Publications & Papers

Unpublished papers are available for PDF download and/or viewer reading through links to their pages at academia.edu, while published works are linked to the journal or popular online bookstore.  Creative, edited and collaborative works are linked to their appropriate publisher and/or description page.

Publications (Academic)

•  “Review of the Student Performance of Peter Weiss’ ‘Marat/Sade’” Communications from the International Brecht Society 41, 2012. 90-92.

•  “The Compensation of Thialfi and Roskva: A Myth of Child Exposure” In Leshyn, Victoria and Evan Torner, eds. Myth: German and Scandinavian Studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 77-88.

Unpublished Papers (Academic)

• The Conceptual Metaphor of Modernism “Hunger is Despair” in the Kino-Debatten, F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, and Kafka’s Ein Hungerkünstler (2012)

• Ein Krimi in Frankfurt: Using Technology to Enhance Storyline Approach in Intermediate German Foreign Language Instruction (2012)

• Critical Responses to Articles on Language and Ideology (Geertz, Williams, Marx, Benjamin and Chandler), Illness and Identity (Freud, Kristeva, Spivak, Mani, Mohanty, Foucault, Bronfen, Tapia, Lutz, Renan and Anderson) (2010)

• Schleiermacher: A Summary of Über die Religion and Briefe Bei Gelegenheit With an Analysis of his Metaphorical Representation of Judaism (2009)

• “The Outhouse from Hell: Negotiating the Norwegian-Icelandic Political Tensions by Punishing the Pagan Hero in Þorsteins þáttr skelks” (2008)

• Stylized Symptoms: National Trauma in the Magical Realism of Gunther Grass’ Blechtrommel and the Modern Horror Film Cloverfield (2008)

• Christian Thomasius’ “Über die Folter”: An early argument against the efficacy of torture and for the rights of the accused (2006)

• Modifying the Dialectics Model: The Productive Negation of Synthesis in the Writing of Heinrich Heine and Søren Kierkegaard (2005)

• Keeping It Real – the Poetic and Political Insight of Heine and Brecht (2004)

• Untersuchung zu den Problemen von Konvention und Intention in der Sprechakttheorie von J.L. Austin und H.P. Grice (1997)