Research

Research topics

Transformations of Subjectivity in Contemporary Culture (f.ex.. Quantified Self)
American 'Knowledge Cultures' and Theories (esp.
Transcendentalism, Pragmatism, Complexity and Network Theory)
Posthumanism
Transnational American Studies
Critical Race Studies
Post/Individuality American Culture in a Global Context
The Cultural History of Failure
Ecocriticism
Literature, Music, Knowledge

Projects

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Quantified Self (A III)

Probing the Limits of the Quantified Self

Benz, S. (2018). “Sing[ing] of the middle way:" Michael McClure’s venture for a new mode of thought between natural science and mysticism. Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies : COPAS, 19, 1-24.
Benz, S. (2018). The new materialist ethics of Michael McClure. Antennae : The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, 46, 5-16.
Motyl, K. and Arghavan, M. (2018). Writing against neocolonial necropolitics: literary responses by Iraqi/Arab writers to the US ‘War on Terror’. European Journal of English studies : EJES, 22, 128-141.
Reichardt, U. (2018). Self-observation in the digital age: The quantified self, neoliberalism, and the paradoxes of contemporary individualism. Amerikastudien : AmST, 63, 99-117.
Dorson, J. and Schober, R. (2017). Introduction. Studies in American naturalism, 12, 1-8.
Reichardt, U. (2017). Counting success and measuring value: money, numbers and abstraction in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie. Studies in American Naturalism, 12, 89-104.
Reichardt, U. (2017). Theories of the global, global literature, and American literature in a globalizing age. Review of international American studies : RIAS, 10, 35-53.
Schober, R. (2017). “A problem in small boat navigation”: Ocean metaphors and emerging data epistemology in Stephen Crane's “The Open Boat” and Jack London's “The Heathen”. Studies in American Naturalism, 12, 70-88.
Schober, R. (2017). Between nostalgic resistance and critical appropriation : contemporary fiction on/of the information age and the potentials of (post)humanist narrative. Amerikastudien : AmST, 61, 359-379.
Steinhilber, D. (2017). The perils of self-consciousness : Heinrich von Kleist's 'Über das Marionettentheater' in David Forster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Critique : Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 58, 548-557.
Strätz, J. (2017). The ordeal of labor and the birth of robot fiction. Amerikastudien : AmST, 62, 633-648.
Strätz, J. (2017). The struggle of being alive : laboring bodies in Paolo Bacigalupi's The windup girl. Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies : COPAS, 18, 1-21.
Danter, S. (2016). Posthumane Autonomie: Natur- und Kulturgewalt im Naturalismus und Stephen Cranes 'The Red Badge of Courage'. Philologie im Netz : PhiN / Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Romanische Philologie, Beih., 42-60.
Danter, S., Reichardt, U. and Schober, R. (2016). Theorizing the quantified self : self-knowledge and posthumanist agency in contemporary US-American literature. Digital Culture & Society, 2, 53-70.
Fehrle, J. (2016). “Zombies don't recognize borders” : capitalism, ecology, and mobility in the zombie outbreak narrative. Amerikastudien : AmST, 61, 527-544.
Fehrle, J. (2016). Giocando con il Cuore di tenebra : adattare Conrad/Coppola. Acoma : rivista internazionale di studi nordamericani, 23, 218-235.
Grewe-Volpp, C. (2016). Einleitung. Philologie im Netz : PhiN / Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Romanische Philologie. Beiheft, 10, 1-8.
Grewe-Volpp, C. (2016). Making love to whale and bear : human-animal relationships in Zakes Mda's The whale caller and Marian Engel's Bear. Anglistik : International Journal of English Studies, 27, 71-83.
Koschorreck, M. (2016). Analyzing the network oft traumas in Colum McCann's Let the great world spin. Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies : COPAS, 17, 1-21.
Schober, R. (2016). Between nostalgic resistance and critical appropriation : Contemporary American fiction on/of the information age and the potentials of (post)humanist narrative. Amerikastudien : AmST, 61, 359-357.
Fehrle, J. (2015). And I would call it “A Southern” : renewing/obscuring the Blaxploitation Western. Safundi : the journal of South African and American studies, 16, 291-306.
Fehrle, J. (2015). Gaming into the Heart of Darkness : adapting Conrad/Coppola. South Atlantic review : SAR, 80, 234-253.
Fehrle, J. (2015). Leading into the franchise : remediation as (simulated) transmedia world ; the case of Scott Pilgrim. Image : Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft, 21, 4-16.
Reichardt, U. (2015). The network as a category in cultural studies and as a model for conceptualizing America. Amerikastudien : AmST, 60, 17-35.
Reichardt, U., Schäfer, H. and Schober, R. (2015). Introduction: Network theory and American studies. Amerikastudien : AmST, 60, 11-15.
Schober, R. (2015). America as network : Notions of interconnectedness in American transcendentalism and pragmatism. Amerikastudien : AmST, 60, 97-119.
Reichardt, U. (2014). “Wir müssen global denken”. Forum : das Magazin der Universität Mannheim, 2014, 14-15.
Schober, R. (2014). The world wide sea : oceanic metaphors, concepts of knowledge, and transnational America in the Information Age. Review of international American studies : RIAS, 7, 9-34.
Schober, R. (2014). Transcending boundaries : the network concept in nineteenth-century American philosophy and literature. American Literature, 86, 493-521.
Schober, R. (2012). “It’s about being connected”: Reframing the network in Colum McCann’s post 9/11 novel Let the Great World Spin. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik : ZAA, 60, 391-402.
Grewe-Volpp, C. (2010). Greening across borders – introduction. Ecozon@ : European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, 1, 1-7.
Grewe-Volpp, C. (2009). Lifeshaping a New Planet. Tamkang Review, 39, 27-38.
Grewe-Volpp, C. (2002). The Ecological Indian vs. the Spiritually Dead White Man: The Function of Ethnocentric Notions in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms. Amerikastudien : AmST, 47, 269-283.
Reichardt, U. (2002). “Contract, Transgression, and Public Confession in American Culture from Puritanism to the Present, with a Look at Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and its Most Recent Film Version”. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik : ZAA ; A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture, 49, 317 - 330.
Reichardt, U. (2000). Time and the African American Experience: The Problem of Chronocentrism. Amerikastudien : AmST, 45, 465-484.

Reichardt, U. and Schober, R. (eds.) (2020). Laboring bodies and the quantified self. Bielefeld: transcript.
Arghavan, M., Hirschfelder, N., Kopp, L. and Motyl, K. (eds.) (2019). Who can speak and who is heard/hurt? : facing problems of 'race', racism and ethnic diversity in the humanities in Germany. Bielefeld: transcript.
Schober, R. and Motyl, K. (eds.) (2017). The failed individual : amid exclusion, resistance, and the pleasure of non-conformity. Frankfurt a. M. ; New York: Campus Verlag.
Fluck, W., Motyl, K., Pease, D. E. and Raetzsch, C. (eds.) (2011). States of emergency - states of crisis : [International Graduate Conference “States of Emergency: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Dynamics of Crisis” ... Berlin in June 2010]. Tübingen: Narr.
Schober, R. (2011). Unexpected Chords : Musico-Poetic Intermediality in Amy Lowell’s Poetry and Poetics. Heidelberg: Winter.
Reichardt, U. (2010). Globalisierung : Literaturen und Kulturen des Globalen. Berlin: Akad.-Verl.
Raussert, W. and Jones, J. M. (eds.) (2008). Traveling sounds : music, migration, and identity in the U.S. and beyond. Münster: LIT.
Devine, M. and Grewe-Volpp, C. (2008). Words on Water: Literary and Cultural Representations. Trier: Wiss. Verl.-Ges.
Reichardt, U. (2008). Die Vermessung der Globalisierung : Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Heidelberg: Winter.
Grewe-Volpp, C. and Reinhart, W. (eds.) (2003). Erlesenes Essen : literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Beiträge zu Hunger, Sattheit und Genuss; für Ulrich Halfmann. Tübingen: Narr.
Kley, A. (2001). “Das erlesene Selbst” in der autobiographischen Schrift : zu Politik und Poetik der Selbstreflexion bei Roth, Delany, Lorde und Kingston. Tübingen: Narr.
Reichardt, U. (2001). Alterität und Geschichte : Funktionen der Sklavereidarstellung im amerikanischen Roman. Heidelberg: Winter.
Reinhart, W. (2001). Pikareske Romane der 80er Jahre : Ronald Reagan und die Renaissance des politischen Erzählens in den USA (Acker, Auster, Boyle, Irving, Kennedy, Pynchon). Tübingen: Narr.
Braß, C. and Kley, A. (1997). “Will the Parts Hold?” : Erinnerung und Identität in Toni Morrisons Romanen Beloved und Jazz ; zwei Thesen. Tübingen: Narr.
Reinhart, W. (1997). Literarischer Wahn : Studien zum Irrsinnsmotiv in der amerikanischen Erzählliteratur, 1821-1850. Tübingen: Narr.

Arghavan, M., Hirschfelder, N. and Motyl, K. (2019). Who can speak and who is heard/hurt? Facing problems of 'race', racism and ethnic diversity in the humanities in Germany: A survey of the issues at stake. In Who can speak and who is heard/hurt? : facing problems of 'race', racism and ethnic diversity in the humanities in Germany (S. 9-42). Bielefeld: transcript.
Schober, R. (2019). Adaptation as connection: A network theoretical approach to convergence, participation, and co-production. In Adaptation in the age of media convergence (S. 31-54). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Schober, R. (2019). The books that count: Big data versus narrative in Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Joshua Cohen's Book of Numbers. In The printed book in contemporary American culture : medium, object, metaphor (S. 31-51). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Reichardt, U. (2018). Sklaverei, Freiheit und Eigentum: Zur Auseinandersetzung über die Sklaverei in der US-amerikanischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts. In Sklaverei und Recht: Zwischen römischer Antike und moderner Welt : Referate des interdisziplinären Münchenwiler Seminars des Collegium generale der Universität Bern im Frühjahrssemester 2016 (S. 157-169). Bern: Haupt Verlag.
Schober, R. (2018). Transcendentalism. In Walt Whitman in context (S. 189-197). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fehrle, J. (2017). Destined to fail : cosmetic surgery, female body image, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The birth-mark”. In The failed individual : amid exclusion, resistance, and the pleasure of non-conformity (S. 99-118). Frankfurt ; New York: Campus-Verlag.
Hamscha, S., Motyl, K. and Schober, R. (2017). Introduction: The failed individual. In The failed individual : amid exclusion, resistance, and the pleasure of non-conformity (S. 11-27). Berlin ; New York: Campus Verlag.
Motyl, K. (2017). Failed by the criminal justice system: The hyperincarceration of the black urban poor in the ‘War on Drugs’. In The failed individual : amid exclusion, resistance, and the pleasure of non-conformity (S. 163-186). Frankfurt a. M.: Campus.
Motyl, K. (2017). Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952). In Handbook of the American novel of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (S. 278-293). Berlin: De Gruyter.
Reichardt, U. (2017). Wall Street and representations of masculinity in contemporary American film and fiction. In Contemporary masculinities in the UK and the US : between bodies and systems (S. 219-232). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
Schober, R. (2017). Failure blogs and the confessional self. In The failed individual : amid exclusion, resistance, and the pleasure of non-conformity (S. 375-392). Frankfurt ; New York: Campus Verlag.
Grewe-Volpp, C. (2016). Ecofeminisms, the toxic body, and Linda Hogan's 'Power'. In Handbook of ecocriticism and cultural ecology (S. 208-225). Berlin: De Gruyter.
Motyl, K. (2016). Der War on Drugs, die Hyperinhaftierung sozial schwacher Afroamerikaner und Perspektiven der Strafrechtsreform. In Von Selma bis Ferguson - Rasse und Rassismus in den USA (S. 191-213). Bielefeld: transcript.
Fehrle, J. (2015). (Re)making men in the 1950s and 2000s : Delmer Daves's and James Mangold's 3:10 to Yuma. In Remakes and remaking : concepts - media - practices (S. 57-78). Bielefeld: transcript.
Grewe-Volpp, C. (2015). Ökofeminismus und Material Turn. In Ecocriticism : eine Einführung (S. 44-56). Köln ; Weimar ; Wien: Böhlau.
Reichardt, U. (2015). Individualismus und kollektive Formen in globalen Medienwelten. In Total - Universalismus und Partikularismus in post_kolonialer Medientheorie (S. 315-328). Bielefeld: transcript.
Reichardt, U. (2015). New formal languages : Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery. In A history of American poetry : contexts - developments - readings (S. 327-340). Trier: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
Grewe-Volpp, C. (2014). The machine in the indigenous garden : Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the dunes. In Rereading the machine in the garden : nature and technology in American culture (S. 148-166). Frankfurt a. M. [u.a.]: Campus Verlag.
Reichardt, U. (2014). American studies and globalization. In American studies today : new research agendas (S. 441-458). Heidelberg: Winter.
Grewe-Volpp, C. (2013). “It's one hell of a mess in here” : masculinity, the myth of the frontier, and the renunciation of the mother in Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman, David Mamet's American buffalo, and Sam Shepard's True west. In Post-World War II masculinities in British and American literature and culture (S. 129-142). Farnham [u.a.]: Ashgate.
Grewe-Volpp, C. (2013). Keep moving : place and gender in a post-apocalyptic environment. In International perspectives in feminist ecocriticism (S. 221-234). New York, NY [u.a.]: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Schober, R. (2013). Adaptation as connection: Transmediality reconsidered. In Adaptation studies : new challenges, new directions (S. 89-112). London [u.a.]: Bloomsbury.
Grewe-Volpp, C. (2012). No environmental justice without social justice : a green postcolonialist reading of Paule Marshall's The chosen place, the timeless people. In Literature, ecology, ethics : recent trends in ecocriticism (S. 227-237). Heidelberg: Winter.
Schober, R. (2012). Musik als Experiment : transmediale Verhandlungen in Amy Lowells imagistischer Lyrik. In Experimente in den Künsten : transmediale Erkundungen in Literatur, Theater, Film, Musik und bildender Kunst (S. 305-334). Bielefeld: transcript.
Schäfer, H. (2012). The pursuit of happiness 2.0 : consumer genomics, social media, and the promise of literary innovation in Richard Powers' novel Generosity: an enhancement. In Ideas of order : narrative patterns in the novels of Richard Powers (S. 263-284). Heidelberg: Winter.
Grewe-Volpp, C. (2011). “I hanker for greens:" Gender, Class, and Urban Natural Spaces in Tillie Olson's “Yonnondio”. In Umweltphilosophie und Landschaftsdenken im baltischen Kulturraum = Environmental philosophy and landscape thinking (S. 336-347). Tallinn: Underi ja Tuglase Kirjanduskeskus.
Schäfer, H. (2011). The Cinema and Modernist Innovation: Serial Representation and Cinematic Immediacy Effects in Gertrude Stein’s Early Portraits. In The Visual Culture of Modernism (S. 169-183). Tübingen: Narr.
Gernalzick, N. (2010). 'Iconizing': Madonna Ciccone and performance art. In American cultural icons : the production of representative lives (S. 209-230). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.
Schober, R. (2010). Das Konzept der Groteske bei Amy Lowell und Igor Strawinsky - Möglichkeiten einer intermedialen Literaturdidaktik im Fremdsprachenunterricht. In Der Einsatz von Musik und die Entwicklung von audio literacy im Fremdsprachenunterricht (S. 191-201). Frankfurt a. M. [u.a.]: Lang.
Schober, R. (2010). Translating Sounds: Intermedial Exchanges in Amy Lowell's 'Stravinsky's Three Pieces “Grotesques” for String Quartet'. In Media borders, multimodality and intermediality (S. 163-174). Basingstoke [u.a.]: Palgrave MacMillan.
Grewe-Volpp, C. (2008). Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections. In Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture ; Bd. 2: Novels ; Part 1 (S. 207-225). Trier: Wiss. Verl.-Ges.
Jones, J. (2008). Preface: The new Beale Street Blues. In Traveling sounds : music, migration, and identity in the U.S. and beyond (S. 7-8). Münster: LIT.
Reichardt, U. (2008). African American/Caribbean Sounding Strategies and Cultural Globalization. In Traveling Sounds : Music, Migration, and Identity in the U.S. and Beyond (S. 61-74). Münster: LIT.
Reichardt, U. (2008). Europäische und amerikanische Dimensionen der Globalisierung in Europa. In Europa - Erzählen : zu Politik, Geschichte und Literatur eines Kontinents (S. 133-148). St. Ingbert: Röhrig.
Reichardt, U. (2008). Globalisierung, Mondialisierung und die Poetik des Globalen. In Die Vermessung der Globalisierung : Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven (S. 1-48). Heidelberg: Winter.
Reichardt, U. (2008). Globalisierung, amerikanische (populäre) Musik und das Versprechen von Freiheit; Cage, Madonna, Rap. In Globaler Gesang vom Garten der Freiheit : anglo-amerikanische Populärmusik und ihre Bedeutung für die US-Außenpolitik (S. 103-116). Trier: WVT Wiss. Verl.
Reichardt, U. (2008). Traumatic History in Black and White: William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. In Trauma et Texte (S. 123-132). Frankfurt a.M. [u.a.]: Lang.
Grewe-Volpp, C. (2003). “Octavia Butler and the Nature-Culture Divide : An Ecofeminist Approach to the Xenogenesis-Trilogy”. Restoring the Connection to the Natural World: Essays on the African American Environmental Imagination.. In FORECAAST 10 (S. 149-173). Münster: LIT Verlag.
Grewe-Volpp, C. (2003). 'There is no death that is not somebody's food' : Vom Essen und Gegessenwerden in der zeitgenössischen amerikanischen Lyrik. In Erlesenes Essen (S. 172-190). Tübingen: Narr.
Reichardt, U. (2003). “Diaspora Studies and African Diaspora Culture in the Poetry of Derek Walcott and Edward Kamau Brathwaite. “Diaspora and Multiculturalism: Theoretical and Literary Essays.. In Cross Cultures 66 (S. 287 - 327). Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi.
Reichardt, U. (2003). 'The Times' of the New World : A Time-Focused Approach to American Culture and Globalization. In REAL 19 (S. 247 - 266). Tübingen: Narr.
Reichardt, U. (2003). Nature, Nation, Time, and American Poetry. In “Nature's Nation” revisited : American concepts of nature from wonder to ecological crisis (S. 393-405). Amsterdam: VU University Press.
Reichardt, U. (2003). The Dangers of Remembering: Sites and Temporalities of Memory in Faulkner's Light in August. In Sites of Memory in American Literatures and Cultures (S. 65-74). Heidelberg: Winter.
Schäfer, H. (2003). 'Keeping Faith with the Land': Das dialogische Natur- und Kulturverständnis der amerikanischen Regionalistin Mary Austin.. In Übergänge: Lektüren zur Ästhetik der Transgression. (S. 49 - 76). Münster: LIT.
Schäfer, H. (2003). Naturalized History? Mary Austin's Utopian Regionalism.. In Millenial Perspectives: Lifeworlds and Utopias. (S. 183 - 196). Heidelberg: Winter.
Grewe-Volpp, C. (2002). “Das renaturierte Haus und die unbehauste Natur in Marilynne Robinsons Housekeeping”. In Frauenblicke, Männerblicke, Frauenzimmer / Fritsch-Rößler, Waltraud[Hrsg.] (S. 331 - 347). St. Ingbert: Röhrig.
Grewe-Volpp, C. (2001). Das renaturierte Haus und die unbehauste Natur in Marilynne Robinsons Housekeeping. In Frauenblicke - Frauenzimmer -Herr-schaftsräume (S. ). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.
Kley, A. (2001). A post-Stonewall Account of a pre-Stonewall Life: The Rhetorics of Sexuality in Samuel Delanys The Motion of Light in Water. In The Turbulent Decade: The American Sixties and their Legacy (S. ). München: Fink.
Kley, A. (2001). I would have been an outlaw knotmaker: Gender, Genre und Ethnizität in Maxine Hong Kingstons The Woman Warrior. In Grenzüberschreibungen: Feminismus und Cultural Studies (S. ). Bielefeld: Aisthesis.
Reichardt, U. (2001). “Time Passages: Transatlantic Modernism, William Faulkner, and New Western Literatures.”. In Transatlantic Modernism (S. 93-102). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter.
Reinhart, W. (2001). Essensmotivik in Portnoy's Complaint und American Pastoral: Sexueller Akkulturationsdruck im Wer von Philip Roth. In Das Motiv des Essens in der amerikanischen Literatur: Festschrift für Ulrich Halfmann (S. ). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.
Reinhart, W. (2001). Weibliche Utopie ohne Grenzen? Erfahrungsräume und Raumerfahrung in Marilynne Robinsons Housekeeping. In Frauenblicke - Fraunezimmer - Herr-schaftsräume (S. ). Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.
Kley, A. (2000). There is no place/ that cannot be home/ nor is : Constructions of 'home' in Audre Lorde's Zami : A New Spelling of my Name. In Holding Their Own (S. 119-139). Tübingen: Stauffenburg.
Reinhart, W. (2000). It is but one turn in the road and I would be a cannibal : The Theme of Hansel and Gretel in Contemporary American Poems By Women. In Pioneering North America : Mediators of European Literature and Culture (S. 203 -212). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.
Kley, A. (1999). Fanny Lewalds : Meine Lebensgeschichte : Zwischen bürgerlicher Anpassung und emanzipatorischem Aufbruch. In Geschlecht - Literatur - Geschichte (S. 129-150). St. Ingbert: Röhrig.
Reinhart, W. (1998). Philip Wylie und Edwin Balmer: When Worlds Collide. In Der Science-Fiction-Roman in der angloamerikanischen Literatur : Interpretationen (S. ). Düsseldorf: Bagel.
Halfmann, U. (1996). Die Tyrannei der Lesererwartung : Anmerkungen zu Rezeption und Edition von William Faulkners “Absalom, Absalom!”. In Expedition nach der Wahrheit : Poems, Essays, and Papers in Honour of Theo Stemmler (S. 567-584). Heidelberg: Carl Winter.

Motyl, K. (2011). No longer a promised land - the Arab and Muslim experience in the U.S after 9/11. In , States of emergency - states of crisis : [International Graduate Conference “States of Emergency: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Dynamics of Crisis” ... Berlin in June 2010] (S. 217-235). REAL : yearbook of research in English and American literature, Narr: Tübingen.

Steinhilber, D. (2019). More than just ball hairs - succeeding postmodern irony in Netflix's American Vandal and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. New Sincerity: Self-Expression in North American Culture, Jena, Germany.
Reichardt, U. (2018). The Blues as Trope, Form, Existential Figure ande Sound: Literary Criticism, Fiction and Poetry, and Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit. Blues in the 21st Century: Myth, Social Expression and Transculturalism, Catania, Italy.
Reichardt, U. (2018). Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. Wettbewerb und Spekulation in der US-amerikanischen Literatur und im Film. Ethik und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit in der digitalen Welt. 11. Forum: Menschenwürdige Wirtschaftsordnung : Ethik und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit in der digitalen Welt, Tutzing, Germany.
Steinhilber, D. (2018). A 'Trinity of you and I into we': Joycean consubstantiality and the (ghostly) return of the author in Infinite Jest. International Conference David Foster Wallace Between Philosophy and Literature, Pescara, Italy.
Steinhilber, D. (2018). David Foster Wallace and the solipsism of the quantified self: Digitally deformed bodies in Infinite Jest's entertainment industry. International Conference: Laboring Bodies and the Quantified Self, Mannheim, Germany.
Steinhilber, D. (2018). Infinite Jest and the Ulyssean tradition - modernist aims with postmodernist means. DFW 2018 : 5th David Foster Wallace Conference on Contemporary Literature and Culture, Normal, IL.
Steinhilber, D. (2018). Structural dissent - the turn away from a half-century of turns in American post-boomer fiction and literary studies. American Cultures of Dissent : American Studies Leipzig Graduate Conference, Leipzig, Germany.
Steinhilber, D. (2017). The perils of self-consciousness: Kleist’s 'Über das Marionettentheater' in DFW’s Infinite Jest. Northeast Modern Language Association 48th Annual Convention : David Foster Wallace and the Fiction of the World, Baltimore, MD.

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