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Books:<\/strong><\/p>\n Kafka und das Problem der Endlichkeit (Sonderzahl, 2024).<\/a><\/p>\n The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).<\/a><\/p>\n Thresholds, Encounters: Paul Celan and the Claim of Philology, co-ed. Kristina Mendicino (State University of New York Press, 2023).<\/a><\/p>\n Forces of Education: Walter Benjamin and the Politics of Pedagogy, co-ed. Dennis Johann\u00dfen (Bloomsbury, 2023).<\/a><\/p>\n Edited Journal Issues:<\/strong><\/p>\n Initiations: The Pitfalls of Beginning, co-ed. Kristina Mendicino, parallax 28.3 (2023).<\/a><\/p>\n The Bestowal: What Is a Prize? MLN 131.5 (December 2016).<\/a><\/p>\n Journal Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n “How to Disappear Completely,” Humanities 14.8 (2025): 161.<\/a><\/p>\n “Anmerkungen zur Gewalt des Lesens,\u201d Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 55.3 (2025).<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cDisseminar: Education at the Limit of Common Sense,\u201d Modern Language Notes 139.3 (2024): 567\u2013583.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cT\u00f6rle\u00df and the Scene of Reading,\u201d Humanities 12.6 (2023): 136.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cComing to (Language): Introduction,\u201d with Kristina Mendicino, parallax 28.3 (2023): 257\u201363.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAshes: DeLillo\u2019s Departure from the Referent,\u201d parallax 28.3 (2023): 278\u201390.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cSublime Sufferings: \u2018Linguistic Pain\u2019 and the Problem of Representation,\u201d Journal of Romance Studies 22.4 (Winter 2022), 337\u201360.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cSprache, mag sein,\u201d Tri\u00ebdere: Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Theorie, Literatur und Kunst 23 (2022), 49\u201360.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cErinnerungsmomente in der Lyrik Brinkmanns,\u201d The German Quarterly 95.1 (2022), 52\u201371.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cA Philology of Survival: Adorno, Benjamin, Hamacher,\u201d Philosophy Today 66.1 (Winter 2022), 95\u2013114.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cR\u00fcckkehr zur Philologie,\u201d Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 51.4 (2021), 827\u201331<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe Promise of Oblivion: A Rhetorical Predicament in Sacher-Masoch, Nietzsche, and Beyond,\u201d differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 32.2 (Summer 2021), 94\u2013121.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cDe-posing the Uncanny,\u201d Oxford Literary Review 42.2 (Winter 2020), 314\u201318.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cInventive Languages: Walter Benjamin, Ernst Jandl, And the Possibility of Back-Translation,\u201d Translation & Literature 29.3 (2020), 317\u201337.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cPrecarious Futures: Kafka\u2019s Prose of Survival,\u201d The Yearbook of Comparative Literature 63 (2017 [2020]), 113\u201337.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe Prize-Bearers: A Brief Introduction,\u201d MLN 131.5 (December 2016), 1155\u201363.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThomas Bernhard, Prizefighter,\u201d MLN 131.5 (2016), 1218\u201335.<\/a><\/p>\n Book Chapters:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cDie versehrte Sprache. Ingeborg Bachmann, John Berryman,\u201d Poetiken der Verletzbarkeit: Gewalt, Affekte und Widerstand im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, eds. Aglaia Kister and Cornelia Pierstorff (Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2026), 253\u2013269.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cFranz Kafka: The Metamorphosis,\u201d with Kevin C. Kyzer, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ed. Carol A. Schwartz (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2024), 1\u20135 [1\u2013124].<\/p>\n \u201cKant avec Musil,\u201d Robert Musil im Spannungsfeld zwischen Psychologie und Ph\u00e4nomenologie, eds. Artur R. Boelderl and Barbara Neymeyr (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2023), 330\u2013349.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cDis-positions: Introduction,\u201d co-authored with Kristina Mendicino, Thresholds, Encounters: Paul Celan and the Claim of Philology (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2023), 1\u201311.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cFor Shame of Language,\u201d Thresholds, Encounters: Paul Celan and the Claim of Philology, co-ed. Kristina Mendicino (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2023), 231\u201356.<\/p>\n \u201cEditors\u2019 Introduction,\u201d co-authored with Dennis Johann\u00dfen, Forces of Education: Walter Benjamin and the Politics of Pedagogy (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), 1\u201314.<\/p>\n \u201cChronicle of Benjamin\u2019s School and Student Years,\u201d co-authored with Dennis Johann\u00dfen, Forces of Education: Walter Benjamin and the Politics of Pedagogy (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), 15\u201325.<\/p>\n \u201cProthetische K\u00f6rper,\u201d K\u00f6rperglossar, eds. Heidi Wilm, Gerhard Unterthurner, Timo Storck, Ulrike Kadi, and Artur Boelderl (Wien: Turia & Kant, 2021), 123\u201327.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe Phantom Erection: Freud\u2019s Dora & Hysteria\u2019s Unreadabilities,\u201d Performing Hysteria: Contemporary Images and Imaginations of Hysteria, ed. Johanna Braun (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020), 87\u2013102.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAusstellen, Entsetzen: Thomas Bernhards Museumsroman Alte Meister,\u201d Museales Erz\u00e4hlen: Dinge, R\u00e4ume, Narrative, eds. Johanna Stapelfeldt, Ulrike Vedder, and Klaus Wiehl (M\u00fcnchen: Fink, 2020), 203\u201322.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cKittler and Heidegger: The Trouble with Ent-fernung,\u201d The Technological Introject: Friedrich Kittler between Implementation and the Incalculable, eds. Jeffrey Champlin and Antje Pfannkuchen (New York: Fordham, 2018), 123\u201336.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAporias of Survival: Kafka\u2019s Alien Incursion,\u201d Experimental Practices 1: Narrating Life \u2013 Experiments with Human and Animal Bodies in Literature, Science and Art, eds. Stefan Herbrechter and Elisabeth Friis (Leiden and Boston: Brill\/Rodopi, 2015), 191\u2013210.<\/p>\n \u201cWas sich schickt,\u201d R\u00fccksendungen: Ein essayistisches Glossar zu Jacques Derridas Envois\/Sendungen, ed. Matthias Schmidt (Wien: Turia & Kant, 2015), 195\u2013204.<\/p>\n Invited Book Reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cPeter Szendy, Powers of Reading: From Plato to Audiobooks,\u201d The OLR Supplement: The Online Platform fort he Oxford Literary Review, August 11, 2025.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAchim Geisenhansl\u00fcke, Der feste Buchstabe: Studien zur Hermeneutik, Psychoanalyse und Literatur,\u201d Monatshefte 115.1 (2023), 99\u2013101.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cRochelle Tobias, Pseudo-Memoirs: Life and Its Imitation in Modern Fiction,\u201d Arcadia 57.2 (2022), 360\u201365.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cSergej Ta\u0161kenov, Thomas Bernhards Prosa: Krise der Sprache und des dialogischen Wortes,\u201d Gegenwartsliteratur 19 (2020), 417\u201319.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWerner Hamacher, Sprachgerechtigkeit,\u201d MLN 135.3 (2020), 802\u201305.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cRosi Braidotti, The Posthuman,\u201d rezenstfm.univie.ac.at (December 2013).<\/a><\/p>\n Selected Contributions to Magazines and Newspapers:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201c\u00dcberlebensformen: Kafka und das Problem der Endlichkeit,\u201d Lettre International 148 (2025), 96\u201399.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cKeine revolution\u00e4re Stimmung vorhanden,\u201d conversation with Austrian federal president Heinz Fischer, Der Standard, April 23, 2013.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cOhne Kultur k\u00f6nnen wir uns gleich erschie\u00dfen!\u201d conversation with filmmaker Michael Haneke and Austrian minister of higher education Karlheinz T\u00f6chterle, Der Standard, March 6, 2013.<\/a><\/p>\n “Die hungernden Doktoren der neuen Welt,” Der Standard, October 5, 2012.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cMit Velvet Underground gegen die Kybernetik,\u201d Der Standard, July 19, 2011.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cEs reicht, wenn sich die Uni alle 500 Jahre ver\u00e4ndert,\u201d conversation with philosopher Konrad-Paul Liessmann and art historian Klaus Albrecht Schr\u00f6der, Der Standard, May 4, 2011.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cDie \u00f6sterreichischen Unis sind bereits tot,\u201d conversation with writer Marlene Streeruwitz and activist Christian Felber, Der Standard, March 2, 2011.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cKarl m\u00fcsste aus Selbstachtung zur\u00fccktreten,\u201d conversation with novelist Robert Menasse, Der Standard, April 28, 2010.<\/a><\/p>\n Podcast and Radio Appearances:<\/strong><\/p>\n New Books Network: Conversation about “The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain” (June 2025).<\/a><\/p>\n Radio Orange 94.0: Feature on “Kafka und das Problem der Endlichkeit” (September 2024).<\/a><\/p>\n Contact Me<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"