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“Genius and Bloodsucker: Napoleon, Goethe, and Caroline de la Motte Fouqué.” Goethe Yearbook 28 (2021), forthcoming.
“An Ingenious Tyrant: The Representation of Napoleon by German Women Writers.” Inspiration Bonaparte. Eds. Sean Allan and Jeffrey High, under consideration.
“Introduction,” co-author Katja Herges. Contested Selves: Life Writing and German Culture. Eds. Elisabeth Krimmer and Katja Herges. Rochester: Camden House, forthcoming.
“Ein anderes Höhlengleichnis.” https://exilpen.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Krimmer_-Decamerone_-Revised.pdf
“A Call for more Research on Women Authors of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Centuries.” The German Quarterly 93.2 (2020): 273-276.
“Royal Housewives and Female Tyrants: Gender and Sovereignty in Works by Benedikte Naubert and Luise Mühlbach.” Strategic Imaginations: Gender of Sovereignty. Ed. Anke Gilleir. Leuven: Leuven University Press, forthcoming.
“Introduction,” co-author Lauren Nossett. Writing the Self, Creating Community: German Women Authors and the Literary Sphere, 1750-1850, co-editor Lauren Nossett. Rochester: Camden House, 2020.
“To Err is Male: Bildung, Education, and Gender in Wilhelm Meister’s Lehrjahre.” Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Apprenticeship and Philosophy. Eds. Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge and Allen Speight. Oxford University Press, 2020.
“Strategic Optimism: Bertha von Suttner’s Activism for Peace.” Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership: From Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel. Eds. Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Simpson. Rochester: Camden House, 2019. 184-203.
“Introduction.” Realities and Fantasies of German Female Leadership: From Maria Antonia of Saxony to Angela Merkel. Eds. Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Simpson. Rochester: Camden House, 2019. 1-23.
“Glaube und Aberglaube: Heinrich von Kleists Hexen und Teufel.” Kleist Jahrbuch (2018): 149-164.
“The Female Front: The Image of the Nurse in World War I Literature and Culture.” Europe and the World: World War I as Crisis of Universalism. Eds. David Pan and Kai Evers. Candor: Telos Press, 2018.
“Cropped Vision: Photography and Complicity in Women’s World War Two Memoirs.” In Visualizing War: The Power of Emotions in Politics. Eds. Kathrin Maurer and Anders Engberg-Pedersen. New York: Routledge, 2017.
“Jewish Ears and Aryan Dirndls: National Socialist Racial Ideology and Jewish Identity.” Sentient Performativities of Embodiment: Thinking alongside the Human. Eds. Lynette Hunter, Elisabeth Krimmer, Peter Lichtenfels. New York: Lexington Books, 2016. 249-268.
“The Representation of Wartime Rape in Julia Franck’s Die Mittagsfrau and Jenny Erpenbeck’s Heimsuchung.” Gegenwartsliteratur 14 (2015): 35-60.
“Philomela’s Legacy: Rape, World War II, and the Ethics of Reading.” The German Quarterly 88.1 (2015): 82-103.
“Ecstasy and Pain: The Representation of War and Violence in Käthe Kollwitz’s Works,” Schmerz. Lust: Künstlerinnen und Autorinnen der deutschen Avantgarde. Eds. Anke Gilleir and Lorella Bosco. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2015. 79-105.
“Revelation in the Public Sphere: Violence and Religion in Heinrich von Kleist’s ‘Die heilige Cäcilie oder die Gewalt der Musik (Eine Legende).’” Seminar 50.3 (2014): 295-313.
“Afterword.” The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings. New York: Penguin, 2013. 240-250.
“‘Nun sag wie hast du’s mit der Religion’: Goethe, Religion, and Faust.” Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe. Co-Editor: Patricia Simpson. Rochester: Camden House, 2013.
“Introduction” with Patricia Simpson. Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe. Co-Editor: Patricia Simpson. Rochester: Camden House, 2012.
“Introduction: Enlightened War in Eighteenth-Century Germany” with Patricia Simpson. Enlightened War: Theories and Cultures of Warfare in Eighteenth Century Germany. Co-Editor: Patricia Simpson. Rochester: Camden House, 2011. 1-20.
“‘Schon wieder Krieg: Der Kluge hört’s nicht gern:’ Goethe, Warfare and Faust II.” Enlightened War: Theories and Cultures of Warfare in Eighteenth Century Germany. Eds. Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Simpson. Rochester: Camden House, 2011. 126-150.
“Between Terror and Transcendence: A Reading of Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas.” German Life and Letters 64.3 (2011): 405-420.
“God’s Warriors, Mercenaries, or Freedom Fighters? Politics, Warfare, and Religion in Friedrich Schiller’s Geschichte des Dreissigjährigen Kriegs.” Ed. Jeffrey High. Rochester: Camden House, 2011. 217-235.
“TV Nation: The Representation of Death in Warfare in Works by Peter Handke and Elfriede Jelinek.” Women and Death: Women’s Representation of Death in German Culture since 1500. Eds. Clare Bielby and Anna Richards. Rochester: Camden House, 2010. 174-192.
“More War Stories: Stalingrad (1993) and Der Untergang (2004).” The Collapse of the Conventional: German Film and its Politics at the Turn of the New Century. Eds. Jaimey Fisher and Brad Prager. Detroit: Wayne State Press, 2010. 81-108.
“A New Kind of Woman: The Feminization of the Soldier in Works by Remarque, Jünger, and Böll.” Edinburgh Yearbook. Eds. Sara Colvin and Peter Davies. Rochester: Camden House, 2008. 170-187.
“The Gender of Terror: War as (Im)Moral Institution in Kleist’s Hermannsschlacht and Penthesilea.” The German Quarterly 81.1 (2008): 67-86.
“A Portrait of War, a Grammar of Peace: Goethe, Laukhard, and the Campaign of 1792.” German Life and Letters LXI.1 (2008): 46-60.
“A Nation of Victims? Trauma and Narrative in Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum and Crabwalk,” Seminar 44.2 (2008): 272-290.
“Transcendental Soldiers: Warfare in Schiller’s Wallenstein and Die Jungfrau von Orleans.”Eighteenth-Century Fiction 19.1-2 (2008): 99-123.
“Abortive Bildung: Women Writers, Male Bonds, and Would-Be Fathers.” Challenging Separate Spheres: Female Bildung in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Germany. Ed. Marjanne Gooze. Bern: Peter Lang, 2007. 235-259.
“Eviva Il Cotello? Castrati in German Literature and Culture Around 1800.” PMLA 120.5 (2005): 1543-1559. Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. David J. Gramling. Layman Poupard Publishing.
“Female War Stories: Violence and Trauma in Works by Therese Huber and Caroline de la Motte-Fouque.” Internationales Jahrbuch der Bettina-von Arnim Gesellschaft 17 (2005): 123-135.
“German Women Writers and Classicism.” The Literature of Weimar Classicism. Ed. Simon Richer. Vol. 7 of Camden House History of German Literature. Rochester: Camden House. 2005. 237-264.
“Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: Bildung and Paternity in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship.” The German Quarterly 77.3 (2004): 257-277.
“Die allmähliche Verfertigung des Geschlechts beim Anziehen: Epistemologies of the Body in Kleist’s Die Familie Schroffenstein.” Body Dialectics in the Age of Goethe. Eds. Marianne Henn and Holger A. Pausch. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003. 347-364.
“Digging the Undead: Death and Desire in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Co-author: Shilpa Raval. Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Eds. David Lathery and Rhonda Wilcox. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. 153-164.
“A Garden of Her Own: Noble Savages and Superior Europeans in Sophie von La Roche’s Erscheinungen am See Oneida.” Harmony in Discord: German Women Writers in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Ed. Laura Martin. Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main, 2002. 21-43.
“A Spaniard in the Attic: The Texture of Gender in Friederike Helene Unger’s Rosalie und Nettchen.” Germans at their Best: Making Use of Material and Mass Popular Culture. Eds. John Plews and Chris Lorey. Special Issue of the Journal of Popular Culture 34.3 (2001): 209-227.
“Who Wants to Be a Man Anymore? Cross-Dressing in American Movies of the 90s.” Subverting Masculinity: Alternative and Hegemonic Versions of Masculinity in Contemporary Culture. Eds. Russo West and Frank Lay. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001. 29-43.
“Officer and Lady: Pants and Politics in Caroline de la Motte-Fouqué’s Das Heldenmädchen aus der Vendée.” Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture 30 (2001): 165-181.
“A Perfect Intimacy with Death: Death, Imagination, and Femininity in the Works of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.” Women in German Yearbook 17 (2001): 121-140.
“Bettina & Louise: Gender Constructions in Bettina Brentano-von Arnim’s Clemens Brentanos Frühlingskranz.” Conquering Women: Women and War in the German Cultural Imagination. Eds. Hilary Collier-Sy-Quia and Susanne Baackmann. Berkeley: Center for International and Area Studies at the University of California, 2000. 156-176.
“Ideology’s Work is Never Done: A New Historicist Analysis of Mädchen in Uniform.” West Virginia University Philological Papers 45 (1999): 38-46.
“Sartorial Transgressions: Re-Dressing Class and Gender Hierarchies in Masquerades and Travesties.” Unwrapping Goethe’s Weimar: Essays in Cultural Studies and Local Knowledge. Eds. Susanne Kord, Burkhard Henke, and Simon Richter. Columbia: Camden House, 1999. 191-212.
“Dangerous Practices: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff’s Drama Bertha.” Thalia’s Daughters: German Women Dramatists from the 18th Century to the Present. Eds. Susan Cocalis and Ferrel Rose. Tübingen: Francke, 1996. 115-128.