Dr. Gerd Bayer

Kurzvita / short cv:

Studium der Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Geographie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; 1. Staatsexamen und M.A. (1998), Dr. phil. (2004)

PAD Lecturer, University of Toronto (1998-99)

Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University (1999-2004)

Assistant Professor (tenure track), University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (2004-05)

Akademischer Rat, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (2005-)

Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin (March 2006)

Elternzeit / paternity leave (Summer Semester 2009)

DFG Grant (research leave), project on Restoration prose, paratext and genre, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (October 2009 - March 2012)

Participant at Early Career Researchers Forum, European Science Foundation, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (June 2011)

Research Fellowship, travel stipend, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin (August 2012)

   
Publikationen / publications:

   1. Bücher / books

"Introduction: Early Modern Prose Fiction and the Making of Genre." Anglistentag 2011, Freiburg: Proceedings. Ed. Monika Fludernik and Bernd Kortmann. Trier: WVT, 2012. (With Christina Wald) (Forthcoming).

"Restoration Re-Fashioning: The Canon and Early Modern Prose Fiction." After the New Historicism. Ed. Monika Fludernik. Special issue Poetics Today. (Forthcoming).

"Alter, Tod, Erinnerung: Lebenswertes und Lesenswertes bei Graham Swift und Howard Jacobson." Alter und Altern. Ed. Rudolf Freiburg und Dirk Kretzschmar. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2012. (Forthcoming)

"Crusoe’s Empire." Critical Insights: Cultural Encounters. Ed. Nicholas Birns. New York: EBSCO, 2012. (Forthcoming)

"Negotiating Ethnic Difference in Restoration Travel Fiction." Arcadia: Internationale Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft (2012). (Forthcoming)

"The Artist in a Foreign Land: The Liminal Spaces of Minority Literature." A Different Germany: Pop and the Negotiation of German Culture. Ed. Claude Desmarais. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2012. (Forthcoming)

"Yesterday, dir. Darrell Roodt." Teaching Contemporary Film. Ed. Susanne Peters, Klaus Stierstorfer, Laurenz Volkmann, and Dirk Vanderbeke. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2011. (Forthcoming)

"Mockumentary und ethnographischer Film: Eine postkoloniale Umkehrung." Fälschungen im Spektrum zwischen Literatur und Medien. Ed. Barbara Potthast. Münster: LIT, 2011. (Forthcoming)

"Early Modern Prose Fiction and the Place of Poetics." Anglia 129.3/4 (2011): 362–77.

"Character Speech, Narration, and Individual Identity in Early Modern Prose." Anglistentag 2010 Saarbrücken: Proceedings. Ed. Joachim Frenk and Lena Steveker. Trier: WVT, 2011. 255–66.

"A Cuckolding Source for Tristram’s Clock." Notes & Queries 58.3 (2011): 419–22.

"Subverting the Tropical Paradise." Projections of Paradise: Ideal Elsewheres in Postcolonial Migrant Literature. Ed. Helga Ramsey-Kurz and Geetha Ganapathy-Doré. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. 49–72.

"World War II Fiction and the Ethics of Trauma." Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction. Ed. Susana Onega and Jean Michel Ganteau. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. 157–76.

"Introduction: A Narrative of Transformation." Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe. Ed. Gerd Bayer and Ebbe Klitgård. New York: Routledge, 2011. 1–21. (With Ebbe Klitgård)

"Paratext and Genre: Making Seventeenth-Century Readers." Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe. Ed. Gerd Bayer and Ebbe Klitgård. New York: Routledge, 2011. 199–218.

"On Filming Metafiction: John Fowles’s Unpublished “The Last Chapter” and the Road to Postmodern Cinema." English Studies 91.8 (2010): 893–906.

"After Postmemory: Holocaust Cinema and the Third Generation." Shofar 28.4 (2010): 116–32.

"Writing the Penitentiary: Voicing Australia’s Colonial Crimes." Anglistentag 2009 Klagenfurt: Proceedings. Ed. Jörg Helbig and René Schallegger. Trier: WVT, 2010. 363–73.

"Introduction: Doing Cultural Studies with Earplugs." Heavy Metal Music in Britain. Ed. Gerd Bayer. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009. 1–13.

"Rocking the Nation: One Global Audience, One Flag?" Heavy Metal Music in Britain. Ed. Gerd Bayer. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009. 181–93.

"Deceptive Narratives: On Truth and the Epistolary Voice." LiLi: Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 39.154 (2009): 173–87.
Rpt. in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Detroit: Gale, 2011. (Forthcoming)

"J.M. Coetzee’s Foe." Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture. Ed. Susanne Peters, Klaus Stierstorfer, and Laurenz Volkmann. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2008. 109–22.

"Fake Films as Media Criticism." Anglistentag 2007 Münster: Proceedings. Ed. Klaus Stierstorfer. Trier: WVT, 2008. 143–53.

"Einleitung: Literatur und Holocaust." Literatur und Holocaust. Ed. Rudolf Freiburg und Gerd Bayer. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2008. 1–39.

"Der Holocaust als Metapher in postmodernen und postkolonialen Romanen." Literatur und Holocaust. Ed. Rudolf Freiburg und Gerd Bayer. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2008. 271–94.

"Madness in the City: Crazy Flâneurs in the Writings of Jenny Diski, Tibor Fischer, and Jane Rogers." (Re-)Mapping London: Visions of the Metropolis in the Contemporary Novel in English. Ed. Vanessa Guignery. Paris: Publibook, 2008. 21–35.

"Coral Reefs and Scientific Discourse: Gunesekera's Reef as Post-Colonial Resistance." British Asian Fiction: Framing the Contemporary. Ed. Neil Murphy and Wai-chew Sim. Amherst: Cambria Press, 2008. 303–19.

"Violence and the Postcolonial Project: On Watching City of God." Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 14.2 (2007): 36–49.

"Traveling Urban Utopias and the Birth of Suburbia." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 55.4 (2007): 361–77.

"Islands and Shipwrecks: John Fowles and the Environment." Anglistik 18.1 (2007): 61–76.

"Introduction." World Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Vol. 3: Europe. Ed. Gerd Bayer. Westport: Greenwood, 2006.

"Introduction: The Impossibility of Defining ‘German' Popular Culture." Mediating Germany: Popular Culture between Tradition and Innovation. Ed. Gerd Bayer. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006. vi–xvi.

"Images of Terror: Documentary Filmmaking and the RAF." Mediating Germany: Popular Culture between Tradition and Innovation. Ed. Gerd Bayer. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006. 126–45.

"Tragicomic Historiography in Tibor Fischer's Under the Frog." Anglia 123.3 (2005): 441–53.

"Artifice and Artificiality in Mockumentaries." Docufictions: Essays on the Intersection of Documentary and Fictional Filmmaking. Ed. Gary Rhodes and John Springer. Jefferson: McFarland, 2005. 165–78.

"Theory as Hierarchy: Positioning German Migrantenliteratur." Monatshefte 96.1 (2004): 1–19.

"Representations of Political Power in African Writing." Journal of Cultural Studies 3.1 (2001): 138–51.

"The Band J.B.O. and Exploding the Serious Side of Pop Culture." German Matters in Popular Culture. Ed. Christopher Lorey and John L. Plews. Special Issue: Journal of Popular Culture 34.3 (2000): 109–28.

"'A sterile promontory': Jane Rogers's and Jenny Diski's Views of the Future." Arachne 6.1 (1999): 79–92.

"'I'm very fond of tea and Shakespeare': An Interview with Tibor Fischer." "Do you consider yourself a postmodern author?": Interviews with Contemporary English Writers. Ed. Rudolf Freiburg and Jan Schnitker. Münster: Lit, 1999. 103–17.

"'Novel is character': An Interview with Jane Rogers." "Do you consider yourself a postmodern author?": Interviews with Contemporary English Writers. Ed. Rudolf Freiburg and Jan Schnitker. Münster: Lit, 1999. 203–17.

"The Inhumane Cardinal, or, Innocence Betrayed, by Mary Pix." The Literary Encyclopedia, 2012. (Forthcoming)

"Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson." Encyclopedia of the Environment in American Literature. Ed. Brian Jones. Jefferson: McFarland, 2011. (Forthcoming)

"Tibor Fischer." The Literary Encyclopedia, 2011.

"Foe, by J.M. Coetzee." The Literary Encyclopedia, 2010.

"The Tree, by John Fowles." The Literary Encyclopedia, 2009.

"Ecocriticism." The Literary Encyclopedia, 2009.

"Jenny Diski." The Literary Encyclopedia, 2009.

"'Ancestor,' by Thomas Kinsella." Companion to British Poetry, 1900 to the Present. Ed. James Persoon and Robert R. Watson. New York: Facts on File, 2009. 10–11.

"'Tear,' by Thomas Kinsella." Companion to British Poetry, 1900 to the Present. Ed. James Persoon and Robert R. Watson. New York: Facts on File, 2009. 467.

"The White Hotel, by D.M. Thomas." The Literary Encyclopedia, 2008.

"'The Ebony Tower,' by John Fowles." Companion to the British Short Story and Short Fiction. Ed. Andrew Mounder. New York: Facts on File, 2007. 131–33.

"Travel and Transportation." World Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Vol. 3: Europe. Ed. Gerd Bayer. Westport: Greenwood, 2006. 385–405. (with Martin Sachs)

"Jenny Diski." Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature. Ed. Gaetan Brulotte and John Phillips. New York: Routledge, 2006. 348–50.

"Tomson Highway." Encyclopedia of Ethnic American Literature. Ed. Emmanuel Nelson. Westport: Greenwood, 2005. 981–82.

"Thomas King." Encyclopedia of Ethnic American Literature. Ed. Emmanuel Nelson. Westport: Greenwood, 2005. 1247–50.

"Black Box BRD."Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. Ed. Ian Aitken. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004. 124–25

"Chinua Achebe."Encyclopedia of African History. Ed. Kevin Shillington. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 10–11.

"Ngugi wa Thiong'o." Encyclopedia of African History. Ed. Kevin Shillington. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 1085–86.

"Christian Dietrich Grabbe." Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era. Ed. Chris Murray. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 447–48.

"Junges Deutschland." Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era. Ed. Chris Murray. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 589–90.

"Fiction II: 18th-Century novel." A Reader's Guide to British History. Ed. David Loades. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 510–11.

"Poetry V: Romantic Era." A Reader's Guide to British History. Ed. David Loades. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 1052–53.

"Peter Shaffer." Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. Ed. Sorrel Kerbel. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 514–16.

"Tom Stoppard." Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. Ed. Sorrel Kerbel. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 562–64.

The Framing Text in Early Modern Drama: ‘Whining’ Prologues and ‘Armed’ Epilogues. Brian W. Schneider. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011. Anglia. (Forthcoming)

Film and the Holocaust: New Perspectives on Dramas, Documentaries, and Experimental Film. Aaron Kerner. London: Continuum, 2011. Shofar. (Forthcoming)

The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel. Marina MacKay. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. Notes & Queries. (Forthcoming)

Textvarianz und Schriftkritik: Dialogische Schreib- und Lesekultur bei Thomas More, George Gascoigne und John Lyly. Jürgen Meyer. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010. Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch. (Forthcoming)

J.M. Coetzee’s Austerities. Ed. Graham Bradshaw and Michael Neill. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010. Journal of Postcolonial Writing. (Forthcoming)

African Film and Literature: Adapting Violence to the Screen. Lindiwe Dovey. New York: Columbia UP, 2009. Journal of African Cinemas 3.1 (2011): 125–29.

Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization. Michael Rothberg. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 47.1 (2011): 114–15.

Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory. Brett Ashley Kaplan. New York: Routledge, 2010. Biography 33.4 (2010): 823–26.

Observational Cinema: Anthropology, Film, and the Exploration of Social Life. Anna Grimshaw and Amanda Ravetz. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2009. Journal of Popular Culture 43.6 (2010): 1304–5.

Rezeptionstheorien: Literatur-, sprach- und kulturwissenschaftliche Ansätze und kulturelle Modelle. Sven Strasen. Trier: WVT, 2008. Anglia 128.1 (2010): 168–72.

Haunted Images: Film, Ethics, Testimony and the Holocaust. Libby Saxton. London: Wallflower, 2008. Shofar 28.4 (2010): 155–57.

Storytelling in the Works of Bunyan, Grimmelshausen, Defoe, and Schnabel. Janet Bertsch. Rochester: Camden House, 2004. Early Modern Literary Studies 15.1 (2009/10).

Language in Literature: Style and Foregrounding. Geoffrey Leech. London: Longman, 2008. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 57.4 (2009): 406.

• Seventeenth-Century Literature and Culture. Jim Daems. London: Continuum, 2006. Early Modern Literary Studies 14.2 (2008).
  
• The Recurrent Green Universe of John Fowles. Thomas M. Wilson. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 15.1 (2008): 292-93.
  
• Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism. Kenneth W. Harrow. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2007; and: Postcolonial African Cinema: Ten Directors. David Murphy and Patrick Williams. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2007. Film Criticism 32.3 (2008): 96–100.
  
• Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film. Jeffrey Skoller. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2005. Film Criticism 32.1 (2007): 88-91.
  
• Hollywood Utopia: Ecology in Contemporary American Cinema. Pat Brereton. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2005. Utopian Studies 17.3 (2007): 537–40.
  
• The Invention of Native American Literature. Robert Dale Parker. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2003. Amerikastudien/American Studies 52.1 (2007): 151–53.
  
• John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds. Eileen Warburton. London: Cape, 2004; and: The Journals of John Fowles, Vol. 1. Ed. Charles Drazin. London: Cape, 2003. Studies in 20th Century Literature 30.2 (2006): 438–41.
  
• The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politcs, and the Environment in an Age of Terror. David W. Orr. Washington: Island Press, 2004. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 13.1 (2006): 242–43.
  
• Das Schwinden der Differenz: Postkoloniale Poetiken. Oliver Lubrich. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2004. German Studies Review 29.1 (2006): 201–2.
  
• "To Hell with Culture": Anarchism and Twentieth-Century British Literature. Ed. H. Gustav Klaus and Stephen Knight. Cardiff: U of Wales P, 2005. Journal for the Study of British Cultures 12.2 (2005): 179–80.
  
• Faking It: Mock-Documentary and the Subversion of Factuality. Jane Roscoe and Craig Hight. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2001. New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film 3.2 (2005): 137–38.
  
• James Joyce and German Theory: "The Romantic School and All That." Barbara Laman. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2004. German Quarterly 78.3 (2005): 389–90.
  
• Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic: From Britain's Renaissance to America's New World. Kenneth Olwig. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2002. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 11.2 (Summer 2004): 276–77.
  
• Zwischen den Kulturen: Strategien und Aktivitäten für landeskundliches Lehren und Lernen. Margarete Hansen and Barbara Zuber. Berlin: Langenscheidt, 1996. Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German 36.1 (Spring 2003): 104.
  
• Angewandte Linguistik für den fremdsprachlichen Deutschunterricht: Eine Einführung. Britta Hufeisen and Gerhard Neuner. Berlin: Langenscheidt, 1999. Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German 36.1 (Spring 2003): 106–7.
  
• Plattenbau oder: Die Kunst, Utopie im Baukasten zu warten. Ed. by Annett Zinsmeister. [Hagen, Germany]: Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, 2002. Utopian Studies 14.1 (2003): 285–88.
  
• Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature: From Society to Heterogeneity. By Mike Michael. London; New York: Routledge, 2000. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 10.1 (2003): 265–66.
  
• Rewriting Germany from the Margins: "Other" German Literature of the 1980s and 1990s. By Petra Fachinger. McGill-Queen's UP, 2001. German Studies Review 25:3 (2002): 669–70.
  
• Das Grammatikheft: Deutsch als Fremdsprache für Jugendliche und Erwachsene. By Anne Vorderwülbecke. Stuttgart: Klett, 1999. Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German 35.1 (2002): 95–96.
  
• Writing Outside the Nation. By Azade Seyhan. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2000. German Studies Review 25.1 (2002): 203–4.
  
• Romantic Turbulence: Chaos, Ecology, and American Space. By Eric Wilson. New York: St. Martin's P, 2000. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 8.1 (2001): 227–28.
  
• Deutsch als Fremdsprache: Eine Einführung. By Hans-Werner Huneke and Wolfgang Steinig. 2nd ed. Bielefeld: Schmidt, 2000. Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German 34.1 (2001): 101–2.
  
• Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents. Ed. by Vassiliki Kolocontri, Jane Goldman, and Olga Taxidou. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998. Studies in 20th Century Literature 25.2 (2001): 518–20.
  
• Landeskunde - deutschsprachige Länder: Deutschland. By Volker Nitzschke. Regensburg: Dürr und Kessler, 1996. Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German 33.2 (2000): 186–7.

Vorträge / presentations:

"Perpetual Apocalypses: David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and the Absence of History." Anglistentag. Potsdam, September 2012.

"Refractions of Empire: David Mitchell’s Jacob de Zoet and the Global Search for Humanity." Interrogating Cosmopolitan Conviviality: New Dimensions of the European in Literature. Bamberg, May 2012.

"True Horror and the Proto-Gothic: Mary Pix's The Inhuman Cardinal." British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Oxford, Great Britain, January 2012.

"Human Nature in Early Modern Travel Writing." Biennial Meeting of the Defoe Society. University of Worcester, Great Britain, July 2011.

"Alter, Tod, Erinnerung: Lebenswertes und Lesenswertes bei Graham Swift und Howard Jacobson." Erlangen University, June 2011.

"Displaced Memory: The Screened Past of Fugitive Pieces." Invited talk. University of Barcelona, Spain, April 2011.

"Fragments of Cultural Memory: The Dormant Past in Jenny Diski’s Then Again." Beyond Trauma: Narratives of (Im)possibility. University of Zaragoza, Spain, April 2011.

"Genre and the Reader in Restoration Fiction." British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Oxford, Great Britain, January 2011.

"Character Speech, Narration, and Individual Identity in Early Modern Prose." Anglistentag. Saarbrücken, September 2010.

"Early Modern Prose and the Place of Poetics." European Society for the Study of English. Torino, Italy, August 2010.

"Making the Early Modern Reader: Restoration Paratexts and Prose Fiction." Invited talk. Temple University, Philadelphia, April 2010.

• "Narrating before Narrators: Restoration Prose and the Instance of Speech." Narrative Conference. Cleveland, Ohio, April 2010.
  
• "The Nature of the Other in Restoration Travel Fiction." British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Oxford, Great Britain, January 2010.
  
• "Mockumentary und ethnographischer Film: Eine postkoloniale Umkehrung." Invited talk. Conference Fälschungen: literarisch, medial. Stuttgart University, December 2009.
  
• "Writing the Penitentiary: Voicing Australia’s Colonial Crimes." Anglistentag. Klagenfurt, Austria, September 2009.
  
• "Facing Trauma: Generations, Memory, Cinema." ACLA Annual Meeting. Boston, March 2009.
  
• "Paratext and Genre: Making 17th-Century Readers." European Society for the Study of English. Aarhus, Denmark, August 2008.
  
• "Der Holocaust als Metapher in postmodernen und postkolonialen Romanen." Ringvorlesung: Literatur und Holocaust. Erlangen University, January 2008.
  
• "Fake Films as Media Criticism." Anglistentag, Münster, September 2007.
  
• "Am Rande der Küste: Insel und Schiffbruch." Collegium Alexandrinum, Erlangen University, July 2007.
  
• "Nature and Science: Indian Novels of Eco-Resistance." Re-Routing the Postcolonial, University of Northampton, July 2007.
  
• "Madness in the City: Crazy Flâneurs in the Writings of Jenny Diski, Tibor Fischer, and Jane Rogers." Ecritures de Londres dans le roman contemporain de langue anglaise (1950-2007). Sorbonne, France, March 2007.
  
• "On Filming Metafiction: John Fowles and the Filmmakers." European Society for the Study of English. London, August 2006.
  
• "Ocean Life and Scientific Discourse: Gunesekera’s Reef as Post-Colonial Resistance." Narrative: An International Conference. Ottawa, Ontario, April 2006.
  
• "Deceptive Narratives: On Truth and the Epistolary Voice." Narrative: An International Conference. Louisville, Kentucky, April 2005.
  
• "Germany’s Reaction to the Holocaust." Peace Conference. University of Wisconsin – Whitewater, April 2005.
  
• "Images of Terror: Documentary Filmmaking and the RAF." Invited Talk. U of Arizona, Tucson, March 2005.
  
• "Violence and the Postcolonial Project in City of God." Invited Talk. Tulane U, New Orleans, November 2004.
  
• "Narrators in Love: Amorous Voices in Zaimoglu and Pirinçci." German Studies Association Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., October 2004.
  
• "Cinematic Violence and Decorum: Postcolonialism vs. The Spectacular." Narrative: An International Conference. Burlington, Vermont, April 2004.
  
• "Cinematic Cities: Inventing Memories of Past and Future Urban Spaces." ACLA Annual Meeting. Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 2004.
  
• "Urbanism and the Generation X: Douglas Coupland’s Cityscapes." MLA Annual Meeting. San Diego, California, December 2003.
  
• "Zaimoglu’s Kanak Attack: The Cinematic Performance of Violence." Popular Culture Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana, April, 2003.
  
• "Moving to Cyborgia: Virtual Liminality in Cronenberg’s eXistenZ." ACLA Annual Meeting. San Diego, California, April 2003.
  
• "Chaos vs. The Postmodern: A Narrative Differentiation." Narrative: An International Conference. Berkeley, California, March 2003.
  
• "William Morris's Rural Utopia and the Un-Malling of America." Society for Utopian Studies Annual Meeting. Orlando, Florida, October 2002.
  
• "The Artist in a Foreign Land: Hybridity in Feridun Zaimoglu's Work." ACLA Annual Meeting. San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2002.
  
• "Tragicomic Historiography in Tibor Fischer’s Under the Frog." 20th Century Literature Conference. Louisville, Kentucky, February 2002.
  
• "How Nature Writing Questions Science." Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, June 2001.
  
• "Eco-Narrative: The Green Chaos of John Fowles’s Art." Narrative: An International Conference. Houston, Texas, March 2001.
  
• "Politics and Politicians: The Representation of Power in African Novels." The Republic of Letters 2000. Oxford University, England, September 2000.
  
• "Native Writers in Canada: Postcolonialism of the 3rd Dimension?" Is Canada Postcolonial? Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, September 2000.
  
• "Postcolonial, or what? How to read German Migrantenliteratur." Invited Talk. U of Texas, Austin, May 2000.
  
• "New Symptoms, Same Diagnosis? Themes in Meja Mwangi's Novels." 26th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association. Lawrence, Kansas, April 2000.
  
• "Culture and Identity: The Rhetorics of Migrantenliteratur." Narrative: An International Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, April 2000.
  
• "Pop or Sub? Struggles Within Culture." German Studies: The Future of the Disciplines (graduate student conference). University of Toronto, Canada, March 2000.
  
• "'A sterile promontory:' Jane Rogers's and Jenny Diski's Views of the Future." Interdisciplinary Humanities Reflections on the Future. Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, May 1999.
  
• "Islands, Shipwrecks, and the Lost Domain: John Fowles and Environmental Ethics." ACLA Annual Meeting. Montréal, Canada, April 1999.