Publications & Talks

Monograph

• Neal Stephenson's Archaeology of Cyberculture: Science Fiction as Science Studies. Forthcoming with Liverpool University Press. Science Fiction Texts and Studies Series.

Edited Volumes

• Revisiting Style: Interdisciplinary Articulations. Co-edited with Björn Sonnenberg-Schrank, Jasmin Hermann, and Olga Tarapata. Peter Lang, 2020. With essays by Tom Conley, James Williams, Henning Schmidgen, Sascha Pöhlmann, Heinz Ickstadt, Sabine Sielke, Ronald Bogue, Bernd Herzogenrath, Patricia MacCormack, Karin Harrasser, et al.
• Culture - Theory - Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies. Co-edited with Hanjo Berressem and Anne Waldschmidt. Transcript 2017. With essays by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Tobin Siebers, Lennard Davis, Dan Goodley, Robert McRuer, Margrit Shildrick, et al.

Special Issues

• Elemental Agencies: American Culture and the Politics of Matter. Special Issue of Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture. Co-edited with Timo Müller. Forthcoming, Spring 2022.
• Zeitlichkeiten der Moderne und das Anthropozän. Special Issue of Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift. Co-edited with Sina Steglich. Forthcoming, Spring 2022.  

Articles

• "The Aesthetics and Politics of Elemental Agency." Together with Timo Müller. Elemental Agencies: American Culture and the Politics of Matter. Special Issue of Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. Forthcoming, Spring 2022.
• "Zeitlichkeiten der Moderne und das Anthropozän: Eine Einleitung." Together with Sina Steglich. Special Issue of Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift. Forthcoming, Spring 2022.  
• "Allochronie im Anthropozän: Ein Gespräch mit Erhard Schüttpelz." Together with Sina Steglich. Special Issue of Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift. Forthcoming, Spring 2022.  
• "The Steam Age in Nanotech: Energy Entanglements in Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age." Extrapolation. Special Issue: "Beyond Petromodernity." Forthcoming, Spring 2022.
• "Manhattan Heat Transfer: Energy and the Climate Unconscious in Modernist Visions of the American Metropolis." American Studies Journal. Special Issue "Our Shared Planet." Forthcoming, Winter 2021.
• "Media Exposure: Communicable Disease and Communication Networks in Don DeLillo’s White Noise and Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash." Configurations vol. 29 no. 4 (Fall 2021). 417-433.
• "From Self-Reliance to Exposure: Ethics of Connection and Flux in Sarah Pinsker’s Notice and Kij Johnson’s An Attempt at Exhausting my Deck." SFRA Review vol. 51 no.1 (Winter 2021). Special Issue "Us in Flux." 93-99.
• "Reclaiming Fossil Ghosts: Indigenous Resistance to Resource Extraction in Works by Cherie Dimaline, Warren Cariou, and Nathan Adler." Canadian Literature 240 (August 2020). Special Issue "Decolonial (Re)Visions of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror." 59-76. 
• Environmental Catastrophe as Morphogenesis: Inhuman Transformations in Ballard’s Climate Novels. Humanities vol 8 no. 52 (2019). Special Issue: "J.G. Ballard and the Sciences."
• “Towards a Trickster Science/Fiction: Complexifying Boundaries with Neal Stephenson and Michel Serres.” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, vol. 42. no. 3, 2017. 255-268.

Book Chapters

• "Prothesen und Cyborgs." Handbucheintrag. Behinderung. Kulturwissenschaftliches Handbuch, edited by Susanne Hartwig. Metzler Verlag, 2020. 74-78.
• “Geological Insurrections: Politics of Planetary Weirding from China Mieville to N. K. Jemisin.” Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities, edited by Julius Greve and Florian Zappe, Palgrave. 2019, 73-92. 
• “CybernEthics: Thinking Bodies and Boundaries Through Complexity Theory - A Response to Margrit Shildrick.” Culture - Theory - Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies, edited by Hanjo Berressem, Moritz Ingwersen, Anne Waldschmidt, Transcript, 2017. 160-169.
• “Solid-State Fiction: J.G. Ballard and the Crystallization of Life.” Narrating Life: Experiments with Human and Animal Bodies in Literature, Science and Art, edited by Elisabeth Friis and Stefan Herbrechter, Brill/Rodopi, 2016. 71-91. 

Other | Media

• Teaching about Oil through Arts, Film, and Literature: Interview with Brent Ryan Bellamy, Moritz Ingwersen, and Rachel Webb Jekanowski. Teaching Books Podcast 2.6. With Jessica McDonald. January 11, 2022. 
• "Warum wir anders über den Klimawandel denken sollten." Feuilleton Interview with Sächsische Zeitung. Oct 6, 2021. 
• "Teaching North American Petrocultures in Germany: Experiments in Collaborative Pedagogy." Together with Brent Ryan Bellamy and Rachel Webb Jekanowski. Rice University: Classroom Ecologies. Sept 16, 2021.
• "Towards a Slow Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies vol. 47 no. 3. (Fall 2020). Symposium "Science Fiction and the Pandemic." 349-351.
• “Pluralizing Climate Fiction: From Hybrids to Earth-Beings.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 45 no. 3 (2018). Symposium: "Science Fiction and the Climate Crisis." 421-423.
• "Der Stumme Schrei in der Maschine." Off Topic no. 6, Journal of the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne. 2014. 

• "Monstrous Geometries in the Fictional Universe of H.P. Lovecraft." Places and Spaces of Monstrosity, edited by Craig Douglas and Rosalea Monacella. Interdisciplinary Press, 2014. 55-78. 

Reviews (Selection)

• Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror: Bridging the Solitudes, edited by Amy J. Ransom and Dominick Grace. Science Fiction Studies vol. 47 no. 2 (2020), pp. 298-301. 
• The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman, edited by Bruce Clarke andManuela Rossini. Science Fiction Studies, vol 45, no. 2, 2018, pp. 361-364.
• The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age, by Ronald R. Kline, The British Society for Literature and Science Online, 2017.
• Physics Envy: American Poetry and Science in the Cold War and After, by Peter Middleton, The British Society for Literature and Science Online, 2017.

Organized Conferences and Workshops

• UPCOMING__Rethinking Relations: Michel Serres and the Environmental Humanities. International Conference. TU Dresden: November 9-12, 2022. In collaboration with Beate Ochsner (Media Studies, University of Konstanz). Keynotes: Jeffrey J. Cohen (Arizona State University),  William Paulson (University of Michigan), Stephanie Posthumus (McGill University), Laura Dassow Walls (University of Notre Dame), Julian Yates (University of Delaware), Paul Carter (RMIT Melbourne), Jussi Parikka (University of Southhampton, FAMU Prague), Petra Gehring (TU Darmstadt). Call for Papers. 
• Global Weirding Lectures. TU Dresden: Nov 2021 - Jan 2022. In collaboration with Alison Sperling. Keynotes: Stefanie K. Dunning (Miami University, Ohio), Rebekah Sheldon (University of Indiana), Larissa Lai (University of Calgary), Andrew Hageman (Luther College, Iowa), Gerry Canavan (Marquette University, Wisconsin). 
• Hip Hop Ecologies. International Workshop co-organized with Timo Müller. Universität Konstanz. Feb 18-20, 2021. Online. Conference Website.
• Wissenschaftliche Zeitlichkeiten der Moderne im Spiegel des Anthropozäns. Nachwuchsworkshop. University of Konstanz: September 21–24, 2020. In collaboration with Sina Steglich (German Historical Institute London). Keynotes Erhard Schüttpelz (Universität Siegen), Henning Schmidgen (Bauhaus Universität Weimar), Patrick Stoffel (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg). Funding by GWMT. Conference Website.
• New Poetries/New Poetics. International Conference. University of Konstanz: February 15-17, 2020. In collaboration with Timo Müller, Sascha Pöhlmann, Eva Gruber (American Studies). Conference Website. 
• Revisiting Style: Interdisciplinary Articulations. International Symposium. University of Cologne: January 31, 2020. In collaboration with Bjöern Sonnenberg-Schrank, Olga Tarapata, Jasmin Herrmann (American Studies, Cologne).
• Contact Zones: Encounters Between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies. International Conference co-organized with Anne Waldschmidt and Hanjo Berressem, University of Cologne October 25-27, 2012. Keynote Speakers included Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Robert McRuer, Lennard Davis, Tobin Siebers, Margrit Shildrick, Ria Cheyne, Dan Goodley, Katerina Kolarova. Conference Website.

Talks and Conference Papers (Selection)

• "Transformative Place-Making and the Ethics of Nishnaabeg Emergence in the Work of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson." GKS Conference 2022: Ecologies, Environments, Ethics. February 18-20, 2022. Online.

• "The Ethics of Exposure: Transcorporeal Hybridity in Bernard Wolfe’s Limbo and Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower." GFF Conference 2021 - Speculation and Ethics. University of Cologne, Sept 23, 2021. Online.

• "Surreal und Gespenstisch?: Warum die Klimawende neue Erzählungen braucht." [Surreal and Eerie?: Why the Climate Transition Needs New Narratives]. Invited Keynote Lecture. Umundu Festival für Nachhaltige Entwicklung. Technische Sammlungen Dresden, Sept. 25, 2021.
• "Emergent Aesthetics: Mobilizing the Elemental Turn in Contemporary Ecocritcism." Together with Timo Müller. ASLE Biennial Meeting 2021. July 2021. Online. 
• "Indigenous Petrofiction: Settler-Colonial Extractivism and the Resurgence of Fossils." Invited Keynote Lecture at JFK Literature and Culture Colloquium, FU Berlin. May 12, 2021.
• "Elemental America." Roundtable at BAAS 2021 Digital. April 6, 2021.
• "Reclaiming the Ghosts of Extinct Species: Resistance to Settler-Colonial Extractivism in Nathan Adler’s Wrist." European Association of American Studies (EAAS). Annual Meeting 2021. May 1, 2021.
• "’Why would the water want to straighten my spirit?:’ Fluid Relations in the Work of Joshua Whitehead." American Indian Workshop 2020. LMU München (Germany). Online. Nov 26, 2020. 
• "Navigating Canada: Teaching Indigenous Literatures and Theory in (European) North American Studies." Invited Lecture and Workshop. Nachwuchsforum der Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien (GKS). University of Freiburg (Germany). Online. Sep 4, 2020.
• “Reclaiming the Popular Landscape: From the Paintings of Kent Monkman to the Music of Jeremy Dutcher and A Tribe Called Red.” 66th Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies. Workshop: Indigenous Popular Culture in North America. University of Hamburg (Germany): June 13–15, 2019.
• “How Do We Behave As Good Relatives: Decentering Ecology Through Canadian-Indigenous Literatures; Or, What it Means to Become Fossil.” Echoing Ecologies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Canadian Studies. University of Marburg (Germany): May 22–24, 2019.
• “Of Earth-Beings and New Estrangements: Problematizing ’Sentient Landscapes’ in Indigenous (Science) Fiction.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA): 32^ndAnnual Conference. Toronto (Canada): November 15–18, 2018.
• “Science Fiction as Science Studies: Epistemological and Material Confusions in the Work of Neal Stephenson.” Science Fiction Research Association Annual Conference 2018. Marquette University, Milwaukee (USA): July 1–4, 2018.
• “‘This is the Way the World Ends:’ Weird Geology in N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season.” The American Weird: Ecologies and Geographies. University of Göttingen (Germany): April 12–14, 2018.
• “‘Geological Insurrections:’ The Weird Return of Rust and Dust in Two Short Stories by China Mieville.” Association of the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE): 12^th Biennial Conference. Wayne State University, Detroit (USA): June 20–24, 2017.
• “‘all things fusible:’ Neal Stephenson, Science Studies, and the Baroque.” The British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS): 12th Annual Conference. University of Bristol (UK): April 6–8, 2017.
• “Trickster Science: Creativity and Disruption in Neal Stephenson and Michel Serres.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA): 30th Annual Conference. Atlanta (USA): November 3–6, 2016.
• “From Site Analysis to Analysis Situs: Mapping Architecture in Danielewski’s House of Leaves.” International Conference on Critical Topography. Trent University, Peterborough, and Ryerson University, Toronto (Canada): May 20–22, 2015.
• “Varieties of Posthumanism in Science Fiction: Reading Shariann Lewitt’s ’A Real Girl’ through Posthumanist Disability Studies.” Disability Studies | Science Fiction: An International Workshop. Invited Keynote Lecture. University of Cologne (Germany): November 28–29, 2014.
• “Non-Euclidean Geometry in Danielewski’s House of Leaves.” The Common Denominator: A Postgraduate Conference in British Cultural Studies. University of Leipzig (Germany):March 21–22, 2014.
• “Monstrous Geometries in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.” The Second Global Conference on Monstrous Geographies: Places and Spaces of Monstrosity. Prague (Czech Republic): May15–17, 2013.