Publications
Authored Books
- Junker, Carsten. Patterns of Positioning: On the Poetics of Early Abolition. Winter, 2016. American Studies—A Monograph Series, vol. 271, www.winter-verlag.de/de/detail/978-3-8253-6606-3/Junker_Patterns_of_Positioning/.
- Junker, Carsten. Frames of Friction: Black Genealogies, White Hegemony, and the Essay as Critical Intervention. Campus, 2010. Nordamerikastudien, vol. 27, www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wissenschaft/kulturwissenschaften/frames_of_friction.
- Junker, Carsten, and Julia Roth. Weiß Sehen: Dekoloniale Blickwechsel mit Toni Morrison und Zora Neale Hurston. Helmer, 2010, www.ulrike-helmer-verlag.de/buchbeschreibungen/carsten-junker-julia-roth-hg-weiß-sehen/.
Edited Books
- Carsten Junker, editor. Inspecting the Interview: A Companion. De Gruyter, in print. Diskursmuster / Discourse Patterns, vol. 35, doi.org/10.1515/9783111086484.
- Broeck, Sabine, and Carsten Junker, editors. Postcoloniality—Decoloniality—Black Critique: Joints and Fissures. Campus, 2014, www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wissenschaft/kulturwissenschaften/postcoloniality_decoloniality_black_critique-8578.html.
- Esders, Karin, Insa Härtel, and Carsten Junker, editors. Plotting against Modernity: Critical Interventions in Race and Gender. By Sabine Broeck, Helmer, 2014, www.ulrike-helmer-verlag.de/buchbeschreibungen/sabine-broeck-plotting-against-modernity/.
Edited Book Series
- Junker, Carsten, Julia Roth, and Darieck Scott, book series editors. American Frictions, De Gruyter, www.degruyter.com/serial/amfri-b/html.
Edited Journal Issues
- Junker, Carsten, and Marie-Luise Löffler, editors. Black Studies—Paradigm Shifts, special issue of Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture, vol. 65, no. 2, 2017, www.degruyter.com/journal/key/zaa/65/2/html.
- Junker, Carsten, and Marie-Luise Löffler, editors. Current Perspectives in Transnational Black Studies, special issue of Black Studies Papers, vol. 2, no. 1, 2016.
- Junker, Carsten, and Marie-Luise Löffler, editors. Revisiting Slavery, special issue of Black Studies Papers, vol. 1, no. 1, 2014.
Journal Articles
- Handl, Laura. “Politics of Anger and Trauma Disclosure in Michelle Bowdler’s Is Rape a Crime? A Memoir, an Investigation and a Manifesto (2020)”. Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 25, no. 1, Aug. 2024, pp. 46-64, doi:10.5283/copas.387.
- Junker, Carsten. “Traversing Time: Dialectical Temporal Gestures in the Blended Genre of the Essay Manifesto.“ The Time of the Essay, special issue of CounterText, edited by Mario Aquilina, vol. 9, no. 3, 2023, pp. 373–89, doi.org/10.3366/count.2023.0321.
- Junker, Carsten. “Claiming Class: The Manifesto between Categorical Disruption and Stabilization.” Culture, Theory and Critique, vol. 63, nos. 2–3, 2023, pp. 189–205, doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2023.2214860.
- Junker, Carsten. “Rethinking the Authority of Experience: Mobile Field Noting as a Method of American Diversity Studies.” “Forum: ‘Method as Practice’,” edited by Ilka Brasch and Alexander Starre. Amerikastudien/American Studies: A Quarterly, vol. 67, no. 1, 2022, pp. 5-34, 27-29, doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2022/1/4.
- Junker, Carsten. “Vicarious Writing, Or: Going to Write It for You.“ Amerikastudien/American Studies: A Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 3, 2020, pp. 325-45, doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2020/3/7.
- Junker, Carsten. “Invocations of Indigeneity in the Colonial Red/White/Black Triad.” Indigenous Knowledges in North America, special issue of Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture, edited by Birgit Däwes and Kerstin Knopf, vol. 68, no. 2, 2020, pp. 145–158, doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2020-0016.
- Junker, Carsten. “The 4D List: Knowledge Production of Difference, Diversity, Decolonization, and Destruction.” Voices from Around the World, no. 1, 2018, voices.uni-koeln.de/2018-1/knowledgedestruction.
- Junker, Carsten. “Self-Aggrandizement: Discursive Effects of Early Abolitionist Self-Positioning.” Journal for Discourse Studies/Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung, vol. 3, 2016, pp. 241-64, resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2812.
- Junker, Carsten, and Ingo H. Warnke. “Marguerite Stix and the Shell: Notes on Disciplinarity and Contradiction.” Quaderna, no. 3, 2015, quaderna.org/3/.
- Junker, Carsten, and Ingo H. Warnke. “Marguerite Stix und die Muschel: Überlegungen zu Disziplinarität und Widersprüchlichkeit.” Quaderna, no. 3, 2015, quaderna.org/3/.
- Junker, Carsten. “Writing Anti-Slavery: Abolition as Boundary Object in Transatlantic Enlightenment.” Language. Philology. Culture., no. 2-3, 2013, pp. 32-49, publishing-vak.ru/archive-2013/philology-2-junker.htm.
Book Chapters
- Handl, Laura, and Carsten Junker. “Gaga Meta-manifestos.” Activist Writing: History, Politics, Rhetoric, edited by Pierre-Héli Monot, David Bebnowski, and Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier, intercom, 2024, pp. 173–184, www.intercom-mono.com/160/Activist_Writing.
- Junker, Carsten. “The Interview as Genre: Notes on Form, Praxeology, and Epistemology” Inspecting the Interview: A Companion, edited by Carsten Junker. De Gruyter, 2024, pp. VII–XXII. Diskursmuster / Discourse Patterns, vol. 35, doi.org/10.1515/9783111086484-001.
- Basiuk, Tomasz, and Carsten Junker. “Conceptualizing Vulnerability in Cultural Historiography: A Conversation.” Real, Imagined, and Displayed Fragility in Language and Society, edited by Silvia Bonacchi, Carsten Junker, Ingo H. Warnke, Hanna Acke, and Charlotta Seiler Brylla, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 223–38, doi.org/10.14220/9783737017046.223.
- Acke, Hanna, Silvia Bonacchi, Carsten Junker, Charlotta Seiler Brylla, and Ingo H. Warnke. "Minorities and Majorities, Marginality and Centrality: An Introduction." Religious and National Discourses: Contradictory Belonging, Minorities, Marginality and Centrality, edited by Hanna Acke, Silvia Bonacchi, Charlotta Seiler Brylla and Ingo H. Warnke. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2023, pp. 1-8. Diskursmuster / Discourse Patterns, vol. 33, doi.org/10.1515/9783111039633-001.
- Junker, Carsten. “The Musings and Mirrors of W. E. B. Du Bois—From an Essay Collection to the Essay Plaque.” From the Scenic Essay to the Essay-Exhibition: Expanding the Essay Form in the Arts beyond Literature and Film, edited by Jasper Delbecke. S:PAM—Studies in Performing Arts & Media, Department of Art History, Musicology and Theatre Studies, Faculty of Arts & Philosophy, Ghent University, 2023, pp. 25–35, fliphtml5.com/txbfn/qeil/.
- Junker, Carsten. “Innovation and Iteration: Queer Machines and the Tension between Manifesto and Manifestor.” Queer Reflections on AI: Uncertain Intelligences, edited by Michael Klipphahn-Karge, Ann-Kathrin Koster, and Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss, Routledge, 2023, pp. 145-61, doi.org/10.4324/9781003357957.
- Junker, Carsten. “Innovation and Iteration: Queer Machines and the Tension between Manifesto and Manifestor.” QUEERE KI, edited by Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss, Michael Klipphahn, and Ann-Kathrin Koster, transcript, 2022, pp. 217–36, doi.org/10.14361/9783839461891-013.
- Junker, Carsten. “Pernicious Plurability" Liberty's Kids' Militainment and the Lure of DIversity." U.S. American Culture as Popular Culture, edited by Astrid Böger and Florian Sedlmeier, Winter, 2022, pp. 99–115.
- Junker, Carsten. “Experience as Moving Methodology—Notations on the Study of Urban Diversity.” Handbuch Sprache im urbanen Raum/Handbook of Language in Urban Space, edited by Beatrix Busse and Ingo H. Warnke, De Gruyter, 2022, pp. 86–117. Handbücher Sprachwissen, vol. 20, doi.org/10.1515/9783110296334-005.
- Junker, Carsten. “Of Cross and Crescent: Analogies of Violence and the Topos of ‘Barbary Captivity’ in Samuel Sewall’s The Selling of Joseph (1700), with a Postscript on Benjamin Franklin.” Mediterranean Slavery and World Literature: Captivity Genres from Cervantes to Rousseau, edited by Mario Klarer, Routledge, 2020, pp. 259–76.
- Junker, Carsten, and Marie-Luise Löffler. “Ghostwriting and Its Contradictions, Or: Meet the Trumps.” Spaces of Dissension: Towards a New Perspective on Contradiction, edited by Julia Lossau, et al., Springer, 2019, pp. 39-66, doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-25990-7_3.
- Junker, Carsten, and Julia Roth. “Intersektionalität als diskurskritisches Basiskonzept.” Handbuch Diskurs, edited by Ingo H. Warnke, de Gruyter, 2018, pp. 158-70. Handbücher Sprachwissen, vol. 6, doi.org/10.1515/9783110296075-007.
- Junker, Carsten. “Staging the Scaffold: Criminal Conversion Narratives of the late Eighteenth Century.” Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles: Critical Perspectives on Blackness, Belonging, and Civil Rights, edited by Violet Showers Johnson, Gundolf Graml, and Patricia Williams Lessane, Liverpool UP, 2018, pp. 77–93. FORECAAST 3.
- Junker, Carsten. “Containing Bodies—Enscandalizing Enslavement: Stasis and Movement at the Juncture of Slave-Ship Images and Texts.” Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture, edited by Leigh Raiford and Heike Raphael-Hernandez, U of Washington P, 2017, pp. 13–29.
- Junker, Carsten. “Interrogating the Interview as Genre: Five Cases over Two Hundred Years.” Postcoloniality—Decoloniality—Black Critique: Joints and Fissures, edited by Sabine Broeck and Carsten Junker, Campus, 2014, pp. 311–29.
- Broeck, Sabine, and Carsten Junker. “Postcoloniality—Decoloniality—Black Critique: Preface.” Postcoloniality—Decoloniality—Black Critique: Joints and Fissures, edited by Sabine Broeck and Carsten Junker, Campus, 2014, pp. 9–18.
- Esders, Karin, Insa Härtel, and Carsten Junker. “Plotting against Modernity.” Plotting against Modernity: Critical Interventions in Race and Gender. By Sabine Broeck, edited by Karin Esders, Insa Härtel, and Carsten Junker, Helmer, 2014, pp. 9–15.
- Junker, Carsten. “Benjamin Franklin’s Ethnic Drag: Abolition, Satire and Affect.” Black Intersectionalities: A Critique for the 21st Century, edited by Monica Michlin and Jean-Paul Rocchi, Liverpool UP, 2013, pp. 84–97. FORECAAST 1.
- Junker, Carsten. “Narrating Family Lives: Religion and Enslavement in Samuel West’s Memoirs (1807).” American Lives, edited by Alfred Hornung, Winter, 2013, pp. 157–71. American Studies—A Monograph Series, vol. 234.
- Junker, Carsten. “Essay.” Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht: Kerben des Kolonialismus im Wissensarchiv deutsche Sprache: Ein kritisches Nachschlagewerk, edited by Susan Arndt and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard, Unrast, 2011, pp. 272–84.
- Feuerlein, Monika, and Carsten Junker. “‘Rassenspezifische Medizin’? Zur Funktion von ‘Rasse’ als Platzhalter in der Genetik und als Klassifikationsmerkmal in den Lebenswissenschaften.” Gemachte Differenz: Kontinuitäten biologischer “Rasse”-Konzepte, edited by AG gegen Rassismus in den Lebenswissenschaften, Unrast, 2009, pp. 326–37.
- Haschemi Yekani, Elahe, Daniela Hrzán, Jana Husmann, Carsten Junker, Karolina Krasuska, and Beatrice Michaelis. “Where, When and How? Contextualizing Intersectionality.” New Subjectivities: Negotiating Citizenship in the Context of Migration and Diversity, edited by Dorota Golańska and Aleksandra M. Różalska, Łódź UP, 2008, pp. 19–47.
- Junker, Carsten. “Der ‘White Negro’ als Erlöserfigur: ‘Pretty Fly for a White Guy?’” Erlöser: Figurationen männlicher Hegemonie, edited by Sven Glawion, Elahe Haschemi Yekani, and Jana Husmann-Kastein, Transcript, 2007, 169–82. GenderCodes 2.
- Junker, Carsten, Julie Miess, Susann Neuenfeldt, and Julia Roth. “Was, wenn Bartleby eine Frau wäre?” Gender kontrovers: Genealogien und Grenzen einer Kategorie, edited by Gabriele Dietze and Sabine Hark, Helmer, 2006, pp. 243–60.
- Junker, Carsten. “Weißsein in der akademischen Praxis: Überlegungen zu einer kritischen Analysekategorie in den deutschsprachigen Kulturwissenschaften.” Mythen, Masken und Subjekte: Kritische Weißseinsforschung in Deutschland, edited by Maureen Maisha Eggers, Grada Kilomba, Peggy Piesche, and Susan Arndt, 1st ed., Unrast, 2005, pp. 415–43.
- Junker, Carsten. “AIDS and Its New Metaphors: Eroticizing the Virus.” Quer durch die Geisteswissenschaften: Perspektiven der Queer Theorie, edited by Elahe Haschemi Yakemi and Beatrice Michaelis, Querverlag, 2005, pp. 253-66.
- Pauder, Anna. "Malevolent Mothers and Distracted Children: Maternity as a Discursive Construct during the Salem Witch Trials." GenderGraduateProjects VI, edited by Gudrun Loster-Schneider et al., under review.
Miscellany (Select)
- Junker, Carsten. Review of Reading Abolition: The Critical Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, by Brian Yothers. Amerikastudien/American Studies: A Quarterly, vol. 64, no. 3, 2019, pp. 463–467, doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2019/3/12.
- Junker, Carsten. Review of The Presence of the Past in the Novels of Toni Morrison, by Stefanie Müller. Amerikastudien/American Studies: A Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 3, 2017, https://dgfa.de/stefanie-mueller-the-presence-of-the-past-in-the-novels-of-toni-morrison-heidelberg-winter-2013-270-pp/.
- Junker, Carsten, and Marie-Luise Löffler. “Editors’ Introduction: Black Studies—Paradigm Shifts.” Black Studies—Paradigm Shifts, special issue of Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture, vol. 65, no. 2, 2017, pp. 125-29, https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2017-0014.
- Junker, Carsten, and Marie-Luise Löffler. “Editors’ Note.” Black Studies Papers, vol. 2, no. 1, 2016, pp. 1-3, nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00105246-15.
- Junker, Carsten, and Marie-Luise Löffler. “Editors’ Note.” Black Studies Papers, vol. 1, no. 1, 2014, pp. 1-2, nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00103771-13.
- Junker, Carsten. Review of Cornelia James Cannon and the Future American Race, by Maria I. Diedrich. Anglia: Zeitschrift für englische Philologie, vol. 130, no. 3, 2012, pp. 442-45, https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2012-0513
- Junker, Carsten. [Review of The Image of the Black in Western Art, edited by David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.]. Collegium for African American Research, Reviews. CAAR-Web, November 2011.
- Junker, Carsten. “Queer Again? Power, Politics and Ethics. HUB.” Feministische Studien: Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, vol. 29, no. 1, 2011, pp. 137–40.
- Junker, Carsten. “Was wollte Judith Butler in Berlin?” Berliner Gazette, 28 June 2010, berlinergazette.de/judith-butler-ablehnung-2010.
- Junker, Carsten. “Prof. Dr. Mita Banerjee: ein Plädoyer für Authentizität.” Frauen in den Geisteswissenschaften: nüchterne Zahlen und inspirierende Vorbilder, edited by Susanne Baer and Sabine Grenz, HUB/Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, 2007, pp. 26–29.
- Haschemi Yekani, Elahe, Daniela Hrzán, Jana Husmann, Carsten Junker, Karolina Krasuska, Beatrice Michaelis, and Sabine Grenz. “6th European Gender Research Conference: Gender and Citizenship in a Multicultural Context, Universität Łódź, Poland.” ZtG Bulletin-Info, vol. 34, 2007, pp. 31–33.
- Junker, Carsten, and Evelyn Annuß, translators. “Zur Unmöglichkeit der Women’s Studies.” By Wendy Brown, Gender kontrovers: Genealogien und Grenzen einer Kategorie, edited by Gabriele Dietze and Sabine Hark, Helmer, 2006, pp. 123–51.