Publications
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
See complete list of publications (PDF)
Books and editions
Nostalgie: Imaginierte Zeit-Räume in globalen Medienkulturen | Nostalgia: Imagined Time-Spaces in Global Media Cultures.
Ed. Sabine Sielke. In collaboration with Björn Bosserhoff.
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Frankfurt: Lang, 2017.
Reviewed by Rieke Jordan in American Studies in Scandinavia 50.2 (2018). Link
Knowledge Landscapes North America.
Ed. Christian Kloeckner, Simone Knewitz, and Sabine Sielke.
Heidelberg: Winter, 2016.
Reviewed by Rieke Jordan in Amerikastudien / American Studies 63.3 (2018). Link
New York, New York! Urban Spaces, Dreamscapes, Contested Territories.
Ed. Sabine Sielke. In collaboration with Björn Bosserhoff.
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Frankfurt: Lang, 2015.
American Studies Today: New Research Agendas.
Ed. Winfried Fluck, Erik Redling, Sabine Sielke, and Hubert Zapf.
Heidelberg: Winter, 2014.
Reviewed by Georgiana Banita in Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 65.1 (2017). Link
Beyond 9/11: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Twenty-First Century U.S. American Culture.
Ed. Christian Klöckner, Simone Knewitz, and Sabine Sielke. In collaboration with Björn Bosserhoff.
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Frankfurt: Lang, 2013.
Reviewed by Stefanie Schäfer in Journal of English Philology 132.4 (2014). Link
Verschleierungstaktiken: Strategien von eingeschränkter Sichtbarkeit, Tarnung und Täuschung in Natur und Kultur.
Ed. Anne-Rose Meyer and Sabine Sielke.
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Frankfurt: Lang, 2011.
Orient and Orientalisms in US-American Poetry and Poetics.
Ed. Sabine Sielke and Christian Klöckner.
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Frankfurt: Lang, 2009.
The Body as Interface: Dialogues between the Disciplines.
Ed. Sabine Sielke and Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche.
Heidelberg: Winter, 2007.
Gender Talks: Geschlechterforschung an der Universität Bonn.
Ed. Sabine Sielke and Anke Ortlepp.
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Frankfurt: Lang, 2006.
Reading Rape: The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture, 1790–1990.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.
Reviewed by Christine E. Atkins in College Literature 30.4 (2003). Link
Reviewed by Sascha W. Krause in Amerikastudien / American Studies 49.4 (2004). Link
Der 11. September 2001: Fragen, Folgen, Hintergründe. Ed. Sabine Sielke. Frankfurt: Lang, 2002.
Making America: The Cultural Work of Literature. Ed. Susanne Rohr, Peter Schneck and Sabine Sielke. Heidelberg: Winter, 2000.
Fashioning the Female Subject: The Intertextual Networking of Dickinson, Moore and Rich. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Recent essays (selection)
- “‘We the People’: Populismus und das Selbstverständnis der US-amerikanischen Kultur.” Populismus und Popularität. Ed. Till Dembeck and Jürgen Fohrmann. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2022. 195-211.
- “PorNo Revisited? Zu Feminismus, Zensur und den neuen Culture Wars.” Ästhetik(en) der Porno¬graphie: Darstellungen von Sexualitäten im Medienvergleich. Ed. Norbert Lennartz and Jonas Nesselhauf. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2021. 75-96.
- “Mind-Mapping monumentaler Erinnerungslandschaften: Martin Luther King und die National Mall.” Was denkt das Denkmal? Eine Anthologie zur Denkmalkultur. Ed. Tanja Schult and Julia Lange. Köln: Böhlau, 2021. 131-40.
- “Bodies In and Out of Shape: The Rise of Obesity (Discourses) in Times of Self-Optimization.” Amerikastudien/American Studies. 66.3 (2021): 511-33. https://doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2021/3/7
- “‘Stronger Together’: The Seriality of Feminism, the Gender of Misogyny, and the ‘Case’ of Hillary Clinton.” Women and U.S. Politics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Essays in Honor of Hans-Jürgen Grabbe. Ed. Julia Nitz and Axel R. Schäfer. Heidelberg: Winter, 2020. 47-68.
- “From ‘Homeland Security’ to ‘Heimat shoppen’: How an Old Longing Has Gained New Cultural Capital, Globally.” Heimat Revisited: Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf einen umstritte¬nen Begriff. Ed. Dana Bönisch, Jil Runia, and Hanna Zehschnetzler. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. 253-70.
- “Minding One’s Own Style: Versions of Singularity, Modes of Mediation, and the Contiguity between Marianne Moore and Susan Sontag.” Revisiting Style in Literary and Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinary Articulations. Ed. Jasmin Herrmann, Moritz Ingwersen, Björn Sonnenberg-Schrank, and Olga-Ludmila Tarapata. Frankfurt: Lang, 2020. 319-33.
- “Retro Aesthetics, Affect, and Nostalgia Effects in Recent US-American Cinema: The Cases of La La Land (2017) and The Shape of Water (2018).” Memory, Affect, and Cinema. Ed. Russell Kilbourn. Spec. issue of Arts (2019). https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/8/3/87.
- “Strange Animals in Stylish Habitats: Marianne Moore’s Poetry Revisited.” An Eclectic Bestiary: Encounters in a More-than-Human World. Ed. Birgit Spengler and Babette T. Tischleder. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2019. 123-39.
- “Der Mensch als ‘Gehirnmaschine’: Kognitionswissenschaft, visuelle Kultur, Subjekt-konzepte.” Die Maschine: Freund oder Feind? – Mensch und Technologie im digitalen Zeitalter. Ed. Caja Thimm and Thomas Christian Bächle. Berlin: Springer VS, 2019. 41-65.
Earlier essays available as PDF
- "Why '9/11 is [not] unique,' or: Troping Trauma." Trauma’s Continuum: September 11th Re-Considered. Ed. Andrew Gross and MaryAnn Snyder-Körber. Amerikastudien/American Studies 55.3 (2010): 385-408.
- "Theorizing American Studies: German Contributions to an Ongoing Debate." Amerikastudien/American Studies at 50. Amerikastudien/ American Studies 50.1/2 (2005): 53-98. Repr. European Journal of American Studies (2006).
- "The Politics of the Strong Trope: Rape and Feminist Debates in the United States." Violence in the United States. Ed. Jürgen Martschukat. Amerikastudien/American Studies 49.3 (2004): 367-84.
- "What Does Man Want? The Recent Debates on Manhood and Masculinities." Engendering Manhood. Ed. Ulfried Reichardt and Sabine Sielke. Amerikastudien/American Studies 43.4 (1998): 563-75.