Publications
In the humanities in Germany, it is common to have two distinct focus points in research. While my PhD project and first book focused on film serials between 1910 and 1940, and modernity more generally, my ongoing second book project concerns early American literature and questions of the archive. I continue to be interested in both subjects.
Monograph
Film Serials and the American Cinema, 1910-1940: Operational Detection. Amsterdam UP, 2018.
Edited Volume
Modernities and Modernization in North America, with Ruth Mayer, Winter, 2018.
Articles
"Archives and Research: Situating the Reading Experience." Anglia, vol. 142, no. 4, 2024, pp. 618-630.
"Modern Chivalry's Colonialism." Early American Studies, vol. 21, no. 4, 2023, pp. 600-628.
"(A)historicity and the US Constitution's Ties to the Past," as part of the forum "Backwardness: Rethinking Modernity, Conceptualizing Change," edited by Kathleen Loock and Ruth Mayer, Amerikastudien/ American Studies, vol. 68, no. 3, 2023, pp. 309-311.
"The Perils of Print: Twentieth-Century Media Modernity and the Pauline Serial on the Newspaper Page and the Film Screen." Modernity and the Periodical Press: Trans-Atlantic Mass Culture and the Avantgardes, 1880-1920, edited by Felix Brinker and Ruth Mayer, Brill, 2022, pp. 136-154.
with Alexander Starre. "Method as Practice." Forum in Amerikastudien/ American Studies, vol. 67, no. 1, 2022, pp. 5-34.
with Felix Brinker. "Opening Gambits: Cross-Media Self-Reflexivity and Audience Engagement in Serial Cinema, 1936-2008." Exploring Seriality on Screen: Audiovisual Narratives in Film and Television. Eds. Ariane Hudelet und Anne Crémieux. Routledge, 2021.
with Ruth Mayer. "Introduction: Modernities and Modernization in North America." Modernities and Modernization in America, Winter, 2018, pp. 9-22.
with Ruth Mayer. "Modernity Management: 1920s Cinema, Mass Culture and the Film Serial.“ Screen vol. 57 no.3, 2016, pp. 302-315.
"'Let me see her face when he kisses her, please': Mediating Emotion and Locating the Melodramatic Mode in Stella Dallas." Film Philosophy, vol. 19, 2015, pp. 289-303.
"Narrative, Technology, and the Operational Aesthetic in Film Serials of the 1910s." LWU - Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, vol. 47, no.1/2, 2014, pp. 11-24.
"Zur Handschrift in Hollywood - Technischer Fortschritt, Medienkonkurrenz und Authentizität." Diesseits des Virtuellen: Handschrift im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Eds. Urs Büttner, Mario Gotterbarm, Frederik Schneeweiss, Stefanie Seidel und Marc Seiffarth. Fink, 2015, pp. 155-166.
"The Impossibility of Silence in Chaplin's Modern Times." Pivot, vol. 2, 2014, pp. 54-79.
Reviews
Review of Seth Perry, Bible Culture & Authority in the Early United States. Princeton University Press, 2018, in The New Americanist, vol. 1, no. 4, 2020, pp. 147-149.
Review of Mareike Jenner, American TV Detective Dramas: Serial Investigations. Palgrave, 2016, in New Review of Film and Television Studies, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 1-4.