Publikationen
Bücher
Transatlantic Cinema: Productions – Genres – Encounters – Negotiations. Eds. Karsten Fitz and Jürgen Kamm. Pataviensia, Passauer Arbeiten zur Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft Bd3. Passau: Ralf Schuster Verlag, 2020.
Cultures of Privacy: Paradigms, Transformations, Contestations. Eds. Karsten Fitz and Bärbel Harju. Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie / Publications of the Bavarian American Academy 17. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015. Print.
- Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Indigenous Studies: Native North America in (Trans)Motion. Ed. Karsten Fitz (with Birgit Däwes and Sabine Meyer). Routledge Research in Transnational Indigenous Perspectives 1. London, New York: Routledge, 2015.
- Visual Representations of Native Americans: Transnational Contexts and Perspectives. Ed. Karsten Fitz. American Studies - A Monograph Series, Vol. 186. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012.
- The American Revolution Remembered, 1830s to 1850s:Competing Images and Conflicting Narratives. American Studies - A Monograph Series, Vol. 186. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2010. 337pp.
- Negotiating History and Culture: Transculturation in Contemporary Native American Fiction. Frankfurt: Lang. Regensburger Arbeiten zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik 43, 2001. 225 pp.
Buchreihe
- Routledge Research in Transnational Indigenous Perspectives Series (together with Birgit Däwes and Sabine N. Meyer)
Themenheft
- Guest Editor (together with Klaus-Dieter Gross) of "Early American Visual Culture." Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies 50.3 (2005).
- Fitz, Karsten, und Florian Zitzelberger. "Viral Media: American Studies, Media Literacy, and the COVID-19 Pandemic." Innovative Lehrkräftebildung, Digitally Enhanced. Pressbooks, 2023. https://oer.pressbooks.pub/skilldeopenbook/chapter/viral-media-american-studies-media-literacy-and-the-covid-19-pandemic/
- „Zwischen »Mother of Exiles« und »Build the Wall Act (2018)«: U.S.-amerikanische Einwanderungskonzepte im Spiegel der Zeit.“ Migration, das finde ich… Multidisziplinäre Perspektiven auf ein allgegenwärtiges Phänomen. Hrsg. Christina Hansen und Julia Ricart Brede. Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2023. 61-90.
- Fitz, Karsten. “Roland Emmerich’s The Patriot and the British Other: The End of the Cinematic ‘Special Relationship’?” Mentalities and Materialities: Essays in Honour of Jürgen Kamm. Eds. Philip Jacobi and Anette Pankratz. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2021. 217-229.
- Fitz, Karsten. „Deutsch-amerikanische transatlantische Beziehungen: Ikonische Bilder im Wandel?“ Kulturwirtschaft: Themen – Methoden – Perspektiven. Hrsg. Jürgen Kamm. Passau: Ralf Schuster Verlag, 2021. 255-274.
- Fitz, Karsten. “‘Things are different now’: Identitätspolitik in der Postapokalypse der TV-Serie The Walking Dead.“ Mediale Strukturen – Strukturelle Medialität: Konzeptionen, Semantiken und Funktionen medialer Weltentwürfe in Literatur, Film und anderen Künsten. Hrsg. Jan-Oliver Decker, Dennis Gräf, Stephanie Großmann und Martin Nies. Kiel: Ludwig, 2021. 424-438.
Fitz, Karsten. “The Visual Aesthetics of Privacy in American Presidential Politics and its Transatlantic Influence.” The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies. Eds. Nina Morgan, Alfred Hornung, and Takayuki Tatsumi. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. 232-53.
"The Staging of Privacy in U.S. Presidential Electoral Campaigns."Die gespaltenen Staaten von Amerika – Die Wahl Donald Trumps und die Folgen für Politik und Gesellschaft. Eds. Winand Gellner and Michael Oswald. Wiesbaden: Springer VS Verlag, 2018. 71-98.
- "Playing Cowboys and Indians in the Bavarian Forest: Pullman City, 'the Living Western Town'."German-American Encounters in Bavaria and Beyond, 1945-2015. Eds. Birgit M. Bauridl, Ingrid Gessner, and Udo J. Hebel. New York: Peter Lang, 2018. 247-66.
- "Interdisziplinäre Grundlagen der Information and Media Literacy (IML): Theoretische Begründung und (hochschul-)didaktische Realisierung – Ein Positionspapier." Themenheft "Information and Media Literacy – Die Medialität der Welterschließung in Theorie und Lehrpraxis an der Universität Passau."PAradigma: Beiträge aus Forschung und Lehre aus dem Zentrum für Lehrerbildung und Fachdidaktik. Universität Passau, 2018. 9-129.
- “Latino Culture: Kulturelle Produktion und Identität in den Borderlands.” Kulturgeographie USA: Eine Nation begreifen. Hrsg. Werner Gamerith und Ulrike Gerhard. Berlin: Springer Spektrum, 2017. 81-89.
- "'Privatizing the White House': American Presidents and the Visual Aesthetics of Privacy."Cultures of Privacy: Paradigms, Transformations, Contestations. Ed. Karsten Fitz and Bärbel Harju. Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie / Publications of the Bavarian American Academy 17. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015. 117-141. Print.
- "Cultures of Privacy: An Introduction." Cultures of Privacy: Paradigms, Transformations, Contestations. Ed. Karsten Fitz and Bärbel Harju. Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie / Publications of the Bavarian American Academy 17. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015. 1-13. Print.
- "Crafting the Presidential Story: The Electoral Narrative in Recent Presidential Campaigns." Electoral Cultures: American Democracy and Choice. Publications of the Bavarian American Academy 16. Ed. Georgiana Banita and Sacha Pöhlmann. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015. 307-322.
- "Initiation and Cultural Identity in Sherman Alexie’s Young Adult Fiction." The Journey of Life in American Fiction. American Studies: A Monograph Series 260. Ed. Peter Freese. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015. 205-218.
"Introduction." Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Indigenous Studies: Native North America in (Trans)Motion. Ed. Birgit Däwes, Karsten Fitz, and Sabine Meyer. Routledge Research in Transnational Indigenous Perspectives 1. London, New York: Routledge, 2015. 1-13.
- "Re-Claiming the Images that 'Hijacked Our Imagination': American Literary Responses to 9/11." Deconstructing Terrorism: 9/11, 7/7, and Contemporary Culture. Passauer Arbeiten zur Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft (PALK) 11. Ed. Jürgen Kamm, Jürgen Kramer and Bernd Lenz. Passau: Stutz, 2013. 149-168.
- "Transnational Contexts of and Perspectives on Studying Visual Representations of Native Americans: An Introduction.” Visual Representations of Native Americans: Transnational Contexts and Perspectives. Ed. Karsten Fitz. American Studies – A Monograph Series 218. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012. 1-12.
- "The Personification of the Minuteman: George Washington and Israel Putnam as Iconic Yeoman Farmers in the Antebellum U.S." American Cultural Icons: The Production of Representative Lives. Ed. Bernd Engler and Günter Leypoldt. Würzburg: Könighausen und Neumann, 2010. 317-339.
- "Employing the Strategy of Transculturation: Colonial Migration and Postcolonial Interpretation in Diane Glancy’s Novel Pushing the Bear." The Salt Companion to Diane Glancy. Ed. James Mackay. Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2009. 98-110. [rpt. of "Employing the Strategy of Transculturation: Colonial Migration and Postcolonial Interpretation in Diane Glancy’s Novel Pushing the Bear." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 49.3 (2001): 224-32.]
- "George Washington as Cincinnatus in Antebellum Visual Culture." Americanisms: Discourses of Exception, Exclusion, Exchange. Ed. Michael Steppat. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2009. 153-170.
- "Going Native and the Vanishing Indian: Native Americans on the Screen in Transnational Perspective." Native Americans and First Nations: A Transnational Challenge. Ed. Christian Feest and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz. Paderborn: Schönigh, 2009. 63-80.
- "Between Victimhood and Patriotism: Competing Visual Representations of Female Participation in the American Revolution During the Mid-19th Century." The Merits of Memory: Concepts, Contexts, Debates. Ed. Hansjürgen Grabbe and Sabine Schindler. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008. 329-52.
- "'A fighting army of amazones...armed with spinning wheels': The Politicization of Female Sociability in the American Colonies during the Revolutionary Period." Einsamkeit und Geselligkeit um 1800. Ed. Susanne Schmid. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008. 41-52.
- "'Der Wilde' als Mythos in der deutschen kulturellen Wahrnehmung." Mythen Europas — Schlüsselfiguren der Imagination: Das 19. Jahrhundert. Hrsg. Michael Neumann. Regensburg: Pustet, 2008. 122-41.
- "Screen Indians in the EFL-Classroom: Transnational Perspectives." Ethnic Visions of the United States of America. Ed. Peter Freese. American Studies Journal (2008).
- "Native American Literature as a Transcultural and Multimedia Experience: Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues" (together with Klaus-Dieter Gross). Special issue "Didactics and/in American Studies." Ed. Gerhard Bach and Jürgen Donnerstag. Amerikastudien/American Studies 52.3 (2007): 417-443.
- "The Düsseldorf Academy of Art, Emanuel Leutze, and German American Transatlantic Exchange in the Mid-Nineteenth Century." Special issue "Transatlantic Perspectives on American Visual Culture." Guest ed. Astrid Böger and Christof Decker. Amerikastudien/American Studies 51.1 (2007): 15-34.
- "Commemorating Crispus Attucks: Visual Memory and the Representations of the Boston Massacre, 1770-1857." Spec. issue "Early American Visual Culture." Guest ed. Karsten Fitz and Klaus-Dieter Gross. Amerikastudien/American Studies 50.3 (2005): 463-84.
- Introduction. Spec. issue "Early American Visual Culture." Guest ed. Karsten Fitz and Klaus-Dieter Gross. Amerikastudien/American Studies 50.3 (2005). 427-30.
- "Contested Space: Washington Crossing the Delaware as a Site of American Cultural Memory." Space in America: Theory, History, Culture. Eds. Klaus Benesch and Kerstin Schmid. Architechture, Technology, Culture 1. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. 557-79.
- "Teaching the Commemoration of the American Revolution: Competing Narratives in Visual Representations." Visual Culture in the American Studies Classroom: Proceedings of the U.S. Embassy Teacher Academy 2003. Ed. Udo J. Hebel and Martina Kohl. Vienna: U.S. Embassy, 2005. 43-74.
- "Portraying the American Revolution: Paintings of George Washington Crossing the Delaware as Sites of National and Cultural Memory." American Portraits and Self-Portraits. Ed. Jerzy Durczak. Publication by the Polish Association for American Studies. Lublin, Poland: Maria Curie-Sklodowska UP, 2002. 151-164.
- "The Native American Trickster as Global and Transcultural 'Principle' in Gerald Vizenor's The Heirs of Columbus." "Global Fictions." Eds. Alfred Hornung and Rüdiger Kunow. Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies 47.2 (2002): 157-167.
- "'Native and Christian': Religion and Spirituality as Transcultural Negotiation in American Indian Novels of the 1990s." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 26.2 (2002): 1-15.
- "Employing the Strategy of Transculturation: Colonial Migration and Postcolonial Interpretation in Diane Glancy’s Novel Pushing the Bear." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 49.3 (2001): 224-32.
- "Bridging the Gap: Strategies of Survival in James Welch's Novels." American Indian Culture and Reseach Journal 20.1 (1996): 131-146.
- "Publications in American Studies from German-Speaking Countries, 2003." Amerikastudien/American Studies 49.2 (2004): 271-307.
- "Publications in American Studies from German-Speaking Countries, 2004." Amerikastudien/American Studies 50.2 (2005): 367-417.
- "Publications in American Studies from German-Speaking Countries, 2005." Amerikastudien/American Studies 51.2 (2006): 263-98.
- "Publications in American Studies from German-Speaking Countries, 2006." Amerikastudien/American Studies 52.2 (2007): 271-308.
- 2000 - 2007: Assistant Editor of Amerikastudien/American Studies: A Quarterly. Journal of the German Association for American Studies. Gen. Ed. Udo. J. Hebel.
- 2000 - 2008: Co-editor of COPAS (Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies in Germany), an E-Journal, published at the University of Regensburg, 7 Vols.
Mitgliedschaften
- American Studies Association
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien (DGfA)
- European Association for American Studies (EAAS)
- Bavarian-American Academy (BAA)
- Deutscher Hochschulverband (dhv)
- Bayreuth Institute of American Studies (affiliated member)