Prof. Dr. Julius Greve

Akademische Ausbildung and Qualifikationen 

05|2025 / 05|2026  Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg | Einreichung der Habilitationsschrift im May 2025; Titel: “A Poetics of Ventriloquism: Verse, Voice, and Mediation from Walt Whitman to Kendrick Lamar”; Forschung im Rahmen einer DFG-Projektstelle, „Eigene Stelle“; Habilitationskolloquium im May 2026 (venia legendi, “Amerikanistik: Literatur und Kultur”)

01|2013 – 08|2017  Universität zu Köln | Promotion in Englischer Philologie (amerikanische Literatur und kritische Theorie); Note: „summa cum laude 0,0“; Titel: “Shreds of Matter: Cormac McCarthy and the Persistence of Speculation”; finanziert durch Promotionsstipendium der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes 01|2013 – 12|2015; eingereicht Feb. 2016; verteidigt im Juli 2016; Titel ab Aug.’17;

Dissertationsbetreuer: Prof. Dr. Hanjo Berressem, Prof. Dr. Bernd Herzogenrath

01|2012    Universität zu Köln | Magister Artium (M.A.) in Englischer Philologie (American Studies) Note: 1,0; Titel der Magisterarbeit: “Metacommentary as an Artistic Practice in the Work of Mark Z. Danielewski”

09|2009 – 03|2010  M.A.-Studien in Critical and Cultural Theory und Ethnomusicology | Cardiff University

10|2006 – 01|2012  Magisterstudium in Englischer Philologie, Iberischer und Lateinamerikanischer Geschichte und Musikwissenschaft | Universität zu Köln

Werdegang

since 03|2025      Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter | Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Prof. Dr. Martin Butler, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

10|2021 – 02|2025  Post-doc, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter; „Eigene Stelle“, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) | Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

04|2019 – 09|2019     Lehrbeauftragter in Amerikanistik | Universität Bremen

04|2018 – 06|2019  Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im vom Niedersächsischen Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur (MWK) geförderten Verbundprojekt „Zukunft gestalten“ | Wissenschaftliches Zentrum „Genealogie der Gegenwart“ (WiZeGG), Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

10|2017 – 03|2018       Lehrbeauftragter in Amerikanistik | Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Hamburg

04|2017 – 09|2021      Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter | Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Prof. Dr. Martin Butler, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

10|2016 – 03|2017      Lehrbeauftragter in Amerikanistik | Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Hamburg

04|2016 – 03|2017      Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter | Institut für Amerikanistik, Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. Hanjo Berressem, Englisches Seminar, Universität zu Köln

Mitgliedschaften und Gutachtertätigkeiten

Fachgesellschaften    The Cormac McCarthy Society (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)

DGfA (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster) (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien) | GAAS (German Association for American Studies)

EAAS  (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)(European Association for American Studies), Poetry Network

GfM (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster) (Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft)

MLA (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster) (Modern Language Association)

MSA (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster) (Modernist Studies Association) 

Peer Reviews für      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

Forschungsinteressen

•  Amerikanische Erzählprosa, 19.-21. Jh.: v.a. Herman Melville, H. P. Lovecraft, Cormac McCarthy und Mark Z. Danielewski

•  Moderne amerikanische Lyrik und Poetik: v.a. Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, H.D. und Susan Howe

•  Amerikanische Musik und Sound Studies 

•  Kultur und Geschichte der Moderne

•  Populärkultur und Medienwissenschaften

•  Literatur- und Kulturtheorie

•  Ecocriticism und Environmental Humanities

•  Schnittstellen von Ästhetik, Politik und Philosophie

Aktuelle und kürzlich abgeschlossene Projekte

•  A Poetics of Ventriloquism: Verse, Voice, and Mediation from Walt Whitman to Kendrick Lamar (Monographie, im Anschluss an ein DFG-Forschungsprojekt; https://gepris.dfg.de/project/450708673 (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)) 

•  Rethinking the North American Long Poem: Form, Matter, Experiment (Herausgeberschaft, im Anschluss an eine internationale Konferenz, finanziell durch Mittel von FNSNF, SANAS, und SAGW unterstützt; https://rethinkinglongpoem.wordpress.com (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster) & https://www.unmpress.com/9780826367112/rethinking-the-north-american-long-poem/ (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster))  

•  Interdisziplinäre Kollaboration im Kontext des DFG-Netzwerks “Americana: Ästhetik, Authentizität und Performance in der US-amerikanischen populären Musik” (2016–2024) 

Konferenzen, Workshops und Events | Organisation

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

05|2026       Chairing eines Workshops der DGfA (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien)-Jahrestagung | Universität Münster; Thema: “Kinship and Civil War from 1861 to the Present” 

09|2025       Chairing eines Panels während der internationalen Tagung “European Beat Studies Network 13th Annual Conference: The Beats, Radicalism and the Bipolar World” | Universität Hildesheim, Thema: “Diane di Prima – Temporalities, Mysticism, and Anarchist Innovations” 

09|2024       Chairing eines Panels während der internationalen Tagung “The Modernist Long Poem and Its Discontents” | École Normale Supérieure, Paris; Thema: “Dissent and Discontent”

05|2024       Chairing eines Workshops der DGfA-Jahrestagung | CvO Universität Oldenburg; Thema: “Music, Race, and Human Rights in North America since 1948” 

05|2024       Co-Organisation der DGfA-Jahrestagung | CvO Universität Oldenburg; Thema: “American Soundscapes”

03|2024      Co-Organisation eines internationalen Workshops | Endicott College, USA; Thema: “Semiotics of the Sayable: Poetics, Politics, Science, Non-Philosophy” 

07|2023      Organisation eines Workshops | CvO Universität Oldenburg; Thema: “Reading Living Currency—Pierre Klossowski and Critical Theory: An International Workshop”

09|2021       Co-Organisation einer internationalen Konferenz | Universität Basel; Thema: “Rethinking the North American Long Poem: Matter, Form, Experiment” (s. https://rethinkinglongpoem.wordpress.com/ (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster))  (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)

06|2019     Co-Organisation eines DGfA-Workshops | Universität Hamburg; Thema: “‘This is America’: Music, Video, and Medial Entanglement in the Popular”

04|2018     Co-Organisation einer internationalen Konferenz | Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen; Thema: “The American Weird: Ecologies & Geographies” (s. https://theamericanweird.wordpress.com/ (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)) 

10|2017 – 01|2018  Co-Organisation einer Ringvorlesung | Institut für Anglistik und Ame-rikanistik, Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. Martin Butler, Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg; Thema: “Sites of Encounter: Boundaries, Liminalities, and their Media”

06|2017      Co-Organisation eines DGfA-Workshops; | Leibniz Universität, Hannover; Thema: “Modernist Generation: The Making of Those Who Make It New” 

07|2016      Co-Organisation einer internationalen Konferenz | JFK Institute, FU Berlin; Thema: “Crossroads and Transgressions: Cormac McCarthy Between Worlds”

10|2014      Co-Organisation eines Symposiums | CTM, The New School, New York City, USA; Thema: “Superpositions. Non-Standard Perspectives on Critical Theory, Philosophy and Media Studies – A Symposium on Laruelle and the Humanities” 

(s. http://ctm.parsons.edu/superpositions-a-symposium-on-laruelle/ (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster))

05|2014     Co-Organisation einer internationalen Konferenz | Junior Year Munich, LMU München; Thema: “America and the Musical Unconscious”

Inter/nationale Forschung

01|2025  Forschungsaufenthalt im Vilém Flusser Archiv | Universität der Künste, Berlin 

05|2022  Forschungsaufenthalt am Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | New York Public Library, New York City, USA

02|2018 – 03|2018  Forschungsaufenthalt als Visiting Scholar auf Einladung von Prof. Dr. Michael Golston | Columbia University, New York City, USA

 09|2014 – 10|2014  Forschungsaufenthalt im Cormac McCarthy Archiv | Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, USA

Vorträge (seit 2024)

Gastvorträge 

– “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]

Konferenzvorträge

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

– “H.D., Hermeticism, and the Weird.” [“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.” [“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.” [European Beat Studies Network (EBSN) 13. Jahrestagung: 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. Jahrestagung der Ezra Pound Society, Schloss Brunnenburg, Dorf Tirol, Italien, 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.” [ALA Symposium, “American Poetry,” Santa Fe, USA, 2024] 

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

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

– “Representative Masks: Whitman, Dylan, and the Surplus of Voice.” [NeMLA-Jahrestagung, Boston, USA, 2024]

Monographie und Herausgeberschaften

•  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/ (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster).

•  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 (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster).

•  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.

Artikel in Fachzeitschriften und Aufsätze

•  “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/ (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster).

•  “‘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/ (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster).

•  “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. (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)

•  “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/. (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)

•  “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 (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster).

•  “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 (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster).

•  “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 (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster).

•  “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/. (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)

•  “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. (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster)

•  “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/ (externer Link, öffnet neues Fenster).

•  “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 Seminare)