Assistant Professor

Academic Appointments

Awards and Honors

Academic Functions

Organization of Conferences

Publications

Monographs

Superman transmedial: Eine Pop-Ikone im Spannungsfeld von Medienwandel und Serialität. Bielefeld: transcript, 2015.

Scholarly Articles

“’It’s a Gift ... and a Curse’: Monk or the Detective in Treatment.”
Detective Fiction and Popular Visual Culture. Eds. Cecile Sandten, Gunter Süß and Melanie  Graichen. Trier: WVT, 2013, 125-38.

“’Truth, Justice, and the Islamic Way’: Conceiving the Cosmopolitan Muslim Superhero in The 99.”
Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads. Eds. Shane Denson, Christina Meyer and Daniel Stein. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2013, 181-93.

“’Men of Steel! Women of Fire!’: Industrialization, Urban Space and the American Dream in Classical Hollywood Cinema.”
Industrialization – Industrial Heritage – De-Industrialization. Eds. Evelyne Keitel, Cecile Sandten and Gunter Süß. Trier: WVT, 2009, 65-80.

“The Many Faces of Don Diego Vega: The Zorro Figure as an Icon of Popular Culture.”
Intermedialities. Eds. Werner Huber, Evelyne Keitel and Gunter Süß. Trier: WVT, 2007, 119-28.

Teaching

• Fictions of the Mexican-American War (S)
• Advanced American Studies: Methods (S)

• Fictionalizing the Factual in 19th Century American Fiction (S)
• Master Colloquium (K)

• Nineteenth Century City Mysteries (S)
• Advanced American Studies: Perspectives on American Cultural Practices (S)

• Chap Books, Pop Heroines, and Newspaper Cartoons: American Popular Fiction from the late 18th to the Early 20th Century (S)
• Narrative Complexity in Postmodern American Cinema and TV (S)

• Seriality in American Realism (S)
• Advanced American Studies: Methods (S)

• Seriality in the Nineteenth Century (S)
• Introduction to Television Studies (S)

• Survey of American Literary History (S)

• To Be Continued: Sequel, Prequels, Serials, and Series (S)

• Just Watching TV?: Major Issues and Current Trends in Television Studies (S)

• Current Issues in American Cultural and Media Studies (S)

Invited Seminars / Conference Papers and Presentations

"Franchising Sherlock: The Detective as Commodity."
Presentation at the International Conference “Consuming Crime: Consumption, Commodification and Consumerism in Crime Fiction, Film and Television” at the University of Limerick, Ireland (June 26-27, 2015).

“Conceiving the Cosmopolitan Muslim Superhero in The 99.”
Presentation at the MLA Convention 2014 in Chicago (January 9-12, 2014).

“’It’s a Gift ... and a Curse’: Monk or the Detective in Treatment.”
Presentation at the Conference “Detective Fiction in American Popular Culture” at the TU Chemnitz (October 28-29, 2011)

“’TV Is the Thing this Year’: Early American Television Series and the End of the Radio Era.”
Presentation at the Lecture Series “TV Seriality” at TU Dresden (October 20, 2011).

“’Men of Steel! Women of Fire!’: Industrialisierung, urbaner Raum und der Mythos des American Dream im klassischen Hollywoodkino.”
Presentation at the Symposium “Industrialisierung – Industriekultur – De-Industrialisierung” in the Industrial Museum Chemnitz (October 24, 2008).

“’Faster than a Speeding Bullet!’: The Comic Book Superhero and the Radio.”
Postgraduate Forum (PGF) of the German Assocation of American Studies (GAAS) at University of Münster (October 31 - November 2, 2008)