Publications

Books

• Coming Out. Series: German Film Classics. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2022. (R)
• Gender and Sexuality in East German Film: Intimacy and Alienation. Co-Ed. with Faye Stewart. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2018. (R)
  • Reviewed in: German Studies Review 42.1 (2019): 193–95; Modern Language Review 114.2 (2019): 415–16; The German Quarterly 92.2 (2019): 297–300.
• Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic: Production and Reception. Co-Ed. with Larson Powell. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2015. (R)
  • Reviewed in Journal of European Studies 46.2 (2016): 198–200; Women in German Newsletter 127 (Summer 2016): 23–24; Music and Letters 97.2 (2016): 364–66; American Record Guide 79.2 (2016): 237; Monatshefte 109.2 (2017): 332–34; German Studies Review 40.3 (2017): 688–90.
• An Other Kind of Home: Gender-Sexual Abjection, Subjectivity, and the Uncanny in Literature and Film. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2015. 181 pp. (R)
  • Reviewed in: Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 53.4 (2017): 409-11; Feminist German Studies 34 (2019): 161-63; Monatshefte 110.4 (2019): 690-92; The German Quarterly 92.3 (2019): 405–07.
• From Weimar to Christiania: German and Scandinavian Studies in Context. Co-Ed. with Florence Feiereisen. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.

Journal Special Issues

• Rupture, Slowness, Untimeliness: Queer Time and History in German Studies for Monatshefte. Co-ed with Ervin Malakaj.
• Queer Time and Contemporary German Cinema for The Germanic Review. Co-ed. with Ervin Malakaj.

Journal Articles

• “Homemade Pornography and the Proliferation of Queer Pleasure in East Germany.” Radical History Review 142 (January 2022): 93–109. doi: 10.1215/01636545-9397072. (R)
• “‘Du bist Nummer 55′: Girls’ Education, Mädchen in Uniform, and Social Responsibility.” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 55.2 (2019): 110–27. (R)
• “Persistent Ambivalence: Theorizing Queer East German Studies.” Journal of Homosexuality 66.5 (2019): 669–89. (R)
• “The East German Film Coming Out (1989) as Melancholic Reflection and Hopeful Projection.” German Life and Letters 71.4 (2018): 452–72. (R) Reissued in Nov. 2019 special online issue of German Life and Letters.
• “Based on a True Story: Tracking What’s Queer about German Queer Documentary.” Edinburgh German Yearbook 10 (2018): 83–108. (R)
• “The Reality of the Body: Transgender, Transsexuality, and Truth in Romeos.” Colloquia Germanica 46.1 (2015): 64–87. (R)
• “Coming Out of the Iron Closet: Contradiction in East German Gay History and Film.” Glossen 37 (2013). (R)
• “The Curious Case of the Turkish Drag Queen: Film and Social Justice Education in Advanced German.” Neues Curriculum (August 2012). (R)
• “Something Old, Something New: Canon Rejuvenation in German Studies.” Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German 44.2 (2011): 124–32. doi: 10.1111/j.1756-1221.2011.00102.x (R)

Book Chapters

• “Shame and Love: East German Homosexuality Goes to the Movies.” In Gender and Sexuality in East German Film: Intimacy and Alienation. Eds. Kyle Frackman and Faye Stewart. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2018. 225-48. (R)
• — and Faye Stewart. “Introduction: Sex and Socialism in East German Cinema.” In Gender and Sexuality in East German Film: Intimacy and Alienation. Eds. Kyle Frackman and Faye Stewart. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2018. 1-21. (R)
• — and Larson Powell. “Music and Heritage in the German Democratic Republic.” In Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic: Production and Reception. Eds. Kyle Frackman and Larson Powell. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2015. 1-19. (R)
• “Vor Ort: The Functions and Early Roots of German Regional Crime Fiction.” Tatort Germany: The Strange Case of German Crime Fiction. Eds. Todd Herzog and Lynn Marie Kutch. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2014. 23-40. (R)
• “Out of Time: ‘Allotemporality’ in Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss’s Zurück auf los.” queere (t)ex(t)perimente. Ed. Franziska Bergmann, Jennifer Moos, and Claudia Münzing. Freiburg: fwpf-Verlag, 2008. (R)
• Feiereisen, Florence, and Kyle Frackman. Introduction. In From Weimar to Christiania: German and Scandinavian Studies in Context. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. 1-5.

Encyclopedia Entries

• Entries on “Swedish-Speakers in Finland,” “Einojuhani Rautavaara,” “Nobel Peace Prize,” and “Folk High Schools” in Knowledge on the Nordics. 2018.
• Entries on “Lola und Bilidikid” and “Zurück auf los” in The Directory of World Cinema: Germany. Ed. Michelle Langford. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2012. 192-93, 196-97.
• “Finland, Civil War, and Revolution, 1914-1918.” International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present. Ed. Immanuel Ness. NY: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 1200-1202. (R)
• Entries on “German Literature,” “Magnus Hirschfeld,” and “Richard von Krafft-Ebing” in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, and Sexuality through History: The Nineteenth Century. Vol. 5. Ed. Susan Mumm. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008. 138-42, 111-13, 130-32.

Non-Refereed Publications

• “Why do GDR studies matter now?” DDGC Blog: Diversity, Decolonization, and the German Curriculum. May 2019.
• “Amplification as Feminist Practice.” Digital Feminist Collective: Feminist Scholar-Activism. January 2018.
• “Nordic Non-Fiction Summer Reading Guide.” Viking Magazine June 2015: 21. Print.
• “A Genius of Our Own: The GDR and DEFA’s Beethovens.” A Beethoven Duet. DVD released by the DEFA Film Library. 2014. 12 pp.

Reviews

• Jampol, Justinian, ed. Beyond the Wall: Art and Artifacts from the GDR. NY: Taschen, 2014. In Seminar: Journal of Germanic Studies 53.3 (2017): 305–307.
• “To be gay in 1950s Zurich.” kultur360. 27 May 2016. Original available at http://www.kultur360.com/to-be-gay-in-1950s-zurich/.
• Mueller, Gabriele, and James M. Skidmore, eds. Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012. In German Studies Review 37.1 (2014): 243–46.
• Blawid, Martin. Von Kraftmenschen und Schwächlingen: Literarische Männlichkeitsentwürfe bei Lessing, Goethe, Schiller und Mozart. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011. In Monatshefte 104.3 (2012): 428-30.
• Krimmer, Elisabeth, and Patricia Anne Simpson, eds. Enlightened War: German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz. Rochester: Camden House, 2011. In Women in German Newsletter 120 (2012). Web.
• Schulte, Hans and Gerard Chapple, eds. Shadows of the Past: Austrian Literature of the Twentieth Century. NY: Peter Lang, 2009. In German Quarterly 83.4 (2010).
• Beiser, Frederick C., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. In German Studies Review 33.2 (2010).
• Freydberg, Bernard. Schelling’s Dialogical Freedom Essay: Provocative Philosophy Then and Now. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. In German Studies Review 33.2 (2010).
• Jones, Michael, and Kenneth R. Olwig, eds. Nordic Landscapes: Region and Belonging on the Northern Edge of Europe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. In Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 18 (2009): 120-23.
• Mennel, Barbara. The Representation of Masochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. In Women in German Newsletter 108 (2008).
• Campt, Tina. Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. In gender forum 18 (2007).
• Pomerance, Murray, and Frances Gateward, eds. Where the Boys Are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. In gender forum 17 (2007).

(R) throughout refers to peer-reviewed publications