Publications
Monographs
- Strange Fruit and Bitter Roots: Black History in Contemporary Graphic Narrative.
Under contract with University Press of Mississippi.
- Authorizing Superhero Comics: On the Evolution of a Serial Genre.
Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2021. [peer review]
Reviews: - Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (Mar. 9. 2022).
- International Journal of Comic Art 23.2 (2021): 551-556.
- CuCo: Cuadernos de comic 17 (2021).
- Recensions d’ouvrages de recherche en bande dessinée (June 7, 2022).
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- Anglia: Journal of English Philology 3/4 (2022): 670-674
- Studies in Comics 13.1/2 (2022): 169-173.
- Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 14.1 (2023): 164-66.
- The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 117.1 (2023): 127-29.
- Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society 7.2 (2023): 196-99.
- ImageTexT 14.2 (2023)
- Music Is My Life: Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012. [peer review]
Reviews: - Popular Music and Society 36.5 (2013): 704-706.
- Jazz Research News 42 (2013).
- Fontes Artis Musicae 60.4 (2013): 359-361.
- Popular Music 33.1 (2014): 173-175.
- Amerikastudien/American Studies 62.1 (2017), 26-27.
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Edited Books and Journal Issues
- ---, and Niels Werber, ed., New Perspectives on Pop Culture. Special issue of Arts (2023):
New Perspectives on Pop Culture. Special issue of Arts.
- ---, 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. - Google Books Preview
- ---, Andreas Rauscher, and Jan-Noël Thon, eds.
Comics and Videogames: Hybrid Medialities and Transmedia Expansions
London: Routledge, 2020.
Reviews: - Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (7 July 2022).
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- ---, Cathy C. Waegner, Geoffroy de Laforcade, and Page R. Laws, eds.
Migration, Diaspora, Exile: Narratives of Affiliation and Escape
Lanham: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. - Google Books Preview
- ---, and Lisanna Wiele, eds.
Nineteenth-Century Serial Narrative in Transnational Perspective, 1830s-1860s: Popular Culture – Serial Culture.
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. - Google Books Preview
- ---, Lukas Etter, and Michael Chaney, eds.
Transnational Graphic Narratives.
Special Section of International Journal of Comic Art 20.1 (Spring 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).
- ---, and Jan-Noël Thon, eds.
From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative.
Narratologia 37.
Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013 (paperback 2015).
Reviews: - Komparatistik: Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 3 (2013): 165-167.
- KULT_online 36 (2013).
- MEDIENwissenschaft 4 (2013): 445-447.
- Image [&] Narrative 14.4 (2013): 60-62.
- Diegesis 3.1 (2014): 82-88.
- European Comic Art 7.1 (2014): 112-116.
- ImageTexT 7.3 (2014).
- ImageTexT 7.4 (2014).
- Anglia 133.2 (2015): 411–415.
- Poetics Today 36.4 (2015): 570-572.
- Style 49.3 (2015).
- Scandinavian Journal of Comic Art 2.1 (2015).
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- ---, Shane Denson, and Christina Meyer, eds.
Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads.
London: Bloomsbury, 2013 (paperback 2015). [peer review]
Reviews: - ImageText: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies 8.1 (2015).
- Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 5.2 (2014): 236-239.
- European Journal of Comic Art 7.1 (2014): 118-120.
- Google Books Preview
- ---, Micha Edlich, and Christina Meyer, eds.
American Comic Books and Graphic Novels.
Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies 56.4 (2011).
- ---, Stephan Ditschke, and Katerina Kroucheva, eds.
Comics: Zur Geschichte und Theorie eines populärkulturellen Mediums.
Bielefeld: Transcript, 2009.
Reviews: - interjuli: Internationale Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung 2 (2010): 109-114.
- Amerikastudien/American Studies 56.3 (2011): 491-494.
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- ---, and Frank Kelleter, eds.
American Studies as Media Studies.
Heidelberg: Winter, 2008.
Reviews: - MEDIENwissenschaft 3/2009: 267-268.
- Journal of American Studies 45.4 (2011).
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Articles in Books
- “Zur Dialektik Batmans queerer Popularität: Ein Annäherungsversuch.” Der Comic und das Populäre. Ed. Joachim Trinkwitz and Rolf Lohse. Berlin: Bachmann, forthcoming.
- “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, forthcoming.
- “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, forthcoming.
- “Empathy Through Dissonant Beauty: Songs by Steve Earle.” Americana: Aestehtics, Authenticity, and Performance in US Popular Music. Ed. Knut Holtsträter and Sascha Pöhlmann. Münster: Waxman, forthcoming.
- “Einleitung: un/familar super(s)heroes: Superheld*innen zwischen Familienalltag und Ausnahmezustand.” Familie und Comics: Kritische Perspektiven auf soziale Mikrostrukturen in grafischen Narrationen. Hg. Véronique Sina, Barbara Eggert und Kalina Kupczynska. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2023. 171-76.
- “‘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 eds., 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 eds., 2022. 1-17.
- ---, Andreas Rauscher, and Jan-Noël Thon. “Introduction: Comics and Videogames.” Comics and Videogames: From Hybrid Medialities to Transmedia Extensions. 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.
- “Zur Dialektik Batmans queerer Popularität: Ein Annäherungsversuch.” Der Comic und das Populäre. Hg. Joachim Trinkwitz und Rolf Lohse. Berlin: Bachmann, forthcoming 2021.
- Der Comic, das Archiv und das Populäre: Zwei Erklärungsversuche“. Comics & Archive. Hg. Felix Giesa und Anne Stemmann. Berlin: Bachmann, 2021. 7-70.
- “Contesting Couternarratives of Crime and Justicein US-American Superhero Comics.” Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment. Ed. Martina Althoff, Bernd Dollinger, and Holger Schmidt. Palgrave: Macmillan, 2020. 139-60.
- ---, 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: Lexington Books, 2020. 1-18.
- “Recuperating the Black Family in Graphic Narrative: Tom Feelings’s The Middle Passage and Kyle Baker’s Nat Turner.” Migration, Diaspora, Exile: Narratives of Affiliation and Escape. Ed. Daniel Stein, Cathy Waegner, Page Laws, and Geoffroy de Laforcade. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020. 21-41.
- Migration, Diaspora, Exile: Narratives of Affiliation and Escape. Ed. Daniel Stein, Cathy Waegner, Page Laws, and Geoffroy de Laforcade. Lanham: Lexington Books, forthcoming 2020.
- ---, 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 American: 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.
- “Gaps as Significant Absences: The Case of Serial Comics.” Significant Absence: Gaps in Signifiers across Media. Ed. Nassim Winnie Balestrini, Walter Bernhart, and Werner Wolf. Studies in Intermediality 11. Leiden: Brill/Rodopi, 2019. 126-155.
- “Graphic Musical Biography: An Intermedial Case of Musico-Comical Life Writing.” Intermediality and Life Writing. Ed. Nassim Winnie Balestrini and Ina Bergmann. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018. 119-146.
- “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. München: Kopaed, 2018. 25-37.
- “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 UP, 2017. 53-73.
- “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.
- “Adapting Melville: Bill Sienkiewicz’s Moby-Dick.” Übersetzungen und Adaptionen von Comics. Ed. Nicole Mälzer. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2015. 177-97.
- "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.
- "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.
- "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: Lang, 2013. 91-115.
- with Jan 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.
- with 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 Transnational 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.
- with Frank Kelleter. "Autorisierungspraktiken seriellen Erzählens: Zur Gattungsentwicklung von Superheldencomics." Populäre Serialität: Narration-Evolution-Distinktion. Zum seriellen Erzählen seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. Hg. Frank Kelleter. Bielefeld: transcript, 2012. 259-290.
- "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.
- "The Comic Modernism of George Herriman". Crossing Boudaries in Graphic Narratives: Essays on Forms, Series, and Genres. Ed. Jake Jakaitis and James F. Wurtz. Jefferson: McFarland, 2012. 40-70.
- "Teaching Poetry Through Song Adaptation: Abel Meeropol’s and Billie Holiday’s 'Strange Fruit'". Adaptation and American Studies: Perspectives on Research and Teaching. Ed. Nassim Winnie Balestrini. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011. 171-94. PDF-Download.
- "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. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011. 205-225. PDF-Download.
- with 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.
- with 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 Selbstporträts und autobiografischen Comics." Comics: Zur Geschichte und Theorie eines populärkulturellen Mediums. Ed. Stephan Ditschke, Katerina Kroucheva, and Daniel Stein. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2009. 201-237. PDF-Download.
- "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. 149-162.
- “From Text-Centered Intermediality to Cultural Intermediality; or, How to Make Intermedia Studies more Cultural.” American Studies as Media Studies. Ed. Frank Kelleter and Daniel Stein. Heidelberg: Winter, 2008. 181-190. PDF-Download.
- with Frank Kelleter. “American Studies as Media Studies.” American Studies as Media Studies. Ed. Frank Kelleter and Daniel Stein. Heidelberg: Winter, 2008. ix-xvi.
- “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: UP 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. 263-282.
- “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.
Articles in Journals
- ---, 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.
- ---, 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.”]
- “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.
- “Diasporic Archives and the Popular: The Case of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Black Panther.” 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.
- Niels, Werber, Jörg Döring, Daniel Stein, et al. “Was bei Vielen Beachtung findet: Zu den Transformationen des Populären.” Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 6.2 (2021): 1-14.
- “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.
- “The Superhero and the Shadow Archive of Lynching.” Special Issue Comic – Kunst – Körper. Ed. Irmela Fürhoff-Krüger and Nina Schmidt. Kieler e-Journal für Comicforschung, forthcoming 2021.
- "What's in an Archive: Cursory Observations and Serendipitous Reflections." Archives. Ed. Daniel Stein. Special Issue of Anglia 138.3 (2020): 337-54.
- “Lessons in Graphic Non-Fiction: John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell's March and Civil Rights Pedagogy.” Journal of American Studies
- “‘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. https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2019-0002.
- “Bodies in Transition: Queering the Comic Book Superhero.” Queer(ing) Popular Culture. Ed. Sebastian Zilles. Special Issue of Navigationen 18.1: (2018): 15-38.
- “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. https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure3/stein.
- „Erzähl es noch einmal: Was machen wir mit Serien, und was machen sie mit uns?“ Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 27.8.2016.
- ---, Judith Ackermann, and Andreas Rauscher. “Introduction: 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).
- “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.
- “From Uncle Remus to Song of the South: Adapting American Plantation Fictions.” Southern Literary Journal 47.2 (2015): 20-35. PDF-Download.
- ---, 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.
- “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).
- with Christina Meyer and Micha Edlich. "American Comic Books and Graphic Novels." American Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies 56.4 (2011): 501-29.
- "'I was writing about racism long before I was making fun of presidents': An Interview with Cartoonist Keith Knight." Studies in Comics 2.2 (2011): 243-56. PDF-Download.
- "Negotiating Primitivist Modernisms: Louis Armstrong, Robert Goffin, and the Transatlantic Jazz Debate." Oslo Conference Special Issue. European Journal of American Studies 2, document 8 (2011).
Online Access - "Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father and African American Literature." European Journal of American Studies 1, document 7 (2011).
Online Access - “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 (fall 2010): 291-308.
- "The Things That Jes' Grew? The Blues "I" and African-American Autobiographies.” Interdisciplinary Humanities, Special Issue Blues and Jazz, 26.2 (fall 2006): 43-54. PDF-Download.
- "Hearing, Seeing, and Reading Thelonious Monk: Toward a Theory of Changing Iconotexts." Amerikastudien/American Studies 50.4 (2005): 603-627. PDF-Download.
- "The Performance of Jazz Autobiography." Blue Notes: Toward a New Jazz Discourse. Ed. Mark Osteen. Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 37.2 (2004): 173-199.
Download - "'I Ain’t Never Seen A Nigger’: The Discourse of Denial in Lee Smith’s The Devil’s Dream." European Journal of American Culture 22.2 (2003): 139-157. PDF-Download.
Online Publications and Blog Entries
- “A Conversation about Comics and Police Brutality with American Cartoonist Keith Knight.” Gesellschaft für Comicforschung, March 16, 2015.
- Stein, Daniel. "Unzuverlässiges Erzählen in Comicserien." Mar. 28, 2013. Gesellschaft für Comicforschung.
- "Daniel Stein on Louis Armstrong earning a place on Time Magazine’s list of the 20 most influential Americans." University of Michigan Press Blog, July 30, 2012.
- "Press author Daniel Stein on Armstrong, autobiographics, and a Disney alligator." University of Michigan Press Blog, May 22, 2012.
- "Authorizing Alternative Authorships: The Popular Serialities of Superhero Blockbuster Spoofs." In Media Res. Theme Week "Popular Seriality." Dec. 16, 2011.
- "Comicwissenschaft in Deutschland: Ein Einschätzungsversuch von Daniel Stein." Jan. 2, 2012, Gesellschaft für Comicforschung.
- "Comics Studies in Germany: Where It’s At and Where It Might Be Heading." The Comics Forum. Comicsforum.org, 07. Nov. 2011. Web.
- "Comic-Projekte der DFG-Forschungsgruppe 'Ästhetik und Praxis populärer Serialität,'" Oct. 10, 2011, Gesellschaft für Comicforschung.
- "Die Comic Art Collection der Michigan State University – ein kurzer Bericht," Aug. 15, 2011, Gesellschaft für Comicforschung.
Handbook and Encyclopedia Entries
- ---, und Jasmin Wrobel. “Transversalität.” Handbuch Comicforschung. Hg. Stephan Packard, Juliane Blank, Janina Wildfeuer und Christian Bachmann. Berlin: De Gruyter, angenommen.
- “Jazz Autobiography.” Jazz and American Culture. Ed. Michael Borshuk. Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 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. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. 121-40.
- “Amerikanistik.” Handbuch Popkultur. Ed. Thomas Hecken und Marcus S. Kleiner. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2017. 349-353.
- ---, and Lukas Etter. “Comictheorie und Forschungspositionen.” Comics und Graphic Novels: Eine Einführung. Ed. Julia Abel and Christian Klein. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2015. 107-126.
- "Comics and Graphic Novels.” Intermediality: Literature–Image–Sound–Music. Ed. Gabriele Rippl. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. 420-438.
- "The Singing Detective." Klassiker der Fernsehserie. Ed. Thomas Klein and Christian Hißnauer. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2012. 190-195.
- "Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father,” “Toni Morrison, A Mercy,” “James Purdy, erzählerisches Werk,” Kindlers Neues Literatur Lexikon (Online Supplement). Ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2010.
- "The Left Behind Series, Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye.” The Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction. Ed. Geoff Hamilton and Brian Jones. New York: Facts on File, 2009.
- "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.
- "African American Musicals"; "Jewish American Musicals." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, Conn.: 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, Conn.: Greenwood, 2005. 877-879; 1144-1150.
Reviews
- Rev. of Darieck Scott, Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics. New York: NYUP, 2022. Utopian Studies, forthcoming.
- Rev. of Rebecca Wanzo, The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging. New York: NYUP, 2020. 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. Closure: Kieler e-Journal für Comicforschung 6 (2020)
- 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. 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 63.3 (2019).
- Rev. of Ramzi Fawaz, The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics, New York: New York UP, 2016. The ALH Online Review Series XV (May 2018).
PDF-Download - “‘Schwarze‘ Populärkultur.” 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 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. 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: 10.1017/S0021875814000371.
- 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.
- Jared Gardner, Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling. Amerikastudien/American Studies 58.1 (2013): 171-74.
- Susanne Hamscha, The Fiction of America: Performance and the Cultural Imaginary in Literature and Film. In: Journal of American Studies 48.2 (2014): doi: 10.1017/S0021875814000371.
- Matthew Pustz (ed.), Comic Books and American Cultural History: An Anthology. Transformative Works and Cultures (2013).
Online access - Frederick Luis Aldama (ed.), Multicultural Comics: from Zap to Blue Beetle, Dec. 3, 2012, Gesellschaft für Comicforschung.
PDF-Download - Stephen Knight, The Mysteries of the Cities: Urban Crime Fiction in the Nineteenth Century. Clues: A Journal of Detection 30.2 (2012): 109-11.
- Jörn Ahrens and Arno Meteling (ed.), Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence. Studies in Comics 1.2 (2010): 387-89.
- Mark Berninger, Jochen Ecke, and Gideon Haberkorn (ed.), Comics as a Nexus of Cultures: Essays on the Interplay of Media, Disciplines and International Perspectives. Studies in Comics 1.2 (2010): 390-92.
- Vincent Carretta, Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man. Wasafiri 48 (2006): 100-101.
- Andrea Most, Making Americans and John Bush Jones, Our Musicals, Ourselves. Amerikastudien/American Studies 51.1 (2006): 127-129.