Publications

Journal Articles

“Weathering Translation: Goethe, Howard, Kalidasa.” Modern Language Notes. German Issue. Forthcoming 2025.

“Planetary Thinking in the Age of Goethe.” Introduction to special issue of Modern Language Notes. Co-written with Bryan Norton. Forthcoming 2025.

“Each and All: A Poetic Triangulation between Goethe, Margaret Fuller, & Emerson.” Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie. Beiheft 25, 2025, pp. 35-62

“Transatlantic German Studies: An Introduction.” Introduction to special issue on “Transatlantic German Studies.” Co-written with Kai Sina & Eva Tanita Kraaz for a co-edited special issue. Monatshefte, vol. 115, no. 3, Fall 2023, pp. 335-343.

“On the Possibility of Poetic Embodiment: Articulatory Gesture in Paul Celan’s ‘Offene Glottis.’” Germanic Review 1 (2022), pp. 92-116. (Linked).

Essays in Collected Volumes

“Between Gift and techne: The Givenness of Nature in Kant, Schiller, & Goethe.” In: Nach der Mimesis: Poetologien der Natur um 1800. Ed. Gabriel Trop & Rahel Villinger. Berlin: de Gruyter (Historia Hermeneutica). Forthcoming 2025.

“Setting Suns, Fading Forms of Life: Cooper & Tieck in Goethe’s Novelle.” In: Form, Time, and Genre in Goethe. Ed. Frauke Berndt, Joel Lande, Sebastian Meixner, & Dorothea von Mücke. Wallstein, 2025, pp. 375-415.

“Formgeschichte als Phonische Archäologie: Stefan Georges ‘Im windes-weben.’” In: Überforderung der Form. Studien zur literarischen Formdynamik. Ed. Jan Urbich. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2024, pp. 234-258.

“(Dis)Consolations of Form: On the Temporality of Rhyme in Goethe’s ‘Im ernsten Beinhaus war’s.’” In: Goethes Spätwerk / On Late Goethe. Ed. Kai Sina & David E. Wellbery. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020, pp. 99-139. [PDF]

“Goethe, ‘the last universal man.’ Zur amerikanischen Erfindung eines neuen Humanismus nach 1945.” Co-written with Kai Sina. In: 'Humanismus' in der Krise. Debatten und Diskurse zwischen Weimarer Republik und geteiltem Deutschland. Ed. Matthias Löwe & Gregor Streim. Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018, pp. 253 – 267. [PDF]

“Metaphorische Oszillation: Jakobson, Musil, Rilke.” In: Strukturalismus, heute: Brüche, Spuren, Kontinuitäten. Ed. Martin Endres & Leonhard Hermann. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2018, pp. 249 – 270. [PDF]

Essays in Handbooks and Lexicons

“America.” In: Goethe-in-Context. Ed. Charlotte E. Lee. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2024, pp. 291-300. [PDF]

“Die Verfluchten” & “Der Gewitterabend.” In: Trakl-Handbuch: Leben — Werk — Wirkung. Ed. Philipp Theisohn. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2023, pp. 209-211; 315-319. (Linked)

Book Reviews

Werner Hamacher. Hölderlin-Studien. Frankfurt a.M.: Vittorio Klostermann, 2020. In: Hölderlin-Jahrbuch. Forthcoming 2025.

Claudia Keller. Lebendiger Abglanz. Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2018. In: Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 114 (2025): pp. 313-317. (Linked)

Joel Lande. The Persistence of Folly: On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2018. In: MLN (April 2019). Vol. 134, No. 3, pp. 665 – 669. (Linked)

Gabriel Trop. Poetry as a Way of Life: Aesthetics and Askesis in the German Eighteenth Century. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2015. In: German Quarterly (Fall 2016). Vol. 89, No. 4, pp. 503 – 505. (Linked)

Translations

“Ideen zu einem Goethe-Lexikon philosophischer Begriffe: Darstellung des Projektvorhabens.” Co-authored with Clark Muenzer, John Smith, & Bryan Klausmeyer. In: Goethe-Jahrbuch 2021, pp. 172-177.

Dietmar Till. “The Reception and Transformation of Rhetoric in Germany during the 18th Century.” In: Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Classical Rhetoric. Ed. Michael Edwards, Sophia Papaioannou, & Andreas Serafim. Leiden: Brill, 2021, pp. 52-74.

Joachim Knape. “Ding theory and Design Rhetoric” & “Cross-cultural Rhetoric: Research Problems.” Forthcoming.

Jürgen Leonhardt. “Annotation between formation and information.” In: International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing (Oct. 2017). Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 199 – 211.

Sebastian Meixner. “Political Ambivalence and Dramatic Ambiguity: Bertolt Brecht’s Learning Play Die Maßnahme (1930/31).” In: Strategies of Ambiguity. Ed. Matthias Bauer & Angelika Zirker. London: Routledge, 2023, pp. 145-167.

Veronika Ehrich. “(Ab)using Ambiguity: Strategies for Avoiding and Exploiting Ambiguity.” In: Strategies of Ambiguity. Ed. Matthias Bauer & Angelika Zirker. London: Routledge, 2023.

Nicolas Potysch. “The Strategic Use of Ambiguous Images in Multisemiotic Textures.” Strategies of Ambiguity. Ed. Matthias Bauer & Angelika Zirker. London: Routledge, 2023, pp. 56-74.