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Books & Journal Issues
2013–2009
2013
From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. Updated paperback 2015. Ed. with Jan-Noël Thon
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Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. (ed. with Shane Denson and Christina Meyer).
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2011
American Comic Books and Graphic Novels Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies 56.4 (2011). Ed. with Christina Meyer and Micha Edlich.
2009
Comics: Zur Geschichte und Theorie eines populärkulturellen Mediums. Bielefeld: transcript, 2009. Ed. with Stephan Ditschke and Katerina Kroucheva.
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Journal Articles and Book Chapters
2018–2009
2018
“Unzuverlässiges Erzählen in Superheldencomics.” Comics: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven aus Theorie und Praxis auf ein Stiefkind der Medienpädagogik. Ed. Christine Dallmann, Anja Hartung-Griemberg, Alfons Aigner, and Kai-Thorsten Buchele. Munich: Kopaed, 2018. 25-37.
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“Bodies in Transition: Queering the Comic Book Superhero.” Queer(ing) Popular Culture. Ed. Sebastian Zilles. Special Issue of Navigationen 18.1: (2018): 15-38.
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“Can Superhero Comics Studies Develop a Method? And What Does American Studies Have to Do with It?” Projecting American Studies: Essays on Theory, Method, and Practice. Ed. Frank Kelleter and Alexander Starre. Heidelberg: Winter, 2018. 259-271
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2016
“Zu den Potentialen einer kulturwissenschaftlichen grafischen Literaturwissenschaft: Ein Analysevorschlag am Beispiel von Jeremy Loves Graphic Novel Bayou.” Closure: Kieler e-Journal für Comicforschung 3 (2016): 4-22.
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“Mummified Objects: Superhero Comics in the Digital Age.” Materiality and Mediality of Contemporary Comics. Ed. Jan-Noël Thon and Lukas Wilde. Special Issue of Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 7.3 (2016): 283-292.
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2015
“Adapting Melville: Bill Sienkiewicz’s Moby-Dick.” Übersetzungen und Adaptionen von Comics. Ed. Nicole Mälzer. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2015. 177-97.
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2014
“Popular Seriality, Authorship, Superhero Comics: On the Evolution of a Transnational Genre Economy.” Media Economies: Perspectives on American Cultural Practices. Ed. Marcel Hartwig, Evelyne Keitel, and Gunter Süß. Trier: WVT, 2014. 133-57.
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2013
“Superhero Comics and the Authorizing Functions of the Comic Book Paratext.” From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels: Contributions to the Theory and History of Graphic Narrative. Ed. Daniel Stein and Jan-Noël Thon. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013. 155-89.
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“Of Transcreations and Transpacific Adaptations: Investigating Manga Versions of Spider-Man.” Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads. Ed. Shane Denson, Christina Meyer, and Daniel Stein. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. 145-61.
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2012
“Spoofin’ Spidey—Rebooting the Bat: Immersive Story Worlds and the Narrative Complexities of Video Spoofs in the Era of the Superhero Blockbuster.” Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake|Remodel. Ed. Kathleen Loock and Constantine Verevis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 231-47.
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“The Black Politics of Newspaper Comic Strips: Teaching Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks and Keith Knight’s The K Chronicles.” Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives: Essays on Theory, Strategy and Practice. Ed. Lan Dong. Jefferson: McFarland, 2012. 26-39.
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“Autorisierungspraktiken seriellen Erzählens: Zur Gattungsentwicklung von Superheldencomics.” Populäre Serialität: Narration–Evolution–Distinktion. Zum seriellen Erzählen seit dem 19. Jahrhundert. Ed. Frank Kelleter. Bielefeld: transcript, 2012. 259-90. (co-written with Frank Kelleter)
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“The Comic Modernism of George Herriman.” Crossing Boundaries in Graphic Narrative: Essays on Forms, Series and Genres. Ed. Jake Jakaitis and James F. Wurtz. Jefferson: McFarland, 2012. 40-70.
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2009
“Great, Mad, New: Populärkultur, serielle Ästhetik und der frühe amerikanische Zeitungscomic.” Comics: Zur Geschichte und Theorie eines populärkulturellen Mediums. Ed. Stephan Ditschke, Katerina Kroucheva, and Daniel Stein. Bielefeld: transcript, 2009. 81-117. (co-written with Frank Kelleter)
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“Was ist ein Comic-Autor? Autorinszenierung in autobiografischen Comics und Selbstporträts.” Comics: Zur Geschichte und Theorie eines populärkulturellen Mediums. Ed. Stephan Ditschke, Katerina Kroucheva, and Daniel Stein. Bielefeld: transcript, 2009. 201-37.
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