Members' Publications

Aghoro, Nathalie. “Agency in the Afrofuturist Ontologies of Erykah Badu and Janelle Monáe.” Open Cultural Studies, vol. 2, no. 1 (2018), 330-340. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/culture-2018-0030/html.

Aghoro, Nathalie. “Voice, Silence, and Quiet Resistance in Percival Everett’s Glyph.” JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, vol. 1, no. 2 (2020), DOI: 10.47060/jaaas.v1i2.35.

Aghoro, Nathalie. “Sonic Sites of Subversion: Listening and the Politics of Place in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange.” The Acoustics of the Social on Page and Screen, edited by Nathalie Aghoro, Bloomsbury, 2021, 147-163.

Aghoro, Nathalie, Katharina Gerund and Sylvia Mayer. “Re-Thinking Solidarity: An Introduction.” Re-Thinking Solidarity, special issue of American Studies/Amerikastudien, vol. 68, no. 4 (2023).

Braun, Juliane. “‘Strange Beasts of the Sea:’ Captain Cook, the Sea Otter, and the Creation of a Transoceanic American Empire.” Atlantic Studies: Global Currents 15. 2 (2018): 238-55. DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2017.1387462.

Braun, Juliane. “Bioprospecting Breadfruit: Imperial Botany, Transoceanic Relations, and the Politics of Translation.” Early American Literature (EAL) 54.3 (2019): 643-71. DOI: 10.1353/eal.2019.0062.

Essi, Cedric, Heike Paul, and Boris Vormann, eds. Common Grounds? American Democracy after Trump. Special Issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies, vol. 66, no. 1, 2021.

Essi, Cedric. “The Parent as Citizen: Jane Lazarre's Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons.” Storied Citizenship: Imagining the Citizen in North American Literature. Special Issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies, vol. 65, no. 4, 2020, pp. 491-510. 

Knaus, Juliann. “Colorism Online vs. Offline: Black Influencers, Representation, and Visibility” In Media Res, November 2019, http://mediacommons.org/imr/content/colorism-online-vs-offline-black-influencers-representation-and-visibility.

Knaus, Juliann. “Multisensory Hair Therapy: Exploring Intermediality and Materiality in Trey Anthony’s ‘da Kink in my hair”.Gegenständliche Poetiken des Haares, edited by Elena Casanova, Lilli Hölzlhammer, and Helen Moll, De Gruyter, 2023, pp. 113–127. DOI: 10.1515/9783110776461-007.

Knaus, Juliann. “Participatory Platform versus Condemning Community: In/Exclusion in the Black Natural Hair Movement on YouTube.”Participation in American Culture and Society, edited by Phillip Löffler, Margit Peterfy, Natalie Rauscher, and Welf Werner, Winter, 2024, pp. 287-300. Winter Verlag: Löffler ea. (Eds.): Participation in American Culture (winter-verlag.de)

Knaus, Juliann. “Power, Painting, and Poetry: Mixed-Race Ekphrasis in Natasha Trethewey’s Thrall.” ariel: A Review of International English Literature, vol. 55, no. 2, 2024, pp. 59-84. Project MUSE - ariel: A Review of International English Literature-Volume 55, Number 2, April 2024 (jhu.edu) , ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature (ucalgary.ca).

Knaus, Juliann. “The Dissolution of Racial Boundaries: Colonial Diction and Mixed-Race Representation in Natasha Trethewey’s Thrall.” JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2020 [2022], pp. 29-45. DOI:10.47060/jaaas.v2i1.73.

Knaus, Juliann. “Unbraiding the Significance of Testimony, Ceremony, Healing, and Hair in Three Contemporary First Nations Plays.”Narrating Transitional Justice: Memory in the Age of Truth and Reconciliation, edited by Paul Ugor and Bonny Ibhawoh. Montreal, Kingston, ON, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025. [expected publication in Fall 2025]

Knewitz, Simone and Stefanie Mueller, eds. The Aesthetics of Collective Agency: Corporations, Communities, and Crowds in the Twenty-First Century, transcript, 2024.

Knewitz, Simone. “White Fragility and White Shame: Liberal Performances of Anti-Racism and the Politics of Vulnerability in the U.S.” Vulnerability: Real, Imagined, and Displayed Fragility in Language and Society, edited by Silvia Bonacchi, V&R, 2024, pp. 35-45. 

Schubert, Stefan. “‘I Want Your Eye, Man’: Appropriation, Defamiliarization, and (Meta-)Minstrelization in Get Out.” Supernatural Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, 2022, pp. 57-81, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NPYa4CfPoWrg2oB3fbd17rXaR7EaP-sJ/view.

Schubert, Stefan. “‘Liberty for Androids!’: Player Choice, Politics, and Populism in Detroit: Become Human.” European Journal of American Studies, vol. 16, no. 3, 2021, https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/17360.

Schubert, Stefan. “Dystopia in the Skies: Negotiating Justice and Morality on Screen in the Video Game BioShock Infinite.” European Journal for American Studies, vol. 13, no. 4, 2018, https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/14089.

Schubert, Stefan. “Columbian Nightmare: Narrative, History, and Nationalism in BioShock Infinite.” fiar: forum for inter-american research, vol. 11, no. 2, 2018, pp. 44-60, http://interamerica.de/current-issue/schubert/.