Dominik Steinhilber is academic staff member and doctoral student at the chair of American Literary and Cultural Studies (A III). Before coming to the University of Mannheim, he worked as an academic staff member at the chair for American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Stuttgart where he also received his Staatsexamen in English and German (1,1) in 2016. He is currently working on his dissertation on The American Epic Novel in the Ulyssean Tradition. His research interests include contemporary literature (in particular the works of David Foster Wallace), modernist and postmodernist fiction, digital humanities, and transatlantic intertextuality. Dominik Steinhilber has taught courses on modernism and colonialism, introduction to literary studies, the American short story, the connection between modernism, postmodernism, and contemporary literature, the culture of fear, and literary non-fiction.
Publications
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.