Publications

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Articles in Books

• “‘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

• “Prekäre Erinnerung: Superhelden und Verschwörungstheorien im Superheldencomic Captain America.” Verschwörungstheorien und alternative Wissenskulturen. Hg. Noyan Dinçkal, Bärbel Kuhn, Matthias Weipert. Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften. Eingereicht.
• “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): 7-23. forthcoming.
• “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).
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• "Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father and African American Literature." European Journal of American Studies 1, document 7 (2011).
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• “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.
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• "'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, eingereicht.
• ---, 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, accepted.
• “Racialized Lines: Stereotypes in Comics.” The Cambridge Companion to Comics. Ed. Maaheen Ahmed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, accepted.
• “Autobiography.” Jazz and American Culture. Ed. Michael Borshuk. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, accepted.
• ---, and Lukas Etter. “Archives and Archivists: Comics as Forms of Serial Storytelling.” Handbook of Comics and Graphic Novels. Ed. Dirk Vanderbeke, Sebastian Domsch, Dan Hassler-Forrest. Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming.
• ---, 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 UP, 2018. 39-58.
• “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 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).
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• “‘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).
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• Frederick Luis Aldama (ed.), Multicultural Comics: from Zap to Blue Beetle, Dec. 3, 2012, Gesellschaft für Comicforschung.
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• 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.