Publications

Books

• Fragile Poetics: Precarity and Literary Form in Early Wilhelmine Germany (State University of New York Press, contracted and forthcoming).

• Anders als die Andern, Queer Film Classics Series, eds. Jonathan Crago, Matthew Hays, and Thomas Waugh (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023).

  Reviewed in: Journal of Homosexuality (2024); German Studies Review (2024); CEU Review of Books (2024); The British Columbia Review of Books (2024); Filmblatt (2025); Monatshefte (2025); Feminist German Studies (2025); Seminar (2025); University of Toronto Quarterly (2025).

Edited Volumes

• Thinking with Lauren Berlant, edited volume with Hester Baer, Simone Pfleger, and Carrie Smith (University of Alberta Press, contracted and forthcoming).

• Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion, co-ed. with Alena E. Lyons (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021; paperback published in 2023).

  Reviewed in: Monatshefte (2024)

• Market Strategies and German Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century, co-ed. with Vance Byrd, Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies Series (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020).

  Reviewed in: German Studies Review 44.1 (2021); The German Quarterly 95.2 (2022); Goethe Yearbook 29 (2022)

• Diversity & Decolonization in German Studies, co-ed. with Regine Criser (New York: Palgrave, 2020).

  Reviewed in: German Studies Review 44.1 (2021); The German Quarterly 94.3 (2021); Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies (2022); Monatshefte (2022)

Special Issues of Scholarly Journals

• “Refuge and Displacement,” co-edited with Beverly Weber, Special Issue of English Language Notes (ELN), 63.1 (2025).

• “Queer Time and Contemporary German Cinema,” co-ed. with Kyle Frackman. Special Issue of The Germanic Review 97.4 (2022).  

• “Rupture, Slowness, Untimeliness: Queer Time and History in German Studies,” co-ed. with Kyle Frackman. Special Issue of Monatshefte 114.3 (2022).

Journal Articles

• “Divinatory Intimacy: Marianne Raschig’s Palmistry Guide and the Democratization of Film Knowledge Production in Weimar Film Print Culture” Modernism/modernity (forthcoming)

• “Burdened Solidarities Beyond the Impasse,” co-authored with Beverly Weber for English Language Notes 63.1 (2025): 1–10.

• “Stretch Marks on the Soul: Reanimating Solidarity Work in the Face of Its Structural Suppression,”Diacritics 52.1 (2025): 106–19.

• “Feeling Bad, Together: The Pedagogy of Unwellness in German Studies,” co-authored with Maggie Rosenau for Feminist German Studies 40.1 (2024): 15-29.

• “Courasche and the Queer Life of Objects,” Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik vol. 152 (2024): 55–73.

• “Queer Occultism,” Forum on Queer German Studies, The German Quarterly 97.2 (2024): 222–24.

• “Queer Time and the Cinematic Pleasures of the locus amoenus in Free Fall”GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 29.2 (2023): 237–260.

• “Introduction: Queer Time and Contemporary German Cinema,” with Kyle Frackman, The Germanic Review 97.4 (2022): 299–309.

• “Untimeliness and the Balkan Queer Diaspora in Dennis Todorović’s Saša,” The Germanic Review 97.4 (2022): 340–358.

• “Approaches to Queer Temporalities in German Studies,” with Kyle Frackman, Monatshefte 114.3 (2022): 353–62.

• “DDGC and Misfit Archives,” with Regine Criser, Seminar 57.3 (2021): 295–302.

• “A Comparative Analysis of Cultural Representations in Collegiate World Language Textbooks,” with Baburhan Uzum, Bedrettin Yazan, Samar Zahrawi, and Siham Bouamer, Linguistics and Education 61 (2021).

• “Announced but Not Enacted: Anti-Racist German Studies as Process,” with Andrea Dawn Bryant, Nichole M. Neuman, and David Gramling, Applied Linguistics 42.4 (2021): 347–54.

• “Advocating for Queer of Color Studies in German Graduate Programs,” with Priscilla Layne. Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German 52.2 (2019): 194–202.

• “Queer Derailment and Pederast Adoration in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Michael (1924),”German Quarterly 92.3 (2019): 311-327.

• “The Emotive Textualities of Wilhelm Jensen’s Karin von Schweden,”Neophilologus 102.1 (2018): 59–74.

• “Richard Oswald, Magnus Hirschfeld, and the Possible Impossibility of Hygienic Melodrama,” Studies in European Cinema 14.3 (2017): 216–30.

• “Teaching an Honors Seminar on #BlackLivesMatter in East Texas,” with Jeffery L. Littlejohn, Kimberly Bell, Patrick Lewis, and Julia May, Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council 18.2 (2017): 3–15.

Chapters

• “Soothing Aesthetics in Times of Crisis,” Thinking with Lauren Berlant, eds. Hester Baer, Ervin Malakaj, Simone Pfleger, and Carrie Smith (University of Alberta Press, forthcoming).

• “Introduction: Speculative Nodes, Relational Entanglements,” Thinking with Lauren Berlant, eds. Hester Baer, Ervin Malakaj, Simone Pfleger, and Carrie Smith (University of Alberta Press, forthcoming).

• “The Queer Potentiality of Ernst Tristan Kurtzahn’s Weimar Tarot,” Weimar Queer Visual Culture, eds. Birgit Lang, Ina Linge, and Katie Sutton (University of Toronto Press), 131-52. (forthcoming)

• “Managing Scandal: Richard Oswald’s Collaborations with Anita Berber,”A Viennese School in Berlin 1900-1933, ed. Elana Shapira (De Gruyter, 2026), 183-94.

• “On Debility in Helma Sanders-Brahms’s Die Berührte,” New German Cinema and its Global Contexts, eds. Marco Abel and Jaimey Fisher (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2024), 221-39.

• “An Inventory of Feeling: Ferdinand Karsch and the Matter of Frustration in Early Sexological Writing,” Taking Stock: Media Inventories in the German Nineteenth Century, eds. Sean Franzel, Ilinca Iurascu, and Petra McGillen (Berlin: de Gruyter), 95-104.

• “Bertha von Suttner’s Inventarium einer Seele and the Business of Inventorying Experience,” Taking Stock: Media Inventories in the German Nineteenth Century, eds. Sean Franzel, Ilinca Iurascu, and Petra McGillen (Berlin: de Gruyter), 267-74.

• “Die Suche nach einer iranisch-deutschen Queer-of-Color Filmform in Faraz Shariats Futur Drei,”Text/Körper. Ästhetiken und Praktiken literarischer (Un-)Sichtbarkeit, eds. Vanessa Höving and Lena Wetenkamp (Freiburg: Rombach, 2024), 155-75.

• “Aerial Aesthetics, Queer Intimacy, and the Politics of Repose in the Cinema of Nils Bökamp and Monika Treut,” At the End of Neoliberalism: The Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary German Film, eds. Claudia Breger and Olivia Landry (Rochester: Camden House, 2024), 202-18.

• “Resisting the Traps of Hegemony: Variation in Contemporary German Queer of Color Cinema,” with Priscilla Layne, Routledge Companion to European Cinema, ed. Gábor Gergely & Susan Hayward (New York: Routledge, 2022), 374-384.

• “Introduction: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Slapstick,” “Introduction: History of Slapstick,” “Introduction: Instruments of Slapstick,” “Introduction: Narrative Structures of Slapstick,” “Introduction: Bodies of Slapstick,” “Introduction: Politics of Slapstick,” with Alena Lyons. Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion, ed. Ervin Malakaj and Alena E. Lyons (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021).

• “Lubitsch’s Queer Slapstick Aesthetics,”Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion, ed. Ervin Malakaj and Alena E. Lyons (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021): 333-50.

• “Diversity Programming, Student Outreach, and the Politics of Visible Inclusivity for Small German Programs,”Outreach Strategies and Innovative Teaching for Small German Programs, ed. Gabi Eichmanns and Melissa Etzler (New York: Routledge, 2020), 64-74.  

• “Alfred Rosenthal’s Rhetoric of Collaboration and Weimar Film Print Culture,”Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Film, ed. Barbara Hales and Valerie Weinstein (New York: Berghahn Books, 2020): 111–31.

• “The State of Diversity and Decolonization in North American German Studies,”Transnational Education and German Studies, ed. Ben Nickl, Deane Blackler, and Stefan Popenici (New York: Springer, 2020): 85-101.

• “Introduction: Diversity and Decolonization in German Studies,”with Regine Criser, Diversity & Decolonization in German Studies, ed. Regine Criser and Ervin Malakaj (New York: Palgrave, 2020): 1-22.

• “Introduction: Market Strategies and German Literature in the Nineteenth Century,” with Vance Byrd, Market Strategies and German Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. Vance Byrd and Ervin Malakaj (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020): 1-22.

• “Carl Emil Franzos’s Deutsche Dichtung and the Politics of Painstaking Editorial Labor,”Market Strategies and German Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. Vance Byrd and Ervin Malakaj (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020): 171-93.

• “Senescence and Der Stechlin,”Fontane in the Twenty-First Century, ed. John Lyon and Brian Tucker (Rochester: Camden House, 2019): 232-47.

• “Cruel Optimism and Post-68 Nostalgia in Helma Sanders-Brahms’ Unter dem Pflaster ist der Strand,”Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968, ed. Christina Gerhardt and Marco Abel (Rochester: Camden House, 2019): 237-53.

Shorter Contributions or Entries

• “Communism, Europe,”Sage Encyclopedia of Refugee Studies, Volume 2, ed. Yến Lê Espiritu (Sage Publishing, 2025), 157-61.

• “Techno Romanticism and Early German Film”Cultural Critique 124 Summer (2024): 179-84.

• “Relational Models for Language Learning,” ADFL Bulletin 47.1 (2022): 30–32.

• “Germany: A Historical Overview,” “Doris Dörrie,” and “Jutta Brückner,”Women Screenwriters: An International Guide, ed. Jill Nelmes and Jule Selbo (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015): 363-74, 390-91, 394-96.

• “Wilhelm Raabe: Der Hungerpastor,”The Literary Encyclopedia. September 2014.

• “Wilhelm Raabe,”The Literary Encyclopedia. May 2014.

• “Hotel,” “Das Mädchen Rosemarie,” “Subjektitüde,” and “Die Trapp Familie.”Directory of World Cinema: Germany Volume II (Bristol: Intellect, 2014): 295-96, 224-26, 291-92, 222-24.

• “Hungerjahre – in einem reichen Land” and “Shirins Hochzeit.” Directory of World Cinema: Germany Volume I (Bristol: Intellect, 2011): 248-50, 153-55.

Selected Reviews

• “The Afterlives of Weimar Berlin: Twenty-First Century, Literature, Media, and Visual Culture, Jill Suzanne Smith.”The German Studies Review. 49.1 (2026): 183-84.

• “Different from the Others: German and Dutch Discourses of Queer Femininity and Female Desire, 1918–1940, Cyd Sturgess.”Seminar 61.1 (2025): 68-70.

• “Transverse Disciplines: Queer-Feminist, Anti-racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University, eds. Simone Pfleger and Carrie Smith.”The German Quarterly 97 (2024): 415-17.

• “Precarious Intimacies: The Politics of Touch in Contemporary Western European Cinema, Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber.” Seminar 58.3 (2022): 354–56.

• “Sex, Politics, and Comedy: The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch, Rick McCormick.”German Studies Review 44.1 (2021): 195-96.

• “German in the World: The Transnational and Global Contexts of German Studies, eds. James Hodkinson and Benedict Schofield,”Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur und Kulturwissenschaft 14 (2021): 173-75.

• “Autorschaft und Bibliothek: Sammlungsstrategien und Schreibverfahren. Stefan Höppner, et al., eds.” Monatshefte 112.3 (2020): 531-32.

• “Who Can Speak & Who is Heard/Hurt? Facing Problems of Race, Racism, & Ethnic Diversity in the Humanities in Germany, M. Arghavan et al., eds.”German Studies Review 43.2 (2020): 448-50.

• “The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction, Nora M. Alter.” Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature 43.2 (2019): Article 17.

• “The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907­-1933, Anton Kaes, Nicholas Baer, and Michael Cowan, eds.”Seminar 55.2 (2019): 193-94.

• “Anti*Colonial Fantasies: Decolonial Strategies, Imayna Caceres, Sunanda Mesquita, Sophie Utikal, eds.”H-Black-Europe, H-Net Reviews. April 2019.

• “Approaches to Kurban Said’s Ali und Nino: Love, Identity, and Intercultural Conflict, Carl Niekerk and Cori Crane, eds.”Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature 43.1 (2018): Article 9.

• “Archiv/Fiktionen: Verfahren des Archivierens in Literatur und Kultur des langen 19. Jahrhunderts. Daniela Gretz & Nicolas Pethes.”Goethe Yearbook 23 (2018): 322-23.

• “Afterlives: Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Germany. Steve Choe.” Studies in European Cinema 17 (2020): 269–271. (published online first in 2017)

• “Realism and Romanticism in German Literature. Ed. Dirk Göttsche and Nicholas Saul.”Monatshefte 107.3 (2015): 504-06.

Public-Facing Publications

• “Writing Oneself into History: Queer, Bosnian, Muslim, and Foreign,” Podcast Interview, Diasporas Speaking, July 27, 2025.

• “Between Cine-anthropology and Distraction: Revisiting Béla Balázs’s Visible Man at 100,” co-authored with Paul Dobryden, Senses of Cinema, Issue 111, November, 2024.

• “Research and Teaching Dossier on Anders als die Andern,” with Shoshana Schwebel, WeimarCinema.org. September 20, 2024.

• “Anders als die Andern,” New Books Network Podcast. December 11, 2023.

• “Cozy Methodologies and Queer German Studies,” The New Fascism Syllabus. November 16, 2023.

• "The Enduring Appeal of a Century-Old German Film about Queer Love,” The Conversation. September 27, 2023.

• “It’s Hard to Love Your Literary Studies,”Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach | blog. April 28, 2022.

• “What Can We Learn from Slapstick Comedy?,” with Alena E. Lyons, de Gruyter Conversations. April 26, 2022.

• “Historical Injury and Multidirectional Solidarity in Times of Crisis,”The New Fascism Syllabus. March 6, 2022.

• “The Long Century’s Long Shadow: Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern by Kenneth S. Calhoon,”EuropeNow Journal. Issue 45, 9 November, 2021.

• “Glacial Innovation,”Re-Imagining the Discipline: German Studies, the Humanities, and the University. Proceedings for conference held at Cornell University’s Institute for German Cultural Studies, 2020.

• “Diskussion um das queere Kulturhaus in Berlin: Eine queere Institution, die Transfeindlichkeit unterstützt, ist nichts wert,”Der Tagesspiegel. 2 March, 2020. With Jennifer Evans, Anna Hájkova, Sabine Hark, Iris Rachamimov, Laurie Marhoefer, and Katie Sutton.

• “Peter Handke Nobel Prize controversy: Literature Can’t be Judged on Esthetics Alone,” The Conversation. 27 January, 2020.

• “A New Language-Teaching Narrative for a 21st-Century Democracy,”Academe Blog: The Blog of Academe Magazine. September 23, 2019. With Yuliya Komska, David Gramling, Roberto Rey Agudo, and Alberto Bruzos Moro.