Univ.-Prof. Dr. Daniel Stein

Seit 2023: Vorstand DHV-Gruppe Siegen (The German Association of University Professors and Lecturers / Deutscher Hochschulverband)

Seit 2021: Dekan, Philosophische Fakultät, Universität Siegen

2019-2021: Prodekan für Internationales, Philosophische Fakultät, Universität Siegen

Seit 2018: Fulbright-Liaison-Professor

Senior Academic Advisor, Partnerschaft mit der University of Tulsa, USA

Senior Academic Advisor, Partnerschaft mit der Norfolk State University, USA

Akademischer Berater, Partnerschaft mit dem Atlanta Global Studies Center, Georgia State University, USA

Senior Academic Advisor, Partnerschaft mit der Central University of Technology, Südafrika

Mitherausgeber der Zeitschrift Pop: Kultur & Kritik (transcript, seit 2025). [link: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/zeitschriften/pop.-kultur-und-kritik/?p=1]

Mitherausgeber der Zeitschrift Anglia: Journal of English Philology [link: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/angl/html] und der Buchreihe Anglia Book Series [link: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/angb-b/html] (De Gruyter Brill, seit 2019)

Mitherausgeber der Buchreihe Siegen. Beiträge zur Literatur-, Sprach- und Medienwissenschaft (Universitätsverlag C. Winter, seit 2024) [link: https://www.winter-verlag.de/de/programm/buchreihen/germanistik/reihe77/Reihe_Siegen_Beitr_z_Lit_Sprach_u_Medienwiss_/alle/]

Herausgeber der Reihe SieGN: Siegen Research in Graphic Narrative (universi-Verlag) (seit 2021) [link: https://www.universi.uni-siegen.de/katalog/reihen/sieg_g_n/?lang=de]

Editorial Board, Buchreihe Studies in Intermediality: Systematic and Historical Perspectives on Intermedial, Transmedial, and Multimodal Theory and Practice, Hg. Nassim Balestrini und Irina Rajewksy (De Gruyter Brill, 2023-). [link: https://brill.com/display/serial/SIIMON?srsltid=AfmBOoo71KnhOg7XK2aksaEQpiaqombRu6jscqnKmaOYNznQennAiI5j]

Wissenschaftlicher Beirat, Reihe Comicstudien, Hg. Juliane Blank, Véronique Sina und Irmela Krüger-Fürhoff (De Gruyter Brill, 2022-). [link: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/csd-b/html?lang=de&srsltid=AfmBOorqgGkfAzdrB_uwGlMasxtn0SNg-Sf2taLILm5z_4AKF_beGUwy]

German Representative (mit Christina Meyer), Editorial Advisory Board International Journal of Comic Art (2018-) [link: http://www.ijoca.net/]

Editorial Advisory Board, Inks: Journal of the Comics Studies Society (2016-) [link: https://ohiostatepress.org/Inks.html]

Beirat universi, Universitätsverlag Siegen (2015-), Sprecher seit 11/2025. [link: https://www.universi.uni-siegen.de/]

International Advisory Board, Centre for Intermediality Studies in Graz (CIMIG). Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (2015-). [link: https://intermediality-centre.uni-graz.at/de/]

Vorsitzender Aktionsgemeinschaft zur Förderung wissenschaftlicher Projekte (AwiPro) [link: https://www.uni-siegen.de/foerderer/vereine/awipro.html]

Seit 2014: W3-Universitätsprofessor Nordamerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Universität Siegen

2013-2014: Post-Doc/wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und PI in der DFG-Forschergruppe 1091 „Ästhetik und Praxis populärer Serialität“, John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin

2010-2013: Post-Doc/wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der DFG-Forschergruppe 1091 „Ästhetik und Praxis populärer Serialität“, Seminar für Englische Philologie/Nordamerikastudien, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

2009: Promotion am Seminar für Englische Philologie/Nordamerikastudien, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; „Intermedial Satchmo: A Study of Louis Armstrong’s Jazz Autobiographics“ (summa cum laude)

2004-2010: Doc/Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Seminar für Englische Philologie/Nordamerikastudien, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

2001-2003: Lecturer I, English Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1995-2001: Magister Artium an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Amerikanistik, Politikwissenschaft, Soziologie

Strange Fruit and Bitter Roots: Black History in Contemporary Graphic Narrative. 
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2026. [peer review]

Authorizing Superhero Comics: On the Evolution of a Serial Genre. 
Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2021. [peer review]

Music Is My Life: Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz. 
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. [peer review]

• Auszeichnung: Choice Outstanding Academic Title

---, Maxi Albrecht, and Marcel Hartwig. Archiving America: American Archives. Heidelberg: Winter. In preparation.

---, Jens Aspelmeier und Jana Mikota, hrsg. Bin Mensch nicht auch ich? Erinnern, Erzählen, Erleben. Berlin: Ariella Verlag. In Vorbereitung. [peer review]

---. Anita Hachmann und Anne Deckbar, hrsg. Amazing Superbugs: Das große Krabbeln im Comic. Themenheft Navigationen 1 (2026): In Vorbereitung.

---, and Maxi Albrecht, eds. Serial Circulation: Print Cultures and Periodical Modernities. Special issue of Anglia: Journal of English Philology 143.1 (2025). [peer review]

---, and Niels Werber, eds. New Perspectives on Pop Culture. Special issue of Arts (2023). https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/pop_culture. [peer review]

---, Geoffroy de Laforcade, and Cathy C. Waegner, eds. The Aliens Within: Danger, Disease, and Displacement in Representations of the Racialized Poor. Anglia Book Series. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. [peer review] [paperback ed. 2024]

---, Andreas Rauscher, and Jan-Noël Thon, eds. Comics and Videogames: From Hybrid Medialities to Transmedia Expansions. Routledge Advances in Games Studies series. London: Routledge, 2021 [paperback 2022]. [peer review]

---, ed. Archives. Special Issue of Anglia: Journal of English Philology 138.3 (2020). [peer review]

---, Cathy C. Waegner, Geoffroy de Laforcade, Page R. Laws, eds. Migration, Diaspora, Exile: Narratives of Affiliation and Escape. Lanham: Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.

---, and Lisanna Wiele, eds. Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s-1860s: Popular Culture – Serial Culture. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture series. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. [peer review]

---, Lukas Etter, and Michael Chaney, eds. Transnational Graphic Narratives. Special Section of International Journal of Comic Art 20.1 (spring/summer 2018): 1-296.

---, Judith Ackermann, and Andreas Rauscher, eds. Playin’ the City: Artistic and Scientific Approaches to Playful Urban Arts. Special Issue of Navigationen 16.1 (2016).

---, and Martin Butler, eds. Musical Autobiographies. Special Issue of Popular Music and Society 38.2 (2015). [peer review]

---, and Jan-Noël Thon, eds. From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative. Narratologia series. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. [peer review] [updated paperback ed. 2015]

---, Shane Denson, and Christina Meyer, eds. Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads. London: Bloomsbury, 2013 [paperback 2014]. [peer review]

---, Christina Meyer, and Micha Edlich, guest eds. American Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies 56.4 (2011). [peer review]

---, Stephan Ditschke, and Katerina Kroucheva, eds. Comics: Zur Geschichte und Theorie eines populärkulturellen Mediums. Bielefeld: transcript, 2009.

---, with Frank Kelleter, eds. American Studies as Media Studies. “American Studies Monograph Series.” Heidelberg: Winter, 2008.

Zeitschriftenbeiträge, Buchbeiträge, Handbuchartikel und Rezensionen:

Aufsätze

“Spektakuläre Medienreflexivität: Lynchmorde in der Monatszeitschrift The Crisis: Record of the Darker Races (1910–1917).“ Medienreflexive Moderne: Textualität und Visualität in Literatur und Medienkultur der 1920er-Jahre. Hg. Andreas Blödorn und Stephan Brössel. Rombach-Wissenschaft Verlag. Eingereicht.

“Zwischen Abenteuer- und Kriminalroman: Deutsch-Amerikanische Bestsellerliteratur um 1850.” Auf ins Abenteuer! Hg. Nadine J. Schmidt, Sebastian Schmideler und Jana Mikota. München: Kopaed. Eingereicht.

“Verbotene Comics: Grafische Literatur als Zielscheibe reaktionärer Kulturkritik.” Von Vielfalt und Verboten – Kinderliteratur unter Druck. Hg. Jana Mikota und Anke Vogel. Eingereicht.

“How Face Recognition Technology Creates Criminals and What Black Data Feminists Are Doing About It.” Crime as a Process: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Dynamic Concept. Ed Bernd Dollinger and Holger Schmidt. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Submitted.

“Buggin‘ Out: Zur Bildsemantik schwarzer Spinnen in Marvels Superheldenkosmos.” Amazing Superbugs: Das große Krabbeln im Comic. Hg. Anne Deckbar, Daniel Stein und Anita Hachmann. Themenheft Navigationen 1 (2026): im Druck.

--- und Niels Werber. “Schauder und Erregung. Ludwig von Reizensteins amerikanischer Zeitungsroman Die Geheimnisse von New Orleans (1854-1855).” Writing Angst: The Gothic / Schauerliteratur in Scotland and Germany from 1800 until Today. Hg. Lars Koch, Jakob Baur, und Barbara Schaff. Bielefeld: transcript, 2026. 127-156. Im Druck.

“The Politics of Pulp; or, Is Ra’s al Ghul an Ecoterrorist?” Ecoterrorism in American Culture. Ed Sascha Pöhlmann and Burak Sezer. Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies, forthcoming 2026.

“Marvel Comics und die Emergenz des Hip Consumerism in den 1960er Jahren.” Raum/Zeiten des Fragilen. Hg. Lars Koch, Maren Lickhardt und Matthias Schaffrick. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2026, im Druck.

---, and Maxi Albrecht. “Placing The Smoky City: Samuel Young’s City Mystery Novel in Context.” Samuel Young: The Smoky City: A Tale of Crime. Critical Edition. Ed. Mike Dittman. Clemson: Clemson University Press. Accepted.

“Platform Politics and Paratextual Negotiations: Analyzing a Popular The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Subreddit Thread.” Paratexte des Populären. Hg. Niels Werber und Jörg Döring. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026, 477-494. Im Druck.

“Breaking Out of Confinement: Black History in African American Picturebooks for Children.” Narratives of Confinement in American Literature. Ed. Firuze Güzel. Anglia Book Series. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. 157-78.

“Circulating Superheroes in City Mystery Novels: Prefigurations of a Popular Serial Figure.” Serial Circulation: Print Cultures and Periodical Modernities. Ed. Daniel Stein and Maxi Albrecht. Special issue of Anglia: Journal of English Philology 143.1 (2025): 136-64.

---, and Maxi Albrecht. “Introduction: Serial Circulation, Print Cultures, and Periodical Modernities.” Serial Circulation: Print Cultures and Periodical Modernities. Ed. Daniel Stein and Maxi Albrecht. Special issue of Anglia: Journal of English Philology 143.1 (2025): 3-15.

“Zur Dialektik Batmans queerer Popularität: Ein Annäherungsversuch.” Der Comic und das Populäre. Hg. Joachim Trinkwitz und Rolf Lohse. Berlin: Chr. A. Bachmann, 2025. 93-110.

“Kriminalität auf Reisen: Zur Zirkulation von Kriminalitätskonzepten in der transatlantischen Serienliteratur um 1850.” Soziale Probleme auf Reisen. Übersetzungen und Zirkulationen des ‚Problematischen‘ am Beispiel von Kriminalität. Hg. Bernd Dollinger und Holger Schmidt. Themenheft Soziale Probleme 1 (2025): 19-37.

---, Bernd Dollinger und Holger Schmidt. “Wie Kriminalität ,reist‘: Eine Annäherung an die Herausbildung institutionalisierter Wissensformen zu Kriminalität.” Reisendes Wissen: 'Traveling Concepts‘ als soziologische Kategorie. Hg. Martin Harbusch. Wiesbaden: SpringerVS, 2024. 157-73.

“Comics Studies in Germany, Seen Through an American Studies Looking Glass.” Was war, ist, wird Comicforschung – für uns? 10 Jahre ComFor e.V. als eingetragener Verein. Hg. Christina Meyer, Vanessa Ossa und Lukas R.A. Wilde. Gesellschaft für Comicforschung, 2024. 17-31. https://www.comicgesellschaft.de/wp-content/uploads/ComFor2014-2024/Meyer_Ossa_Wilde_ComFor2014-2024_Complete.pdf.

“Shakespeare in Harlem: Race, (Popular) Culture, and I Am Alfonso Jones.” Shakespeare and Comics: Negotiating Cultural Value. Ed. Jim Casey and Brandon Christopher. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 42-54.

“Lynching und grafische Literatur: Zur Intersektionalität von Rachel Marie-Crane Williams‘ Elegy for Mary Turner (2021).” Race, Class, Gender & Beyond: Intersektionale Ansätze der Comicforschung. Hg. Anna Beckmann, Kalina Kupczynska, Marie Schröer und Véronique Sina. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. 29-51.

---, and Geoffroy de Laforcade. “Beyond Scarcity and Hardship: Historical and Contemporary Reflections on Cuban Comics.” Visual Narratives: Approaches to Graphic Novels in the Americas. Special issue of fiar: forum for inter-american research 17.1 (2024): 22-39.

---, und Sebastian Berlich. “Genre und Popularität: Transformationen einer traditionsreichen Verknüpfung.” Gezählte Beachtung: Theorien der populären Kultur. Hg. Thomas Hecken. Berlin: Metzler, 2024. 163-192.

“Empathy, Dissonance, Beauty: Songs and Politics by Steve Earle.” Americana: Aesthetics, Authenticity, and Performance in US Popular Music. Ed. Knut Holtsträter and Sascha Pöhlmann. Münster: Waxman, 2023. 211-229.

---, and Niels Werber. “Partizipation und Paratext. Die ‚Leserkontaktseite‘ und das Perry Rhodan-Fan-Forum als serielle Peri- und Epitexte.” Fanfiction und Fanforen. Hg. Niels Werber und Thomas Weitin. Themenheft LiLi: Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s41244-023-00311-4.

“Einleitung: un/familar super(s)heroes: Superheld*innen zwischen Familienalltag und Ausnahmezustand.” Familie und Comic: Kritische Perspektiven auf soziale Mikrostrukturen in grafischen Narrationen. Hg. Véronique Sina, Barbara Eggert und Kalina Kupczynska. Comicstudien 1. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2023. 171-76.

“Prekäre Erinnerung: Retcon und Verschwörungstheorien im Superheldencomic Captain America.” Verschwörung Denken. Hg. Noyan Dinçkal, Bärbel Kuhn, Matthias Weipert. Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 1 (2023): 39-59.

---, and Niels Werber. “Reassessing the Gap: Transformations of the High/Low Difference.” New Perspectives on Pop Culture. Ed. Daniel Stein and Niels Werber. Special issue of Arts 12.5, 199 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12050199.

---, Laura Désirée Haas, and Anne Deckbar. “Of Auction Records and Non-Fungible Tokens: On the New Valences of Superhero Comics.” New Perspectives on Pop Culture. Ed. Daniel Stein and Niels Werber. Special issue of Arts 12.4, 131 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12040131.

---, and Niels Werber. “Paratextual Negotiations: Fan-Forums as Digital Epitexts of Popular Superhero Comics and Science Fiction Pulp Novel Series.” New Perspectives on Pop Culture. Ed. Daniel Stein and Niels Werber. Special issue of Arts 12.2, 77 (2023) https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12020077.

---, Niels Werber, et. al. “Getting Noticed by Many: On the Transformations of the Popular.” New Perspectives on Pop Culture. Ed. Daniel Stein and Niels Werber. Special issue of Arts 12.1, 39 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12010039. [revised, translated version of Jörg Döring, Niels, Werber, et al. “Was bei Vielen Beachtung findet: Zu den Transformationen des Populären.”]

“‘Holes Swarming with Human Beings’: Racing the Urban Underclass in the Antebellum City Mystery Novel.” The Aliens Within: Danger, Disease, and Displacement in Representations of the Racialized Poor. Ed. Geoffroy de Laforcade, Daniel Stein, and Cathy C. Waegner. Anglia Book Series. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. 45-65.

---, Geoffroy de Laforcade, and Cathy C. Waegner. “The Aliens Within: Danger, Disease, and Displacement in Representations of the Racialized Poor. Editors’ Introduction.” The Aliens Within: Danger, Disease, and Displacement in Representations of the Racialized Poor. Ed. Geoffroy de Laforcade, Daniel Stein, and Cathy C. Waegner. Anglia Book Series. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. 1-17.

“Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Black Panther and Afrodiasporic Archives.” Archives of Resistance: Picturing the Black Americas. Ed. Dustin Breitenwischer, Robert Reid-Pharr, and Jasmin Wrobel. Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies 67.2 (2022): 127-43. DOI https://doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2022/2/5.

---, Jörg Döring, Niels, Werber, et al. “Was bei Vielen Beachtung findet: Zu den Transformationen des Populären.” Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 6.2 (2021): 1-14.

---, Andreas Rauscher, and Jan-Noël Thon. “Introduction: Comics and Videogames.” Comics and Videogames: From Hybrid Medialities to Transmedia Expansions. Ed. Andreas Rauscher, Daniel Stein, and Jan-Noël Thon. Routledge Advances in Games Studies. London: Routledge, 2021. 1-14.

“Intermedial Resonances and Narrative Dissonances in Steve Earle’s Music and Literature.” Popular Music and the Self in Contemporary Fiction. Ed. Norbert Bachleitner and Juliane Werner. Leiden: Brill/Rodopi, 2021. 244-68.

“Black Bodies Swinging: Superheroes and the Shadow Archive of Lynching.” Themenheft Comic – Kunst – Körper. Hg. Irmela Fürhoff-Krüger und Nina Schmidt. Closure: Kieler e-Journal für Comicforschung 7.5 (2021): 54-78. http://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure7.5/stein. 

„Der Comic, das Archiv und das Populäre: Zwei Erklärungsversuche“. Comics & Archive. Hg. Felix Giesa und Anna Stemmann. Berlin: Bachmann, 2021. 16-70.

“Lessons in Graphic Non-Fiction: John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell’s March and Civil Rights Pedagogy.” Journal of American Studies 55.3 (2021): 620-56. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875820000699. 

“Conflicting Counternarratives of Crime and Justice in US Superhero Comics.” Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment. Ed. Martina Althoff, Bernd Dollinger, and Holger Schmidt. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 139-60.

“What’s in an Archive: Cursory Observations and Serendipitous Reflections.” Archives. Ed. Daniel Stein. Special Issue of Anglia: Journal of English Philology 138.3 (2020): 337-54.

“Recuperating the Black Family in Graphic Narrative: Tom Feelings’s Middle Passage and Kyle Baker’s Nat Turner.” Migration, Diaspora, Exile: Narratives of Affiliation and Escape. Ed. Daniel Stein, Cathy C. Waegner, Geoffroy de Laforcade, and Page R. Laws. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington, 2020. 21-41.

---, Cathy C. Waegner, Geoffroy de Laforcade, Page R. Laws. “Migration, Diaspora, Exile: Narratives of Affiliation and Escape—Editors’ Introduction.” Migration, Diaspora, Exile: Narratives of Affiliation and Escape. Ed. Daniel Stein, Cathy C. Waegner, Geoffroy de Laforcade, and Page R. Laws. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington, 2020. 1-18.

“Louis Armstrong’s Autobiographical Art.” New Orleans: A Literary History. Ed. T.R. Johnson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 182-95. [Chinese translation: “路易斯·阿姆斯特朗的自传艺术” (Lu yi si a mu si te lang de zizhuan yishu/Louis Armstrong's Autobiographical Art). Oversea Perspectives. Ed. Chang Liu and Sun Mingli. Spec. column of 华夏文化论坛 (Huaxia Wenhua Luntan/Chinese Culture Forum) 2022 (01): 319-25.]

---, and Lisanna Wiele. “Introducing Popular Culture – Serial Culture: Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s-1860s.” Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s-1860s:Popular Culture – Serial Culture. Ed. Daniel Stein and Lisanna Wiele. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 1-15. 

“Slavery as Racial Dis/order in Antebellum America: The Case of the City Mystery Novel.” Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s-1860s: Popular Culture – Serial Culture. Ed. Daniel Stein and Lisanna Wiele. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 287-309.

“‘Sei a mensch’: Mezz Mezzrow’s Jewish Hipster Autobiography Really the Blues and the Ironies of the Color Line.” Anglia: Journal of English Philology 137.1 (2019): 2-32.

“Gaps as Significant Absences: The Case of Serial Comics.” Meaningful Absence across Arts and Media: The Significance of Missing Signifiers. Ed. Nassim Winnie Balestrini, Walter Bernhart, and Werner Wolf. Studies in Intermediality 11. Leiden: Brill/Rodopi, 2019. 126-155.

“Unzuverlässiges Erzählen in Superheldencomics.” Comics: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven aus Theorie und Praxis auf ein Stiefkind der Medienpädagogik. Hg. Christine Dallmann, Anja Hartung-Griemberg, Alfons Aigner und Kai-Thorsten Buchele. Munich: Kopaed, 2018. 25-37.

“Graphic Musical Biography: An Intermedial Case of Musico-Comical Life Writing.” Intermediality, Life Writing, and American Studies. Ed. Nassim Winnie Balestrini and Ina Bergmann. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018. 119-146.

---, Lukas Etter, and Michael Chaney. “Transnational Graphic Narrative: A Special Symposium.” Transnational Graphic Narratives. Ed. Daniel Stein, Lukas Etter, and Michael Chaney. International Journal of Comic Art 20.2 (fall 2018): 4-16.

“Bodies in Transition: Queering the Comic Book Superhero.” Queer(ing) Popular Culture. Ed. Sebastian Zilles. Special Issue of Navigationen 18.1: (2018): 15-38.

“Can Superhero Comics Studies Develop a Method? And What Does American Studies Have to Do with It?” Projecting American Studies: Essays on Theory, Method, and Practice. Ed. Frank Kelleter and Alexander Starre. Heidelberg: Winter, 2018. 259-271.

“Serial Politics in Antebellum America: On the Cultural Work of the City-Mystery Genre.” Media of Serial Narrative. Ed. Frank Kelleter. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2017. 53-73.

“Zu den Potentialen einer kulturwissenschaftlichen grafischen Literaturwissenschaft: Ein Analysevorschlag am Beispiel von Jeremy Loves Graphic Novel Bayou.” Closure: Kieler e-Journal für Comicforschung 3 (2016): 4-22. 5.12.2016. http://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure3/stein.

---, Judith Ackermann, and Andreas Rauscher. “Introduction: Playin’ the City: Artistic and Scientific Approaches to Playful Urban Arts.” Playin’ the City: Artistic and Scientific Approaches to Playful Urban Arts. Ed. Judith Ackermann, Andreas Rauscher, and Daniel Stein. Special Issue of Navigationen 16.1 (2016): 7-23.

“Playing the City: The Heidelberg Project in Detroit.” Playin’ the City: Artistic and Scientific Approaches to Playful Urban Arts. Ed. Judith Ackermann, Andreas Rauscher, and Daniel Stein. Special Issue of Navigationen 16.1 (2016): 53-70.

“Mummified Objects: Superhero Comics in the Digital Age.” Materiality and Mediality of Contemporary Comics. Ed. Jan-Noël Thon and Lukas Wilde. Special Issue of Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 7.3 (2016): 283-292.

“Transatlantic Politics as Serial Networks in the German-American City Mystery Novel, 1850-1855.” Traveling Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Cultural Concepts and Transatlantic Intellectual Networks. Ed. Erik Redling. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2016. 249-267.

“From Uncle Remus to Song of the South: Adapting American Plantation Fictions.” Southern Literary Journal 47.2 (2015): 20-35.

“Adapting Melville: Bill Sienkiewicz’s Moby-Dick.” Übersetzungen und Adaptionen von Comics. Ed. Nicole Mälzer. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2015. 177-97.

---, and Martin Butler. “Musical Autobiographies: An Introduction”. Musical Autobiographies. Ed. Daniel Stein and Martin Butler. Special issue of Popular Music and Society 38.2 (2015): 115-21.

“Race, Gender, Sex, Class, Nation: Serienpolitik zwischen Sehnsucht und Heimsuchung in Ludwig von Reizensteins Die Geheimnisse von New-Orleans (1854–1855).” Sehnsucht suchen? Amerikanische Topographien aus komparatistischer Perspektive. Ed. Simone Sauer-Kretschmer and Christian A. Bachmann. Berlin: Chr. A. Bachmann Verlag, 2014. 39-69.

“Popular Seriality, Authorship, Superhero Comics: On the Evolution of a Transnational Genre Economy.” Media Economies: Perspectives on American Cultural Practices. Ed. Marcel Hartwig, Evelyne Keitel, and Gunter Süß. Trier: WVT, 2014. 133-57.

“Onkel Satchmo Behind the Iron Curtain: The Transatlantic Politics of Louis Armstrong’s Visit to East Germany.” Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture 13.1 (2014): http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/spring_2014/stein.htm.   

“Der Alligator und seine kulturpoetischen Funktionen in der Geschichte der USA.” Archetypen, Artefakte: Komparatistische Beiträge zur kulturellen und literarischen Repräsentation von Tieren. Ed. Alena Diedrich, Julia Hoffmann, and Niels Penke. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2013. 91-115.

---, and Jan-Noël Thon. “Introduction: From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels.” From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative. Ed. Daniel Stein and Jan-Noël Thon. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. 1-23.

“Superhero Comics and the Authorizing Functions of the Comic Book Paratext.” From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative. Ed. Daniel Stein and Jan-Noël Thon. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. 155-89.

---, Shane Denson, and Christina Meyer. “Introducing Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads.” Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads. Ed. Shane Denson, Christina Meyer, and Daniel Stein. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. 1-12.

“Of Transcreations and Transpacific Adaptations: Investigating Manga Versions of Spider-Man.” Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads. Ed. Shane Denson, Christina Meyer, and Daniel Stein. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. 145-61.

“Spoofin’ Spidey—Rebooting the Bat: Immersive Story Worlds and the Narrative Complexities of Video Spoofs in the Era of the Superhero Blockbuster.” Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake|Remodel. Ed. Kathleen Loock and Constantine Verevis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 231-47.

“The Black Politics of Newspaper Comic Strips: Teaching Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks and Keith Knight’s The K Chronicles.” Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives: Essays on Theory, Strategy and Practice. Ed. Lan Dong. Jefferson: McFarland, 2012. 26-39.

---, and Frank Kelleter. “Autorisierungspraktiken seriellen Erzählens: Zur Gattungsentwicklung von Superheldencomics.” Populäre Serialität: Narration–Evolution–Distinktion. Zum seriellen Erzählen seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. Ed. Frank Kelleter. Bielefeld: transcript, 2012. 259-90.

“The Comic Modernism of George Herriman.” Crossing Boundaries in Graphic Narrative: Essays on Forms, Series and Genres. Ed. Jake Jakaitis and James F. Wurtz. Jefferson: McFarland, 2012. 40-70.

---, Christina Meyer, and Micha Edlich. “Introduction: American Comics Books and Graphic Novels.” American Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Guest Ed. Daniel Stein, Christina Meyer, and Micha Edlich. Special Issue of Amerikastudien/ American Studies. 56.4 (2011): 501-29.

“Negotiating Primitive Modernisms: Louis Armstrong, Robert Goffin, and the Transatlantic Jazz Debate.” Oslo Conference Special Issue. European Journal of American Studies 2 (2011). http://ejas.revues.org/9395.

“Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father and African American Literature.” European Journal of American Studies 1 (2011). http://ejas.revues.org/9232.

“Teaching Poetry through Song Adaptation: Abel Meeropol’s and Billie Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit.’” Adaptation in American Studies: Perspectives on Teaching and Research. Ed. Nassim W. Balestrini. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011. 171-94.

“American Cultural Studies, Media Studies, and Intercultural Competence: Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days as Educational Resource and Didactic Model.” Education and the USA. Ed. Laurenz Volkmann. Winter: Heidelberg, 2011. 205-23.

“Louis Armstrong as a Model for Intermedia Theory.” Special feature, Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Annual Report 2009/10 (2010): 164-73.

“The Long Shadow of Wilhelm Busch: ‘Max & Moritz’ and German Comics.” International Journal of Comic Art 12.2/3 (2010): 291-308.

---, Stephan Ditschke, and Katerina Kroucheva. “Birth of a Notion: Comics als populärkulturelles Medium.” Comics: Zur Geschichte und Theorie eines populärkulturellen Mediums. Ed. Stephan Ditschke, Katerina Kroucheva, and Daniel Stein. Bielefeld: transcript, 2009. 7-27.

---, and Frank Kelleter. “Great, Mad, New: Populärkultur, serielle Ästhetik und der frühe amerikanische Zeitungscomic.” Comics: Zur Geschichte und Theorie eines populärkulturellen Mediums. Ed. Stephan Ditschke, Katerina Kroucheva, and Daniel Stein. Bielefeld: transcript, 2009. 81-117.

“Was ist ein Comic-Autor? Autorinszenierung in autobiografischen Comics und Selbstporträts.” Comics: Zur Geschichte und Theorie eines populärkulturellen Mediums. Ed. Stephan Ditschke, Katerina Kroucheva, and Daniel Stein. Bielefeld: transcript, 2009. 201-37.

“The Glorious Polyphony of Multi-Tongued Eloquence: Joseph O’Connor’s Star of the Sea and Redemption Falls as Irish Historiographic Metafiction.” “My Age Is as a Lusty Winter”: Essays in Honour of Peter Erlebach and Thomas Michael Stein. Ed. Bernhard Reitz. Trier: WVT, 2009. 149-62.

“From Text-Centered Intermediality to Cultural Intermediality; or, How to Make Musico-Textual Studies more Cultural.” American Studies as Media Studies. Ed. Frank Kelleter and Daniel Stein. Heidelberg: Winter, 2008. 180-90.

“Walter Mosley’s RL’s Dream and the Creation of a Bluetopian Community.” Finding a Way Home: A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosley’s Fiction. Ed. Derek C. Maus and Owen E. Brady. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008. 3-17.

“Rememorizing Uncle Tom’s Cabin: The Transformation of Race Melodrama in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” Melodrama! The Mode of Excess from Early America to Hollywood. Ed. Frank Kelleter, Barbara Krah, and Ruth Mayer. Heidelberg: Winter, 2007. 263-82.

“Jazz-Autobiographie und kulturelle Intermedialität: Theoretische und praktische Überlegungen zur Beziehung von autobiographischem Text und improvisierter Jazzmusik.” Literatur und Musik in der klassischen Moderne: Mediale Konzeptionen und intermediale Poetologien. Ed. Joachim Grage. Würzburg: Ergon, 2006. 327-346.

“The Things That Jes’ Grew? The Blues ‘I’ and African-American Autobiographies.” Interdisciplinary Humanities, Special Issue Blues and Jazz. Ed. Lisa Graley, 26.2 (2006): 43-54.

“Hearing, Seeing, and Reading Thelonious Monk: Toward a Theory of Changing Iconotexts.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 50.4 (2005): 603-27.

“The Performance of Jazz Autobiography.” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, Special Issue Blue Notes: Toward a New Jazz Discourse. Ed. Mark Osteen, 37.2 (2004): 173-99.

“‘I Ain’t Never Seen A N*****’: The Discourse of Denial in Lee Smith’s The Devil’s Dream.” European Journal of American Culture 22.2 (2003): 139-57. 

“New Digital Media.” Handbook of Cultural Sustainability. Ed. Martin Middeke, Hubert Zapf, and Gabriele Rippl. Handbooks of English and American Studies. Berlin: De Gruyter. In preparation.

“Comics and Ethics.” Handbook of Literary Ethics. Ed. Martin Middeke and Martin Riedelsheimer. Handbooks of English and American Studies. Berlin: De Gruyter, angenommen.

---, und Jasmin Wrobel. “Transversalität.” Handbuch Comicforschung. Hg. Stephan Packard, Juliane Blank, Janina Wildfeuer und Christian Bachmann. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. 336-49.

---, Kerstin Schmidt und Timo Müller. “Gegenwartsliteratur.” Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte. Hg. Hubert Zapf und Timo Müller. Stuttgart, Metzler, 2024. 563-634. [Stein: “Prosa.” 563-604].

“Jazz Autobiography.” Jazz and American Culture. Ed. Michael Borshuk. Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 248-61.

---, and Astrid Böger. “‘Great’ American Graphic Novels: Canon Formation and Literary Value.” The Cambridge Companion to the American Graphic Novel. Ed. Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey, and Fabrice Leroy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 89-105.

“Racialines: Interrogating Stereotypes in Comics.” The Cambridge Companion to Comics. Ed. Maaheen Ahmed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 204-24.

---, and Lukas Etter. “Seriality.” Handbook of Comics and Graphic Novels. Ed. Dirk Vanderbeke, Sebastian Domsch, Dan Hassler-Forrest. Handbooks of English and American Studies 11. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. 121-40.

---“Ben Katchor, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer”; “Dave Sim: Cerebus.” Kindlers Neues Literatur Lexikon. Ed. Christiane Freudenstein-Arnold. Online Supplement, 2020.

---, Christina Koch und Lukas Etter. “Comics, Graphic Novels, Graphic Memoirs.” Behinderung: Kulturwissenschaftliches Handbuch. Hg. Susanne Hartwig. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2020. 326-33.

---, and Lukas Etter. “Long-length Serials in the Golden Age of Comic Strips: Production and Reception.” The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel. Ed. Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey, and Stephen Tabachnick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 39-58.

“Amerikanistik.” Handbuch Popkultur. Ed. Thomas Hecken und Marcus S. Kleiner. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2017. 349-353.

---, and Lukas Etter. “Comictheorie(n) und Forschungspositionen.” Comics und Graphic Novels: Eine Einführung. Ed. Julia Abel and Christian Klein. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2015. 107-126.

“Comics and Graphic Novels.” Handbook of Intermediality: Literature–Image–Sound–Music. Ed. Gabriele Rippl. Handbooks of English and American Studies 1. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. 420-438.

“Der singende Detektiv.” Klassiker der Fernsehserie. Ed. Thomas Klein and Christian Hißnauer. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2012. 190-95.

“Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm”; “William Burroughs, erzählerisches Werk”; “Charles Chauncy, Prosawerk”; “Samuel Clemens, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”; “Countee Cullen, lyrisches Werk”; “Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man”; “Ralph Ellison, Shadow and Act”; “Louise Erdrich, Tracks”; “Stephen Greenblatt, literaturtheoretisches Werk”; “Alain Locke, The New Negro”; “N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn”; “Toni Morrison, Beloved”; “Toni Morrison, Love”; “Toni Morrison, Paradise”; “Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark”; “Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon”; “Toni Morrison, Sula”; “Toni Morrison, Tar Baby”; “Chuck Palahniuk, erzählerisches Werk”; “Ishmael Reed, Flight to Canada”; “Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory”; “Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God”; “Jerome D. Salinger, erzählerisches Werk”; “Samuel Sewall, Diary”; “Thomas Shepard, Autobiography”; “Nathaniel Turner, The Confessions of Nat Turner”; “Alice Walker, The Color Purple.” Kindlers Neues Literatur Lexikon. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009.

“Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father“; “Toni Morrison, A Mercy.” Kindlers Neues Literatur Lexikon. Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Online Supplement, 2009.

“The Left Behind Series, Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye.” The Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction. Ed. Geoff Hamilton and Brian Jones. New York: Facts on File, 2009.

“African American Musicals”; “Jewish American Musicals.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport: Greenwood, 2005. 68-70; 1156-1160.

“James P. Johnson”; “Musical Theater.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature. Ed. Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey. Westport: Greenwood, 2005. 877-879; 1144-1150. 

“A Conversation about Comics and Police Brutality with American Cartoonist Keith Knight.” Gesellschaft für Comicforschung, March 16, 2015. http://www.comicgesellschaft.de/2015/03/16/a-conversation-about-comics-and-police-brutality-with-american-cartoonist-keith-knight/.

“I was writing about racism long before I was making fun of presidents: An Interview with Newspaper Cartoonist Keith Knight.” Studies in Comics 2.2 (2011): 243-56.

Rezensionen

Rev. of Benoît Crucifix, Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Contemporary Graphic Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. In: Amerikastudien/American Studies 70.3 (2025): 368-370.

Rev. of Clare Pettitt, Serial Revolutions 1848: Writing, Politics, Form. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, in European Journal of English Studies 29.2 (2025): 343-49.

Rev. of Darieck Scott, Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics. New York: NYUP, 2022. In: Utopian Studies 36.1 (2025): 318-24.

Rev. of Rebecca Wanzo, The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging. New York: NYUP, 2020. In: Kritikon Litterarum 48.3-4 (2021): 415-19.

“Comics Memory: Between Waste and the Archive.” Rev. of Maaheen Aheed and Benoit Crucifix, eds. Comics Memory: Archives and Styles. Cham: Palgrave, 2018. In: Closure: Kieler e-Journal für Comicforschung 6 (2020): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure6/stein. 

Rev. of Eric D. Lamore, ed., Reading African American Autobiography: Twenty-First Century Contexts and Criticism, Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. In: African American Review 52.3 (2019): 315-17.

Rev. of Nadja Gernalzick and Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez, eds., Transmediality and Transculturality. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. In: Amerikastudien/American Studies 63: (2019): https://dgfa.de/nadja-gernalzick-and-gabriele-pisarz-ramirez-eds-transmediality-and-transculturality-heidelberg-winter-2013-444-pp/.

Rev. of Ramzi Fawaz, The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics, New York: New York UP, 2016. In: The American Literary History Online Review Series XV (May 2018). https://academic.oup.com/DocumentLibrary/ALH/Online%20Review%20Series%2015/15Daniel%20Stein.pdf.

“‘Schwarze‘ Populärkultur.” Sammelrezension. In: Pop: Kultur und Kritik 6.2 (2017): 99-105.

Rev. of Jeff Thoss, When Storyworlds Collide: Metalepsis in Popular Fiction, Film and Comics. Leiden: Brill-Rodopi, 2015. In: Anglia: Journal of English Philology 134.3 (2016): 568-572.

Rev. of Oliver Scheiding and Martin Seidl, eds. Worlding America: A Transnational Anthology of Short Narratives before 1800. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2015. In: Anglistik 27.1 (2016): 185-86.

Rev. of Allen, Robert and Thijs van den Berg, eds. Serialization in Popular Culture. New York: Routledge, 2014. In: Serial Narratives. Ed. Kathleen Loock. Special Issue of Literatur, Wissenschaft und Unterricht XLVII.1/2 (2015). 211-12.

Rev. of Susanne Hamscha, The Fiction of America: Performance and the Cultural Imaginary in Literature and Film. In: Journal of American Studies 48.2 (2014): DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875814000371.  

Rev. of Alexander J. Beissenhirtz, Affirmation and Resistance: The Politics of the Jazz Life in the Self-Narratives of Louis Armstrong, Art Pepper, and Oscar Peterson. In: ZAA Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 61.4 (2013): 413-16.

Rev. of Jared Gardner, Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling. In: Amerikastudien/American Studies 58.1 (2013): 171-74.

Rev. of Matthew Pustz, ed., Comic Books and American Cultural History: An Anthology. In: Appropriating, Interpreting, and Transforming Comic Books. Ed. Matthew J. Costello. Special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures 13 (2013). DOI: https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2013.0478.

Rev. of Frederick Luis Aldama, ed., Multicultural Comics: from Zap to Blue Beetle. In: Gesellschaft für Comicforschung, Dec. 4, 2012. http://www.comicgesellschaft.de/?p=3437.

Rev. of Stephen Knight, The Mysteries of the Cities: Urban Crime Fiction in the Nineteenth Century. In: Clues 30.2 (2012): 109-111.

Rev. of Jörn Ahrens and Arno Meteling, eds., Comics and the City. In: Studies in Comics 1.2 (2010): 387-89.

Rev. of Mark Berninger, Jochen Ecke, and Gideon Haberkorn, eds., Comics as a Nexus of Cultures. In: Studies in Comics 1.2 (2010): 390-92.

Rev. of Vincent Carretta, Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man. In: Wasafiri 48 (2006): 100-01.

Rev. of Andrea Most, Making Americans and John Bush Jones, Our Musicals, Ourselves. In: Amerikastudien/American Studies 51.1 (2006): 127-29.

University of Siegen

• The Shoah in Comics
• American Literary History IV: Postmodernism and Contemporary Literature
• American Literary History III: Realism, Naturalism, Modernism
• American Literary History II: From the Early Republic to the Civil War
• American Literary History I: From Puritanism to the Revolution
• Populäre Serialität: Comics und Heftromane (mit Niels Werber)
• Graphic Narrative and Black Visual Culture
• Archives
• Native American Literature
• Graphic Women
• Superheroes and Visual Culture (Ringvorlesung, mit Joseph Imorde)
• Free Speech on Campus: An American Debate
• Teju Cole: Writing and Photography
• Contemporary Graphic Novels
• Early American Life Writing
• Political Speeches by Black Americans
• Graphic Narrative: Theory and Analysis
• Short Fiction by Southern Women Writers
• Beat Poetry
• Dramatizing Race and Ethnicty in Nineteenth-Century America
• Graphic Narratives of Black History
• The City Mystery Novel
• Musical Autobiographies
• American Cultural History II
• American Cultural History I
• Extra-Ordinarity: Superheroes in Visual Culture
• The U.S. Election
• Forschungskolloquium
• The Films of Michael Moore
• Lecture series "Serien" (mit Niels Werber)
• African American Autobiography
• Gesellschaft in Serie: Superhelden (mit Niels Werber)
• Disaster Drawn: War and Migration in Graphic Narrative
• Contemporary Black Film

• Transmedial Moby Dick

• The City in American Literature and Culture (Late Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century)
• Dramas of Race and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century America
• Early American Life Narratives
• Political Literature and Literary Politics in the Early Republic 
• More Than a Fish Book: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick 
• Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 
• The Graphic Novel in North America and Great Britain 
• The Poetry of the Beat Generation 
• Performing Protest: A Student Symposium
• Theories of the Popular (mit Frank Kelleter und Andreas Jahn-Sudmann)
• Introduction to the Study of American Literature and Culture
• Introduction to American Cultural History I
• Introduction to American Cultural History II: Jazz and American Culture
• American Literature and Culture from the Sixteenth Century to the Revolution
• Realism, Naturalism, Early Modernism: U.S. Literature from the Civil War to the Armory Show"
• U.S. Literature from the Armory Show to the Second World War
• U.S. Literature from the Second World War to the Age of Hegemony
• Doing Research and Composing Papers in American Studies

• Freshmen Composition: Personal Writing
• Freshmen Composition: Writing About Music
• Argumentative Writing: Writing About American Culture
• Literary Studies: Science Fiction

• German Conversation
• Richardson Summer Institute for Language Teachers

2012     Choice Outstanding Academic Title für Music Is My Life: Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2012

2022: Honorable Mention 2021 Best Article Prize, The Comics Studies Society, for “Black Bodies Swinging: Superheroes and the Shadow Archive of Lynching”, Konstruktion und Subversion von Körperbildern im Comic, hg. Irmela Krüger-Fürhoff and Nina Schmidt, Themenheft Closure: Kieler e-Journal für Comicforschung 7.5 (2021): 54-78. http://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure7.5/stein

2014: Honorable Mention Perkins Book Prize, International Socie-ty for the Study of Narrative, for Daniel Stein and Jan-Noël Thon, eds., From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013

2013: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis für außergewöhnliche wissenschaftliche Leistungen. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

2010: Christian-Gottlob-Heyne-Preis für die beste geisteswissenschaftliche Dissertation des Jahres 2009. Graduiertenschule für Geisteswissenschaften Göttingen

2010: Rolf-Kentner-Dissertationspreis für exzellente Arbeiten auf dem Gebiet der Amerikastudien. Heidelberg Center for American Studies

Teilprojekt A01 im SFB 1472 Transformationen des Populären

„Learning about the Shoah Through Narrative Art and Visual Storytelling“– Transnationale Erinnerung in der grafischen Literatur [link kommt noch; Verweis auf Förderung durch das Ministerium]

 (Buchprojekt)

Serial Politicization: 
On the Cultural Work of American City Mysteries (1844-1860)

Part of the DFG-Research Unit “Popular Seriality – Aesthetics and Practice” (2013-2017)

The success of European feuilleton novels (Eugène Sue, Les Mystères de Paris, 1842-1843; George Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, 1844-1846) spawned a new American popular genre: the city mysteries, written between 1844 and 1860 by authors such as George Lippard, Ned Buntline, George Thompson, and Osgood Bradbury. Their thematic concerns and media practices positioned these series as influential players of (and within) an emergent American popular culture in the antebellum era. Utilizing sensationalistic and melodramatic techniques, the city mysteries made a case for social reform at an explicitly national level, thus contributing to the self-reflections of a rapidly modernizing and territorially expanding society. Their thematic repertoire comprised urbanization as fascination and threat, the fate of republican and regional-democratic ideals in a nationalized public sphere, the relationship of populist agitation and party corruption, the exploitation of the working class by powerful capitalists, etc. However, these critical negotiations of antebellum modernity relied on a media practice that itself was essentially modern, viz. serial, commercial, and transregionally active, and that can therefore be seen as an important origin of popular-serial culture in the United States.

The subproject views the city mystery genre as an influential actor within a dynamic network of cultural practices. It investigates (1) an early form of popular seriality at the moment of its explicit advocacy of an imagined national community, holding (2) that, due to their serial production, distribution, and reception, city mysteries not only represent the conflicts of their era but make politics (possible): they structure the field of political agency and participate in the genesis and reproduction of practical politics in the decades before the Civil War. The subproject thus investigates the politicizing dynamics of popular seriality, i.e. the interconnections between serial genre development and modern practices of the political (translocal and transregional party organization, forms of publicity, agitation, etc.), focusing on a compelling but hitherto understudied textual corpus of American literature.

Recent publications such as Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction (Okker 2011) and Serialization in Popular Culture (Allen/van den Berg 2014) remind us that serial modes of storytelling, publication, and reception have been among the driving forces of modern culture since the first half of the nineteenth century. Indeed, as studies of Victorian serial fiction, the French feuilleton novel, and American magazine fiction indicate, much of what we take for granted as central features of contemporary serial fictions traces back to a particular period in the nineteenth century between the 1830s and the 1860s. This is the time when new printing techniques allowed for the mass publication of affordable reading materials, when literary authorship became a viable profession, when reading for pleasure became a popular pastime for increasingly literate and socially diverse audiences, and when previously predominantly national print markets became thoroughly international.

Director: Prof. Dr. Daniel Stein
Doctoral Researcher: Lisanna Wiele, M.A.

Serial Circulation: 
The German-American Mystery Novel and the Beginnings of Transatlantic Modernity (1850-1855)

This project examines the German-language mystery novels by August Gläser, Heinrich Börnstein, Emil Klauprecht, Rudolph Lexow and Ludwig von Reizenstein, which were first serialized in newspapers and later published as books in the USA between 1850 and 1855.

It locates these novels within the international “mysterymania” that followed the sensational success of Eugène Sue’s feuilleton novel Les Mystères de Paris (1842-43), which led to English-language bestsellers in the USA such as George Lippard’s The Quaker City; or The Monks of Monk Hall (1844-45) and George Thompson’s City Crimes; or, Life in New York and Boston (1849), as well as to German-language adaptations such as Die Geheimnisse von St. Louis (Börnstein, 1854-55) and Die Geheimnisse von New Orleans (von Reizenstein, 1854-55).

The project conducts the first comprehensive and systematic analysis of these German-language mystery novels as representatives of a popular serial literature that emerged in the USA around the middle of the 19th century. This literature was locally situated, transregionally connected and transnationally oriented, and it encouraged rapidly growing and increasingly heterogeneous German-language readerships in and beyond specific regions of the USA (Northeast, Midwest, South) to imagine themselves as part of a politically significant community of German-Americans. The project understands this nexus of serial circulation, immigration literature, and popular culture as an expression of a transatlantic modernity that emerged in the mid-19th century and to whose development the mystery novels made a hitherto underestimated contribution.

The project investigates the literary and cultural significance of these urban mystery novels through a comparative analysis of the texts, their paratexts and their publication contexts. Based on findings from Nineteenth-Century Studies and German American Studies and in conjunction with approaches from Book History and Periodical Studies, it develops the concept of serial circulation, differentiated into forms of narrative, periodical, and cultural circulation. It overcomes an earlier filiopietist interest in German heritage in the USA and expands established literary studies approaches to discern popular serial transatlantic encounters and new forms of cultural mobility between Germany and the USA around 1850.
(funded by the German Research Foundation, 2021-2024)

Director: Prof. Dr. Daniel Stein
Doctoral Researcher: Maxi Albrecht, M.A.

• 1. Buch: Dark Like You: Zur medienreflexiven Modernität der Kinder- und Jugendzeitschrift The Brownies‘ Book (1920-1921). Reihe Siegen. Beiträge zur Literatur-, Sprach- und Medienwissenschaft. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter [schicke ich noch].
  2. Buchaufsatz: “Breaking Out of Confinement: Black History in African American Picturebooks for Children.” Narratives of Confinement in American Literature. Ed. Firuze Güzel. Anglia Book Series. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. 157-78.
  3. Vorträge:
     “Archiving Black History in Picturebooks for Children.” Workshop “Archive and Genre,“ Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 11 July 2025.
     "Periodical Perceptions of Black Life: The Brownies' Book and African American Modernism", Universität Graz, 23 January 2026.

Annemarie Klimke, Universität Siegen: „Zur Darstellung und Funktion von Emotion in US-amerikanischen Super-held*innencomics“ [publiziert als Super-Emotionen: Eine emotionstheoretische Betrachtung des Superheld*innengenres im Comic, De Gruyter Brill, im Druck]

2024: Lia Roxana Donadon, Universität Siegen: „Im Kreuzfeuer des Zeitgeistes. Gesellschaftskritische Diskurse im argentinischen Tango und Comic des 20. Jahrhunderts“ 

[publiziert als Tango und Comic. Zur Kulturpoetik von Discepolín und Quino im Argentinien der „década infame“ und der „década rebelde“, Universi Verlag Siegen, 2025].

2022: Nao Tomabechi, Universität Siegen: „The Significance of Supervillains in American Superhero Comics“ [publiziert als Supervillains: The Significance of Evil in Superhero Comics, Rutgers University Press, 2025].