Publications

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:

“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).

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