Publications

B. Articles

"From Depoliticising Burns to Trumpeting the Revolution: Ferdinand Freiligrath andthe Reception of Robert Burns in Germany." The Meeting of Scotland and Europe.
     Ed. Aniela Korzeniowska and Izabela Szymanska. Warszwa: Semper, 2024. 131-144.

"Ballantyne 'on the Rocks'. The Arctic as Adventure-Arena." What is North? Imagining and Representing the North from Ancient Times to the Present Day. 
     Ed. Oisín Plumb, Alexandra Sanmark, Donna Heddle. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020. 227-243.

"A Girl's Own Empire? Imperialism and the Girl's Own Paper, 1880 to 1903." Imperial Middlebrow. Ed. Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch. Leiden: Brill, 2020. 22-43.

"Victorian Gendered Photography in the Boy's Own Paper and the Girl's Own Paper." Victorian Periodicals Review 52.1 (2019): 57-79.

"'What is there that women cannot do?': Ambiguities of Gender, Genre, and Representation in 'Our Tour in Norway,' a Travelogue in the Girl's Own Paper." 
     Victorian Periodicals Review 51.3 (2018): 539-557.

"'A dialogue I'll tell you as true as my life': Formen und Funktionen des Dialogs in der englischen Straßenballade." Das Dialoggedicht / Dialogue Poems. Ed. Christina
     Johanna Bischoff, Till Kinzel, Jarmila Mildorf. Heidelberg: Winter, 2017. 243-258.

“Whose Hillbrow? Xenophobia and the Urban Space in the 'New' South Africa.” Contested Communities: Communication, Narration, Imagination. Ed. Susanne
     Mühleisen. ASNEL Papers 21. Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2017. 171-186.

"Anti-Slavery Discourse in Three Adventure Stories by R.M. Ballantyne." Empires and Revolutions: Cunninghame Graham and His Contemporaries. Ed. Carla Sassie and
     Silke Stroh. Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2017. 32-46.

"Constructing and Deconstructing the Fantasy Hero: Joe Abercrombie's ‘First Law’ Trilogy." Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction Since 1800. Ed. Barbara Korte &
     Stefanie Lethbridge. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 135-150.

"'I'm not going.' Questions of Home and Society in Nadine Gordimer's No Time Like the Present." Anglistentag 2015, Paderborn: Proceedings. Ed. Christoph Ehland,
     Ilka Mindt and Merle Tönnies. Trier: WVT, 2016. 67-76.

"Chains of Voices: Multiperspectivity and Historical 'Truth' in Three Novels by André Brink." English in Africa 43.1 (2016): 87-100.

"Inventing the Victorian Boy: S.O Beeton's The Boy's Own Magazine." The Making of English Popular Culture. Ed. John Storey. Abington: Routledge, 2016. 76-89.

"Laughing at Racism or Laughing with the Racists? The 'Indian Comedy' of Goodness Gracious Me." British TV Comedies: Cultural Concepts, Contexts and
     Controversies. Ed. Jürgen Kamm & Birgit Neumann. Houndmills: Palgrave, 2016. 185-196.

"Raising Ghosts or Laying Them to Rest? Ghost Stories in Two Victorian Magazines for 'Boys'." Geister: Einblicke in das Unsichtbare. Ed. Dieter Petzold. Inklings:
     Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik 33. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2016. 27-40.

"'Making it Fit': The Appropriation of Poe in Boy's Own Magazine." The Edgar Allan Poe Review 16.2 (2015): 155-168.

"Dystopia of Reproduction: P.D. James, The Children of Men (1992) and Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men (2006)." Dystopia, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalypse:
     Classics - New Tendencies - Model Interpretations. Ed. Eckart Voigts and Alessandra Boller. Trier: WVT, 2015. 333-345.

"It's Not Cruel, It's Science! The Re-Invention of Bird-Nesting in Late Victorian Juvenile Culture." Anglistentag 2013 Konstanz: Proceedings. Ed. Silvia Mergenthal &
     Reingard Nischik. Trier: WVT, 2014. 9-19.

"'How like us is that ugly brute, the ape!': Darwin's 'Ape Theory' and Its Traces in Victorian Children's Magazines." Reflecting on Darwin. Ed. Eckart Voigts, Barbara
     Schaff and Monika Pietrzak-Franger. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. 57-71.

"'Are You Learning to Grow Old?': 'Aging Well' with the Help of The Girl's Own Paper, 1880 to 1900." Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging in Nineteenth-
     Century Culture. Ed. Katharina Boehm, Anna Farkas, and Anne-Julia Zwierlein. London: Routledge, 2014. 147-164.

"Mr Gorilla, the 'Lion of the Season': Die Britische Gorilla-Manie im Spiegel Viktorianischer Kinderliteratur." Animalia in fabula: Interdisziplinäre Gedanken
     über das Tier in der Sprache, Literatur und Kultur. Ed. Miorita Ulrich und Dina De Rentiis. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 2013. 179-198.

“The Victorian Debate on Science Education and the Case of 'Robina Crusoe'.” Anglistentag 2011 Freiburg: Proceedings. Ed. Monika Fludernik and
     Benjamin Kohlmann. Trier: WVT, 2012. 353-364.

"John Gay's Polly and the Politics of 'Colonial Pastoral'." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 60.2 (2012):107-120.

“Polly Peachum, a 'Model of Virtue'? Questions of Morality in John Gay's Polly.” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 35.3 (2012): 343-357.

"'The end was not ignoble'? Bird-Nesting Between Cruelty, Manliness and Science Education in British Children's Periodicals, 1850-1900." Time of Beauty,
     Time of Fear: the Romantic Legacy in the Literature of Childhood. Ed. James Holt McGavran, Jr. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2012. 128-150.

"Robert Louis Stevensons Treasure Island." "Klassiker" der internationalen Jugendliteratur: Kulturelle und epochenspezifische Diskurse aus Sicht der Fach-
     disziplinen. Ed. Anita Schilcher und Claudia Maria Pecher. Hohengehren: Schneider, 2012. 83-97.

“'Nothing like this can be your fault at your age' Trauma-Narrative and the Politics of Self-Accusation in The Innocence of Roast Chicken." Trauma,
     Memory, and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel. Ed. Ewald Mengel and Michela Borzaga. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012. 319-333.

"'Play up! play up! and play the game!' The Militarization of Cricket in Victorian Boys' Magazines." Journal for the Study of British Cultures Special Issue:
     "Sports." Ed. Christian Schmitt-Kilb. 18.1 (2011): 27-39.

"Moral Opposition to Gay's Beggar's Opera: William Duncombe's ‘Evidence’ Refuted." Notes and Queries NS 57.1 (2010): 71-73.

"The Needlework of War-time: The South African War in Magazines for Young Readers." Anglistentag 2008 Tübingen: Proceedings. Ed. Christoph Reinfandt
     and Lars Eckstein. Trier: WVT, 2009. 481-490.

[with Barbara Korte] "Censorship in Britain: Then and Now." Censorship and Cultural Regulation in Contemporary Britain. Ed. Barbara Korte and Jochen
     Petzold. 15.2 (2008): 97-108.

"The Subjectivity of Absence: Verbal Cues for Constructing an Individual Point of View in Poems with 'Hidden' Speakers." Anglistentag 2007 Münster:
     Proceedings. Ed. Klaus Stierstorfer. Trier: WVT, 2008. 235-243.

"Geschichte als Verbrechen: Zur Verknüpfung von history und crime in Romanen André Brinks." Geschichte im Krimi: Beiträge aus den Kulturwissenschaften.
     Ed. Barbara Korte and Sylvia Paletschek. Köln: Böhlau, 2009. 227-239.

“White Angst in South Africa – The Apocalyptic Vision of John Conyngham.” Embracing the Other: Addressing Xenophobia in the New Literatures in
     English. Ed. Dunja Mohr. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008. 141-151.

"'Translating' the Great Trek into the Twentieth Century: Re-interpretation of the Afrikaner Myth in Three South African Novels." English in Africa 34.1 (2007): 115-131.

[with Rüdiger Heinze] "No More Room in Hell: Utopian Moments in the Dystopia of 28 Days Later." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Special Issue
     "The Disappearance of Utopia?" Ed. Rüdiger Heinze and Jochen Petzold. 55.1 (2007): 53-68.

[with Rüdiger Heinze] "Introduction: The Disappearance of Utopia?" Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Special Issue "The Disappearance of Utopia?" Ed.
     Rüdiger Heinze and Jochen Petzold. 55.1 (2007): 1-3.

“Integrating Jack and John: Anthologizing Donne in the Twentieth Century.” Anglistik 18.1 (2007). 9-26.

"Subverting the Master Discourse? The Power of Women's Words in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and Fletcher's The Woman's Prize, or
     The Tamer Tamed." Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 31.2 (2006): 157-170.

"Children's Literature after Apartheid: Examining 'Hidden Histories' of South Africa's Past." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 30.2 (2005): 140-151.

"Ridiculing Rainbow Rhetoric: Christopher Hope's Me, the Moon and Elvis Presley." Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Society in a 'Post'-
     Colonial World. ASNEL Papers 9.2. Ed. Geoffrey Davis, Peter Marsden, Bénédicte Ledent and Marc Delrez. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. 285-292.

"Das Motiv der Farm bei J. M. Coetzee: Dekonstruktion eines südafrikanischen Mythos." Normen, Ausgrenzungen, Hybridisierungen und 'Acts of Identity'. Ed.
     Monika Fludernik and Hans-Joachim Gehrke. Würzburg: Ergon, 2004. 95-114.

"Afrika als 'Other': Landschaftsdarstellung im englischen Abenteuerroman und die Kolonisierung Afrikas." Ordnungen der Landschaft: Natur und Raum
     technisch und symbolisch entwerfen. Hrsg. Stefan kaufmann. Identitäten und Alteritäten Bd. 12. Würzburg: Ergon, 2002. 175-190.

"In Search of a New National History: Debunking Old Heroes in Robert Kirby'sThe Secret Letters of Jan van Riebeeck." Research in African Literatures,
     Special Issue "Nationalism", 32.3 (2001): 143-154.

"André Brink's Magical History Tour: Postmodern and Postcolonial Influences inThe First Life of Adamastor." English in Africa 27.2 (2000): 45-58.

"Zwischen 'Nigger' und 'Noble Savage': Das Afrikabild in R. M. Ballantynes Black Ivory." Afrika in den europäischen Literaturen zwischen 1860 und 1930.
     Hrsg. Titus Heydenreich und Eberhard Späth. Erlangen: Universitätsbund Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2000. 171-188.

"Marlow's Racism and the Subversion of Truths in Heart of Darkness." L'Epoque Conradienne 25 (1999): 9-25.

C. Editorship

[with Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Katharina Boehm and Martin Decker] Anglistentag 2017, Regensburg: Proceedings. Trier: WVT, 2018.

[with Barbara Korte] Journal for the Study of British Cultures. Special Issue "Censorship". 15.2 (2008).

[with Rüdiger Heinze] Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. Special Issue "The Disappearance of Utopia?" 55.1 (2007).

D. Reviews & Reports

(rev.) "David Kerler and Timo Müller, eds. Poem Unlimited: New Perspectives on Poetry and Genre. Anglia Book Series 63. 
     Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019." Anglia 139.2 (2021): 468-471.

(rev.) "Leslie Allin, Penetrating Critiques: Emasculated Empire and Victorian Identity in Africa (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2020)" 
     Victorian Periodicals Review 54.2 (2021): 378-380.

(rev.) "Grzegorczyk, Blanka. Discourses of Postcolonialism in Contemporary British Children's Literature. New York & London: Routledge, 2015." 
     Geister: Einblicke in das Unsichtbare. Ed. Dieter Petzold. Inklings: Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik 33. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2016. 246-249.

(rev.) "Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, ed. The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014." 
     Inklings: Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik 32 (2015): 240-242.

(rev.) "Kristine Moruzi. Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850-1915. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012." Anglistik 25.2 (2014): 171-172.

(rev.) "John Miller. Empire and the Animal Body. London and New York: Anthem, 2012." ZAA 61.4 (2013): 411-412.

(rev.) "Jana Gohrisch & Ellen Grünkemeier, eds. Listening to Africa: Anglophone African Literatures and Cultures  (Heidelberg: Winter, 2012)." 
     Journal for the Study of British Cultures  20.1 (2013): 82-85.

(rev.) "Carol Freeman, Elizabeth Leane and Yvette Watt, eds. Considering Animals: Contemporary Studies in Human-Animal Relations 
     (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012)." Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 165.1 (2013): 195-196.

(rev.) "Johann Schmidt. Großbritannien 1945-2010: Kultur, Politik, Gesellschaft. (Stuttgart: Kröner, 2011)." Inklings: Jahrbuch für Literatur 
     und Ästhetik 30 (2013):351-353.

(rev.) "Michelle J. SmithEmpire in British Girls' Literature and Culture: Imperial Girls, 1880-1915 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)." 
     Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 60.4 (2012): 407-408.

(rev.) "Saskia Lettmaier. Broken Engagements: The Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage and the Feminine Ideal, 1800-1940 
     (Oxford: OUP, 2010)." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 60.2 (2012): 194-195.

(rev.) "Andrea Gutenberg. Körper, Sexualität und Moral: Die Auseinandersetzung mit Degenerationsvorstellungen in englischer Literature und Kultur
     1910-1940 (Trier: WVT, 2009)." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 59.1 (2011): 93-94.

(rev.) "Sonja Altnöder, Inhabiting the "New" South Africa: Ethical Encounters at the Race-Gender Interface in Four Post-Apartheid Novels by 
     Zoë Wicomb, Sindiwe Magona, Nadine Gordimer and Farida Karodia (Trier: WVT, 2008)." Anglistik 21.1 (2010): 228-229.

(rev.) "Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann, Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature About Africa: A Study of Contemporary Fiction 
     (New York: Routledge, 2009)." Children's Literary Association Quarterly 34.3 (2009): 300-302.

(rev.) "Thomas Kullmann, Englische Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: Eine Einführung (Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2008)." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und
     Amerikanistik 57.4 (2009): 403-404.

(rev.) "Claudia Drawe, Erinnerung und Identität in ausgewählten Romanen der Postapartheid (Trier: WVT, 2007)." Anglistik 20.1 (2009): 231-232.

(rev.) "Ulrich Pallua, Eurocentrism, Racism, Colonialism in the Victorian and Edwardian Age (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2006)." 
     Anglia 125.2 (2007): 386-389.

(rev.) "Eva Müller-Zettelmann and Margarete Rubik, eds, Theory into Poetry: New Approaches to the Lyric (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2005)." 
     Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 55.2 (2007): 195-196.

(rev.) "Kay Sulk, 'Not Grace, then, but at Least the Body': J.M. Coetzees Schriften 1990–1999 (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2005)." 
     Anglistik 18.1 (2007): 217-218.

(rev.) "Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature". 
     Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 51.4 (2003): 461-462.

(rev.) "Elmar Schenkel, H. G. Wells: Der Prophet im Labyrinth". Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 51.3
      (2003): 326-327.

[with Haike Frank] "Embracing the Other" (Conference Report). European English Messenger 11.2 (2002): 75-76.

E. Interview

[with Rüdiger Heinze] "The Disappearance of Utopia? An Interview with Ernest Callenbach on the Role and Function of Utopian Thought in Contemporary
     American Society." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Special Issue "The Disappearance of Utopia?" Ed. Rüdiger Heinze and Jochen Petzold. 55.1
     (2007): 87-92.