2026

Introduction: Outside In, Inside Out: Teaching American Studies in a Changing World

RSAJournal 37 (2026).

Introduction: American Studies in the Classroom: Arts, Culture, and Critical Pedagogy

with Angelika Ilg. Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies 7.1 (2026).

Augmented Realities: Environmental Justice Activism Through AR Art Installations and Their Educational Potential in American Studies

In a collection edited by Despoina Feleki. Leiden: Brill, 2026.

‘Sie ist wunderschön’ - filmbasierte Mathematikbilder kritisch beleuchten

with András Bátkai and Lea Grimm. Mathematik im Unterricht 16 (2026): 108-115.

Öffentlichkeit - sich einmischen: Climate Change Theater Action

with Angelika Ilg. In Gemeinsam Demokratie erleben: Wie Schule aussieht, wenn Schüler:innen mehr mitbestimmen. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, 2026. 298-300.

2025

Preface

with Philip McGowan. In Reconnections: The Humanities in a Time of Climate Change. Thessaloniki: HelAAS Digital Publications, 2025. ix-xii.

Commemorating Covid-19 in the United States (and Beyond): Memory, Media and Memorialization

In United States: Politics, Society, and Culture-2025, Proceedings. Kyiv: Taras Shevchenko National University Press, 2025. 187-189.

Re-envisioning America’s Frontier: A Speculative Journey through John Wesley Powell’s Expedition to the American West and Jaclyn Backhaus’s Men on Boats

with Angelika Ilg. Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies 6.2 (2025): 111-131.

Viral Commemoration

In Viral Spread - Viral Politics: Epidemics and Pandemics in Analog and Digital Media, Science Communication and Science Journalism. Transcript, 2025. 59-89.

2023

Math Goes to Hollywood: Stereotypen in Filmen und Serien dekodieren

with András Bátkai. F&E Edition 29 (2023): 88-98.

Digitization, Digital Humanities, and American Studies

with Sebastian Herrmann, Katrin Horn, Dennis Mischke, and Regina Schober. Amerikastudien / American Studies 68.1 (2023): 5-26.

2022

Pandemic Patterns: The Cultural Semiotics of Medical Crisis

with Carmen Birkle, Birgit Däwes, and Marc Priewe. Amerikastudien / American Studies 67.4 (2022): 403-427.

Literary Narratives as Recordings of the Pandemic Present: The New York Times Magazine’s Decameron Project

In Taking Literature and Language Learning Online: New Perspectives on Teaching, Research and Technology. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. 11-28.

Introduction: Feminism in American Studies in/and Crisis?

with Johanna Heil, Izabella Kimak, and Elisabetta Marino. WiN: The EAAS Women’s Network Journal 3 (2022).

Black Feminism on the Edge

Jennifer C. Nash and Samantha Pinto in conversation with Ingrid Gessner and Johanna Heil. WiN: The EAAS Women’s Network Journal 3 (2022).

2021

Monumental Protest or Re-Making Places through AR

In Teaching American Studies: The State of the Classroom as State of the Field. Lawrence: UP of Kansas, 2021. 288-304.

Teaching the United States 20.21: A Foreword

F&E Edition 27 (2021): 7-10.

Enacting America in the Classroom: Introducing Drama Workshops into Pre-Service Teacher Training

with Angelika Ilg. F&E Edition 27 (2021): 163-177.

2020

Augmented Reality und kulturelle Erinnerung: Kritische Medienbildung in kulturwissenschaftlichen Fächern

F&E Edition 26 (2020): 61-70.

Introduction: Teaching Counter/Publics: American Studies and Digital Pedagogy

with Uwe Küchler. American Studies Journal 70 (2020).

Picturing Ebola: Photography as an Instrument of Biopolitical (In)Justice

In We the People? The United States and the Question of Rights. Heidelberg: Winter, 2020. 273-290.

Introduction: Feminism and Technoscience

with Johanna Heil, Izabella Kimak, and Elisabetta Marino. WiN: The EAAS Women’s Network Journal 2 (2020).

2019

Notes on the State of Digital American Studies Scholarship, Publishing, and Teaching: A Response to Werner Sollors et al.

with Marc Priewe. Amerikastudien / American Studies 64.1 (2019): 45-53.

‘You were my heroes’: Memorializing Military Nurses of the Vietnam War

In Preserving U.S. History - Memorializing Contested Events. London: Routledge, 2019. 112-130.

Introduction: Historical Trajectories and Conceptual Futures for Material Culture Studies

with Miriam Nandi and Juliane Schwarz-Bierschenk. Open Cultural Studies (2019): 308-316.

Digital Modernities: Augmented Reality Art and the Archives of Tomorrow

In Modernities and Modernization in North America. Heidelberg: Winter, 2019. 449-471.

2018

Obersalzberg 1945-Today: German-American Encounters below the Eagle’s Nest

with Albert Feiber. In 1945-2015: German-American Encounters in Bavaria (and Beyond). New York: Lang, 2018. 171-207.

Introduction: Transnational Feminism and/in American Studies

with Ann Babic, Susanne Leikam, and Tanfer Emin Tunç. WiN: The EAAS Women’s Network Journal 1 (2018).

2017

Manzanar, Berlin, Venice: Transnational Virtual Reality Art Installations

The Journal of Modern Art History Department Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade 13 (2017): 67-97.

2016

Women and Medicine in American Literature and Culture - An Introduction

COPAS 17.2 (2016).

‘We see the surface, but there is something beyond the surface’: Recovering Masumi Hayashi’s EPA Superfund Site Photo Collages

In America after Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment. Heidelberg: Winter, 2016. 369-388.

Ted, Marco, The Donald or ‘Hillary for America’? The Iconography of US Presidential Elections

Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 47.3 (published 2016): 377-394.

Tamiko Thiel’s Virtual Reality Installations as Sites of Learning in and beyond the Museum

Studies in the Education of Adults 48.2 (2016).

2015

Schlafen alle Indianerkinder in Tipis? Wie Indianerkinder heute leben

Universität für Kinder. Regensburg: Universität Regensburg, 2015. 33-38.

Commemorating World War II at 70: Ethnic and Transnational Perspectives - An Introduction

with Birgit Däwes. American Studies Journal 59 (2015).

Commemorating Crystal City: The Transnational Dimension of German American Internment Experiences

American Studies Journal 59 (2015).

Heroines of Health: Examining the Other Side of the ‘Splendid Little War.’

European Journal of American Studies 10.1 (2015).

‘A country life and estate I like best for my children’: Spatial Dialectics and the Contagiousness of Fear

In Rural America. Heidelberg: Winter, 2015. 227-246.

The Aesthetics of Remembering 9/11: Toward a Transnational Typology of Memorials

Journal of Transnational American Studies 6.1 (2015).

2014

Of He-Nurses and She-Doctors: Gendered Accounts of Yellow Fever in Postbellum American Literature

In Gender and Disease. Heidelberg: Winter, 2014. 137-155.

2013

Epidemic Iconographies: Towards a Disease Aesthetics of the Destructive Sublime

Amerikastudien / American Studies 58.4 (2013): 559-582.

Introduction: Iconographies of the Calamitous in American Visual Culture

with Susanne Leikam. Amerikastudien / American Studies 58.4 (2013): 533-542.

Contagion, Crisis, and Control: Tracing Yellow Fever in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

In Communicating Disease: Cultural Representations of American Medicine. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. 219-242.

2012 and earlier

War, Visual Politics and Cultural Memory: Revisiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

In Visual Cultures - Transatlantic Perspectives. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 153-173.

Editorial: Setting Out into the Second Decade of the Twenty-First Century

with Susanne Leikam, Sascha Pöhlmann, Klara-Stephanie Szlezák, and Juliane Schwarz-Bierschenk. COPAS 12 (2011).

‘Must-See Sights’: The Politics of Representing U.S. History

In Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011. 377-400.

Liberating Dachau: Transnational Negotiations of Holocaust Memory

In Transnational American Memories. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2009. 243-265.

Moving Beyond Manzanar: Transnationalizing Japanese American Internment Experiences

In Virtually American? Denationalizing North American Studies. Heidelberg: Winter, 2009. 77-96.

(Re)Framing Memory: Japanese American Internment Experiences in Reality and Virtuality

In The Merits of Memory: Concepts, Contexts, Debates. Heidelberg: Winter, 2008. 301-327.

Editorial: Approaching the Second Decade (1999-2008)

with Birgit Bauridl and Juliane Schwarz-Bierschenk. COPAS 9 (2008).

Britney Spears’ Lieblingsbrause: Super Bowl Commercials dekodieren, Amerikabilder vergleichen

Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch 87 (2007): 32-37.

Erasure and Visual Recovery: Displaying Japanese American Internment Experiences

In Visual Culture Revisited: German and American Perspectives on Visual Culture. Köln: von Halem, 2007. 216-242.

Recovering Japanese American Experiences for the EFL Classroom

In Visual Culture in the American Studies Classroom: Proceedings of the U.S. Embassy Teacher Academy 2003. Regensburg: RPO, 2005. 139-171.

Das Trauma des Vietnamkrieges: Erinnerungspolitik und Gedächtniskultur im Spiegel des Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Praxis Geschichte 6 (2003): 28-34.

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