Publications

Monograph

Interracial Family Memoirs: Claiming Genealogies across the Color Line. Wayne State University Press. African American Life Series. (Under contract)

With Fenja Heisig and Debora Stanca. Literary Property in America: Claims, Creativity, Copyright. (in preparation)
With Andrew Bricker and Elise Wang: Locating the Place of Race in Law and Literature. Special Issue of the European Journal of English Studies (EJES), vol. 29, no. 1, 2025.
With Heike Paul and Boris Vormann, eds. Common Grounds? American Democracy after Trump. Special Issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies, vol. 66, no. 1, 2021.
With Paula von Gleich, Stephen Koetzing, Samira Spatzek, and Gesine Wegner, eds. Interrogating White Supremacy in the United States and Beyond. Special Issue of COPAS, vol. 20, no. 2, 2019.
With Monika Sauter and Stephen Koetzing, ed. COPAS: Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, 2014.

“The Transnational Dimensions of Anti-Black Policing and Black Resistance: An Interview with Vanessa E. Thompson.” American Democracy after Trump. Special Issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies, vol. 66, no. 1, 2021, pp. 241-46.
“The Parent as Citizen: Jane Lazarre's Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons.” Storied Citizenship: Imagining the Citizen in North American Literature. Special Issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies, vol. 65, no. 4, 2020, pp. 491-510.
“Queer Genealogies across the Color Line and into Children’s Literature: Autobiographical Picture Books, Interraciality, and Gay Family Formation.” Genealogy and Multiracial Family Histories, Special Issue of Genealogy vol. 43, no. 2, 2018, pp. 1-20.
“‘Mama’s Baby, Papa’s, Too’: Toward Critical Mixed Race Studies.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, vol. 65, no. 2, 2017, pp. 161-72.

“Critical Race Theory und Intersektionalität.” Handbuch Rassismus in den USA. Edited by Silvan Niedermeier. Narr, 2025. pp. 37-47.
“Der Fall Patricia J. Williams: Critical Race Theory als vermittelnde Hermeneutik zwischen Recht und Literatur.” Rechtsnorm und äesthetische Reflexion. Edited by Gideon Stiening. De Gruyter, 2024. Law and Literature Series. pp. 197-216.
“Queer Futurity.” Futures: A Critical Vocabulary. Edited by Heike Paul et al. Palgrave, 2019. pp. 253-59.
“Return to Which Roots? Interracial Documemoirs by Macky Alston, Eliachi Kimaro, and Mo Asumang.” Moving and Migrating the Black Body in Visual Culture. Edited by Leigh Raiford and Heike Raphael-Hernandez. U of Washington P, 2017, pp. 170-83.
“Transnational Affiliations in the Mixed Race Memoir: Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father." American Lives. Edited by Alfred Hornung. Heidelberg UP Winter, 2013, pp. 261-81.
“Black Like Who? Weiße Autoren und ethnische Minderheiten.” Anglophone Literaturdidaktik: Zukunftsperspektiven für den Englischunterricht. Edited by Julia Hammer, Maria Eisenmann, and Rüdiger Ahrens. Heidelberg UP Winter, 2012, pp. 161-76.

With Stefanie Schäfer: "Gone with the Wind vs. The Wind Done Gone: The Demolition of an American Classic.” The Transatlanticist: Lady Fiction Series #15, Amerikazentrum Hamburg, 2022.
“Black Lives Matter: Wieviel zählt Schwarzes Leben?” Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Series: USA 2020.

Rev. of Un/German: Racialized Otherness in Post-Cold War Europe, by Fatima El-Tayeb. Central European History, vol. 59, no. 3, 2026, pp. 1-3.
Rev. of Black Mixed-Race Men: Transatlanticity, Hybridity and ‘Post-Racial’ Resilience, by Remi Joseph-Salisbury. Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies vol. 2, no. 1, 2022.
Rev. of Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism, by Habiba Ibrahim. Amerikastudien/American Studies vol. 63, no. 1, 2018, pp. 24-27.