Head of Department

Publications

Monographs

1. Terrible Sociability: The Text of Manners in Laclos, Goethe, and James. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993.
2. Writing Back: American Expatriates' Narratives of Return. Johns Hopkins University Press. (Forthcoming).

Articles

1. "Jamesian Lying / Jamesian Intimacy." The Henry James Review. Forthcoming.
2. "Back to the Fold: Memoir, Conversion, and Community." "E Pluribus Unum" or "E Pluribus Plura"? Proceedings of the European Association of American Studies Conference, Oslo 2008. Hrsg. v. D. Mauk and O. Moen. Forthcoming.
3. "Imperfect Representation and Narrative Transformation in Hawthorne's The Marble Faun." Text and Meaning: Hermeneutics and Beyond. Eds. Richard Begam und Dieter Stein. Düsseldorf: düsseldorf university press, 2010. 169-184.
4. "'A thin, transparent veil': Manners and the Nineteenth-Century American Novel." Civilizing America: Manners and Civility as Categories of Social, Cultural, and Literary Analysis. Ed. Dietmar Schloss. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2009. 205-214.
5. "Maculate (Re)Conceptions." Narrative Beginnings. Ed. Brian Richardson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. 246-262.
6. "A Room for Giovanni in the House of Fiction: Henry James's and James Baldwin's Transatlantic Couples." Transatlantic Negotiations. Eds. Christa Buschendorf and Astrid Franke. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2007. 101-110.
7. "Missed Connections / Mourning Carolyn Heilbrun." The Scholar and the Feminist Online. Barnard College. Summer 2006.
8. "Writing in Place: Edward Said’s Constructions of Exile." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 54.4. (2004). 351-65.
9. "Response to Carolyn G. Heilbrun’s Guest Column." PMLA (March 2004). 341-42.
10. "Desire and/in Narrative." Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. New York and London: Routledge, 2004.
11. "The Memory of Gender." Roundtable on 11 September 2001. Signs 28.1 (Autumn 2002). Special Issue on “Gender and Cultural Memory.” 462-63. 
12. "'Dad, are you there? Come back': Gender and the Narrative of Science Fiction." Visions of the Future in Germany and America. Eds. Norbert Finzsch and Hermann Wellenreuther. Oxford und New York: Berg, 2001. 501-532.
13. "The Novel of Manners." Encyclopedia of the Novel. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999. Vol. II, 945-948. 
14. "'Non serve bere il fiume per tornare a casa': Interventi di genere nella teoria del romanzo” ("'You need not drink the river to get home': Überlegungen zur Rolle von Gender in der Romantheorie"). Trans. Alice Bartolomei. S/Oggetti Immaginari: Letterature comparate al femminile. Eds. Liana Borghi and Rita Svandrlik. Urbino: QuattroVenti, 1996. 89-102.
15. "Postfeministische Wissenschaft an Präfeministischen Institutionen." Die Institutionalisierung von Frauenforschung und Frauenförderung in Deutschland, Europa und den USA. Ed. Interdisziplinärer Arbeitskreis Frauenforschung, Universität Mainz. Mainz, 1993. 4-23.
16. "Making Metaphors/ Moving On: Burger’s Daughter and A Sport of Nature. The Later Novels of Nadine Gordimer. Ed. Bruce King. London: Macmillan, 1992. 140-154.
17. "The Marquise’s ‘O’ and the Mad Dash of Narrative." Rape and Representation. Eds. Lynn Higgins and Brenda Silver. Columbia University Press, 1991. 67-86.
18. "Coming Unstrung: Women, Men, Narrative, and Principles of Pleasure." PMLA. May 1990: 505-518.
    Reprinted as: "Distinciones: mujeres, hombres, narrative y principios de placer." Trans. Francesca Bartrina. Feminismos Literarios. Eds. Neus Carbonell and Maria Angeles Torras. Lecturas Basicas. Madrid: Arco Libros, S.L., 1999. 147-176.
    Reprinted in: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. Ed. J. Paul Hunter. New York: Norton Critical Edition, 1996. 287-301. 
    Reprinted in: Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames. Ed. Brian Richardson. Columbus OH: Ohio State University Press, 2002. 135-58.
    Reprinted in: Narrative Theory: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies. Ed. Mieke Bal. London and New York: Routledge, 2004.
19. "Ästhetische Innovationen." Frauen Literatur Geschichte: Schreibende Frauen vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Eds. H. Gnüg and R. Möhrmann. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1985.S. 318-337. With Bernd Witte. 318-28.
20. "Sich krank schreiben lassen: Dora und Ottilie in den Handlungen der Meister." Frauen-Weiblichkeit-Schrift. Eds. R. Berger, M. Hengsbach, M. Kublitz. Berlin: Argument Verlag, 1985. 35-51.
    Reprinted in: Aus dem Verborgenen zur Avantgarde: Ausgewählte Beiträge zur feministischen Literaturwissenschaft. Eds. Hiltrud Bontrup and Jan Christian Metzler. Argument Classics. Hamburg: Argument Verlag, 2000. 158-176.
21. "Mise en crypte: The Man and the Mask." The Henry James Review. Spring, 1984: 220-226.

Reviews and Other Publications

1. Anna Mitgutsch, Three Daughters. Trans.. Lisel Mueller. San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. New York Times Book Review, 26 April 1987. 
2. Mary Field Belenky, Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Nancy Rule Goldberger, Jill Mattuck Tarule. Women’s Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind. New York: Basic Books, 1986. ADE Bulletin. February 1990, S. 52-56. 
3. "Gertrude Stein in Paris." What’s the Word? Radio Program of the Modern Language Association (MLA). First broadcast Autumn 2004.

Translations

1. Wirth, Andrzej. “Brecht’s Fatzer: Experiments in Discourse Making.” The Drama Review, December, 1978, 56-66. 
2. Wirth, Andrzej. “Bob Wilson’s Discourse of Total Theatre.” Washington Arts Journal. June, 1979.
3. Derrida, Jacques. "The Age of Hegel." In: Demarcating the Disciplines: Philosophy, Literature, Art. Ed. Samuel Weber. Glyph Textual Studies 1. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986, 3-35.
4. Witte, Bernd. "Paris-Berlin-Paris: Personal, Literary, and Social Experience in Walter Benjamin’s Late Works." In: New German Critique 39 (Fall 1986), 49-60.