Education
Doctorate (2011)
Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Dissertation: “Counternarrative Possibilities: Virgin Land, Homeland, and Cormac McCarthy’s Negative Imagination” (summa cum laude)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ulla Haselstein, Prof. Dr. Winfried Fluck, Prof. Dr. Heinz Ickstadt
Master of Arts, English (2007)
Copenhagen University
Thesis: “Between Immanence and Transcendence: Resistance and Belief in Don DeLillo’s Post-Cold War Fiction”
Supervisor: Prof. Martyn Bone
Bachelor of Arts, English (2004)
Copenhagen University
Publications
“Industrial Transcendence: Jack London and the Spirits of Capitalism.” In Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism. Eds. Jutta Ernst, Sabina Matter-Seibel, and Klaus H. Schmidt. Heidelberg: WINTER (forthcoming 2018).
“The Rise of the Small Businessman in Progressive Era Culture.” In Cultures of US-American Conservatism. Special Issue of American Studies Journal. Eds. Andrew Gross and Susann Koehler (forthcoming 2018).
“Cormac McCarthy and the Judeo-Christian Tradition.” In Cormac McCarthy in Context. Ed. Steven Frye. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2018).
“Naturalism and the Aesthetics of Failure.” In The Failed Individual—Amid Exclusion, Resistance and the Pleasures of Non-Conformity. Eds. Regina Schober and Katharina Motyl. Frankfurt-on-Main: Campus Verlag, 2017. 287-303.
“Introduction: Cormac McCarthy Between Worlds.” WithJulius Greve and Markus Wierschem. In Cormac McCarthy Between Worlds. Special Issue ofEuropean Journal of American Studies 12.3 (2017).
“Cormac McCarthy and the Genre Turn in Contemporary Literary Fiction.” In Cormac McCarthy Between Worlds. Eds. James Dorson, Julius Greve, and Markus Wierschem. Special Issue of European Journal of American Studies 12.3 (2017).
“Seeing Double: Reading Naturalism After the New Historicism.” In Projecting American Studies: Essays on Theory, Method, and Practice. Eds. Frank Kelleter and Alexander Starre. Heidelberg: WINTER, 2018. 25-38.
“Introduction.” With Regina Schober. InData Fiction: Naturalism, Narratives, and Numbers. Special Issue of Studies in American Naturalism12.1 (2017): 1-8.
“Rates, Romance, and Regulated Monopoly in Frank Norris’s The Octopus.” Eds. James Dorson and Regina Schober. Special Issue of Studies in American Naturalism12.1 (2017): 50-69.
“How (Not) to Be Liked: David Foster Wallace’s Anti-Popular Aesthetic.” In Unpopular Culture. Eds. Martin Lüthe and Sascha Pöhlmann. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016: 61-80.
“Critical Posthumanism in the Posthuman Economy: The Case of ‘Mister Squishy.’” In America After Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment. Eds. Catrin Gersdorf and Juliane Braun. Heidelberg: WINTER, 2016: 423-39.
“The Neoliberal Machine in the Bureaucratic Garden: Pastoral States of Mind in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King.” In Rereading the Machine in the Garden: Nature and Technology in American Culture. Eds. Eric Erbacher, Nicole Maruo-Schröder, and Florian Sedlmeier. Frankfurt-on-Main: Campus, 2014: 211-30.
“Intimate Exchanges: Work, Affect, and Exploitation in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth.”American Studies in Scandinavia46.1 (2014): 55-68.
“The Aesthetics of Mastery: American Literary Naturalism and the Cultural Foundations of Bureaucracy.” CAS Studies Working Paper Series 1 (2013), Center for Area Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. 3-50.
“Demystifying the Judge: Law and Mythical Violence in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.”Journal of Modern Literature 36.2 (Winter 2013). 105-121.
“’9/11’ and the Rhetoric ofRupture.” In REAL –Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 27. Eds. Winfried Fluck, Katharina Motyl, Donald E. Pease, and Christoph Raetzsch. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2011: 369-85
