Publications
Monograph
Carlyle, Emerson and the Transatlantic Uses of Authority: Literature, Print, Performance. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. [hardback 2021; paperback 2023]
Edited Books and Special Issues
Aktuelle Perspektiven der Romantikforschung: Theorien, Methoden, Lektüren. [Current Perspectives in Romantic Studies: Theories, Methods, Readings] Berlin/Heidelberg: J. B. Metzler. [co-edited with Frederike Middelhoff and Rahel Villinger] [in preparation]
Cultural Heritage and the Literary Archive: Objects, Institutions, and Practices between the Analogue and the Digital. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. [forthcoming]
Institutions of Authorship: Publishing, Gatekeeping, and Patronage in the Modern Literary Field. Special Issue of Authorship 11.1 (2022). [co-edited with Philipp Löffler]
Transatlantic Literary Authority: Material Networks, Symbolic Economies. Special Issue of Symbiosis: Transatlantic Literary & Cultural Relations 25.1 (2021).
Journal Articles
“Reading Traces: Shakespeare’s (Fake) Library, Book Ownership, and Historical Evidence.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 160 (2024): 104–19.
“Romantic Objects, Victorian Collections: Scribal Relics and the Authorial Body.” Literature Compass 21.1–3 (2024).
“Diasporic Papers: Nobel Laureates and the Global Archive Economy.” Journal of World Literature 8.4 (2023): 500–19.
“Gleichgeschaltete Philologie: Anglistische Romantikforschung im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland.” [“Coopted Philology: English Romantic Studies in National Socialist Germany”] Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 260.2 (2023): 310–26.
“Writers, Manuscripts, Collectors: Modern Authorship and the Fin-de-Siècle Origins of the Literary Archive.” Authorship 11.1 (2022).
“Introduction: Institutions of Authorship.” Authorship 11.1 (2022). [co-authored with Philipp Löffler]
“‘Far More Deeply Interfused’: ‘Tintern Abbey’ between Burkean and Kantian Sublimity.” Romanticism 28.1 (2022): 12–23.
“Vergehendes Erzählen: Philosophische, psychologische und narratologische Dimensionen des Zeitbegriffs in Thomas Manns Der Zauberberg.” [“Transient Storytelling: Philosophical, Psychological, and Narratological Dimensions of Time in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain”] German Quarterly 95.1 (2022): 19–37.
“Narratives of Contagion: Infectious Diseases and Literary Spatiality from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century.” Comparatio 13.2 (2021): 335–54. [co-authored with Erik Schilling]
“Embedded Authorship: Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nineteenth-Century ‘Transatlantic Bibliopoly.’” Book History 24.2 (2021): 352–80.
“Transatlantic Exchanges and the Shifting ‘Geography of the Word’: Two New Letters from Emerson to Carlyle.” New England Quarterly 94.2 (2021): 265–81.
“Cultural (Inter-)Nationalism: Orestes Brownson and the World Republic of Letters.” ESQ 67.1 (2021): 1–37.
“Material Exchange, Symbolic Recognition: Weltliteratur as Discourse and Practice in Goethe, Carlyle, and Emerson.” Publications of the English Goethe Society 90.1 (2021): 53–71.
“Introduction: Transatlantic Literary Authority between the Material and the Symbolic.” Symbiosis: Transatlantic Literary & Cultural Relations 25.1 (2021): 7–20.
“Between Aura and Access: Artefactuality, Institutionality, and the Allure of the Archival.” Anglia 138.3 (2020): 384–403.
“Canon, Corpus, Archive: Selection and Valuation from the Eighteenth Century to the Digital Humanities.” Anglistik 31.2 (2020): 53–68.
“Carlyle, Charles Robson, and the Printing of Latter-Day Pamphlets.” Notes and Queries 66.2 (2019): 296–300.
“Transatlantic Endorsement, Metatextual Patronage: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Review(s) of Thomas Carlyle’s The French Revolution.” Carlyle Studies Annual 33 (2018/2019): 107–23.
“‘Always as a Means, Never as an End’: Orestes Brownson’s ‘Transcendentalist’ Criticism and the Uses of the Literary.” New England Quarterly 90.3 (2017): 442–72.
“Wordsworth’s Nineteenth-Century American Critics.” The Wordsworth Circle 48.3 (2017): 178–83.
“Deceptive Signification: Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, and Eighteenth-Century Hermit Discourse.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 64.4 (2016): 385–98.
“‘If It Were in My Power to Help You’: Victorian Literary Patronage in Four Unpublished Thomas Carlyle Letters.” Harvard Library Bulletin 27.3 (2016): 120–40.
“Economies of Value: Emerson, Thoreau, and the (Literary) Market.” Oxford Research in English 3 (2016): 42–53.
Book Chapters
“Emerson and Carlyle: Race and (Anti-)Slavery.” The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ed. Christopher Hanlon. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 193–207. [forthcoming]
“Übersetzung, aemulatio, literarischer Kosmopolitismus: Britische und deutsche Shakespeare-Rezeption im späten achtzehnten und frühen neunzehnten Jahrhundert.” [“Translation, Aemulatio, Literary Cosmopolitanism: The British and German Reception of Shakespeare in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries”] Die Shakespeare-Übersetzungen von August Wilhelm Schlegel und des Tieck-Kreises: Kontext – Geschichte – Edition. Ed. Claudia Bamberg, Christa Jansohn, and Stefan Knödler. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2023. 165–78.
“Paper Heritage: Cultural, Economic, and Institutional Dimensions of the Circulation of Modern Literary Manuscripts.” Der Wert der literarischen Zirkulation / The Value of Literary Circulation. Ed. Michael Gamper, Jutta Müller-Tamm, David Wachter, and Jasmin Wrobel. Berlin/Heidelberg: J. B. Metzler, 2023. 403–16.
“Shakespeare zwischen Handschrift und Druck: Frühneuzeitliche Autorschaft und forensische Philologie.” [“Shakespeare between Handwriting and Print: Early Modern Authorship and Forensic Philology”] Handschrift im Druck (ca. 1500–1800): Annotieren, Korrigieren, Weiterschreiben. Ed. Sylvia Brockstieger and Rebecca Hirt. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2023. 193–212.
“Authority, Genealogy, Infrastructure: Nineteenth-Century Discourses of Transatlantic Relationality.” Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Perspectives. Ed. Günter Leypoldt and Manfred Berg. Bielefeld: transcript, 2021. 223–44.
“Shakespearean Negotiations: Carlyle, Emerson, and the Ambiguities of Transatlantic Influence.” Thomas Carlyle and the Idea of Influence. Ed. Paul E. Kerry, Albert D. Pionke, and Megan Dent. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2018. 129–43.
“Charismatic Authorship: Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, and the Nineteenth-Century Construction of Romantic Canonicity.” Reading the Canon: Literary History in the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Philipp Löffler. Heidelberg: Winter, 2017. 363–85.
Reviews
Review of Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Heidi Weig, and Sebastian Graef (ed.), Cultures of Lecturing in the Long Nineteenth Century, Volume 1: Practices of Oral Performance in Manuals of Rhetoric, Journalism and Autobiography (Heidelberg: Winter, 2022) and Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Sebastian Graef, and Heidi Weig (ed.), Cultures of Lecturing in the Long Nineteenth Century, Volume 2: Women and Public Speech in Manuals of Rhetoric, Journalism, Autobiography and Fiction (Heidelberg: Winter, 2022). Journal for the Study of British Cultures 31.2 (2024). [forthcoming]
Review of Brecht de Groote, Thomas De Quincey: Romanticism in Translation (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021). The Wordsworth Circle 54.4 (2023): 538–42.
Review of Katie McGettigan, The Transatlantic Materials of American Literature: Publishing US Writing in Britain, 1830–1860 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2023). American Literary History 35.3 (2023): 1393–96.
Review of Philip Dickinson, Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Gestern | Romantik | Heute: Forum für Wissenschaft und Kultur, University of Jena (9 June 2021).
Review of Jonathan Senchyne, The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019). Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing News (25 February 2021).
Review of Kai Sina, Kollektivpoetik: Zu einer Literatur der offenen Gesellschaft in der Moderne mit Studien zu Goethe, Emerson, Whitman und Thomas Mann (Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2019). PhiN: Philologie im Netz 90 (2020): 109–12.
Review of Stephanie Elizabeth Churms, Romanticism and Popular Magic: Poetry and Cultures of the Occult in the 1790s (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). British Association for Romantic Studies Review 53 (2019): 9–10.
Review of Juliet Shields, Nation and Migration: The Making of British Atlantic Literature, 1765–1835 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016). Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 67.4 (2019): 443–46.
Review of Ben Hewitt, Byron, Shelley, and Goethe’s ‘Faust’: An Epic Connection (Oxford: Legenda, 2015). Romanticism 23.2 (2017): 196–98.
Review of David LaRocca and Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso (ed.), A Power to Translate the World: New Essays on Emerson and International Culture (Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College Press, 2015). Emerson Society Papers 28.1 (2017): 9–10.
Miscellaneous Contributions
“Poetry in the British Atlantic.” Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Ed. Trevor Burnard. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
“Transatlantic Archives and Transatlantic Literary Studies.” Guest Contribution for the Blog “Transatlantic Literary History: Notes | Essays | Documents,” ed. Kai Sina and Tanita Kraaz, 2 November 2020.
“The Art of the Quote: Trump, Social Media, and the Uses of Literary Reference.” Guest Contribution for the Heidelberg Center for American Studies Graduate Blog, 15 January 2020.
“Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scotts historischer Roman.” [“Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott’s Historical Novel”] Interview for SWR2 Public Radio, 19 December 2019.
“New Horizons in the Trans/National Studies of Literature and Culture.” Conference Report, University of Gießen, 5–9 September 2016, KULT_online 48 (October 2016).