“This essay argues that German regional crime fiction is both a modern development and simultaneously a recollection of crime fiction’s journalistic and literary beginnings. …[R]egional crime fiction has connections to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Fallgeschichten (case stories) that fascinated a developing reading public and satisfied…[Read more]

The paradox of rights and racism, whereby human rights are re-racialized even as racism is rejected, reveals the deeply gendered workings of whiteness. Whiteness works as a social structure and a set of somatic norms that allows some bodies to be more at home in the world than others, and some bodies to move in the world more easily than others.…[Read more]

Historical entry on the Finnish revolution of 1917-1918

Film critique of “Return to Go” (“Zurück auf los”), directed by Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss.

Film critique of “Lola and Billy the Kid” (“Lola und Bilidikid”), directed by Kutlug Ataman.

Biographical entry on Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Biographical entry on Magnus Hirschfeld

A selected survey of gender and sexuality in German-language literature of the long 19th century

The Reality of the Body: Transgender, Transsexuality, and Truth in “Romeos”