Edited Volumes
Brinker, Felix, and Ruth Mayer, editors. Modernity and the Periodical Press: Trans-Atlantic Mass Culture and the Avantgardes, 1880-1920. Proposal under review, projected date of appearance 2020.
Brasch, Ilka, and Ruth Mayer, editors. Modernities and Modernization in North America. Winter, 2019.
Essays and Articles
Mayer, Ruth. “Unique Doubles: Ornamental Sisters and Dual Roles in the Transitional Era Cinema.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, accepted.
Mayer, Ruth “Running Late: The Silent Serial, the Cliffhanger, and the Exigencies of Time, 1914-1920.” Oxford Handbook of Silent Film, edited by Charlie Keil and Rob King, Oxford UP, forthcoming 2021.
Friedrichs, Annabel. “Saturday Night is Tub Night: Civilizing the Child in Alice Beach Winter’s Visual Narratives of Mother- and Childhood, 1880-1920.” Modernity and the Periodical Press: Trans-Atlantic Mass Culture and the Avantgardes, 1880-1920, edited by Felix Brinker and Ruth Mayer, forthcoming 2021.
Mayer, Ruth. “Engineered Desire: The Smart Set, Mass Culture, and the Dispositif of Distraction.” Modernity and the Periodical Press: Trans-Atlantic Mass Culture and the Avantgardes, 1880-1920, edited Felix Brinker and Ruth Mayer, Brill, forthcoming 2021.
Mayer, Ruth. “Periodically Queer: Sexology and Non-Normative Sexualities in the Little Magazine The Masses.” Modernist Cultures, vol. 15, no. 4, Winter 2020, forthcoming.
Mayer, Ruth. “Queer Modernity: Performances of Sexuality and Gender in the Little Magazine The Masses,” under review.
Mayer, Ruth. “Endless Deferral: Theories of Mass Culture and the Aesthetics of Affect.” REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, edited by Winfried Fluck, Rieke Jordan, Stephan Kuhl, and Johannes Voelz, Gunter Narr, 2020, pp. 81-102.
Mayer, Ruth. “The Crime Fiction Series.” Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction, ed. Jesper Gulddal et al. Routledge, 2020, pp. 31-38
Mayer, Ruth. “Kurze Formen”; “Serialität.” Ästhetische Eigenzeiten: Ein Wörterbuch. Ed. Michael Bies, Michael Gamper and Steffen Richter. Wehrhahn, forthcoming 2020, pp. 182-90, 306-14.
Mayer, Ruth. “Daydreams of Society: Class and Gender Performances in the Cinema of the Late 1910s.” Hollywood at the Intersection of Identity, edited by Delia Malia Konzett, Rutgers University Press, 2019, pp. 21-38.
Friedrichs, Annabel. “Sewing Modernity: How the Sewing Machine Allowed for a Distinctively Feminine Experience of Modernity.” aspeers11 (2018).