Prof. Dr. Julius Greve

Education and Qualifications 

05|2025 / 05|2026       Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg | Submission of postdoctoral thesis (Habilitationsschrift) “A Poetics of Ventriloquism: Verse, Voice, and Meditation from Walt Whitman to Kendrick Lamar” in May 2025 / habilitation colloquium in May 2026 (venia legendi, “American Studies: Literature and Culture”)

01|2013 – 08|2017       Universität zu Köln (doctoral studies in English; esp. American Literature and Critical Theory, fully funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes); Doctoral thesis: “Shreds of Matter: Cormac McCarthy and the Persistence of Speculation”; submitted February 2016 | defended July 2016 | awarded August 2017) Grade: summa cum laude 0,0; Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Hanjo Berressem, Prof. Dr. Bernd Herzogenrath

10|2006 – 01|2012       Universität zu Köln (M.A. studies in English, History, Ethnomusicology; majored in English | American Studies); Grade: 1,0 with distinction; Thesis: “Metacommentary as an Artistic Practice in the Work of Mark Z. Danielewski”

09|2009 – 03|2010  Cardiff University (M.A. studies in Critical and Cultural Theory, Ethnomusicology)

Academic Positions

since 03|2025      Lecturer and research associate in American Studies | Institute for English and American Studies, CvO Universität Oldenburg

10|2021 – 02|2025  Post-doc research associate in American Studies; “Eigene Stelle,” fully funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) | Institute for English and American Studies, CvO Universität Oldenburg

04|2019 – 09|2019  Lecturer in American Studies | Universität Bremen

04|2018 – 06|2019  Research associate of the MWK (Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur)-Project „Zukunft gestalten“ | Wissenschaftliches Zentrum „Genealogie der Gegenwart“ (WiZeGG), CvO Universität Oldenburg

10|2017 – 03|2018       Lecturer in American Studies | Institute for English and American Studies, Universität Hamburg

04|2017 – 09|2021      Lecturer and research associate in American Studies | Institute for English and American Studies, CvO Universität Oldenburg

10|2016 – 03|2017      Lecturer in American Studies | Institute for English and American Studies, Universität Hamburg

04|2016 – 03|2017      Lecturer and research associate in American Studies (Prof. Dr. Hanjo Berressem) | English Department, Universität zu Köln 

Memberships and Service to the Profession

Societies    The Cormac McCarthy Society (external link, opens in a new window)

DGfA (external link, opens in a new window) (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien) | GAAS (German Association for American Studies)

EAAS  (external link, opens in a new window)(European Association for American Studies), Poetry Network

GfM (external link, opens in a new window) (Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft)

MLA (external link, opens in a new window) (Modern Language Association)

MSA (external link, opens in a new window) (Modernist Studies Association)

Peer Reviews for        Bloomsbury Academic; Edinburgh University Press; Peter Lang | Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique; The Cormac McCarthy Journal; Deleuze and Guattari Studies; EJAS: European Journal of American Studies; Orbit: A Journal of American Literature; Pulse: the Journal of Science and Culture; Synthesis Philosophica; ZFF: Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung

Research Interests

•  American Fiction from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century: especially Herman Melville, H. P. Lovecraft, Cormac McCarthy, and Mark Z. Danielewski

•  Modern American Poetry and Poetics: esp. Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, H.D., and Susan Howe

•  American Music and Sound Studies 

•  Modernism and Modernity

•  Popular Culture and Media Studies

•  Literary and Cultural Theory

•  Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities

•  Intersections of Aesthetics, Politics, and Philosophy

Current and Recent Projects

•  A Poetics of Ventriloquism: Verse, Voice, and Mediation from Walt Whitman to Kendrick Lamar (monograph, based on a DFG-funded research project; gepris.dfg.de/project/450708673) 

•  Rethinking the North American Long Poem: Form, Matter, Experiment (co-edited volume, in part based on an international conference that was funded by FNSNF, SANAS, and SAGW; rethinkinglongpoem.wordpress.com & www.unmpress.com/9780826367112/rethinking-the-north-american-long-poem/)  

•  Collaborative work as a member of the DFG-funded research network “Americana: Ästhetik, Authentizität und Performance in der US-amerikanischen populären Musik” (2016–2024) 

Conferences, Workshops, and Events | Organization

05|2026        Chairing a panel at “Weird Modernisms”, the Annual Modernist Studies Association/British Association for Modernist Studies joint conference on “Modernism and Cinema” | Loughborough UK

 05|2026       Chairing a GAAS (DGfA, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien)-workshop, on “Kinship and Civil War from 1861 to the Present” | Universität Münster

09|2025        Chairing a panel at the “European Beat Studies Network 13th Annual Conference: The Beats, Radicalism and the Bipolar World,” on “Diane di Prima – Temporalities, Mysticism, and Anarchist Innovations”  | Universität Hildesheim

 09|2024       Chairing a panel at “The Modernist Long Poem and Its Discontents”-conference, on “Dissent and Discontent” | École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France 

05|2024        Chairing a GAAS (DGfA)-workshop, on “Music, Race, and Human Rights in North America since 1948” | CvO Universität Oldenburg

05|2024        Co-Organization of GAAS (DGfA) annual conference, “American Soundscapes” | CvO Universität Oldenburg

03|2024        Co-organization of “Semiotics of the Sayable: Poetics, Politics, Science, Non-Philosophy”- symposium | Endicott College, Massachusetts, USA

 07|2023       Organization of “Reading Living Currency—Pierre Klossowski and Critical Theory: An International Workshop” | CvO Universität Oldenburg

 09|2021       Co-organization of an international conference, “Rethinking the North American Long Poem: Matter, Form, Experiment” | Universität Basel, Switzerland (s. rethinkinglongpoem.wordpress.com/)

06|2019        Co-organization of a GAAS (DGfA)-workshop, “‘This is America’: Music, Video, and Medial Entanglement in the Popular” | Universität Hamburg, Germany

 04|2018       Co-organization of an international conference, “The American Weird: Ecologies & Geographies” | Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany (s. theamericanweird. wordpress.com/) 

 10|2017 – 01|2018  Co-Organization of a lecture series, “Sites of Encounter: Boundaries, Liminalities, and their Media” | CvO Universität Oldenburg

 06|2017      Co-organization of a GAAS (DGfA)-workshop, “Modernist Generation: The Making of Those Who Make It New” | Leibniz Universität, Hannover

 07|2016      Co-organization of an international conference (with James Dorson and Markus Wierschem), “Crossroads and Transgressions: Cormac McCarthy Between Worlds” | JFK Institute, FU Berlin, Germany (s. www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/v/McCarthy/cfp/index.html) 

10|2014        Co-organization of a symposium (with Rocco Gangle), “Superpositions. Non-Standard Perspectives on Critical Theory, Philosophy and Media Studies – A Symposium on Laruelle and the Humanities” | CTM, The New School, New York City, USA (s. ctm.parsons.edu/superpositions-a-symposium-on-laruelle/)

 05|2014      Co-organization of an international conference, “America and the Musical Unconscious” | Junior Year Munich, LMU München, Germany

Inter/national Research 

01|2025   Research stay at Vilém Flusser Archive | Universität der Künste, Berlin 

05|2022   Research stay at New York Public Library | New York City, USA

02|2018 – 03|2018       Visiting Scholar, at Prof. Dr. Michael B. Golston’s invitation | Columbia University, New York City, USA

 09|2014 – 10|2014       Research stay at the Cormac McCarthy Archive of The Wittliff Collections | Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, USA

Talks and Presentations (since 2024)

Invited lectures and talks

– “Dichterische Bauchrednerei. Literarischer Diskurs und kulturelle Praxis.” [CvO Universität Oldenburg, 2025] 

– “Radioactivity and the Twittering Machine: Ezra Pound, Kanye West, and Reactionary Broadcasting.” [Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2024]

– “The Surplus of Voice: Whitman, Dylan, and Poetic Ventriloquism.” [TU Dortmund, 2024]

– “Gut-Level Hauntologies: From Specters of Marx to Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers.” [Universiteit van Amsterdam, Niederlande, 2024]

Conference presentations

– “Stasis in Verse: Visions of Civil Strife in Walt Whitman and Henry Timrod.” [given at “Visions of Freedom,” EAAS (European Association of American Studies) conference, University of Bologna UK, 2026]

– “H.D., Hermeticism, and the Weird.” [given at “Weird Modernisms”, Annual Modernist Studies Association/British Association for Modernist Studies joint conference, Loughborough UK, 2026]

– “Extracting Significance: Pragmatist Abstraction from John Dewey to Franz Kline.” [given at “Abstraction/New Departures: 3^rd MADS (Modernism Aestheticism Decadence Studies)-symposium,” Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 2025]

– “‘The World is Watching’: On Gary Snyder and Ecological Crisis.” [given at “European Beat Studies Network 13th Annual Conference: The Beats, Radicalism and the Bipolar World,” Universität Hildesheim, 2025]

– “A “thin film of images”: Repetition, Light, and Memory in Canto IV.” [Ezra Pound International Conference (EPIC) – 31. Biennal Conference of the Ezra Pound Society, Schloss Brunnenburg, Dorf Tirol, Italy, 2025]

– “Lyric Obscurity, Fugitive Publics: Rereading the Black Arts Movement.” [“Contemporary Poetics, Communities, and Publics” - Inaugural European Association of American Studies Poetry Network Symposium, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2025] 

– “Post-Secular Transgressions: Mysticism, Mediation, and Poetic Voice in H.D. and Patti Smith.” [given at ALA Symposium, “American Poetry,” Santa Fe, USA, 2024] 

– “Hauntological Ventriloquism: Zong! and the Afterlives of the Modernist Long Poem.” [given at “The Modernist Long Poem and Its Discontents,” École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, 2024]

– “An Incorporeal Materialism: Foucault with Laruelle.” [given at “Semiotics of the Sayable: Poetics, Politics, Science, Non-Philosophy,” an international workshop at Endicott College, USA, 2024]

– “Representative Masks: Whitman, Dylan, and the Surplus of Voice.” [given at NeMLA annual convention, Boston, USA, 2024]

Monograph and Edited Volumes

•  Rethinking the North American Long Poem: Form, Matter, Experiment, edited by Ridvan Askin and Julius Greve. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2024.

•  Poetic Voice and Materiality, Cluster of ASAP/Review, edited by Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth and Julius Greve, November 7, 2023. https://asapjournal.com/tag/poetic-voice/ (external link, opens in a new window).

•  Musikalische Regionen und Regionalismen in den USA / Musical Regions and Regionalisms in the USA (Lied und populäre Kultur vol. 66), edited by Julius Greve and Knut Holtsträter. Münster u. New York: Waxmann 2021.

•  The American Weird: Concept and Medium, edited by Julius Greve and Florian Zappe. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.

•  Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities, edited by Julius Greve and Florian Zappe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

•  Shreds of Matter: Cormac McCarthy and the Concept of Nature. Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College Press, 2018.

•  Cormac McCarthy Between Worlds, Special Issue of EJAS: European Journal of American Studies 12, no. 3 (2017), edited by James Dorson, Julius Greve, and Markus Wierschem. European Association for American Studies. journals.openedition.org/ejas/12252 (external link, opens in a new window).

•  Superpositions: Laruelle and the Humanities, edited by Rocco Gangle and Julius Greve. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.

•  America and the Musical Unconscious, edited by Julius Greve and Sascha Pöhlmann. New York: Atropos, 2015.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

•  “Introduction: Form, Matter, Experiment and the North American Long Poem.” (co-authored with Ridvan Askin) In Rethinking the North American Long Poem: Form, Matter, Experiment, edited by Ridvan Askin and Julius Greve, 1–35. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2024.

•  “Intermedial Americana: Music, Vision, and Narrative in Bill Morrison’s The Great Flood and Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke.” (co-authored with Knut Holtsträter) In Americana: Aesthetics, Authenticity, and Performance in US Popular Music, edited by Knut Holtsträter and Sascha Pöhlmann, 109–134. Münster and New York: Waxmann, 2023.

•  “Introduction to Poetic Voice and Materiality.” (co-authored with Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth) ASAP/Review, November 7, 2023. https://asapjournal.com/poetic-voice-and-materiality-introduction-zoe-bursztajn-illingworth-and-julius-greve/ (external link, opens in a new window).

•  “‘The Pitch of the Pines’: Craig Dworkin’s Material Ecopoetics.” ASAP/Review, November 7, 2023. https://asapjournal.com/poetic-voice-and-materiality-the-pitch-of-the-pines-craig-dworkins-material-ecopoetics-julius-greve/ (external link, opens in a new window).

•  “The Disembodied Voice.” In Sound Affects: A User’s Guide, edited by Sharon Jane Mee and Luke Robinson, 104–116. New York: Bloomsbury, 2023.

•  “Hip Hop Naturalism: A Poetics of Afro-Pessimism.” Ecozon@ 13, no.1 (2022): 73–88. ecozona.eu/article/view/4441. (external link, opens in a new window)

•  “Voice and Wake: Susan Howe, M. NourbeSe Philip, and the Ecology of Echology.” In The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen, edited by Nathalie Aghoro, 61–77. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021.

•  “Deleuze and Diagnosis: A Remark on the ‘Postscript.’” Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power 6 (2020): 7-14. coilsoftheserpent.org/2020/11/deleuze-and-diagnosis/. (external link, opens in a new window)

•  “Radioactivity and the Typewriter’s Breath: Practical Aesthetics in Pound and Olson.” In Practical Aesthetics, edited by Bernd Herzogenrath, 215–226. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.

•  “Introduction: Conceptualizations, Mediations, and Remediations of the American Weird.” (co-authored with Florian Zappe) In The American Weird: Concept and Medium, edited by Julius Greve and Florian Zappe, 1–12. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.

•  “Ventriloquism Against the Copyright of the Concept: Authorial Suspension and Modernist Performativity.” In We the People? The United States and the Question of Rights, edited by Irina Brittner, Sabine Meyer, and Peter Schneck, 157–176. Heidelberg: Winter, 2020.

•  “Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Philosophy.” In Cormac McCarthy in Context, edited by Steven Frye, 155–168. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

•  “Radio, Typewriter, Breath: On Practice and Technique in Pound and Olson.” In The Return of the Aesthetic in American Studies. REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, vol. 35, edited by Winfried Fluck, Rieke Jordan, and Johannes Völz, 155–168. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2019.

•  “The Weird and the Wild: Media Ecologies of the Outré-Normative.” In Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities, edited by Julius Greve and Florian Zappe, 41–56. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

•  “Introduction: Ecologies and Geographies of the Weird and the Fantastic.” (co-authored with Florian Zappe) In Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities, edited by Julius Greve and Florian Zappe, 1–12. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

•  “Neuropathologies: Cognition, Technology, and the Network Paradigm in Scott Bakker’s Neuropath and Dave Eggers’ The Circle.” In Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction: Human and Temporal Connectivities, edited by Nina Engelhardt and Julia Hoydis, 37–54. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

•  “Rugged Resonances: From Music in McCarthy to McCarthian Music.” (co-authored with Markus Wierschem) EJAS: European Journal of American Studies 12, no. 3 (2017). https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/12330 (external link, opens in a new window).

•  “Introduction: Cormac McCarthy Between Worlds.” (co-authored with James Dorson and Markus Wierschem) EJAS: European Journal of American Studies 12, no. 3 (2017). https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/12253 (external link, opens in a new window).

•  “The Decisional Apparatus: Jameson, Flusser, Laruelle.” In Superpositions: Laruelle and the Humanities, edited by Rocco Gangle and Julius Greve, 75–90. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.

•  “Introduction: Superposing Non-Standard Philosophy and Humanities Discourse.” (co-authored with Rocco Gangle) In Superpositions: Laruelle and the Humanities, edited by Rocco Gangle and Julius Greve, 1–18. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.

•  “‘Cloaca Maxima’: Conceptualizing Matter in Cormac McCarthy’s Southern Fiction.” In Beyond Reckoning: Philosophical Approaches to Cormac McCarthy, edited by Chris Eagle, 5–32. New York: Routledge, 2017.

•  “Introduction: What Is the Musical Unconscious?” (co-authored with Sascha Pöhlmann) In America and the Musical Unconscious, edited by Julius Greve and Sascha Pöhlmann, 7–50. New York: Atropos, 2015.

•  “‘Another kind of clay’: On Blood Meridian’s Okenian Philosophy of Nature.” The Cormac McCarthy Journal 13 (2015): 27–53.

•  “Object-Oriented Utopianism: A Jamesonian Perspective on Graham Harman.” Alles Mögliche: Sprechen, Denken und Schreiben des (Un)Möglichen, edited by Reinhard Babel, Nadine Feßler, Sandra Fluhrer, Sebastian Huber & Sebastian Thede, 67–86. Königshausen & Neumann, 2014.

•  “Danielewski, or, Metacommentary as Literary Production.” In Revolutionary Leaves: The Fiction of Mark Z. Danielewski, edited by Sascha Pöhlmann, 77–98. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

Reviews and Shorter Essays

•  „Louise Glück: Das Versprechen des Abstands.“ Die Zeit Online, October 16, 2023. Accessed October 18, 2023. https://www.zeit.de/kultur/literatur/2023-10/louise-glueck-schriftstellerin-nobelpreis-nachruf (external link, opens in a new window).

•  “Writing Nature Between Orphism and Prometheanism in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.” Critical Posthumanism: Genealogy of the Posthuman. January 5, 2021. Accessed February 3, 2021. criticalposthumanism.net/blood-meridian/. (external link, opens in a new window)

•  “Review Essay: Dorothea Gail, Weird American Music: Case Studies of Underground Resistance, BarlowGirl, Jackalope, Charles Ives, and Waffle House Music (2018).” Amerikastudien / American Studies 65.4 (2020): 537-39.

•  „Louise Glück: Die Stimme und der Verlust.“ Die Zeit Online, October 8, 2020. Accessed October 12, 2020. www.zeit.de/kultur/literatur/2020-10/louise-glueck-literaturnobelpreis-lyrik. (external link, opens in a new window)

•  “Review Essay: Christoph Lanzen, Physicians of Culture: Healing Catharsis in the Fiction of Toni Morrison and the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (2018).” Anglia 137, no. 3 (2019): 522–525.

•  “Review Essay: Louise Jillett, Cormac McCarthy’s Borders and Landscapes (2016).” The Cormac McCarthy Journal 15, no. 2 (2017): 193–197.

•  “The Primacy of the Object. Review-Essay: Martin Paul Eve, Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno (2014).” EBR: Electronic Book Review. March 6, 2016. Accessed December 1, 2017. electronicbookreview.com/essay/the-primacy-of-the-object/ (external link, opens in a new window).

•  “Review-Essay: Andrew Estes Keller, Cormac McCarthy and the Writing of American Spaces (2013).” Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 25, no. 2 (2014): 193–195.

•  “Review-Essay: Nicoline Timmer, Do You Feel it Too? The Post-Postmodern Syndrome in American Fiction at the Turn of the Millenium (2010) and Joe Bray and Alison Gibbons (eds.), Mark Z. Danielewski (2011).” Amerikastudien / American Studies 58, no. 2 (2013): 318–320.

VL: Introduction to American Studies

VL: Voice, Verse, and Mediation in US-American Culture, 1800–2025

HS: Experimental Community: Literary Practice and Visual Culture at Black Mountain College

PS: American Literature II: The 20th and 21st Centuries (2 seminars)