About
I have just finished my manuscript The Corporation in the American Imagination, 1819-1905. My current research projects include Corporate Storytelling, Poetry and Law, as well as questions of scale and environmental fictions. Education
Privat Dozentin (December 2018)
Dr. phil. in American Studies (November 2011)
Magister Artium in American and English Studies (June 2006) Publications
Monographs
The Corporation in the American Imagination, 1819-1905 (manuscript complete)
The Presence of the Past in the Novels of Toni Morrison. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag
Winter, 2013.
Edited Volumes
Financial Times: Competing Temporalities in the Age of Financial Capitalism. Co-edited with Christian Kloeckner. Special Issue. Finance & Society. 4.1 (2018) http://financeandsociety.ed.ac.uk/issue/view/237
Violence and Open Spaces: The Subversion of Boundaries and the Transformation of the Western Genre. Co-edited with Christa Buschendorf and Katja Sarkowsky. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017.
Poetry Imagines the Law. Co-edited with Birte Christ. Amerikastudien/American Studies: A Quarterly. Special Issue. 62.2. Summer 2017.
Articles
“Corporate Personality and the TruYou in Dave Eggers’ The Circle.” Law and Culture: Methods, Concepts and Approaches. Sabine Meyer and Peter Schneck, eds. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. (accepted)
“Financial Times: Competing Temporalities in the Age of Financial Capitalism. An Introduction.” (co-authored with Christian Kloeckner). Financial Times: Competing Temporalities in the Age of Financial Capitalism. Co-edited with Christian Kloeckner. Special Issue. Finance & Society. Finance & Society. 4.1 (2018): 1-14. http://financeandsociety.ed.ac.uk/article/view/2735
“The derivative condition, an aesthetics of resolution, and the figure of the renegade: A conversation.” Interview with Gerald Nestler (with Christian Kloeckner). Financial Times: Competing Temporalities in the Age of Financial Capitalism. Co-edited with Christian Kloeckner. Special Issue. Finance & Society. 4.1 (2018): 126-143. http://financeandsociety.ed.ac.uk/article/view/2744
“Black Women’s Business: Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Agency in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child.” Power Relations in Black Lives: Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias. Christa Buschendorf, ed. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2018. 145-165.
“Exceeding Determinacy in the Language of Personhood: Citizens United, Corporations, and the Poetry of Timothy Donnelly and Thomas Sayers Ellis.” Poetry Imagines the Law. Birte Christ und Stefanie Mueller, eds. Amerikastudien/American Studies: A Quarterly. Special Issue. 62.2. Summer 2017. 301-322.
“National and Economic Incorporation in HBO’s Deadwood.” Christa Buschendorf, Stefanie Mueller and Katja Sarkowsky, eds. Violence and Open Spaces: The Subversion of Boundaries and the Transformation of the Western Genre. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017. 167-186.
“Violence and Space in the Post-Western.” (Introduction, co-authored) Christa Buschendorf, Stefanie Mueller and Katja Sarkowsky, eds. Violence and Open Spaces: The Subversion of Boundaries and the Transformation of the Western Genre. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017. 7-30.
“Towards a Legal Poetics.” (Introduction, co-authored) Poetry Imagines the Law. Birte Christ und Stefanie Mueller, eds. Amerikastudien/American Studies: A Quarterly. Special Issue. 62.2. Summer 2017. 149-168.
“State, Law, and Violence in Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition.” Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, 24.1 (2017): 51-75.
“House of Lies and the Management of Emotions.” Sieglinde Lemke and Wibke Schniedermann, eds. Class Divisions in Serial Television. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 143-158.
“’A man is whatever room he’s in’ – Identity, Home, and Nostalgia in AMC’s Mad Men.” Caroline Rosenthal, Stefanie Schäfer, eds. Fake Identity? The Impostor Narrative in North American Culture. Campus Verlag, 2014. 192-209.
“’Standing Up To Words’ – Writing and Resistance in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy.” Black Studies Papers (May 2014): n.p.
“Corporate Power and the Public Good in Sloan Wilson’s The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.” COPAS Vol. 14, 2013: n.p.
“The State Nobility? The Power of the Academic Elite in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.” Laurenz Volkmann, ed. Education and the USA. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2011.133-141.
“Book Review: Stephanie Li, Playing in the Dark.” ZAA – Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 65.2 (2017): n.p.
“Book review: Anne Mihan, Undoing Difference?” ANGLIA 132/4 (2014): n.p.
Memberships
German American Studies Association