04.2000 - 09.2022       

Full Professor American Studies University of Cologne

10.1998      

Full Professor American Studies Universität of Hannover

04.1996 - 10.1998    

Professor of American Literature University of Bielefeld

1995        

Lecturer University of Aachen

04.1994 - 09.1994    

‘Visiting Scholar’ University of California, Berkeley

1992 - 1994    

Lecturer University of Aachen

04.1987 - 03.1992    

Lecturer University of Aachen

08.1985 - 03.1987  

Assistant University of Aachen

01.1981 - 07.1984    

Student Assistant University of Aachen

1976 - 1979     

Study of English/American Literature and Art History at the University of  Aachen.

08.1979 - 05.1980     

DAAD Grant University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

05.1984    

MA in American Literature, Linguistics and Art History.

09.1984 - 06.1985    

DAAD Grant Brown University, Providence.

12.1989    

Ph.D.: The Language of the Self and the Language of Society in the Works of Thomas Pynchon, (summa cum laude). Published as: Pynchon's Poetics: Interfacing Theory and Text.

09.1992 - 08.1994     

Grant to write the „Habilitation“ DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
 
05.1996    

"Habilitation" Title: Moebius-Strips and Time-Loops: Topological and Temporal Metaphors in 20th Century American Literature and Culture.

1979-80        DAAD Grant University of Michigan

1984-85        DAAD Grant Brown University

1992-94        DFG Research Grant

1993             ‘Borchers-Plakette’ University of Aachen

• modern and postmodern american literature and culture
• poststructuralism
• semiotics
• film studies
• hypermedia
• literature and science
• psychoanalysis
• chicano|a culture[s]
   
• current projects:
  • topology and literature
  • trauma studies
  • literature and deleuze
  • the hollow earth

Books

Pynchon's Poetics: Interfacing Theory and Text, University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Lines of Desire: Reading Gombrowicz's Fiction with Lacan, Northwestern University Press, 1998.

In manuscript:

Crystal Philosophy | Crystal Science: Radical Constructivism and the Deleuzian Event.

Editorship

with B. Herzogenrath: Near Encounters: Festschrift for Richard Martin, Peter Lang, 1995.

with D. Buchwald und H. Volkening: Grenzüberschreibungen: Feminismus und Cultural Studies, Aisthesis, Bielefeld, 2001.

with D. Buchwald: Chaos-Control / Complexity:’ Chaos Theory and the Human Sciences. Special Issue: American Studies, 2000.

with D. Buchwald and P. Hofmann: Chaos-Control / Complexity:’ Chaos Theory and the Human Sciences. Lit, Hamburg, 2002.

with Leyla Haferkamp: Deleuzian Events: Writing | History. Proceedings of: Deleuzian Events: Writing | History, University of Cologne, 2005. LIT, 2006

with John Krafft & Leyla Haferkamp: Pynchon | Germany: “Site Specific: From Aachen to Zwölfkinder proceedings of: Pynchon | Germany: “Site Specific: From Aachen to Zwölfkinder” University of Cologne, 2002, special edition of: Pynchon Notes

with U. Schwagmeier and M. Bucher: ‘The Hollow Earth as Concept and Conceit; Lit, 2012.

Articles

1. ‘Godolphin - Good ol’ Pym: A question of Integra¬tion,’ Pynchon Notes, 10, 1982, 3-17.

2. ‘A short Note on Pynchon's Sources for „The Firm,“’ Pynchon Notes, 15, 1984, 7-9.

3. From the Canvas to the Page: Rhetorical Movements in the Discourse on Art,’ Subjects/Objects, 3, Brown Univer¬sity Publication, Providence, 1985, 115-131.

4.‘Even Signs must Burn: Jean Baudrillard and the Re-Emer¬gence of the Object,’ Subjects/Objects, 4, Brown Univer¬sity Publication, Providence, 1986, 72-87.

5. ‘V in Love: From the 'Other Scene' to the 'New Scene',’ Pynchon Notes, 18-19, 1986, 5-28.

6. ‘Foe: The Corruption of Words,’ Matatu: Zeitschrift für Afrikanische Kultur, University of Göttingen, 3/4 (special issue: Towards Liberation: Culture and Resistance in South Africa), 1988, 222-235.

7. ‘Digging for the Truth: Archaeology and the End of His¬tory,’ Proceedings of the XIth Annual Conference on Common¬wealth Litera¬ture and Language Studies in German Speaking Countries, 1988, 117-131.

8. ‘Christine Brooke-Rose: Thru the Looking Glass,’ Review of Contemporary Fiction, 9/3, 1989, 128-133.

9. ‘The Letter! The Litter! The Defilements of the Signifier in Finnegans Wake,’ European Joyce Studies Annual, 2, 1990, 139-164.

10. ‘Marcel Duchamp: (P)Rrose Selavy,’ Amerikastudien, 2, 1990, 151-161.

11. ‘Witold Gombrowicz: Cosmos: The Case of the Hanged Sparrow,’ Polish Review, 1, 1991, 145-159.

12. ‘The City as Text: Some Aspects of New York in Contemporary Art and Fiction,’ Amerikastudien, 37, 1, 1992, 107-121. A shortened version appeared as ‘Stadtraum im zeitgenössischen amerikanischen Roman,’ in D. Machule, O Mischer & A Sywottek eds., Macht Stadt krank? Vom Umgang mit Gesundheit und Krankheit, Dölling & Galitz, Hamburg, 1996, 308-314.

13. ‘Het decoderen van de reele text. Beschrijvingen van 'the zone' in Gravitys Rainbow en Europa,’ Yang, 28, 1, 1992, 82-90.

14. ‘Decoding the Real Text: Writing Postmodern Spaces in Gravity's Rainbow,’ Publikationen des Kennedyinstitut, Berlin, 1992.

15. ‘Written in Stone: The City as Symptom,’ Amerikastudien, 37, 3, 1992, 415-436.

16. ‘...die entbrannten Degenspitzen von mächt’gen Gegnern: Witold Gombrowiczs Lectura Dantis,’ Arcadia, 28, 3/4, 1993, 47-64. Translated into Polish as: “…krwi zlaknione ostrza / Poteznych wrogow”, Witold Gombrowicza Lectura Dantis in:  “Patagonczyk W Berlinie: Witold Gombrowicz W Oczach Krytyki Niemieckiej, ed. Marek Zybura, polonica leguntur, Kracow, 2004, 295-315.

17. ‘Forward Retreat: Historiography in Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland,’ in B. Engler & K. Müller eds. Historiographic Metafiction in Modern American and Canadian Literature, Schöningh, 1994, 357-371.

18. ‘Strangely Attractive: The Topology of Social and Psychic Space in Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland,’ Pynchon Notes, 1994, 37-55.

19. ‘The Visual and the Gaze in the Works of Witold Gombrowicz: The 'Evil Eye' of Painting,’ in R. Feldstein ed. Reading Seminar XI: Lacan’s Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, SUNY Press, Albany, 1995, 175-182.

20. ‘Christine Brooke-Rose: Thru: Journey into the Universe of Discourse II,’ in E.G. Friedman & R. Martin Eds., Utterly Other Discourse: The Texts of Christine Brooke-Rose, Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, 1995, 104-116.
21. ‘Außer Rand und Band: Das Subjekt der Kunstwissenschaft,’ in Heinz Herbert Mann & Peter Gerlach Eds., Regel und Ausnahme: Festschrift für Hans Holländer, Thouet, Aachen, 1995, 245-262.

22. ‘Equal, That Is, To the Real Itself: Charles Olson's Moebial Poetics,’ in: H-J. Berressem & B. Herzogenrath Eds. Near Encounters: Festschrift für Richard Martin, Lang, 1995, 6-26.

23. ‘Unterwegs im Docuversum: Zur Topologie des Hypertext,’ in M. Klepper, R. Mayer & E-P. Schneck Eds., Hyperkultur: Zur Fiktion des Computerzeitalters, de Gruyter, Berlin, 1996, 108-129. An English version was published as ‘Negotiating the Universe of Information: The Topology of Hypertext,’ Amerikastudien, 41/3, 1996, 397-415.

24. ‘One Surface Fits All: Texts, Images and the Topology of Hypermedia,’ Proceedings of the Word and Image Conference 1996, Dublin.

25. ‘Twisting and Turning: The Subject of Literary Studies,’ Literature and Psychology, 42, 1-2, 1996, 18-40.

26. ‘Dali and Lacan: Painting the Imaginary Landscapes,’ in W. Apollon & R. Feldstein Eds., Jacques Lacan: Literature, Aesthetics, Politics, SUNY Press, Albany, 1996, 263-293.

27. ‘Architexturen: Überlegungen zu einer Topologie der Torsion,’ Kasseler Philosophische Schriften, 1997, 51-79.

28. ‘Emotions Flattened and Scattered: Borderline Syndromes and Multiple Personality Disorders in Postmodern Literature,’ in: G Hoffmann & A. Hornung Eds., Emotions in Postmodern Literature, C. Winter, Heidelberg, 1997, 271-307

29. ‘The Laws of Deviation:’ Physical and Psychic Aberrations in the Novels of Witold Gombrowicz,  Gombrowicz’s Grimaces, Ewa Ziarek ed. SUNY Press, 1997, 89-131.

30. ‘Elvis and El-Vez: Regionalizing the Global, Globalizing the Regional,’ L. Hönnighausen ed., Proceedings of the Regionalism Conference, Bonn 1997.

31. ‘Structural Stability and Morphogenesis: Herman Melville’s 'Bartleby, the Scrivener,'’ ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1998, 1/1, 13-27.

32. ‘Premeditated Crimes: The Dis-Solution of the Detective Novel in the Works of Witold Gombrowicz,’ in: Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism: Patricia Merivale & Susan Elisabeth Sweeney eds., U of Pennsylvania P., Philadelphia, 1999, 231-246.

33. ‘EUROpäische Literatur: Literatur - Europa - Hypertext,’ in: Contemporary EuropeanLiterature Lang, Frankfurt a.M., H. Felten & David Nelting (eds.), 1999.

34. „Tristes Traumatiques:’ Trauma in the Zone(s)“ Pynchon Notes, 1999.

35. ‘DeNarration:’ Literature at the End of the Millennium, Collection, A. Hornung ed., 1999.

36. ‘Draw the Line, Hit the Spot:’ Cultural Inscriptions, Traumatic Wounds and the Multiplexity of Matter in Mason & Dixon. Aufsatzsammlung. N. Abbas, J. Krafft, B. Tufoil Hrsg. 1999

37. ‘Body - Wound - Writing,’ Amerikastudien / American Studies, Gasthrsg. M. Klarer, 1999.

38. ‘Negrophobia!?:’ Abjection in Darius James’ Negrophobia. In Cultural Encounters: American Studies in the Age of Multiculturalism Mario Klarer & Sonja Bahn (eds.), Stauffenberg Verlag. Tübingen, 2000.

39. „Introduction: Conoisseurs of Chaos:“ in: Chaos-Control / Complexity:’ Chaos Theory and the Human Sciences. Special Issue: American Studies, 2000.!!

40. „data dance“ in: Chaos-Control / Complexity:’ Chaos Theory and the Human Sciences. Lit, Hamburg, 2002. 7-42.

41. „matter that bodies“ www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de/mediating/btm/btm.html

42. “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale”: Memory in the Age of Virtualization. In: Sites of Memory in American Literatures and Cultures Udo Hebel Hrsg. Winter, Heidelberg. 2003, 341-368.

43. "Sailing with Serres, Deleuze and Guattari: Writing Nautical Space." The Sea and the American Imagination. Klaus Benesch, Jon-K Adams und Kerstin Schmidt Hrsgs. (Transatlantic Perspectives 16). Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2004. 215-251.

44. „'To Make Sense of a Random Act of Violence': Tyche, Automaton, and Trauma in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker.“ Amerikastudien 45, 55-72.

45. „Of Metal Ducks, Embodied Idorus and Autopoietic Bridges:” Tales of an Intelligent Materialism in the Age of Artificial Life.“ In: Science, Technology, and the Humanities in Recent American Fiction. Peter Freese & Charles B. Harris. Hrsgs Essen: Die Blaue Eule, 2003. S. 61-103. Also published in: The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction, P. Freese & Ch. Harris eds., Dalkey Archive Press, Illinois, 2004, 72-99.

46. Crash: „... at an indeterminate moment, in indeterminate places...:“ in: Iconographies of Power: The Politics and Poetics of Visual Representation. Hrsg. Ulla Haselstein, Bernd Ostendorf und Peter Schneck. Winter. Heidelberg. 2003, 237-268

47. „Draw the Line, Hit the Spot:“ iscrizioni culturali, ferite traumatiche e la multiplessità della materia in „Mason & Dixon“ In: La dissoluzione onesta: Scritti su Thomas Pynchon. G. Alfano & M. Carratello Hrsgs. Cronopio, Napoli, 2003. 153-187.

48. Emergent Eco:logics: Cultural and Natural Environments in Recent Theory and Literature, in: Space – Place – Environment Lothar Hoennighausen & Julia Apitzsch Stauffenberg Verlag, 2004, 42-61.

49. “Multiplicity: Foldings in Architectural and Literary Landscapes“, in: Space in America: Theory History Culture, Klaus Benesch & Kerstin Schmidt eds. Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2005, 91-105.

50. Poetopologie: faltenraum, transversale maschinen und die poetik ‘emergenter texte’ / poetopology: folded space, transversal machines, and the poetics of ‘emergent text.’ In: P0esis. Aesthetik digitaler Poesis/The Aestheitcs of Digital Poetry ed. Friedrich W. Block, Christiane Heibach & Karin Wenz, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2004, 123-131.

51. “’Incerto tempore, Incertisque Locis:’ The Logic of the Clinamen and the Birth of Physics,” in: Mapping Michel Serres, ed. Niran Abbas, U of Michigan P., Ann Arbor, 2005, 51-71.

52. “n-1 sexes” in: rhizomes 11, www.rhizomes.net/test_files/issue11.html

53. “is it possible not to love zizek?” on slavoj zizek’s missed encounter with deleuze.” in ebr. (electronic book review), www.electronicbookreview.com.

54. „Affektionen und Affekte: mit Freud und Deleuze im Melodrama.“ Psyche im Kino: Sigmunfd Freud und der Film T. Ballhausen, G. Krenn, L. Marinelli Hgs., filmarchiv austria, Wien. 2006, 97-135.

55. „Fluchtlinien: Deleuze liest Gombrowicz.“ In: Gombrowicz in Europa: Deutsch-polnische Versuche einer kulturellen Verortung, A. Lawaty & M Zybura eds., Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006, 224-252.

56. „not even forgotten:“ trauma and electricity . The Body as Interface: Dialogues between the Disciplines  Sabine Sielke & Elisabeth Schaefer-Wuensche eds., Winter, Heidelberg, 2007, 175-196.

57. “’Gombrowicz reads Borges,’ Or: Writing vs. Walking.”  In: Wolfram Nitsch/Matei Chihaia/Alejandra Torres (Hrsg.), Ficciones de los medios en la periferia. Técnicas de comunicación en la ficción hispanoamericana moderna, Köln, Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, 2008 (Kölner elektronische Schriftenreihe, 1), pp. 245-255.

58. „on the matter of abjection“ in: Monika Mueller & Connie Kutzbach eds., The Abject of Desire: The Aestheticization of the Unaesthetic in Contemporary Literature and Culture, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2007, 19-48.

59. “Ecologics|Ecosophy: The Event of the City.” In Historians and Nature: Comparativ Approaches to Environmental History. U. Lehmkuhl & H. Wellenreuther eds., Berg, Oxford, 2007, 45-67. Expanded translation “Oekologie|Oekographie: Das Ereignis der Stadt,” Clios Natur: Vergleichende Aspekte der Umweltgeschichte. Norbert Finzsch ed., Lit, Berlin 2008, 8-41.

60. With Norbert Finzsch: “Historiographic Metafiction - Metafictional Historiography: The Mason & Dixon Project.” Thomas  H. Schaub ed., MLA Publication, New York, 2008, 121-129.

61. „structural couplings: radical constructivism and a deleuzian ecologics.“ In:  Bernd Herzogenrath ed., 2008. Deleuze/Guattari &Ecology, Palgrave,   

62. „unsichtbar werden: die mathematik des verschwindens bei gilles deleuze.“ In: Die Poetiken des Verschwindens. Koenigshausen & Neumann, Koeln, 2008, 61-71.

63. “the habit of saying I:” eigenvalues and resonances,“ In: Scientific Cultures – Technological Challenges. A Transatlantic Perspective K. Benesch & M. Zwingenberger eds. Heidelberg: Winter, 2009.

64. “Father, don’t you see I’m writing?” Authenticity, Pathos and Eigenvalue in Bret Easton Ellis’ Lunar Park: U. Haselstein, A. Gross und M-A. Snyder-Körber: The Pathos of Authenticity. American Literary Imaginations of the Real (Heidelberg: Winter, 2010).

65. "‘Vectors and [Eigen]Values:’ The Mathematics of Movement in Against the Day." S. Pöhlmann (ed.): Against the Grain: Reading Pynchon’s Counternarratives. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2010, 349-368.

66. "Actual Image | Virtual Cut: Schizoanalysis and Montage." Deleuze Studies 5(2): (Jul 2011): 177-208.

67. "Was ist Philosophie? Gilles Deleuze: Was ist Kino? Werner Herzog." Friedrich Balke & Marc Rölli (eds.): Philosophie und Nicht-Philosophie: Gilles Deleuze – Aktuelle Diskussionen. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2011, 131-156.

68. "Störfall – Bitte nicht stören!." Andreas Speer, Sabine Folger-Fonfara & Artemis Klidis-Honecker (eds.): Rezeption: a.r.t.e.s. Jahrbuch 2010/11 (2011): 84-93.

69. "Crystal History: 'You Pick Up the Pieces. You Connect the Dots'." Bernd Herzogenrath (ed.): Time and History in Deleuze and Serres. London: Continuum, 2011, 225-254.

70. “Kristalle: Gattung und Ausdruck in medientheoretischer Sicht, in: Oliver Kohns u. Claudia Liebrand, eds, Gattung und Geschichte: Literatur- und medienwissenschaftliche Ansätze zu einer neuen Gattungstheorie, transcript, Bielefeld, 2012, 333-357.

71. “’Brat Pack’ Transatlantisch” in: Transatlantische Verwerfungen | Transatlantische Verdichtungen, G. Gerber, R. Leucht u. K. Wagner eds., Wallstein, 2012, 395-411.

72. “1.909.537 – Autokino” in: Kinematographische Räume: Installationsästhetik in Film und Kunst” U. Frohne u. Lilian Haberer eds., Fink, 2012, 297-321.

73. „Vater, siehst du nicht, dass ich schreibe?“ Väter löschen in Bret Easton Ellis’ Lunar Park.“ in: Medienbewegungen: Praktiken der Bezugnahme, L. Jäger, G. Fehrmann u. M, Adam eds., Fink, 2012, 137-162.

74. “Introduction: Latitudes and Longitudes” (with Michael Bucher) in: H. Berressem, M. Bucher u. U. Schwagmeier eds, Between Science and Fiction: The Hollow Earth as Concept and Conceit, Lit, 2012, v-xvii.

75. “Concave Conceits: The Hollow Earth in Poe, Rucker, and Pynchon”  in: H. Berressem, M. Bucher u. U. Schwagmeier eds, Between Science and Fiction: The Hollow Earth as Concept and Conceit, Lit, 2012, 265-312.

76. “Light, Camera, Action! The Luminous Worlds of Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze” in  J. Jagodzinski ed. Psychoanalyzing Cinema: A Productive Encounter with Lacan, Deleuze, and Zizek. Palgrave, 2012, 45-69.

77. “Coda: How to read Pynchon,” I. Daalsgaard, L. Herman & B McHale eds., The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon: 2012, 168-177.

78. “’Der Eigenname’: Eigenwert und Eigenbiographie” in: S. Börnchen, G. Mein, M. Roussel eds. Name,Ding, Referenzen. Fink, 2012, 131-150.

79. “The Surface of Sense and The Surface of Sensation: Topology in the Works of Mark Z. Danielewski” in: Only Revolutions, ed. Sascha Pöhlmann, 2012

80. “Räume aus Licht: Inland Empire” in: David Lynch, ed. Geisenhanslüke, transkript, 2012, 261-296.

81. “Außergewöhnliche Reisen. Ins Innere der Erde” & “San Francisco. Das Ende der Frontier.” In: “Weltnetzwerke – Weltspiele: Jules Vernes In 80 Tagen um die Welt” Passepartout (Hrsg.) Konstanz|University Press, 2013.

83. “Der Blitz der Philosophie:” In: Clemens E. Stepina (Hrsg.) Dunkelzonen und Lichtspiele: Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Lutz Ellrich Edition Art Science 297-321.

84. “Nichts ist unmöglich.“ In: R. Babel, N. Feßler, S. Fluhrer, S. Huber, S. Thede Hrsg., Alles Mögliche: Sprechen, Denken und Schreiben des (Un)Möglichen. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2013.

85. “Critical Matter: Diskussionen eines neuen Materialismus ” in: Tobias Goll, Daniel Keil & Thomas Telios, Edition Assemblage, 2014.

82. “Motel Architectures,” in: Ursula Frohne/ Lilian Haberer/ Annette Urban (Hg.), Display | Dispositiv. Ästhetische Ordnungen, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2014.

In print:

86. “The Transit of Venus” in: Venus as Muse, H. Berressem, G. Blamberger & S. Goth ed.

87. "Déjà-vu:" Serres after Latour, Deleuze after Harman, ‚nature writing’ after ‚network theory.' U. Reichardt ed. Mannheim, 2014

88. “Light” in: Critical Matter, B. Herzogenrath ed. Frankfurt, 2014.

89. “‘Life on the Beach:’ The Natural Elements in Thomas Pynchon’s California Trilogy,” in: Pynchon’s California, J. Miller ed., 2014.

90. „The Acedia Squad“: Thomas Pynchon, die Trägheit und die Medien.

91. “The Poetics of Patination in the Work of William Gibson”

92. "Response to Hubert Zapf". The Futures of American Studies in Germany. Eds. Winfried Fluck et al. Heidelberg: Winter. 2014 (im Druck).

Articles in Art Catalogues

‘Hier ist es so, wie es ist: Zu Werken von Paul Wans,’ Ausstellungskatalog, 1993.

‘Diffractors and Differentials: The Art of Fred Eerdekens,’ Ausstellungskatalog, 1994.

‘Agents in the Memory-Palace,’ Ausstellungskatalog: Someone Else with My Fingerprints, Sammlung Wilhelm Schürmann, 1996.

‘klebt überklebt: zu Bildern und Texten von Ursula Spinner-Cerutti,’ Ausstellungskatalog: 'Mitschriften,' 1997.

Entries in Works of Reference

Metzelers Philosophenlexikon: Felix Guattari.

Kindler Literaturlexikon: Gaston Bachelard, Jacques Lacan: Écrits, Jacques Lacan: Seminars, Julia Kristeva, Paul de Man, Paul Virilio.

Metzler Lexikon Literatur- und Kulturtheorie: Poststrukturalismus, Sublimierung, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Genotext-Phänotext, das Erhabene.

Reviews

The Vineland Papers: Critical Takes on Pynchon's Novel in: Pynchon Notes, 30-31, 1992.

Ulla Haselstein, Entziffernde Hermeneutik, in: Amerikastudien, 39/2, 1994, 305-7.

Joseph Tabbi, Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk, in: Amerikastudien, 41/3, 1996, 508-511.

Steffi Habermeier: Science, Gender, Text, in Amerikastudien, 1998.

Peter Freese: From Apocalypse to Entropy and Beyond, ZAA, 1998.

Moderne(n) der Jahrhundertwenden: Spuren der Moderne(n) in Kunst, Literatur und Philosophie auf dem Weg ins 21. Jahrhundert. Eds. Vittoria Borsò & Björn Goldammer. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. Baden-Baden.

Charles Clerc. Mason & Dixon & Pynchon University Press of America. New York. 2000. Brooke Horvath and Irving Malin eds. Pynchon and Mason & Dixon. University of Delaware Press, Newark. 2000.

Panel Organization

Together with K. Benesch: ‘Writing and Science,’ DGfA Conference, Freiburg, 1997.

‘Theorizing the Other: The 'Discontents' between Cultures,’ DGfA Conference, Berlin, 1992.

Conference Organization

"Contact Zones: Disability Studies meets Cultural Studies." University of Cologne, October 25-27, 2012.

"Venus as Muse: Figurations of the Creative." University of Cologne, January 9-12, 2012

"Deleuze Conference and Camp:" LegoDeleuze, Cologne, July 2008.

Deleuze2: “Deleuzian Events: Writing | History,” University of Cologne, July 2005.

Deleuze 1: “[n-1],” University of Cologne, July 1-3, 2004.

Pynchon | Germany: "Site Specific: From Aachen to Zwölfkinder." University of Cologne, July 4-6, 2002.

1day conference2: “Mattermorphosis: The Intelligent Materialism of Gilles Deleuze,” University of Cologne, June 7, 2002.

1day conference1: “The Currency of Fame is Data…” University of Cologne, January 11, 2002.

"Jumps, Fold(ing)s, Breaks: Topologies of the Millennium." University of Hannover, January 6-8, 2000.

"Chaos/Control: Complexity." University of Bielefeld, June 25-27 1998.