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Prof. Dr. Lars Koch
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Chair of Modern German Literature and Media Culture Studies
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TUD Dresden University of Technology
Fakultät SLK
Institut für Germanistik
Professur für Medienwissenschaft und NdL
01062 Dresden
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TUD Dresden University of Technology
Fakultät SLK
Institut für Germanistik
Professur für Medienwissenschaft und NdL
Helmholtzstraße 10
01069 Dresden
Office hours:
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- 11:00 - 12:00
- except during the lecture-free period
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Academic career
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Since 2020: Editor-in-chief of the journal Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift
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10/2019-09/2022: Member of the scientific network "Versammeln. Medial, spatial and political constellations" (DFG)
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10/2019-03/2020: Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen
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Since 2017: Editor of the DFG-funded "Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift" (Journal of Cultural Studies)
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From 2017-2022: Head of the sub-project K (Theater and Media Studies): Theater of Discrimination. Representation and reflection of invective dynamics in contemporary theater, performance and action art within the SFB 1285 "Invektivität. Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement" and member of the board of the CRC 1285 (2017-2020); project page
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Since 05/2014: Chair of Media Studies and Modern German Literature and Principle Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant research group"The Principle of Disruption. A Figure Reflecting Complex Societies" (2014-2019) at TU Dresden
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04/2013-09/2013: Deputy Head of Chair for Modern German Literature and Media Aesthetics at the University of Hagen
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01/2013-04/2014: Principle Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant research group "The Principle of Disruption. A Figure Reflecting Complex Societies" at the University of Siegen
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10/2011-03/2012: Deputy Head of Chair for Modern German Literature at the University of Konstanz
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04/2011-09/2011: Research Lectureship at the Cluster of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Integration" at the University of Konstanz
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04/2009-12/2012: Research Associate of Prof. Dr. Niels Werber at the Chair of Modern German Literature I at the University of Siegen
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04/2009-09/2009: Freelance lecturer at the Institute for German Literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin
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08/2006-03/2009: Personal Advisor and Office Manager to Dr. Konrad Schily, Member of the German Bundestag
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08/2004-07/2006: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
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07/2004: Doctorate under Prof. Dr. Wara Wende with the thesis "Der Erste Weltkrieg als Medium der Gegenmoderne - Zu den Werken von Walter Flex und Ernst Jünger
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08/2001-07/2004: Doctoral scholarship holder at the Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
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04/1994-04/2001: Studied "General Literary Studies", "History" and "Philosophy" at the University of Siegen
Core research areas
Invectivity, theatricality, aesthetics
Together with Julia Prager head of the DFG project "Theater der Trans-lation. Constellations and Dynamics of Translation and Disparagement in Theater and Performance of the 21st Century" (from 09/2022, more information).
Sub-project "Theater of Discrimination" in the SFB 1285 "Invectivity. Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement", international conference with Hellerau. European Center for the Arts; collaborative monograph "Verletzen und Beleidigen. Versuche einer theatralen Kritik der Herabsetzung" (2020) publisher's announcement; numerous other publications, including on Schlingensief, the ZPS and artivist interventions.
Culture, emotions, fear
DFG individual project "Horror stories. Angst und ihre literarischen Emotionspraktiken um 1800" (since 10/2021, more information here); DFG early-career researcher network "Spielformen der Angst"; research on the "Literaturgeschichte der Angst seit 1800"; interdisciplinary Metzler-Handbuch Angst; anthology Paranoia; numerous essays on the cultural coding of fear in literature and film, including texts on classical modernism (e.g. Texte zur Klassichen Moderne).including texts on classical modernism (Alfred Döblin, Ernst Jünger, Hermann Broch) and contemporary literature (Josef Hastlinger, Thomas Glavinic).
Literary, media and cultural theory of disruption
Responsible for the concept of the Excellence-funded project Disruption and Societal Change (TUDiSC); ERC Starting Grant The Principle of Disruption; programmatic reflections on literary studies as disruption studies; volume "Disruptions in the Arts" (2018) open access; thematic issue "Imaginations of Disruption" (2016) open access; DFG conference and ZfK thematic issue "Störfälle"; Guest Lecturer at the eikones Summer School 2013 "Bild-Störung"; LiLi thematic issue "Katastrophen, Krisen, Störungen"; thematic panel at the international conference "Critical Theory, Film and Media: Where is 'Frankfurt' now?" at Goethe University Frankfurt (08/2014); international conference "Imaginations of Disorder" in cooperation with Elisabeth Bronfen (spring 2015)
Emotional complexes of populism
Conference "Die lustvolle Politik der Schmähung" (2017) Conference report; Research on the emotional coding of populist communication. Volume "The Great Disruptor. Trump, die Medien und die Politik der Herabsetzung" (2019) open access; volume Zwischen Feindsetzung und Selbstviktimisierung.Gefühlspolitik und Ästhetik populistischer Kommunikation (2020); together with Solvejg Nitzke special issue of KZW on the topic of Prekäre Heimat (2020) book project "Medienkulturen des Hasses" (in preparation, 2023)
Narratology and cultural analysis of the television series
Lectures and essays on seriality and the cultural diagnostic potential of current TV formats; author of the TV column in the magazine "Pop. Kultur & Kritik" magazine; monograph in collaborative authorship on the series "The Wire" (2014) .Publisher's announcement.
Medialization of danger and risk
Essays on the phantasm of the sleeper, on the figure of the man running amok, on the literary and cinematic treatment of threat scenarios; theoretical reflections on the relationship between facticity and fictionality, on the political imaginary of governmentality and on contemporary control and government techniques.
Collective experiences of denormalization
Anthology on Americanization after 1945; anthology on crisis cinema; anthology on war and history in German-language literature; cultural studies handbook Metzler-Handbuch Erster Weltkrieg (2014).
Experiences of foreignness
Essays on the representation of migration in film and television.
Publications
(Collaborative) monographs
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Media Cultures of Hate, Stuttgart/Weimar: J.B. Metzler 2024 (in preparation).
- Together with Anna Häusler, Elisabeth Heyne and Tanja Prokic: Verletzen und Beleidigen. Theatrical Invectives of the Present. Berlin: August Verlag 2020.
- Together with Jörn Ahrens/Michael Cuntz/Marcus Krause: The Wire. Analyses on the cultural diagnostics of popular media, Wiesbaden: Springer 2014.
- Der Erste Weltkrieg als Medium der Gegenmoderne - Zu den Werken von Walter Flex und Ernst Jünger, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2005.
Journals and yearbooks
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Zs. with Solvejg Nitzke and Niels Werber (eds.), Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 52/3 (2022): Kontaktszenen. Narratives of disturbed (knowledge) communication (editorial reviewed).
- Jahrbuch der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft 65 (2021), guest editor of the debate: "Kommt die Literaturwissenschaft abhanden?", pp. 381-483 (editorial reviewed).
- Together with Solvejg Nitzke (ed.) Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 1 (2020), special issue: Precarious Homeland(OPEN ACCESS).
- Together with Tobias Nanz/Johannes Pause (eds.), Behemoth. A Journal on Civilization, 8.1 (2016): Imaginations of Disorder (peer-reviewed).
- Together with Stefan Habscheid (ed.), Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 173 (2014): Katastrophen, Krisen, Störungen (editorial reviewed).
- Together with Christer Petersen/Joseph Vogl (eds.), Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 2 (2011): Störfälle (editorial reviewed).
Handbooks
- Together with Stefan Kaufmann/Niels Werber (eds.), Der Erste Weltkrieg. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler 2014. licensed edition: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2014.
- Fear. An interdisciplinary handbook, Stuttgart: Gemeinsam 2013.
Collected volumes
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Zs. with Sarah Neelson and Julia Prager (eds.) Organitechnosience: Verflechtungen von Organizität und Technizität im literarischen und literaturwissenschaftlichen Diskurs, Boston/Berlin: de Gruyter 2024 (peer reviewed, open access, in preparation).
- Together with Torsten König (ed.): Zwischen Feindsetzung und Selbstviktimisierung. Emotional Politics and Aesthetics of Populist Communication, Frankfurt a.M. 2020.
- Together with Tobias Nanz and Christina Rogers (eds.): The Great Disruptor. Donald Trump, the Media and the Politics of Disparagement, Stuttgart/Weimar: J.B. Metzler 2019(open access).
- Together with Tobias Nanz/Johannes Pause, Disruptions in the Arts. Textual, Visual, and Performative Strategies for Analyzing Societal Self-Descriptions, Berlin/New York: De Gruyter 2018 (= Series Culture & Conflict, Ed. 11) (peer-reviewed, open access).
- Together with Timm Ebner/Elena Meilicke/Rupert Gaderer (eds.), Paranoia. Lectures and Excesses of Suspicion, Vienna: turia + kant 2016.
- Together with Wara Wende (ed.), Krisenkino. Filmanalyse als Kulturanalyse: Zur Konstruktion von Normalität und Abweichung im Spielfilm, Bielefeld: transcript 2010.
- Modernization as Americanization? Lines of Development in West German Culture 1945-1960, Bielefeld: transcript 2007.
- Together with Marianne Vogel (ed.), Imaginäre Welten im Widerstreit - Krieg und Geschichte in der deutschsprachigen Literatur seit 1900, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2007.
Essays
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Gött:innendämmerung in der Startup-Branche, in: Pop. Culture and Criticism 1(2023), pp. 83-89.
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Together with Tanja Prokic, Zur Ästhetik der Grenze in den Aktionen Die Toten kommen und Flüchtlinge fressen. Not und Spiele des Zentrums für politische Schönheit, in: Roswitha Böhm/Elisabeth Tiller (eds.), Die mediale Umwelt der Migration. Kulturelle Aushandlungen im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, Bielefeld: transcript 2022, pp. 233-256.
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Together with Solvejg Nitzke, Kontaktszenen. Narrative gestörter Wissenskommunikation, in: Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 52/3 (2022), pp. 1-15.
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Performing Artivism. Relevance assertion and popularity management in Milo Rau, Philipp Ruch and Friedrich von Borries, in: Ulf Otto / Johanna Zorn (eds.): Ästhetische Interventionen. Interventions and encroachments in the regime of the theater. Berlin 2022, pp. 107-138.
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On artivist interventions. Invectivity, media, morality, in: Albrecht Dröse / Marina Münkler / Antje Sablotny (eds.): Invektive Gattungen. Forms and media of disparagement. Special issue of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 1/2021, pp. 247-266 (editorial reviewed, open access.
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Together with Julia Prager: neben, entlang, ent-gegen: Escape Movements, Stillsetzungen und Fortgänge pandemischer Versammlungsdynamiken von Theater und Protest, in: Agnes Bidom et al. (eds.): Paragesellschaften. Imaginations - Stagings - Interactions, Berlin/Boston 2021, pp. 235-253 (peer reviewed, open access ).
- Literary studies as a science of disruption. In: Yearbook of the German Schiller Society vol. 65 (2021), pp. 411-426 (editorial reviewed, open access).
- Zs. with Solvejg Nitzke, Precarious Homeland. Programmatik und Scheitern eines Entstörungsversuchs, in: Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 5/1 (2020), pp. 1-14 (editorial reviewed, open access).
- Television in the subway. Schlingensief's Experiment on Entertainment and Invectivity, in: Vanessa Höving/Katja Holweck/Thomas Wortmann (eds.), Christoph Schlingensief. Resonances, Munich 2020, pp. 18-36.
- Together with Torsten König and Gerd Schwerhoff, Zwischen Feindsetzung und Selbstviktimisierung. Emotional Politics and the Aesthetics of Populist Communication. Eine Annäherung, in: Lars Koch/Torsten König (eds.): Zwischen Feindsetzung und Selbstviktimisierung. Aesthetics and emotional politics of populist communication, Frankfurt a.M./New York 2020, pp. 9-25.
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The right-wing populist politics of emotions. Angst, Hass, Feindsetzung, in: Lars Koch/Torsten König (eds.): Zwischen Feindsetzung und Selbstviktimisierung. Aesthetics and emotional politics of populist communication, Frankfurt a.M./New York 2020, pp. 87-119.
- Together with Julia Prager, Collectives in Society - Return of Politics?, in: Deutsche Bühne 3 (2020), pp. 62-64.
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Together with Solvejg Nitzke, Chernobyl und die Halbwertszeiten der Angst, in: Pop. Kultur und Kritik 9/1 (2020), pp. 55-60 (editorial reviewed, open access).
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Together with Tobias Nanz/Christina Rogers, The Great Disruptor. Eine Annäherung, in: This (ed.), The Great Disruptor. Trump, the Media and the Politics of Disparagement, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler 2019, pp. 1-20.
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Together with Christina Rogers, Orange is the new black box. Trump and the Scene of Shaming, in: This/Tobias Nanz (eds.), The Great Disruptor. Trump, the media and the politics of disparagement, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler 2019, pp. 71-98.
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Being in the media world. Disruption, uncanniness and submedial space in Thomas Glavinic's novel Die Arbeit der Nacht, in: Metaphora 4 (2018): What do media know about narrative?, pp. 1-18 (PEER-REVIEWED).
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Together with Tobias Nanz, Aesthetic Experiments. On the Event-Like Character and the Function of Disruptions in the Arts, in: Lars Koch/Tobias Nanz/Johannes Pause (eds.), Disruptions in the Arts, Berlin/New York: De Gruyter 2018 (PEER-REVIEWED), pp. 3-27.
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Lars Koch/Tobias Nanz/Johannes Pause: Disruption in the Arts: Prologue, in: Lars Koch et al. (eds.): Disruptions in the Arts. Textual, Visual, and Performative Strategies for Analyzing Societal Self-Descriptions, Berlin/Boston 2018, pp. IX-XV.
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Together with Tobias Nanz/Johannes Pause, Imaged Scenarios of Disruption, in: Lars Koch/Tobias Nanz/Johannes Pause (eds.), Disruptions in the Arts, Berlin/New York: De Gruyter 2018, pp. 63-85 (PEER-REVIEWED).
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Christoph Schlingensief`s Image Disruption Machine, in: Lars Koch/Tobias Nanz/Johannes Pause (eds.), Disruptions in the Arts, Berlin/New York: De Gruyter 2018, pp. 291-315 (PEER-REVIEWED).
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Together with Tanja Prokic, Killing Eve. Genre in the Affect, in: Pop. Culture and Criticism 2 (2018), pp. 57-64.
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Closed Circuit TV: Media and Fear in Thomas Glavinic's The Labor of the Night, in: Alfred Schäfer/Christiane Thompson (eds.), Angst. Pedagogical Perspectives, Munich: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh 2018, pp. 139-160.
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Mimicry - power - fear. Popular Imaginations of a Threatening Transformation, in: Irina Gradinari/Nikolas Immer/Johannes Pause (eds.), Medializations of Power. Filmic Stagings of Political Practice, Munich: Fink 2018, pp. 103-121.
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'Walling out'. Diskurspolitik und Mythomotorik Neuer Mauern in der Populärkultur, in: Benjamin Bühler/Stefan Willer (eds.), Zukunftssicherung. Konzepte - Praktiken - Konstellationen, Bielefeld: transcript 2019, pp. 148-171. Reprinted in: Anja Besand (ed.), From Game of Thrones to House of Cards. Political Perspectives in Television Series, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2018, pp. 51-71.
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Zs. mit Konzeptgruppe "Invektivität", Invektivität - Grundzüge eines neuen sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschungsparadigmas, in: Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 1 (2017), pp. 2-24 (EDITORIAL-REVIEWED).
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Eyy Du kommst hir net rein' - Representation, Reflection and Appropriation of Invectivity in German-Turkish Cinema, in: Aptum. Journal for Language Criticism and Language Culture 2 (2017): Hate Speech, pp. 148-163 (EDITORIAL-REVIEWED).
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"Power resides where men believe it resides." The fragile world of Game of Thrones, in: Kay Malcher/Marina Münkler (eds.): Brüchige Helden - Brüchiges Erzählen. Heldenepik aus narratologischer Sicht, Munich: Fink 2017, pp. 265-290. reprinted in: Anja Besand (ed.), From Game of Thrones to House of Cards. Political Perspectives in Television Series, Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2018, pp. 129-152.
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Media Anthropology and the Real of Fear - Ernst Jünger's Functionalization of Photography, in: Oliver Jahraus/Michaela Rass (eds.), Sache/Ding. Eine ästhetische Leitdifferenz in der Medienkultur der Weimarer Republik, Munich: edition text + kritik 2017, pp. 141-162 (EDITORIAL REVIEWED).
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Lars Koch/Christina Rogers: The Collective of Voids. On the trail of the Tasmanian Tiger in Judith Leigh's The Hunter, in: Martin Doll/ Julika Griem (eds.), Politische Tiere, Zoologische Imaginationen des Kollektiven, Munich 2017, pp. 207-233.
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Angst und Gewalt in der Literatur: Historizität, Semantik und Ausdruck, in: Handbuch-Reihe "Sprachwissen", Vol. 17: Sprache in der Literatur, ed. by Anne Betten/Ulla Fix/Berbeli Wanning, Berlin/New York: De Gruyter 2017, pp. 18-54 (EDITORIAL-REVIEWED).
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Lars Koch/Tobias Nanz: Scenarios of nuclear war. Exceptional situations and sovereign actors in film, in: Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 183 (2016): Scenarios of Exception in Popular Culture, pp. 396-410.
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'a copy of a copy of a copy...' David Fincher's cinematic politics of the serial, in: Elisabeth Bronfen/Christiane Frey (eds.), Noch einmal anders: Zu einer Poetik des Seriellen, Zurich/Berlin 2016, pp. 45-64.
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'Desiring Walls'. On the collective imaginary of an architecture of fear, in: Polar. Politics - Theory - Everyday Life, 21 (2016), pp. 39-48.
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Cybernetics, paranoia and violence - The eco-terrorist Ted Kaczynski, in: Lars Koch/Rupert Gaderer (eds.), Paranoia. Lectures and excesses of suspicion, Vienna 2016, pp. 281-302.
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Heart of Darkness - The Catastrophic Imaginary of the Blackout, in: Behemoth. A Journal on Civilization. 8.1: Imaginations of Disruption, pp. 58-76 (PEER REVIEWED).
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Lars Koch/Tobias Nanz/Johannes Pause: Imaginations of Disorder. An analytical model, in: Behemoth. A Journal on Civilization. 8.1: Imaginations of Disorder, pp. 6-23 (PEER REVIEWED).
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'Games Without Frontiers' - The Return of the Cold War as a TV Series, in: Pop 8 (2016), pp. 31-38.
- To Survive is an Uncanny Experience." Joseph Haslinger and the Tsunami of 2004, in: Katharina Gerstenberger (ed.), Catastrophe and Catharsis, Rochester/NY 2015, pp. 138-154. PEER-REVIEWED
- Drive as anxiety machine. Body struggles in Döblin's early texts, in: Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 4 (2015), pp. 545-572. PEER-REVIEWED
- Ethno-Comedy - Laughter at the Margins of the 'Leitkultur', in: Stefan Neuhaus (ed.), Das Komische in der Kultur, Frankfurt a.M./New York 2015, pp. 465-481.
- Der Erste Weltkrieg als kulturelle Katharsis und literarisches Ereignis, in: Miriam Seidler / Johannes Waßmer (eds.), Narrative des Ersten Weltkriegs, Frankfurt a. M. / New York 2015, pp. 27-54.
- "You yell 'shark', we've got a panic on our hands!" The shark, fear and anxiety, in: Wieland Schwanebeck (ed.), Jaws revisited. Steven Spielberg's Jaws and the Birth of an American Nightmare, Berlin 2015, pp. 217-231.
- 'I - I'm just making sure we don't get hit again. Series text and world reference in the TV series Homeland, in: Indes. Journal of Politics and Society 4 (2014): Politics series, pp. 42-54.
- "Real Humans" - Outdoing the human, in: Pop. Culture and Criticism (02/2014, p. 24-34).
- "Auferstanden von den Toten" - Die Verhandlung von Weltkrieg, Angst und Masse in Hermann Brochs Schlafwandler-Trilogie, in: Claude D. Conter/Oliver Jahraus/Christian Kirchmeier (eds.): Der Erste Weltkrieg als Katastrophe: Patterns of interpretation in literary discourse. Würzburg 2014, pp. 111-134.
- Der Erste Weltkrieg als kulturelle Katharsis und literarisches Ereignis, in: Lars Koch/Stefan Kaufmann/Niels Werber (eds.), Der Erste Weltkrieg. An interdisciplinary handbook, Stuttgart/Weimar 2014, pp. 97-142.
- Lars Koch/Tobias Nanz: Aesthetic Experiments. Zur Ereignishaftigkeit und Funktion von Störungen in den Künsten, in: Stefan Habscheid/Lars Koch (eds.), Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 173 (2014): Krisen, Katastrophen, Störungen, pp. 94-115.
- Performance as an image-disturbing machine in Christoph Schlingensief, in: Stefan Habscheid/Lars Koch (eds.), Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 173 (2014): Krisen, Katastrophen, Störungen, pp. 116-134.
- Terror 3.0 - The TV series Homeland and the dissolution of the boundaries of suspicion, in: Pop. Culture and Criticism, 2 (2013), pp. 17-21.
- Lachen verbindet - transkulturelle Brückenschläge in der Culture-Clash-Comedy Almanya, in: Der Deutschunterricht 4 (2013): Witze, ed. and introduced by Claus Ehrhardt and Eva Neuland, pp. 36-47.
- Political anxiety designs and their subject effects, in: Yana Milev (ed.), Design Kulturen. Der erweiterte Design-Begriff im Entwurfsfeld der Kulturwissenschaften, Munich 2013, pp. 45-57.
- Dot time as (dis)disturbance. On filmic narratives of absolute enmity, in: Norman Ächtler/Carsten Gansel (eds.), Perturbations. Über das 'Prinzip Störung' in den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, Berlin/New York 2013, pp. 217-235.
- "He is a wild man!" Trauma figurations in Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, in: Julia Köhne (ed.), Trauma and Film. Translations and Stagings, Berlin 2013, pp. 126-152.
- Fear in post-9/11 cinema. Zur filmischen Bearbeitung eines Erwartungsaffekts, in: Søren Fauth/Kasper Green Krejberg/Jan Süselbeck (eds.), War - Literature, Media, Emotions, Göttingen 2012, pp. 73-86.
- The national community as an Aryan vault. Biopolitical terror in Rainer Wolffhardt's television film Auf Befehl erschossen, in: Günter Helmes (ed.), "Schicht um Schicht freilegen" - Die Regie-Arbeiten von Rainer Wolffhardt, Hamburg 2012, pp. 155-176.
- Together with Christer Petersen, Der Störfall - Fluchtlinien einer Wissensfigur, in: Dies/Joseph Vogl (eds.), Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 2 (2011): Störfälle, pp. 5-12.
- Re-figurations of fear. Typologies of the Monster in Contemporary Cinema, in: Limbus - Australian Yearbook of Germanic Literary and Cultural Studies 4 (2011): Terror and Form, pp. 81-101. PEER-REVIEWED
- Waiting for the Lord Signifier - or: The Negotiation of Chance, Sign and Necessity in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, in: arcadia. International Journal of Literary Studies 45/2 (2011), pp. 431-445. PEER-REVIEWED
- Sloterdijk-Debatte 2.0. 'Scandalous' anthropology in the discursive field of tension between biotechnology, economics and fear of the future, in: Christer Petersen (ed.), Skandal! Mechanisms of public attention generation, Wiesbaden 2011, pp. 87-104.
- Fear in the administered world. Emotive Cultural Criticism in Jünger, Gehlen and Adorno, in: Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 159 (2011): Semantics of Cultural Criticism, pp. 41-58.
- The sleeper phantasm. Medial signatures of a paranoid style of thinking before and after 9/11, in: Sascha Seiler/Thorsten Schüller (eds.), Von Zäsuren und Ereignissen, Bielefeld 2010, pp. 69-88.
- Normalitätsbruch und Normalität in Michael Haneke's films Wolfzeit and Caché, in: Ders./Wara Wende (eds.), Krisenkino. Filmanalyse als Kulturanalyse: Zur Konstruktion von Normalität und Abweichung im Spielfilm, Bielefeld 2010, pp. 309-328.
- New rules for the human park? On the convergence of biotechnology, economics and governmentality in current debates on anthropology, in: Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 157 (2010), pp. 76-100.
- "Have we gone too far?" - On the biotechnological sense of danger in ReGenesis and other audiovisual worst-case scenarios, in: Lorenz Engell/Bernhard Siegert/Joseph Vogl (eds.), Archiv für Mediengeschichte 9 (2010): Gefahrensinn, pp. 67-78.
- Die Postsäkulare Gesellschaft und die feuilletonistische Wiederkehr der Religion, in: Sandra Poppe/Sascha Seiler (eds.), 9/11 als kulturelle Zäsur, Bielefeld 2009, pp. 39-60.
- War and Posthistoire in Alfred Döblin's Interwar Novels, in: Susi Frank/Andreas Kraft (eds.), Zwischen Apokalypse und Alltag. War Narratives of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Bielefeld 2009, pp. 59-76.
- "It will even get worse." On the ecology of fear in the series 24, in: Sascha Seiler (ed.): Arc & Continuity - Die zeitgenössische TV Serie, Cologne 2008, pp. 98-116.
- Das Lachen der Subalternen - Ethno-Comedy im deutschen Film und Fernsehen, in: Wara Wende (ed.), Wie die Welt lacht - Interkulturelle Formen von Welterschließung und Selbstbildung im Witz, Würzburg 2008, pp. 208-223.
- Der westdeutsche Nachkriegsfilm zwischen Kontinuität und Innovation, in: Ders. (ed.), Modernisierung als Amerikanisierung? Lines of Development in West German Culture 1945-1960, Bielefeld 2007, pp. 89-109.
- "The blood ran riot through my veins." Arnolt Bronnen's self-staging strategies between contempt for art, the culture industry and political radicalism, in: Johann Holzner/Stefan Neuhaus (eds.), Literatur als Skandal, Göttingen 2007, pp. 278-289.
- Die Depotenzierung des Menschen im kollektivistischen Denken der Weimarer Republik - Zu Johannes R. Becher und Ernst Jünger, in: Jörg Schmidt/Petra Tallafuss (eds.), Totalitarismus und Literatur, Göttingen 2007, pp. 39-54.
- The Other as Cultural Invariance or Can Turks in Germany Be Told Quite Differently? In: Hans-Joachim Hahn (ed.), Transitraum Deutsch. Literatur im transnationalen Zeitalter, Wroclaw 2007, pp. 89-104.
- The question of war guilt as existential memory work - Döblin's novel Hamlet oder die lange Nacht hat ein Ende, in: Ders./Marianne Vogel (eds.), Imaginäre Welten im Widerstreit. War and Utopia in Literature since 1900, Würzburg 2007, pp. 109-128.
- Fragmentiertes Dasein im Bombenkrieg - Zu Gert Ledigs Luftkriegsroman Vergeltung, in: Waltraud Wara Wende (ed.), Krieg und Gedächtnis - Ein Ausnahmezustand im Spannungsfeld politischer, literarischer und filmischer Sinnkonstruktion, Würzburg 2005, pp. 190-204.
- Geburt des Arbeiters aus dem (Un-)Geiste des Krieges - Ernst Jüngers Antwort auf die deutsche Krise der Moderne, in: Weimarer Beiträge 4 (2005), pp. 547-561.
- Updating tendencies of the neo-humanist educational discourse after 1945: Perspectives and contexts, in: Moderne. Kulturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 1 (2005), pp. 167-172.
- From narration without a center to the floating of thought - Friedo Lampe's novel Am Rande der Nacht, in: Jattie Enklaar/Hans Ester (eds.), Im Schatten der Literaturgeschichte. Authors that nobody knows anymore? (= Duitse Kroniek vol. 54), Amsterdam/New York 2005, pp. 159-172.
Handbook and encyclopedia articles
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U3000, in: Teresa Kovacs et al. (eds.) Christoph Schlingensief. A Handbook, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler 2022, pp. 138-145.
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Achim von Arnim's speech "Über die Kennzeichnung des Judenthums", in: Wolfgang Benz et al. (eds.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Hostility towards Jews in the past and present. Vol. 7: Film, Theater, Literature and Art, Berlin/New York 2013, 708-711.
- Angst als Gegenstand kulturwissenschaftlicher Forschung, in: Ders. (ed.), Angst. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch, Stuttgart 2013 (forthcoming).
- Ausdruck, in: Stephan Günzel (ed.), Lexikon der Raumphilosophie, Darmstadt 2012, p. 39.
- Einsamkeit, in: Stephan Günzel (ed.), Lexikon der Raumphilosophie, Darmstadt 2012, p. 92.
- Mobilization, in: Stephan Günzel (ed.), Lexikon der Raumphilosophie, Darmstadt 2012, p. 261.
Reviews
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Review of: Piérre-Fréderic Weber, Timor Teutonorum. Angst vor Deutschland seit 1945: eine europäische Emotion im Wandel, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 18.01.2016.
- Collective review of: Michael Laffan/Max Weiss, Facing Fear. The History of an Emotion in Global Perspective, Princeton 2012 and Jan Plamper/Benjamin Lazier (eds.), Fear. Across the Disciplines. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 2012, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 07.04.2014.
- Review of: Jan Plamper, History and Emotion. Grundlagen der Emotionsgeschichte, Berlin 2012, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 10.09.2013.
- Review of: Christina Hünsche, Textereignisse und Schlachtbilder. Eine sebaldsche Poetik des Ereignisses, Bielefeld 2012, in: Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur 4 (2013), pp. 732-734.
- Review of: Claudia Glunz/Thomas F. Schneider (eds.), From Paraguay to Punk. Medien und Krieg vom 19. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert, Göttingen 2011, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 12.10.2012.
- Review of: Adrian Weibel, Suspense with Hitchcock. Zur Funktionsweise auktorialer Suspense, Würzburg 2009, in: literaturkritik.de 6 (2010).
- Review of: Ingo Irsigler/Christoph Jürgensen (eds.), Nine Eleven, Ästhetische Verarbeitungen des 11. September 2001, Heidelberg 2008, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 19.02.2009.
- Review of: Christer Petersen/Jeanne Riou (eds.), Zeichen des Krieges in Literatur, Film und den Medien. Vol. 3: Terror, Kiel 2008, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 19.02.2009.
- Review of: Stephan Jaeger/Christer Petersen (eds.), Zeichen des Krieges in Literatur, Film und den Medien. Bd. 2: Ideologisierung und Entideologisierung, Kiel 2006, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, September 2006.
- Review of: Christer Petersen (ed.), Signs of War in Literature, Film and the Media. Vol. 1: North America and Europe, Kiel 2004, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, September 2006.
- Review of: Jens Rehn, Nichts in Sicht, Frankfurt a.M. 2003, in: Deutsche Bücher. Forum for Literature 35/3 (2005), pp. 225-230.