Research Interests:

German literature and culture since the end of World War II; the intersection of literature with politics, philosophy and the visual arts; political engagement in literature since the end of World War II; literary sociology

Selected Publications:

“Kunstbetrachtungen: Paul Celan über den Surrealisten Edgar Jené.” Der Betrachter ist im Text! Kunstrezeption in der deutschsprachigen Literatur nach 1945. ed. Sylwia Werner. Berlin: Trafo. expected fall 2009.

“Gruppe 47: Literature, Politics, and the Political Economy of Postwar Publishing.” German Life and Letters 62.4 (2009)

“Dichten, Denken, Lesen: Theories of Reading in Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger.” The Germanic Review 84.1 (2009)

“Dimensions of Engagement:  Politics and Aesthetics in Heinrich Böll’s Early Fiction.” The German Quarterly 80.3 (2007).

“Burned Bridges:  The Rise and Fall of the Former BBC Journalist Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler in East Germany.”  Yearbook of the Research Center for German and Austrian Exile Studies.  Amsterdam:  Radopi, 2003.