Research Interests

• Twentieth Century German Literature;
• Film Studies;
• Expressionist and Postwar Lyric Poetry;
• Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

Education 

Publications

Journal Articles

"Reinventing the Vaterland: The Poetry of Nadja Küchenmeister, Daniela Danz and Farhad Showghi" (in preparation)

"The Yellow Flower of Norway: Trauma and Repetition in Hans Henny Jahnn's Perrudja." The German Quarterly 88.3 (2015): 317-333.

"The 'Mass Ornament' at Play in Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's Oberflächenbeschreibungen." South Atlantic Review 75.1 (2010): 1-20.

"Unsere Rockgruppe geht auf Tournee!: Introducing Longer Narrative Writing toSecond-Year Students." Unterrichtspraxis 42.1 (2009): 69-74.

 "A Revolutionary Critique of Individualism: Heiner Müller's Mauser in Texas,"Monatshefte, 92, No. 2 (Summer 2000): 184-98

 "The Metastructural Significance of Those Center Stripes: or, What's Really Going on in David Lynch's Lost Highway?" The Image of the Road: Selected
Papers, 2005 Conference (Pueblo, CO: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, 2005): 22-6.

Book Reviews
 Krasnodebski, Zdzislaw, Stefan Garsztecki and Rüdiger Ritter, Eds., Last der Geschichte? Kollektive Identität und Geschichte in Ostmitteleuropa (Hamburg: Dr. Kovac, 2008) Sarmatian Review (in preparation)

 Krasnodebski, Zdzislaw & Stefan Garsztecki, Eds., Sendung und Dichtung: Adam Mickiewicz in Europa (Hamburg: Krämer, 2002) Sarmatian Review, XXV, no. 2 (April 2005): 1127-28.

Courses