialisations and Interferential Reading: Making Matter Matter on Page, Stage, and Screen. Ed. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Martin Middeke, Christoph Reinfandt. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2025. 67-78.
• "Open Borders - Open Wounds: The Ambivalence of Pain and Narration in Salvador Plascencia's The People of Paper." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 72.4 (2024): 391-405.
• "Who May Speak on Whose Behalf: Queer Representation in India." Un-Mapping the Global South. Ed. Gero Bauer, Nicole Hirschfelder, Fernando Resende. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2024. 116-133.
• with Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Inken Köhler, Ruth Scoralick, and Susanne Weitbrecht. "Von der Frauenbeauftragten zum Forschungszentrum: Gleichstellungspolitik, Geschlechter- und Diversitätsforschung an der Universität Tübingen." Queer durch Tübingen: Geschichten vom Leben, Lieben und Kämpfen. Ed. Evamarie Blattner, Wiebke Ratzeburg, Udo Rauch. Exhibition Catalogue. Tübingen: Universitätsstadt Tübingen. Fachbereich Kunst und Kultur, 2021. 298-303.
• with Sebastian Engelmann. "Politische Hochschuldidaktik, Queer Theory und Antidiskriminierungspraxis: Eingreifende Bemerkungen." Diskriminierung und Antidiskriminierung: Beiträge aus Wissenschaft und Praxis. Ed. Gero Bauer, Maria Kechaja, Sebastian Engelmann, Lean Haug. Bielefeld: transcript, 2021. 111-127.
• "Visão glocal – mirada colonizadora: Territorialidade, corpos e afetos em Sense8." Modos de ser sul: Territorialidades, afetos e poderes. Ed. Fernando Resende, Roberto Robalinho, Diego Amaral. Rio de Janeiro: E-papers, 2020. 279-298.
• with Anya Heise-von der Lippe, Nicole Hirschfelder, and Katharina Luther. "Kinship and Collective Action: A Conversation." Kinship and Collective Action in Literature and Culture. Ed. Gero Bauer, Anya Heise-von der Lippe, Nicole Hirschfelder, Katharina Luther. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2020. 271-286.
• with Sebastian Engelmann. "Queer(ed) Pedagogies: A Critical Perspective." Zeitschrift für Pädagogik und Theologie (ZPT) 72.1 (2020): 18-29.
• "Queere Identität und Ökonomie in den Filmen Xavier Dolans." Vom Liebespfand zur Singlebörse: Über die ökonomische Rhetorik der Liebe. Ed. Inga Baumann, Slaven Waelti. Berlin and Münster: LIT, 2019. 255-279.
• "Hope and Kinship in AMC's "The Walking Dead"." Ethik in Serie: Eine Festschrift zu Ehren von Uta Müller. Ed. Cordula Brand, Simon Meisch. Tübingen: Tübingen Library Publishing, 2018. 121-132.
• "Die (De-)Naturalisierung von Homophobie." Die Naturalisierung des Geschlechts: Zur Beharrlichkeit der Zweigeschlechtlichkeit. Ed. Gero Bauer, Regina Ammicht Quinn, Ingrid Hotz-Davies. Bielefeld: transcript, 2018. 135-151.
• "The Dreadfulest and Most Universal Judgement: Natural Philosophy, Morals, and Politics in Daniel Defoe's Writings on the Great Storm of 1703." Extremwetter: Konstellationen des Klimawandels in der Literatur der frühen Neuzeit. Ed. Simon Meisch, Stefan Hofer. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2018. 123-137.
• "'The odd and gory things in life': Roy Raz' Music Videos and Camp Aesthetics." The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics: Queer Economies of Dirt, Dust and Patina. Ed. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Georg Vogt, Franziska Bergmann. New York and London: Routledge, 2018. 41-55.
• "Paranoid Masculinity in a Woman's Mansion: Henry James' "The Aspern Papers"." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 65.1 (2017): 19-34.
• "Marriage, Sex, and Ethics in Ursula K. Le Guin's "Unchosen Love" and "Mountain Ways"." Ethik in den Kulturen - Kulturen in der Ethik: Eine Festschrift für Regina Ammicht Quinn. Ed. Cordula Brand, Jessica Heesen, Birgit Kröber, Thomas Potthast. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2017. 213-220.
• "'The Wisdom of God': Das Erdbeben von Jamaika 1692 im Kontext von John Rays Physikotheologie." Von Amtsgärten und Vogelkojen: Beiträge zum Göttinger Umwelthistorischen Kolloquium 2011-2012. Ed. Manfred Jakubowski-Tiessen. Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2014. 1-25.

Reviews

• "Allan Hepburn (ed.). Friendship and the Novel." Anglia: Journal of English Philology 143.3 (2025): 620-624.
• "Heike Hartung / Roberta Maierhofer / Christian Schmitt-Kilb (eds.). Masculinities Ageing Between Cultures: Relationality, Kinship and Care in Dialogue." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 35.3 (2024): 207-210.
• "María J. Lopez / Pilar Villar-Argáis (eds.). Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 70.1 (2022): 115-117.
• "Doris Feldmann / Christian Krug (eds.). Viktorianismus: Eine literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Einführung." Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik (AAA) 39.1 (2014): 89-92.

Other Publications

• "5 Fragen - 5 Antworten." Interview. allmende: Zeitschrift für Literatur 114 (2024): 30-36.
• "Gewalt und Begehren." Edward II. Programme. Tübingen: Zimmertheater Tübingen, 2016.
• Strafgericht Gottes oder Teil der Ordnung? Frühneuzeitliche Erdbebenliteratur im Kontext der physikotheologischen Bewegung des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Tübingen: Zulassungsarbeit, 2009.