Prof. Dr. Timo Müller

Academic Positions

^{since 2026}
Professor and Chair of American Studies, University of Regensburg

^2018-2026
Professor of American Studies, University of Konstanz

^2016-2018 
Interim Professor of American Studies, University of Regensburg

^2015-2016 
Interim Professor of Anglophone Literatures, University of Greifswald

^2013-2015 
Senior Lecturer in American Studies, University of Augsburg

^2012-2013 
Research Fellow, African American Studies, Harvard University

^2006-2012 
Lecturer in American Studies, University of Augsburg

Education

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Habilitation, University of Augsburg

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Dr. phil., University of Augsburg

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M.A., University of Augsburg / Brandeis University

Awards and Grants

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ERC Consolidator Grant

^2012-13
Thyssen Foundation Grant for Research Fellowship at Harvard University

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Best Dissertation Award, Bavarian American Academy

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Donald C. Gallup Fellowship in American Literature, Beinecke Library, Yale University

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Eccles Centre Visiting European Fellowship in North American Studies, British Library

My research focuses on North American and transatlantic literature, especially:
  –  Transatlantic Modernism
  –  Environmental Humanities
  –  African American Studies
  –  Postcolonial Studies

Membership in research networks:
–  Form in Dialogue (DFG Network) (external link, opens in a new window)
–  Forum of Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (external link, opens in a new window)

Off the Road: The Environmental Aesthetics of Early Automobility (external link, opens in a new window)
Research project founded by an ERC Consolidator Grant, Principal Investigator, 2023-2027

Live Handbook Environmental Humanities (external link, opens in a new window)
Rolling publication of open-access entries, co-editor, 2025-

Metzler Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte (external link, opens in a new window)
Fourth, revised edition of the standard German-language history of American literature, co-editor and contributor, 2024

Books

•  The African American Sonnet: A Literary History. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018. ^[more (external link, opens in a new window)^]
_{Reviewed in: ALH Online Review, Amerikastudien/American Studies, Anglia, Journal of Ethnic American Literature, ZAA}

•  The Self as Object in Modernist Fiction: James, Joyce, Hemingway. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2010. _{[read online} (external link, opens in a new window)_{]
Reviewed in: Anglia, Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Henry James Review} 

Book Series

•  American Studies: A Monograph Series (general editor, with Astrid Franke).  _[more] (external link, opens in a new window)

•  Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (series editor, with Eric Anchimbe, Nadia Butt, and Cecile Sandten).  _[more] (external link, opens in a new window)

Edited Collections

•  Live Handbook Environmental Humanities (with Evi Zemaneck). Heidelberg: Metzler, 2025-. _{[read online]} (external link, opens in a new window)

•  Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte (with Hubert Zapf). 4th ed. Berlin: Metzler, 2024. _[more (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  Hip Hop Ecologies (with Alain-Philippe Durand). Special issue of Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 13.1 (2022): 1-105. _{[read online]} (external link, opens in a new window)

•  Elemental Agency: American Culture and the Politics of Matter (with Moritz Ingwersen). Special issue of ZAA 70.1 (2022). _[more] (external link, opens in a new window)

•  Our Shared Planet: The Climate Issue (with Michelle Yates). Special issue of American Studies (AMSJ) 60.3-4 (2021). _[more] (external link, opens in a new window)

•  Poem Unlimited: New Perspectives on Poetry and Genre (with David Kerler). Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019. _[more (external link, opens in a new window)_{]
Reviewed in: Anglia} 

•  Representing Climate: Global to Local. Spec. section of Open Library of Humanities. 2018-2019. _{[read online]} (external link, opens in a new window)

•  Chinese Literature and Ecocriticism [Zhongguo Wenxue yu Shengtai Piping] (with Chang Liu). Spec. cluster of Chinese Culture Forum 13.1 (2018): 367-406.

•  The American Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Handbooks of English and American Studies 4. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017.  ^[contents (external link, opens in a new window)^{] [more} (external link, opens in a new window)^{]
Reviewed in: Anglia} 

•  English and American Studies: Theory and Practice (with Martin Middeke, Christina Wald, and Hubert Zapf). Stuttgart: Metzler, 2012. ^[more (external link, opens in a new window)^{]
Reviewed in: Anglia} 

•  Literature, Ecology, Ethics: Recent Trends in Ecocriticism (with Michael Sauter). Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. _[more (external link, opens in a new window)_]
^{Reviewed in: Anglia} 

Articles

•  (with Daniel Stein and Kerstin Schmidt) “Gegenwart.” Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte. 4th ed. Ed. Hubert Zapf and Timo Müller. Berlin: Metzler, 2024. 563-634. _[more (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  “Infrastrukturelle Ästhetik: Zur Plausibilisierung ökologischer Transformation in der literarischen Moderne.” Vorläufige Gewissheiten: Plausibilität als soziokulturelle Praxis. Ed. Thomas Kirsch and Christina Wald. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2024. 299-317. _{[read online} (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  “Travel / Escape: Hip Hop’s Transatlantic Mobilities.” Amerikastudien / American Studies 68.3 (2023): 385-406. _{[read online} (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  “Infrastructural Poetics.” Rethinking Infrastructure Across the Humanities. Ed. Aaron Pinnix et al. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2023. 183-190. ^[_{read online} (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  “Sonnets into the American: Translation and Transnation in the Harlem Renaissance.” The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays. Ed. Dora Malech and Laura T. Smith. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2022. 170-176. _[more] (external link, opens in a new window)

•  (with Hubert Zapf) “Ecology in American Literature.” The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. Ed. Hank Shugart. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. _[more] (external link, opens in a new window)

•  (with Alain-Philippe Durand) “Hip Hop Ecologies: Mapping the Field(s).” Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 13.1 (2022): 1-7. _{[read online]} (external link, opens in a new window)

•  (with Moritz Ingwersen) “The Aesthetics and Politics of Elemental Agency.” ZAA 70.1 (2022): 3-22. _[more] (external link, opens in a new window)

•  “William Faulkner (1897-1962).” Handbook of the American Short Story. Ed. Erik Redling and Oliver Scheiding. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022. 343-60. _[more] (external link, opens in a new window)

•  “The Sonnet and Black Transnationalism in the 1930s.” Journal of Transnational American Studies 12.2 (2021). _{[read online]} (external link, opens in a new window)

•  (with Michelle Yates) “Introduction: The Climate Issue.” Our Shared Planet: The Climate Issue. Ed. Timo Müller and Michelle Yates. Special issue of American Studies (AMSJ) 60.3-4 (2021). _[more] (external link, opens in a new window)

•  “Henry James, What Maisie Knew (1894).” Handbook of the English Novel, 1830-1900. Ed. Martin Middeke and Monika Pietrzak-Franger. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020. 581-95. _[more] (external link, opens in a new window)

•  “Poetry to Music: Gil Scott-Heron’s Intermedial Performance Aesthetics.” Poem Unlimited: New Perspectives on Poetry and Genre. Ed. David Kerler and Timo Müller. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019. 227-38. _[more (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  “‘What’s the Position You Hold?’: Bourdieu and Rap Music.” Power Relations in Black Lives: Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias. Ed. Christa Buschendorf. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2018. 165-82. _[preview (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  “Too Much Liberty in the Garrison? Closed and Open Spaces in the Canadian Sonnet.” Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne 34.1 (2018): 250-71. _{[read online} (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  “Hip-Hop und Literatur.” Literatur und die anderen Künste. Theorien der Literatur 7. Ed. Günter Butzer and Hubert Zapf. Tübingen: Narr, 2018. 127-42.

•  “Framing the Romantic Artist: Goethe’s Torquato Tasso and James’s Roderick Hudson.” Anglia 136.4 (2018): 687-704. ^{[read online} (external link, opens in a new window)^]

•  “Ecocriticism and the Frankfurt School.” Ecological Thought in German Literature and Culture. Ed. Gabriele Dürbeck et al. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017. 91-100.

•  “The Road in the Garden: Pastoral Environments in the Post-War Caribbean Novel.” Ecocriticism: Environments in Anglophone Literatures. Ed. Sonja Frenzel and Birgit Neumann. Heidelberg: Winter, 2017. 107-128.

•  “Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927).” Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Ed. Christoph Reinfandt. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017. 195-212. _[more (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  “Ernest Hemingway, Schnee auf dem Kilimandscharo / The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” Große Werke der Literatur. Vol. 14. Ed. Günter Butzer and Hubert Zapf. Tübingen: Narr, 2017. 157-72.

•  Introduction. Handbook of the American Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Ed. Timo Müller. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017. 1-18. ^[more (external link, opens in a new window)^]

•  “Forms of Exile: Experimental Self-Positioning in Postcolonial Caribbean Poetry.” Atlantic Studies 13.4 (2016): 457-71. _[more (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  “Short Short Stories: Literary Perspectives.” Shorties: Flash Fiction in English Language Teaching. Ed. Engelbert Thaler. Tübingen: Narr, 2016. 29-40. _[more (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  “The Ecology of Literary Chronotopes.” Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology. Ed. Hubert Zapf. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016. 590-604. ^[pdf (external link, opens in a new window)^]

•  “The New Narrative Movement, the Sonnet Sequence, and African American Postmodernism.” New Perspectives on American Poetry: From Walt Whitman to the Present. Ed. Jiri Flajsar and Paulina Flajsarova. Olomuc: Palacky University, 2015. 123-42.

•  “Kritische Theorie und Ecocriticism.” Ecocriticism: Eine Einführung. Ed. Gabriele Dürbeck and Urte Stobbe. Cologne: Böhlau, 2015. 160-71. _[more (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  “Headnotes and Endnotes in the African American Sonnet.” Symbolism 15 (2015): 37-55. _[more (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  “The Bonds of Empire: (Post-)Imperial Negotiations in the 007 Film Series.” Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires. Ed. Barbara Buchenau and Virginia Richter. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2015. 305-26. ^[preview (external link, opens in a new window)^]

•  “The Vernacular Sonnet and the Resurgence of Afro-Modernism in the 1940s.” American Literature 87.2 (2015): 253-73. _[more (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  “Postcolonial Pursuits in African American Studies: The Later Poems of Claude McKay.” Postcolonial Studies Across the Disciplines. Ed. Jana Gohrisch and Ellen Grünkemeier. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013. 131-49. _[preview (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  “‘The Short Cut to Posterity’: Authority and Representation in Henry James’s Literary Tales.” Intellectual Authority and Literary Culture in the US, 1790–1900. Ed. Günter Leypoldt. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. 245-58.

•  “James Weldon Johnson and the Genteel Tradition.” Arizona Quarterly 69.2 (2013): 85-102. ^[preview (external link, opens in a new window)^]

•  “Theorien des Sonetts.” Theorien der Literatur: Grundlagen und Perspektiven. Vol. 6. Ed. Günter Butzer and Hubert Zapf. Tübingen: Francke, 2013. 101-20.

•  “Detective James Bond: From British Gentleman to Hard-Boiled American.” Detective Fiction and Popular Visual Culture. Ed. Cecile Sandten, Gunter Süß, and Melanie Graichen. Trier: WVT, 2013. 169-80.

•  “Transnationalism in Contemporary Black Poetry: Derek Walcott, Rita Dove, and the Sonnet Form.” Transnational American Studies. Ed. Udo J. Hebel. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 249-68.

•  “From Literary Anthropology to Cultural Ecology: German Ecocritical Theory Since Wolfgang Iser.” Ecocritical Theory: New European Approaches. Ed. Axel Goodbody and Kate Rigby. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011. 71-83. _[jstor (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  (with Christina Caupert) “The Ecological Function of Imaginative Texts: A Recent Model in Theory and Practice.” The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons. Ed. Serpil Oppermann et al. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2011. 268-78. ^[abstract (external link, opens in a new window)^]

•  “Between Poststructuralism and the Natural Sciences: Models and Strategies of Recent Cultural Ecology.” Anglistik 21.1 (2010): 175-91.

•  “Von der Determination zur Performanz: Der Bastard als moderne Identitätskonzeption bei Henry James.” Bastard: Figurationen des Hybriden zwischen Ausgrenzung und Entgrenzung. Ed. Andrea Bartl and Stephanie Catani. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2010. 111-24.

•  “‘Idendifine the Individuone’: Joyce’s Instable Selves in Finnegans Wake.” Redefining Modernism and Postmodernism. Ed. Sebnem Toplu and Hubert Zapf. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 166-73.

•  “Notes Toward an Ecological Conception of Bakhtin’s ‘Chronotope.’” Ecozon@ 1.1 (2010): 98-102. _{[read online} (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  “Gerty MacDowell, Poetess: Butler’s The Authoress of the Odyssey and the Nausicaa Episode of Ulysses.” Twentieth-Century Literature 55.3 (2009): 378-92. ^[jstor (external link, opens in a new window)^]

•  “The Uses of Authenticity: Hemingway and the Literary Field, 1926-1936.” Journal of Modern Literature 33.1 (2009): 28-42. ^[jstor (external link, opens in a new window)^]

•  “The Fragmented Self: Re-Reading Dubliners as Autobiographical Fiction.” Joyce in Progress: Proceedings of the 2008 James Joyce Graduate Conference in Rome. Ed. Franca Ruggieri, John McCourt, and Enrico Terrinoni. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 2-13. _[preview (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  “Formen kulturökologischen Erzählens von Dickens bis Ishiguro.” Kulturökologie und Literatur: Beiträge zu einem transdisziplinären Paradigma der Literaturwissenschaft. Ed. Hubert Zapf. Heidelberg: Winter, 2008. 59-74.

•  “‘The Poet’s Voice’: Dialogicity and Cultural Regeneration in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!” Anglia 126.3 (2008): 503-19. _[more (external link, opens in a new window)_{][read online} (external link, opens in a new window)_]

Reviews

•  Rev. of Inceptions: Literary Beginnings and Contingencies of Form, by Kevin Ohi. The Henry James Review 46.2 (2025): E17-E19. _[more (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  Rev. of Being Different: Strategies of Distinction and Twentieth-Century Poetic Avant-Gardes, by Lilian Chaitas. Amerikastudien / American Studies 64.4 (2019): 634-637. _[more (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  “The Benefits of Bringing Cognitive Sciences into Ecocriticism.” Rev. of Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative, by Alexa Weik von Mossner. Journal of Literary Theory 12 (2018). Web. _{[read online} (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  Rev. of The Poetics of Information Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing, by Paul Stephens. Amerikastudien / American Studies 62.2 (2017). Web. _[pdf (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  “Review Essay: Henry James and Transatlantic Modernism.” Rev. of. Travel, Modernism and Modernity, by Robert Burden; Freewomen and Supermen: Edwardian Radicals and Literary Modernism, by Anne Fernihough; Modernist Fiction and Vagueness: Philosophy, Form, and Language, by Megan Quigley. Henry James Review 38.1 (2017): 101-107.

•  Rev. of The Cambridge History of American Poetry, ed. Alfred Bendixen and Stephen Burt. Amerikastudien / American Studies 60.2-3 (2015). Web. _[pdf (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  Rev. of Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America, by Mike Chasar. Amerikastudien / American Studies 59.1 (2014). Web. _[pdf (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  Rev. of Disney: un capitalisme mondial du rêve, by Alexandre Bohas. Vingtième Siècle 120 (2013): 191.

•  Rev. of Readings in Performance and Ecology, ed. Wendy Aarons and Theresa J. May. Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 1.2 (2013): 298-301. _{[read online} (external link, opens in a new window)_]

•  “Eco-Shakespeare.” Rev. of Ecocritical Shakespeare, ed. Lynne Bruckner and Dan Brayton, and Ecocriticism and Shakespeare: Reading Ecophobia, by Simon C. Estok. Shakespeare Jahrbuch 149 (2013): 266-68.

•  Rev. of Henry James’ Narrative Technique: Consciousness, Perception, and Cognition, by Kristin Boudreau. Henry James Review 33.3 (2012): 293-96.

•  Rev. of Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies, by Patrick Murphy.  Anglia 128.2 (2010): 358-60. _{[read online]} (external link, opens in a new window)

•  Rev. of Short Story: Textsorte und Leseerfahrung, by Renate Brosch. Modern Language Review 104.1 (2009): 146-48.

•  Rev. of Schwelle. Passage. Verwandlung: Ein Interpretationsentwurf, by Leo Truchlar. Anglia 126.1 (2008): 197-200. _{[read online]} (external link, opens in a new window)

•  Rev. of The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism, by Pericles Lewis. Modern Language Review 103.3 (2008): 814-15.

Environmental Aesthetics: History, Theory, Politics (external link, opens in a new window)
Network "Ideology and Aesthetics", 27 Feb 2023

Klimawandel und Migration in der Literatur (external link, opens in a new window)
University of Konstanz / VHS, 15 Dec 2022

Habilitation  (ongoing)

•  Dominik Steinhilber, "Unsettling Ecologies: The Planetary Hauntings of American Romanticism"

Doctoral Theses  (ongoing)

•  Jannis Buschky, "The Regional Imaginations of the Early American Oil Extraction Novel, 1900-1945"

•  Melanie Frey, "Pioneering the Road Trip: Impacts of Early Automobility on the Road Narrative, 1900-1933"

•  Ashley Moser, "In/Visible Infrastructure: Public Works and the Public Work of Utopia in the Science Fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson"

•  Pia Singmann, “Speculative Fiction's Negotiation of the Literary Field”

Doctoral Theses  (completed)

•  Nicole Braden-Johnson, “Im/migration, Modernism, and the Great Plains: An Ecocritical Analysis of Agricultural Novels”