Publications
Overview
Monographien und Herausgeberschaften
co-edited with Sandra H. Petrulionis. Towards a Historiographic Narratology/Auf dem Weg zu einer Narratologie der Geschichtsschreibung, SPIEL 30.1 (2011).
Katalog zur Bibliothek des halleschen Anglisten Hans Weyhe (1920–1953 Professor an der Universität Halle) zusammengestellt und mit einem Vorwort von Julia Nitz. Halle: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 2011.
Ein kognitives Lesemodell historio(bio)graphischer Texte. Georg III.—Rezeption und Konstruktion in den britischen Medien (1990–2006). Trier: WVT, 2010.
co-edited with Volk-Birke, Sabine. Anglistentag Halle 2006 Proceedings. Vol. XXVIII. Trier: WVT, 2007.
Artikel und Buchbeiträge
"History, a Literary Artifact? – The Travelling Concept of Narrative in/on Historiographic Discourse," Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 15.1 (2013).
"The Reconstruction of the Past in Museum Narratives: A View from Narratology." The Museal Turn, ed. by Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Douglas Brown. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012. 173-188.
"In Fact No Fiction: Historiographic Paratext," SPIEL 30.1 (2011): 89–111.
"Towards a Historiographic Narratology: Résumé," SPIEL 30.1 (2011): 1–6.
"History on the Small Screen: Televisual Adaptations of the Past." Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance 3.1 (2010): 141–55.
"A 'Natural' Reading of Historiographical Texts: George III at Kew." Narratology in the Age of Interdisciplinary Narrative Research, ed. by Sandra Heinen and Roy Sommer. Berlin: de Gruyter 2009, 228–243.
"Deutsche Fürsten auf Englands Thron, Teil 1." P.M. History (Jan. 2006): 24–30.
"Deutschen Fürsten auf Englands Thron, Teil 2." P.M. History (Feb. 2006): 6–13.
Konferenzbeiträge
'Transatlantic Negotiations of the Female Bildungsroman: Mary Johnston’s Hagar (1913) and the New ‘Global’ Woman',' Intercontinental Crosscurrents: Women's (Net-)works across Europe and the Americas (1776-1939) (Wittenberg, December 5-7, 2013).
'The Quest for Citizenship: Southern Women's Narratives of the American Civil War 1961-1939,' 3. Landesweiter Tag der Genderforschung in Sachsen-Anhalt (Halle, November 12, 2013).
''Rebel in Heart and Soul:' The Adaptation of Past Selves in Southern Women's Civil War Narratives,' Disturbing Adaptations; The 9th Annual Conference of the Association of Adaptation Studies (Växjö, Sweden, September 26-27, 2013.
'The Plantation as a Discursive Space of Empowerment and Suppression in the Post-Bellum South,' 60th Annual Convention of the German Association for American Studies (Erlangen, May 30 - June 2, 2013).
'Cultural Adaptation of Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Blacks in Civil War Discourse,' Visual Histories of the United States; 'Historikertagung' DGFA (Tutzingen, February 9 - 10, 2013).
'The Female Gaze: Women Diarists and Chroniclers of the American Civil War,' panel at 59th Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (Mainz, May 31–June 3, 2012).
'The White Castle of Louisiana: A 'Sentimental' Memoir,' Narrative Matters Conference (Paris, May 29–June 1, 2012).
'Photographic Narratives in Ken Burns’s The Civil War,' Adapting Historical Narratives (De Montfort University Leicester, 28 Feb. 2012).
'The Amazon Phenomenon: New Contextual Paratexts of Historiographic Narratives', MLA Annual Convention (Los Angeles, 6–9 Jan. 2011).
'Historiography and the Narrative Concept', The Travelling Concept of Narrative II International and Interdisciplinary Symposium (London, 11–13. Nov. 2010).
'Reading the Mind of Lo: Kubrick's and Lyne's Lolita', 25th Annual Conference of the International Society of the Study of Narrative (Cleveland, 7–11 April 2010).
'George III at the Queen's Gallery', Museum Narratives: Annual Conference on Literature and Culture (Salzburg, 5–8 Nov. 2009).
'Reading the Mind of Lo: Kubrick's and Lyne's Lolita', 4th Annual Association of Adaptation Studies Conference (London, 24–25 Sep. 2009).
'Internal Worlds in Swift's and Schepisi's Last Orders', Third Annual Association of Literature on Screen Conference (Amsterdam, 24–26 Sep. 2008).
'From Staged History to Cultural Memory', Cultures of Translation: Adaptation in Film and Performance, Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries (University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, 26–28 June 2008).
'A "Natural" Reading of Historiographical Texts: George III at Kew', Inaugural Symposium: Narratology in the Age of Interdisciplinary Narrative Research (Wuppertal, 25–26 June 2007).
'"Imagined King"—George III in Today's British Media', poster presentation at the ESF-LiU Conference Literature for Europe: European Identities and European Literature in a Globalizing World (Vadstena, Sweden, 12–16 May 2007).
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Identität der Frauen während und nach dem Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg, Geschichtsschreibung (medien- und genreübergreifend), Adaptionsstudien, Filmtheorie und -analyse, kognitive Narratologie, Theory of Mind, postmoderne und zeitgenössische britische Literatur