Harvard University, Ph.D., M.A. 2000

A Short Book about Bernhard (in progress, under contract with Northwestern University Press, forthcoming 2012).

Trügerische Vertrautheit: Filme von Michael Haneke (Deceptive Familiarity: Films by Michael Haneke), Vienna: Synema Verlag, 2011.

Chapters on the relationship between Michael Haneke and literary adaptation (Ingeborg Bachmann, Elfriede Jelinek, Joseph Roth), the intimate public sphere, and post-national constellations.

The Literary and Cultural Rhetoric of Victimhood: Western Europe 1970-2005 (New York: Palgrave, 2007).

Chapters on Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, René Girard, Peter Sloterdijk, Michael Haneke, Christoph Ransmayr, Anselm Kiefer, Friederike Mayröcker, Michel Houellebecq, Elfriede Jelinek.

• “A Melancholy Labor of Love, or Film Adaptation as Translation: Three Paths to the Lake,” revised reprint, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Michael Haneke, ed. Roy Grundmann (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2010) 205-26.

• “Thomas Bernhard und die Tradition: ‘Andere Zustände’ in Amras,” „Ist es eine Komödie? Ist es eine Tragödie?”, eds. Attila Bombitz und Martin Huber (Vienna: Präsens, 2010).

• “Die unmögliche Möglichkeit: Zur Struktur von Elfriede Jelineks ‘Angst’,” Lob der Oberfläche, eds. Thomas Eder and Juliane Vogel (München: Fink, 2010) 131-42.

• “Friederike Mayröckers arte povera,” Ökonomien der Armut, ed. Elke Brüns (Munich: Fink, 2008) 207-19.

• “The Politics of Contempt and an Ecology of Images: Michael Haneke’s Code inconnu (2000).” The Cosmopolitan Screen: German Cinema and the Global Imaginary, 1945 to the Present, eds. Lutz Koepnick and Stephan Schindler (Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan UP, 2007) 235-52.

• “Elfriede Jelinek’s Post-Dramatic Stress Disorder: Analysis of a Programmatic Aggression,” Gegenwartsliteratur 5 (2006): 74-101.

• "Der Künstler als Amateur: Miroslav Tichý”/ “The Artist as Amateur: Miroslav Tichý,” Artists for Tichý—Tichý for Artists (Nuremberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2006): 39-46; my own translation.

• “Die Ontologie des Nationalstaatlichen: Das Adjektiv ‘österreichisch’ vor dem Substantiv ‘Literatur’,” Literatur und Kritik (May 2006): 51-54. (The Ontology of the National: The Adjective “Austrian” before the Noun “Literature.”)

• “Of Dilettantes and Men of Taste: Thomas Bernhard’s Pedagogical Project in Alte Meister (1985),” Monatshefte 96.2 (2004): 252-72.

• “The Abandoned Victim: Cosmology and History in Christoph Ransmayr and Anselm Kiefer,” German Life and Letters 57.2 (2004): 219-35.

• “Dialectic at a Standstill: The Discourse of Victimhood in Thomas Bernhard’s Heldenplatz,” German Quarterly 75.4 (2003): 409-22.

• “Die Verzauberung der Welt. Tradierte Religion in Alois Hotschnigs Leonardos Hände,” Modern Austrian Literature 33.2 (2000): 37-54.

• “The Experience of El Greco: A Turning Point in Rilke’s Evolution,” Germanic Review 42.7 (1997): 344-62.

• “The Violence in Victimhood,” Brown University, 17 Mar. 2011.

• “In Search of Michael Haneke,” Book Presentation with Martin Rauchbauer and Roy Grundmann at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, 6 Dec. 2010.

• “Oberflächliche Ähnlichkeiten: Michael Hanekes Affinität zu Edgar Allan Poe, ” Conference “Transatlantische Verwerfungen-Transatlantische Verdichtungen,” University of Zurich, 28. Oct. 2010.

• “The Ties that Bind: Michael Haneke’s Black Pedagogy in The White Ribbon,” Liselotte Dieckmann Lecture and Seminar Series, Washington University, 23-24. Sept. 2010.

• “ Caché : Blickinstanzen bei Michael Haneke,“ Institute for Media Studies, Universität Regensburg, 16. June 2010.

• “‘A Kick in the Knee’: Violence in Post-War Austrian Literature,” Modern Language Association, 29 Dec. 2009.

• “Misunderstood Translations: The Literary Adaptations of Michael Haneke,” Conference “Michael Haneke: Entre ésthetique, éthique, et politique,” Université de Strasbourg, 13. Nov. 2009.

• “‘Das Wesen der Krankheit’: Bernhard and Novalis,” German Studies Association, Washington D.C., 11. Oct. 2009.

• “Dilettantism and Discrimination: Thomas Bernhard’s Novel The Loser,” Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 12 Mar. 2009.

• Introduction to Ulrich Seidl’s Import Export at film series “Obscenities” at New York University, curated by Sukhdev Sandhu, 3 Dec. 2008.

• “Hiding on the Surface: Michael Haneke and Racism,” Williams College, 2 May 2008.

• “Die unmögliche Möglichkeit: Zur Struktur von Elfriede Jelineks ‘Angst’,” Conference on Elfriede Jelinek’s Aesthetic Topologies, Mürzzuschlag, Austria, 14 Oct. 2006. (The Impossible Possibility: The Structure of Elfriede Jelinek’s “Fear.”)

• Presenter at Round-Table, “Radical Aesthetics and the Holocaust: On Alain Resnais’ Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog, 1955),” Rutgers University, 27. Sept. 2006.

Rutgers Faculty of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education 2006, category of Assistant Professor.

Max Kade Award for Best Article in German Quarterly, 2002

Board Member of the Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies (BIAAS)

Associate Member of the Institute for Cultural Inquiry–Kulturlabor Berlin (ici)

Jury Member, Austrian Cultural Forum Translation Prize (2009-ongoing)

Editorial Board of Modern Austrian Literature, Germanic Review