Books:
Kafka und das Problem der Endlichkeit (Sonderzahl, 2024).
The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).
Thresholds, Encounters: Paul Celan and the Claim of Philology, co-ed. Kristina Mendicino (State University of New York Press, 2023).
Forces of Education: Walter Benjamin and the Politics of Pedagogy, co-ed. Dennis Johannßen (Bloomsbury, 2023).
Edited Journal Issues:
Initiations: The Pitfalls of Beginning, co-ed. Kristina Mendicino, parallax 28.3 (2023).
The Bestowal: What Is a Prize? MLN 131.5 (December 2016).
Journal Articles:
“Anmerkungen zur Gewalt des Lesens,” Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 55.3 (2025).
“Disseminar: Education at the Limit of Common Sense,” Modern Language Notes 139.3 (2024): 567–583.
“Törleß and the Scene of Reading,” humanities 12.6 (2023): 136.
“Coming to (Language): Introduction,” with Kristina Mendicino, parallax 28.3 (2023): 257–63.
“Ashes: DeLillo’s Departure from the Referent,” parallax 28.3 (2023): 278–90.
“Sublime Sufferings: ‘Linguistic Pain’ and the Problem of Representation,” Journal of Romance Studies 22.4 (Winter 2022), 337–60.
“Sprache, mag sein,” Triëdere: Zeitschrift für Theorie, Literatur und Kunst 23 (2022), 49–60.
“Erinnerungsmomente in der Lyrik Brinkmanns,” The German Quarterly 95.1 (2022), 52–71.
“A Philology of Survival: Adorno, Benjamin, Hamacher,” Philosophy Today 66.1 (Winter 2022), 95–114.
“Rückkehr zur Philologie,” Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 51.4 (2021), 827–31
“The Promise of Oblivion: A Rhetorical Predicament in Sacher-Masoch, Nietzsche, and Beyond,” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 32.2 (Summer 2021), 94–121.
“De-posing the Uncanny,” Oxford Literary Review 42.2 (Winter 2020), 314–18.
“Inventive Languages: Walter Benjamin, Ernst Jandl, And the Possibility of Back-Translation,” Translation & Literature 29.3 (2020), 317–37.
“Precarious Futures: Kafka’s Prose of Survival,” The Yearbook of Comparative Literature 63 (2017 [2020]), 113–37.
“The Prize-Bearers: A Brief Introduction,” MLN 131.5 (December 2016), 1155–63.
“Thomas Bernhard, Prizefighter,” MLN 131.5 (2016), 1218–35.
Book Chapters:
“Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis,” with Kevin C. Kyzer, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ed. Carol A. Schwartz (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2024), 1–5 [1–124].
“Kant avec Musil,” Robert Musil im Spannungsfeld zwischen Psychologie und Phänomenologie, eds. Artur R. Boelderl and Barbara Neymeyr (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2023), 330–349.
“Dis-positions: Introduction,” co-authored with Kristina Mendicino, Thresholds, Encounters: Paul Celan and the Claim of Philology (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2023), 1–11.
“For Shame of Language,” Thresholds, Encounters: Paul Celan and the Claim of Philology, co-ed. Kristina Mendicino (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2023), 231–56.
“Editors’ Introduction,” co-authored with Dennis Johannßen, Forces of Education: Walter Benjamin and the Politics of Pedagogy (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), 1–14.
“Chronicle of Benjamin’s School and Student Years,” co-authored with Dennis Johannßen, Forces of Education: Walter Benjamin and the Politics of Pedagogy (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), 15–25.
“Prothetische Körper,” Körperglossar, eds. Heidi Wilm, Gerhard Unterthurner, Timo Storck, Ulrike Kadi, and Artur Boelderl (Wien: Turia & Kant, 2021), 123–27.
“The Phantom Erection: Freud’s Dora & Hysteria’s Unreadabilities,” Performing Hysteria: Contemporary Images and Imaginations of Hysteria, ed. Johanna Braun (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020), 87–102.
“Ausstellen, Entsetzen: Thomas Bernhards Museumsroman Alte Meister,” Museales Erzählen: Dinge, Räume, Narrative, eds. Johanna Stapelfeldt, Ulrike Vedder, and Klaus Wiehl (München: Fink, 2020), 203–22.
“Kittler and Heidegger: The Trouble with Ent-fernung,” The Technological Introject: Friedrich Kittler between Implementation and the Incalculable, eds. Jeffrey Champlin and Antje Pfannkuchen (New York: Fordham, 2018), 123–36.
“Aporias of Survival: Kafka’s Alien Incursion,” Experimental Practices 1: Narrating Life – Experiments with Human and Animal Bodies in Literature, Science and Art, eds. Stefan Herbrechter and Elisabeth Friis (Leiden and Boston: Brill/Rodopi, 2015), 191–210.
“Was sich schickt,” Rücksendungen: Ein essayistisches Glossar zu Jacques Derridas Envois/Sendungen, ed. Matthias Schmidt (Wien: Turia & Kant, 2015), 195–204.
Invited Book Reviews:
“Achim Geisenhanslüke, Der feste Buchstabe: Studien zur Hermeneutik, Psychoanalyse und Literatur,” Monatshefte 115.1 (2023), 99–101.
“Rochelle Tobias, Pseudo-Memoirs: Life and Its Imitation in Modern Fiction,” Arcadia 57.2 (2022), 360–65.
“Sergej Taškenov, Thomas Bernhards Prosa: Krise der Sprache und des dialogischen Wortes,” Gegenwartsliteratur 19 (2020), 417–19.
“Werner Hamacher, Sprachgerechtigkeit,” MLN 135.3 (2020), 802–05.
“Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman,” rezenstfm.univie.ac.at (December 2013).
Selected Contributions to Magazines and Newspapers:
“Überlebensformen: Kafka und das Problem der Endlichkeit,” Lettre International 148 (2025), 96–99.
“Keine revolutionäre Stimmung vorhanden,” conversation with Austrian federal president Heinz Fischer, Der Standard, April 23, 2013.
“Ohne Kultur können wir uns gleich erschießen!” conversation with filmmaker Michael Haneke and Austrian minister of higher education Karlheinz Töchterle, Der Standard, March 6, 2013.
“Die hungernden Doktoren der neuen Welt,” Der Standard, October 5, 2012.
“Mit Velvet Underground gegen die Kybernetik,” Der Standard, July 19, 2011.
“Es reicht, wenn sich die Uni alle 500 Jahre verändert,” conversation with philosopher Konrad-Paul Liessmann and art historian Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Der Standard, May 4, 2011.
“Die österreichischen Unis sind bereits tot,” conversation with writer Marlene Streeruwitz and activist Christian Felber, Der Standard, March 2, 2011.
“Karl müsste aus Selbstachtung zurücktreten,” conversation with novelist Robert Menasse, Der Standard, April 28, 2010.
Podcast and Radio Appearances:
New Books Network: Conversation about “The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain” (June 2025).
Radio Orange 94.0: Feature on “Kafka und das Problem der Endlichkeit” (September 2024).
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