Articles

• "Poems as way-signs (1657-1686: Three very different works by Johannes Scheffler, Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg, and Quirinus Kühlmann use poetry to treat Christian themes)." A new history of German literature. Ed. David E. Wellbery, et al. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2005. 297-303.
• "Learning and news in the baroque (1662: Kaspar Stieler obtains his first position at court)" Ibid. 304-09.
• "The baroque novel and the romance tradition (1689-90: Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein's novel Arminius becomes all the rage among student groups)." Ibid. 330-334.
• "Eine Problemstellung der Barocken Semiotik." Trans. Georgia Illetschko. Barock: Neue Sichtweise einer Epoche. Ed. Peter Burgard. Wien: Böhlau, 2001. 55-76. (book announcement)
• "Is Freud's model of the mind autopoietic?" Germanic Review 74.1 (Winter 1999): 67-77. (PDF version with corrections)
• "Sketches of Johnson and Johnson's Skizze." Uwe-Johnson Jahrbuch 1 (1994): 58-72.
• (with Catriona MacLeod and Willi Goetschel) "The Deutsche Encyclopädie." Notable encyclopedias of the late eighteenth century: successors of the Encyclopédie. Ed. Frank Kafker. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 315 (1994): 257-333.
• (with Catriona MacLeod and Willi Goetschel) "The Deutsche Encyclopädie and encyclopedism in 18th-century Germany." The Encyclopédie and the age of revolution. Ed. Clorinda Donato and Robert Maniquis. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1992. 55-62.

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Conference papers and talks

• "German Renaissance prosody and Optimality Theory." MLA convention, San Francisco, 30 December 1998.
• "Quashing the four-fold text: Melanchthon and the meanings of scripture." MLA convention, Toronto, 29 December 1997.
• "I was a Turkish harem doctor: a Bildungsroman from early eighteenth century Germany?" ACLA conference, Puerto Vallarta, 11-13 April 1997.
• "A problem in baroque semiotics." Symposium "Baroque ReVisions," sponsored by the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften and the Austrian Commission for UNESCO, Wien and Melk, 15-19 October 1996.
• "Homosocial bonding and heterosexual competition in Tieck's William Lovell." NEMLA Conference, Montréal, 19-20 April 1996.
• "Baroque simulacra." "Stages of the Virtual" Conference, Rutgers-Princeton, 6-8 April 1995.
• "Johnson's last narrative techniques." Uwe Johnson Symposium, Institute of Germanic Studies, London, 19-21 September 1994.
• "Exhaustion and play: the postmodernity of the premodern in Benjamin Neukirch and Jan Luyken." Germanic Circle, Harvard University, 3 April 1990.
• "Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus and [Apuleius's] Golden ass." July 1989. Abstract in Proceedings of the international conference "The ancient novel: classical paradigms and modern perspectives." Ed. James Tatum and Gail M. Vernazza. Hanover NH, 1990. 51-52.

Online editions

• Johann von Besser, "Der Scheeren-Schleiffer" (Hof-Wirtschaft, Berlin, 1690) [2003]
• Wahrhafte und Merckwürdige Begebenheiten der berühmten Türkischen Doctorin, Frauen, Fr. Maria Francisca de Voëwina (Franckfurth und Leipzig, 1737). In progress.

Reviews

• "Sexuality, state and civil society in Germany, 1700-1815, by Isabel V. Hull." Germanic Review 72 (1997): 246-48.
• "Mit de Leser schnacken?" Review of Dialogue with the reader: the narrative stance in Uwe Johnson's fiction, by Kurt Fickert. Uwe-Johnson Jahrbuch 4 (1997): 260-64.
• "Morals and stories, by Tobin Siebers." Comparative Literature 47.3 (Summer 1995): 253-55.
• "Music and German literature: their relationship since the Middle Ages, ed. James M. McGlathery." Notes (September 1993): 146-47.

Dissertation

• "Persuasion and tutelage: A moral reading of some eighteenth-century novels in letters," DAI 53:05A (1992): 1511. UMI order no. DEZ9928283.