Seminar für Englische Philologie

Prof. Dr. Andrew S. Gross

Prof. Dr. Andrew S. Gross

Professor of North American Studies

- Currently on sabbatical leave -

Teaching at the University of Göttingen since 2015. Previously Andrew Gross held positions at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (2012-2015), at the John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin (2004-2012), and at the University of California, Davis (1993-2004).




  • Habilitation, Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin, 2012
  • Ph.D., English with designated emphases in American literature and critical theory, University of California, Davis, 2001.
  • M.A., English, University of California, Davis, 1995.
  • B.A., summa cum laude, double major in English and philosophy, University of Arizona, 1993.


Complete CV

Andrew Gross' areas of interest include travel literature and tourism, representations of the Holocaust, modernist poetry, and the cultural history of the Cold War. He is currently researching literary representations of liberalism in texts that go back to the eighteenth century.

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List of publications

Books

  1. Habilitationsschrift: The Pound Reaction: Liberalism and Lyricism in Mid-Century American Literature. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015
      The manuscript received the European Association of American Studies (EAAS) Rob Kroes Book Award for 2014 and was published in its laureate series.
      Reviews:
      • Kość, Grzegorz. Polish Journal for American Studies, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 231-33.
      • Vancu, Radu. American, British, Canadian Studies Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, December 2016, pp. 150-56.
      • "Brief Mention." American Literature, vol. 88, no. 4, p. 871.
      • Voelz, Johannes. Anglia, vol. 136, no. 4, 2018, pp. 768-771.
      • Barnhisel, Greg. “The Third Way.” Make It New, vol. 3, no. 4, April 2017, pp. 90-92.
      • Frank, Astrid. Amerikastudien/American Studies, vol. 62, no. 2, 2017.
      • Omnibus review by Pietrzak, Wit, European Journal of American Studies, vol. 3, 2018.
  2. With Susanne Rohr. Comedy, Avant-Garde, Scandal: Remembering the Holocaust after the End of History. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2010. (This is a co-authored book, not an edited volume.)
    Reviews:
  3. Dissertation: “The Changing Shape of the American Landscape: Travel, Corporate Expansion, and Consumer Culture, 1845-1945.”
    • Director: Michael Hoffman. Readers: David Van Leer, William Worthen, Georges van den Abbeele.
    • Chapters published as articles in The Arizona Quarterly, Pacific Coast Philology, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, etc. Published dissertation chapters are marked with an asterisk (*) in section III, below (III.31, III.33, III.38-40, III.43, III.47).

Co-Edited Volumes and Special Journal Issues

  1. With Andrew Osborn (editors). “Wallace Stevens and Germany.” A special issue of The Wallace Stevens Journal, vol. 48 no. 1, 2024, Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/wsj.2024.a922168.
  2. With James Dowthwaite (editors). “Poetry and Populism.” A special issue of Hot Rocks/ Literary Matters, Winter 2023: https://www.literarymatters.org/issue-15-2/.
  3. With Florian Zappe (editors). Surveillance/Society/Culture. Peter Lang Verlag, 2020.
  4. With Susann Köhler (editors). Cultures of U.S.-American Conservatism. A special issue of American Studies Journal, no. 65, 2018.
  5. With Ulla Haselstein and MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (editors). The Pathos of Authenticity. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2010.
      Reviews
    • Giles, Paul. The Journal of American Studies, no. 44, 2010, pp. 804-05.
    • Orvell, Miles. Amerikastudien, vol. 56, no. 1, 2011.
  6. With MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (editors). Trauma’s Continuum: 9/11 After a Decade. A special issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies, vol. 55, no. 3, 2010.

Articles and Chapters

  1. Gross, Andrew Steven. "Introduction: Stevens and Germany, Stevens in (West) Germany." Wallace Stevens Journal, vol. 48 no. 1, 2024, p. 1-19. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/wsj.2024.a922168.
  2. “Pandemic Pastoralism.” Narrating Pandemics. Eds. Gross, Hoelzl, Schicktanz. University of Toronto Press, forthcoming.
  3. “Poetry and its Institutions: Arendt, Auden, and Jarrell at Midcentury.” Literary Imagination, April 2023; https://doi.org/10.1093/litimag/imad007
  4. “Introduction: American Crises.” New American Studies Journal (72): 2022. https://doi.org/10.18422/72-01
  5. “Poetry and the Public Sphere: Ellen Hinsey, a Poet of Our Time,” in “Poetry and Populism,” a special issue of Hot Rocks/Literary Matters, Winter 2023, eds. James Dowthwaite and Andrew S. Gross, https://www.literarymatters.org/issue-15-2/. Another version of this article appears as:
  6. “Ellen Hinsey: Poet of the Public Sphere.” The Public Mind and the Politics of Postmillennial U.S.-American Writing. Edited by Jolene Mathieson, Marius Henderson and Julia Lange. De Gruyter, 2022. 213-228.
  7. With James Dowthwaite, Introduction to “Poetry and Populism,” in Hot Rocks/Literary Matters, Winter 2023, eds. James Dowthwaite and Andrew S. Gross, https://www.literarymatters.org/issue-15-2/.
  8. “Wallace Stevens: Anecdote and Lyric.” Anecdotal Modernity: Making and Unmaking History. Essays in Honor of Ulla Haselstein. Edited by James Dorson, Florian Sedlemeier, MaryAnn Snyder-Körber, and Birte Wege. De Gruyter, 2020, pp. 279-94.
  9. “Refugee Blues: Hannah Arendt, Statelessness, and the Limits of Identity.” Women and US Politics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Essays in Honor of Hans-Jürgen Grabbe. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020, pp. 233-249.
  10. “‘Art Has a Bad (W)rap’: A Conversation with Michael Cullen about the ‘Wrapped Reichstag’.” American Studies Journal, no. 69, 2020. Web. October 16, 2020. DOI 10.18422/69-05.
  11. With Florian Zappe. Introduction. Surveillance/Society/Culture. Edited by Florian Zappe and Andrew S. Gross. Peter Lang Verlag, 2020.
  12. “The Black Box of Humanism: Surveillance, the Spy Narrative, and Literary Form.” Surveillance/Society/Culture. Edited by Florian Zappe and Andrew S. Gross. Peter Lang Verlag, 2020, pp. 119-136.
  13. “Vaccination, Inoculation, and Franklin’s Grief.” American Counter/Publics. Edited by Ulla Haselstein, Frank Kelleter, et al. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020, pp. 137-58.
  14. With Susann Köhler. “Conservatism and the Liberal Tradition: Reflections on Peter Viereck.” American Studies Journal, no. 65, 2018.
  15. “W.D. Snodgrass’ The Fuehrer Bunker: Confession, Memory, and the Personification of History.” Entangled Memories. Edited by Julia Lange and Marius Henderson. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017, pp. 69-96.
  16. “American Innovations: A Conversation with Rivka Galchen and Joseph O’Neill.” Knowledge Landscapes North America. Edited by Christian Kloeckner, Simone Knewitz, and Sabine Silke. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016, pp. 289-300.
  17. “Poetry and Politics: Ezra Pound, Poetry Awards, and the Liberal Defense of Lyricism.” Telos, no. 170, Spring 2015, pp. 168-89.
  18. “Pound, Peripatetic Verse, and the Postwar Liberal Aesthetic.” Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity: Pedestrian Mobility in Literature and the Arts. Edited by Klaus Benesch and François Specq. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 253-266.
  19. “Commerce and Sentiment in Tales of Barbary Encounter: Cathcart, Barlow, Markoe, Tyler, and Rowson.” The European Journal of American Studies, vol. 9, no. 2, Summer 2014, 'http://ejas.revues.org/10358.
  20. “Post-Apocalyptic Prophecy: The Book of Eli’s Vision of a Forgotten Future.” The Post-2000 Film Western. Edited by John Leo and Marek Paryż. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. 191-206.
  21. “Goldwater’s Phoenix: Individualism, Suburbia, and the Idyll of the Apocalypse.” Revisiting The Sixties: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on America’s Longest Decade. Edited by Laura Bieger and Christian Lammert. Campus Verlag, 2013, pp. 165-184
  22. Another version of this article appeared as “Goldwater in Phoenix: How Popular Conservatism Rose from the Ashes of an Unsuccessful Presidential Campaign” in Electoral Cultures: American Democracy and Choice. Edited by Georgiana Banita and Sascha Pöhlman. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2015, pp. 161-180.
  23. “What Chabon Remembers: Terrorism, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, and Nations without Borders.” Beyond 9/11: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Twenty-First Century U. S. American Culture. Edited by Christian Kloeckner, Simone Knewitz, and Sabine Sielke. Peter Lang, 2013, pp. 289-302.
  24. “Individualism, W. H. Auden’s The Age of Anxiety, and the Group.” Transnational American Studies. Edited by Udo J. Hebel. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012, pp. 207-228.
  25. “Death Is So Permanent: Drive Carefully. European Ruins and American Studies ca. 1948.” Re-Framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies. Edited by Winfried Fluck, Donald E. Pease, and John Carlos Rowe. Dartmouth College Press, 2011, pp. 72-96.
  26. “Lyricism and Liberalism, or Karl Shapiro’s Elegy for Identity.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 34, no. 3, Spring 2011, pp. 1-30.
  27. With Michael Hoffman. “Passions of Grief: Corporeality and Obscenity in the Early Representations of the Holocaust.” Projecting Words, Writing Images: Intersections of the Literary and the Visual in American Cultural Practice. Edited by John Leo and Marek Paryż. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, pp. 209-234.
  28. With Michael Hoffman. “Holocaust Pornography: Obscene Films and Other Narratives.” Polish Journal for American Studies, vol. 4, 2010, pp. 75-93.
  29. With co-authors Ulla Haselstein and MaryAnn Snyder-Körber. Introduction. The Pathos of Authenticity. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2010, pp. 9-31.
  30. “It Might Have Happened Here: Real Anti-Semitism, Fake History, and Remembering the Present.” Amerikastudien/American Studies, vol. 55, no. 3, 2010, pp. 409-427.
    • Received the Preis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien für den besten Artikel des Jahrgangs 2010 and the German American Studies Association Best Article Award 2010.”
  31. With MaryAnn Snyder-Körber. “Trauma’s Continuum—September 11th Reconsidered.” Introduction to Trauma’s Continuum, a special issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies, vol. 55, no. 3, 2010, pp. 369-384
  32. “‘After Auschwitz’: Adorno, Postmodernism, and the Anti-Aesthetic.” The Holocaust, Art, and Taboo: Transatlantic Exchanges on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Representation. Edited by Sophia Komor and Susanne Rohr. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2010, pp. 205-225.
    • Volume reviewed by Julia Faisst for KULT-Humanities Universität Giessen, vol. 28, 2011
  33. “Imaginary Jews and True Confessions: Ethnicity, Lyricism, and John Berryman’s Dreamsongs.” The Journal of Transnational American Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, January 2009, pp. 1-31.
  34. Another version of this article appeared in The Pathos of Authenticity. Edited by Ulla Haselstein, Mary-Ann Snyder-Körber, and Andrew S. Gross. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2010, pp. 199-219.
  35. “Imagining the Interstate: Henry Miller, Post-Tourism, and the Disappearance of American Place.” Public Spaces. Edited by Miles Orvell and Jeffrey Meikle. Rodopi, 2009, pp. 407-434.
  36. “Signs of Violence: Terrorism, Postmodernism, and the Nostalgia for Destruction.” Conformism, Non-Conformism and Anti-Conformism in the Culture of the United States. Edited by Antonis Balasopoulos, Gesa Mackenthun, Theodora Tsimpouki, et al. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008, pp. 131-148.
  37. “William James and Frederick Jackson Turner: Nature, Corporate Expansion, and the Consumption of Space.” Polish Journal for American Studies, vol. 3, 2009, pp. 99-106.
  38. “Prisoner’s Body/ Prisoner’s Dilemma: The Incarcerated Body in Recent and Contemporary Prison Literature.” The Body as Interface. Edited by Sabine Sielke and Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2007, pp. 317-329.
  39. “Counter-tourism in Jean Améry and W.G. Sebald.” Representing the Unimaginable: Narratives of Disaster. Edited by Angela Stock and Cornelia Stott. Peter Lang, 2007, pp. 89-103.
  40. “Holocaust Tourism in Berlin: Religion, Politics, and the Negative Sublime.” Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing, vol. 7, no. 2, 2006, pp. 73-100.
  41. Campus Union Coalitions and the Corporate University: Organizing at the University of California.” Academic Collective Bargaining. Edited by Ernst Benjamin and Michael Mauer. The American Association of University Professors and the Modern Language Association, 2006, pp. 332-348.
  42. “The American Guide Series: Patriotism as Brand-Name Identification.” The Arizona Quarterly, vol. 62, no.1, Spring 2006, pp. 85-112.
  43. “Cars, Postcards, and Patriotism: Tourism and National Politics in the United States, 1893-1929.” Pacific Coast Philology, vol. 40, 2005, pp. 77-97
  44. “The American Guide Series: Tourism, Consumerism, and Managing Space.” The Poetics of America. Edited by Agata Preis-Smith and Marek Paryz. University of Warsaw Press, 2004, pp. 45-65.
  45. “A Brief History of the Future: The Concept of the ‘New’ in American Culture and Politics.” Die US-amerikanische Gesellschaft im Spiegel ihrer zeitgenössischen Literatur, Loccumer Protokolle 74/03. Edited by Hans-Peter Burmeister. Evangelische Akademie Loccum, 2004, pp. 131-142.
  46. With Michael Hoffman. “Memory, Authority, and Identity: Holocaust Studies in Light of the Wilkomirski Debate.” Biography, vol. 27, no. 1, Winter 2004, pp- 25-47.
  47. “California Automobile Tourism and Consumer Culture in US Literature.” As part of the university research series ZENAF Arbeits und Forschungsberichte, University of Frankfurt, 2003.
  48. With Ingrid Stapf. “9/11: Mass Media and Metaphors of Disaster.” Medien und Terrorismus: Reaktionen auf dem 11. September 2001. Edited by Christian Schicha and Carsten Brosda. Lit Verlag, 2002.
  49. With Michael Hoffman, “Some Reflections on a Holocaust Imposter: Fragments and its Tortured History.” Bad Subjects, vol. 61, September 2002. http://www.badsubjects.com. No longer online.
    Archive available at: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=badsubjects
  50. “Negotiating for the Family: Unions and the Graduate Student Workplace.” Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, vol. 5, no. 1., October 2002. https://ices.library.ubc.ca/index.php/workplace/article/view/184054
  51. “Theodore Dreiser and Emily Post: Politics and Early Road Books.” Crossings: Travel, Art, Literature, Politics. Edited by Rudolphus Teeuwen. Bookman Books, 2001, pp. 105-120.
  52. With Ingrid Stapf. “Wer das Wort hat, hat das Sagen: Die Hegemonie der Metapher und Reaktionen der US-Medien infolge des Terroranschlags am 11. September.” Zeitschrift für Kommunikationsökologie, vol. 3, no. 3, 2001, pp. 42-44
  53. “Ulysses as Digestive Tract.” British Tradition: Its Appropriation/Subversion. Edited by Krystyna Kujawinska-Courtney. University of Łódź Press, 2000, pp. 141-149.

Encyclopedia Entries and Handbooks

  1. “Unconventional Conventions: Form in Elizabeth Bishop.” The De Gruyter Handbook of American Poetry. Ed. Sabine Sielke. Forthcoming.
  2. Gross, Andrew. “Imaginary Jews and True Confessions: Ethnicity, Lyricism, and John Berryman’s Dream Songs.” Poetry Criticism. Ed. Carol A Schwartz. Vol. 258. Prod. Layman Poupard. Detroit: Gale, Cengage, 2023. 58-76. Print. (This is a reprint of an article listed above, 2009.)
  3. “F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925).” Handbook of the American Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Edited by Timo Müller. De Gruyter, 2016, pp. 162-76.
  4. “The Road Novel.” The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, vol. 2. Edited by Brian W. Shaffer. Blackwell Publishing, 2011, pp. 799-804.

Book Reviews

  1. Foley, Hugh. Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire. Reviewed for American Literary History, Volume 36, Issue 3, Fall 2024, Pages 928–930, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajae064
  2. Lutz, Tom. The Kindness of Strangers. Reviewed for American Literary History, Volume 35, Issue 1, 20 February 2023, Pages 665-667, https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajac298
  3. Bloom, Harold. The American Canon. Solicited by the Göttingesche Gelehrte Anzeigen, forthcoming.
  4. Sollors, Werner. The Temptation of Despair/ Die Versuchung, zu Verzweifeln. Reviewed for Kritikon Litterarum, vol. 46, nos. 3-4, 2019, pp. 287-293.
  5. Izenberg, Gerald. Identity: The Necessity of a Modern Idea. Reviewed for American Literary History Review Series, vol. 15, 2018.
  6. Szlezak, Klara Stephanie. Canonized in History: Literary Tourism and 19th Century Writers' Houses in New England. Reviewed for Anglia, vol. 136, no. 2, 2018.
  7. Versluys, Kristiaan. Out of the Blue. Reviewed for ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik/A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture, vol. 1, no. 1, 2011, pp. 100-102.
  8. Hagen Schulz-Forberg. London-Berlin: Authenticity, Modernity, and the Metropolis in Urban Travel Writing from 1851 to 1939. Reviewed for Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing, vol. 11, no. 2, October/November 2010, pp. 107-110.
  9. Katrin Pieper. Die Musealisierung des Holocaust: Das Jüdische Museum Berlin und das U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. Europäische Geschichtsdarstellungen, Band 9. Böhlau Verlag, 2006. Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult, May 2007.

Recent Academic Conferences and Presentations

  • “Hannah Arendt, Statelessness, and Her Two Reading Publics.” To be delivered at the annual convention of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), UCLA, 29 March to 1 April 2018.
  • “The Anecdote of the Jar.” Conference in Honor of Ulla Haselstein: "Exemplary Singularity: Fault Lines of the Anecdotal." John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin, 1-3 February 2018.
  • “Refugee Blues: Hannah Arendt and the Problem of Statelessness.” Delivered to the symposium Women in U.S.‑American Politics, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 25-27 September 2017.
  • “Generating Value: Ezra Pound and the (Other) Modernist Lyric (Conrad Aiken),” DGfA (German Association of American Studies) annual convention, 9 June 2017.
  • “Pastoral Conservatism and the Liberal Aesthetic,” presented to the Cultures of US-American Conservatism conference, University of Göttingen, 12 February 2017.
  • “Liberal Cosmopolitanism: Free Trade, the Marketplace of Ideas, and Emerson's Relation to Germany,“ presented to the Cosmopolitanism Ringvorlesung, University of Potsdam, 10 Nov. 2016.
  • Antrittsvorlesung: “Debt, Innovation, and the Aesthetic of Austerity,” Aula, Wilhelmsplatz, University of Göttingen, 19 October 2016.
  • “The Encumbrance of the New: Debt, Innovation, and the Aesthetics of Austerity.” Symposium: The Aesthetics of the New, John F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin, 28-29 October 2016.
  • Invited Keynote, conference "Entangled Memories: Remembering the Holocaust in a Global Age, University of Hamburg, 9-11 October, 2014.
  • Invited Paper at the conference Searching for Culture, to be held at the Arts Centre of Placky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 16-17 October 2014.
  • “Joel Barlow and James Leander Cathcart: Barbary Captivity and Waging War for Peace.” Presented to the biennial convention of the European Association of American Studies (EAAS), The Hague, 3-6 April, 2014.
  • “Detective Fiction, Counterfactuals, and the Holocaust: Altering History for Memory’s Sake.” Presented at Touro College Berlin, 25 October 2013.
  • “Pound, Peripatetic Verse, and the Postwar Liberal Aesthetic,” presented to The Art of Walking: Pedestrian Mobility in Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts from the 18th Century to the 21st, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 9-11 October 2013.
  • “Commerce and Conversion: The Clash of Civilizations in Barbary Captivity Narratives.” American literature colloquium at FAU Erlangen, 5 February 2013.
  • “Literature of the Barbary Wars: Commerce, Piety, and the Apostasy of Race.” Presented to the Amerika-Institut of the LMU München, 17 January 2012.
  • “Idylls of the Apocalypse: Goldwater and the Conservative Revolution of the 1960s.” Ringvorlesung The Sixties—America’s Longest Decade, at the John F. Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin, 12 December 2012.
  • “Goldwater in Phoenix: How Popular Conservatism Rose from the Ashes of an Unsuccessful Presidential Campaign.” Conference "Electoral Cultures: American Democracy and Choice," Amerika Haus Munich, 1-4 November 2012
  • “Post-War American Poetry.” Invited lecture, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, 5 July 2012.
  • “Commerce and Conversion: The Clash of Civilizations in Barbary Captivity Narratives.” American literature colloquium at FAU Erlangen, 5 February 2013.
  • “Literature of the Barbary Wars: Commerce, Piety, and the Apostasy of Race.” Amerika-Institut of the LMU München, 17 January 2012.
  • “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and 9/11.” U.S. State Department Sponsored Guest Lecture, Universität Saarbrücken. 12 January 2012.
  • “Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union: Violence, Detection, and the Politics of Memory after 9/11.” John F. Kennedy Institute Lecture Series: 9/11 and its Consequences. 16 November 2011.
  • “Auden’s Sense of History,” keynote address, conference Literary Dimensions: Reading Time and Space, at the Maria Curie Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland, 22-24 September 2011.
  • “What Chabon Remembers: Terrorism, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, and Jews without Ethnicity,” conference "9/11—Ten years Later, Looking Ahead," University of Bonn, 8-11 September 2011.
  • “Feast and Famine in Early Accounts of Thanksgiving,” International Club of the Freie Universität Berlin, FU Clubhouse, 24 November 2010.
  • “Youth and the Young Nation in Thomas Paine,” Conference of the European Association of American Studies, Dublin, 26-29 March, 2010.
  • “The Sin Prior to Lowell’s Confession: Poetry Leading to Life Studies,” English and American literature department, University of Paderborn, 8 December 2010.

Conference Organization, Panel Chairs, Interviews (selection)

  • Co-Organizer of conference "Contemporary Poetics, Communities, and Publics" (Inaugural European Association of American Studies Poetry Network Symposium), University of Göttingen, May 16-17, 2025
  • Co-Organizer of conference "Rethinking Cold War Literary Culture", University of Göttingen, July 4-6, 2024
  • Co-Organizer of conference, "Cultures of US-American Conservatism", University of Göttingen, 9-12 February 2017
  • Co-Organizer of the international conference "Surveillance | Society | Culture," University of Göttingen, 26-28 February 2016 (with Florian Zappe). Introduction and paper on "Representations of Surveillance in the Twitter-Novella Black Box."
  • Introduction/Moderation: Gary Shteyngart’s reading from his memoir Little Failure, at the Literarisches Zentrum Göttingen, 30. Sep. 2015.
  • Panel Chair with Dustin Breitenwischer, “The Campus Novel,” at the DGfA annual convention in Bonn, 29-31 May, 2015.
  • Interview with and Introduction to the readings of authors Rivka Galchen and Joseph O’Neill, at the DGfA annual convention in Bonn, 29-31 May, 2015.
  • Panel chair with Karin Höpker: “Scrap, Spam, Bit Rot: the Politics and Poetics of Digital Detritus,” at the DGfA annual convention in Würzburg, 12-15 June 2014.
  • Panel Chair: “Conservative Pastoralism and the Provincial Ideal in the Cold War,” at the DGfA annual convention in Erlangen, 30 May to 2 June 2013. My own paper was called, “Conservative Pastoralism and the Liberal Aesthetic.”
  • Panel Chair, American Lives, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien, 31 May-3 June 2012: “Faking It: The End of History and the Rise of Memory, Identity, and Personality.” Paper delivered: “Conservatism and the Populist Self: Chambers, Nixon, Wills.”
  • Introduction/Moderation, a reading by the American author Lev Raphael, sponsored by the US Embassy at the Jewish Museum Berlin, 3 November, 2010.
  • Panel Chair, Young Americans in Literature of the Early Republic. The European Association of American Studies, Dublin, 26-29 March, 2010.
  • Respondent, Representations of the Holocaust in a Transnational Context, MLA Annual Convention, Los Angeles, CA, 6-9 January, 2011.
  • Panel Chair, The World is Not Enough: International Scholarship in the Field of American Studies, at the American Studies Association, Washington DC, 5-8 November, 2009.
  • Panel Chair, “Literary Negotiations of Change,” at the Conference of the Second Cohort of the Graduate School of North American Studies, John F. Kennedy Institute, 10-11 July, 2009.
  • Panel Chair, The World is Not Enough: International Scholarship in the Field of American Studies, at the American Studies Association, Washington DC, 5-8 November, 2009.
  • Panel Chair, “Literary Negotiations of Change,” at the Conference of the Second Cohort of the Graduate School of North American Studies, John F. Kennedy Institute, 10-11 July, 2009.