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Bayreuth Institute for American Studies - BIFAS

Rethinking Solidarity.
ed.: Aghoro, Nathalie ; Gerund, Katharina ; Mayer, Sylvia
Amerikastudien = American Studies. Vol. 68 (2023) Issue 4 . - 127 p.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2023/4/1

Aghoro, Nathalie ; Gerund, Katharina ; Mayer, Sylvia:
Rethinking Solidarity : An Introduction.
In: Amerikastudien = American Studies. Vol. 68 (2023) Issue 4 . - pp. 431-440.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33675/AMST/2023/4/4

Special Focus: Symbols of the Future : The Future of Symbolism.
ed.: Ahrens, Rüdiger ; Klaeger, Florian ; Stierstorfer, Klaus
Symbolism : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics. Vol. 20 (2021) . - VIII, 260 p.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110716962

Cortiel, Jeanne:
Review of: Jones, Gwyneth: Joanna Russ : Modern Masters of Science Fiction. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019.
In: Contemporary Women's Writing. Vol. 15 (2021) Issue 1 . - pp. 126-127.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpaa030

Cortiel, Jeanne ; Hanke, Christine:
Uncertainty between Image and Text in Ben Templesmith’s Singularity 7 : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Narrative and Performance.
In: Cortiel, Jeanne ; Hanke, Christine ; Hutta, Jan Simon ; Milburn, Colin (ed.): Practices of Speculation : Modeling, Embodiment, Figuration. - Bielefeld : transcript, 2020 . - pp. 221-242 . - (Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 202 )
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839447512-011

Cortiel, Jeanne:
With a Barbarous Din : Race and Ethnic Encounter in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Literature.
Heidelberg : Winter , 2016 . - 281 p. - (American Studies ; 266 )

Cortiel, Jeanne:
Knowledge on Edge : Resident Evil, Feminism and the Rescue of the Female Child.
In: Kloeckner, Christian ; Knewitz, Simone ; Sielke, Sabine (ed.): Knowledge landscapes North America. - Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016 . - p. 249 . - (American Studies ; 273 )

Cortiel, Jeanne ; Oehme, Laura:
The Dark Knight’s Dystopian Vision : Batman, Risk, and American National Identity.
In: European Journal of American Studies. Vol. 10 (2015) Issue 2 .
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.10916

Cortiel, Jeanne:
Feminist Utopia/Dystopia : Joanna Russ, The Female Man (1975) and Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (1976).
In: Voigts-Virchow, Eckart ; Boller, Alessandra (ed.): Dystopia, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalypse : Classics - New Tendencies - Model Interpretations. - Trier : WVT, 2015 . - pp. 155-169 . - (WVT-Handbücher zum literaturwissenschaftlichen Studium ; 17 )

Cortiel, Jeanne:
Travels with Carl : Apocalyptic Zombiescape, Masculinity and Seriality in Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead.
In: Freese, Peter (ed.): The 'Journey of Life' in American Life and Literature. - Heidelberg : Winter, 2015 . - pp. 187-204 . - (American Studies ; 260 )

Religion in the United States.
ed.: Cortiel, Jeanne ; Freitag, Kornelia ; Gerhardt, Christine ; Wala, Michael
Heidelberg : Winter , 2011 . - XVI, 318 p. - (American Studies ; 196 )

Cortiel, Jeanne ; Gerhardt, Christine:
Radical, Transatlantic, Complex : European American Studies and Interdisciplinarity.
In: Christ, Birte (ed.): American Studies, Shifting Gears : a publication of the DFG research network "The Futures of (European) American Studies". - Heidelberg : Winter, 2010 . - pp. 179-200 . - (American Studies ; 185 )

Cortiel, Jeanne:
Reading Joanna Russ in Context : Science, Utopia and Postmodernity.
In: Gunn, James E. (ed.): Reading Science Fiction. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 . - pp. 168-180

Cortiel, Jeanne:
A Uniform Hieroglyphic : Crossing Race and Ethnicity in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (1855).
In: Cass, Jeffrey ; Peer, Larry H. (ed.): Romantic Border Crossings. - Aldershot : Ashgate, 2008 . - pp. 171-180 . - (The Nineteenth Century )

Cortiel, Jeanne:
Impure Bodies : American Pornography and Lesbian Corporeality.
In: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik. Vol. 30 (2005) Issue 1-2 . - pp. 113-125.

Cortiel, Jeanne:
Joanna Russ : The Female Man.
In: Seed, David (ed.): A Companion to Science Fiction. - Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2005 . - pp. 500-511 . - (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture ; 34 )

Cortiel, Jeanne:
Living the Contradiction : Life Histories, Feminism, Theology.
In: Krabbendam, Hans ; Rubin, Derek (ed.): Religion in America : European and American Perspectives. - Amsterdam : VU University Press, 2004 . - pp. 189-200 . - (European Contributions to American Studies ; 52 )

Cortiel, Jeanne:
Passion für das Unmögliche : Befreiung als Narrativ in der amerikanischen feministischen Theologie.
Essen : Verl. Die Blaue Eule , 2001 . - 192 p. - (Arbeiten zur Amerikanistik ; 30 )

Cortiel, Jeanne:
Demand My Writing : Joanna Russ, Feminism, Science Fiction.
Liverpool : Liverpool Univ. Press , 1999 . - 254 p. - (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies ; 18 )

Hannah, Matthew G. ; Mayer, Sylvia:
Scale and Speculative Futures in Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker and Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312.
In: Cortiel, Jeanne ; Hanke, Christine ; Hutta, Jan Simon ; Milburn, Colin (ed.): Practices of Speculation : Modeling, Embodiment, Figuration. - Bielefeld : transcript, 2020 . - pp. 191-208 . - (Culture & Theory ; 202 )
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839447512-009

Klestil, Matthias:
Reading Green in Black : Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature, 1830s to 1920s.
Bayreuth , 2023 . - VI, 369 p.
( Doctoral thesis, 2018 , Universität Bayreuth, Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15495/EPub_UBT_00003816

Klaeger, Florian ; Stierstorfer, Klaus:
Introduction: Symbols of the Future : The Future of Symbolism.
In: Symbolism : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics. Vol. 20 (2021) . - pp. 1-18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110716962-001

Klaeger, Florian:
Harmonie ist eine Strategie : Gattungs- und Formwissen in Ali Smiths "Brexit-Roman" Autumn (2016).
In: Rössler, Reto ; Johann, Wolfgang ; Patrut, Iulia (ed.): Transformationen Europas in der Literatur und Ästhetik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts : zur Ästhetik und Wissensgeschichte der interkulturellen Moderne. - Bielefeld : transcript, 2019 . - pp. 371-388

Klaeger, Florian:
Insularity, Invasion and Identity : "European" National Genesis in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century English Historiography.
In: Journal for the Study of British Cultures. Vol. 22 (2015) Issue 2 . - pp. 159-176.

Mayer, Sylvia:
Klimawandelfiktionen und gesellschaftlicher Klimadiskurs.
In: Ibrahim, Youssef ; Rödder, Simone (ed.): Schlüsselwerke der sozialwissenschaftlichen Klimaforschung. - Bielefeld : transcript, 2022 . - pp. 367-372 . - (Soziologie der Nachhaltigkeit ; 2 )

Mayer, Sylvia:
Environmental Risk Fiction and Ecocriticism.
In: Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment. Vol. 11 (2020) Issue 2 . - pp. 147-153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2020.11.2.3534

Mayer, Sylvia:
Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behaviour (2012) : Class and Religion in Cli-Fi.
In: Goodbody, Axel ; Johns-Putra, Adeline (ed.): CLi-Fi : A Companion. - Oxford : Peter Lang, 2019 . - pp. 111-117 . - (Genre Fiction and Film Companions )
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/b12457

Mayer, Sylvia:
Oil fiction as risk fiction : inhabiting risk in Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit.
In: Green Letters. Vol. 23 (2019) Issue 2 . - pp. 168-178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2019.1650660

Mayer, Sylvia:
Literarische Umwelt-Risikonarrative.
In: Zemanek, Evi (ed.): Ökologische Genres : Naturästhetik – Umweltethik – Wissenspoetik. - Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018 . - pp. 211-227 . - (Umwelt und Gesellschaft ; 16 )

Mayer, Sylvia:
From an Ethics of Proximity to an Ethics of Connectivity : Risk, Mobility, and Deterritorialization in Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior.
In: Amerikastudien = American Studies. Vol. 61 (2016) Issue 4 . - pp. 489-505.

Mayer, Sylvia:
Risk Narratives : Climate Change, the American Novel, and the World Risk Society.
In: Gersdorf, Catrin ; Braun, Juliane (ed.): America after nature : democracy, culture, environment. - Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016 . - pp. 97-118 . - (American Studies ; 270 )

Mayer, Sylvia:
Science in the World Risk Society : Risk, the Novel, and Global Climate Change.
In: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. Vol. 64 (2016) Issue 2 . - pp. 207-221.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2016-0019

Mayer, Sylvia:
World Risk Society and Ecoglobalism : Risk, Literature, and the Anthropocene.
In: Zapf, Hubert (ed.): Handbook of ecocriticism and cultural ecology. - Berlin : de Gruyter, 2016 . - pp. 494-510 . - (Handbooks of English and American studies ; 2 )

Mayer, Sylvia:
Klimawandelroman.
In: Dürbeck, Gabriele ; Stobbe, Urte (ed.): Ecocriticism: eine Einführung. - Köln : Böhlau, 2015 . - pp. 233-244 . - (Böhlau Studienbücher )

Mayer, Sylvia ; Weik von Mossner, Alexa:
The Anticipation of Catastrophe : Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture ; Introduction.
In: Mayer, Sylvia ; Weik von Mossner, Alexa (Hrsg.): The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture. - Heidelberg : Universtitätsverlag Winter, 2014 . - pp. 7-18 . - (American Studies ; 247 )

The Anticipation of Catastrophe : Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture.
ed.: Mayer, Sylvia ; Weik von Mossner, Alexa
Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter , 2014 . - 227 p. - (American Studies ; 247 )

Mayer, Sylvia:
Explorations of the Controversially Real: Risk, the Climate Change Novel, and the Narrative of Anticipation.
In: Mayer, Sylvia ; Weik von Mossner, Alexa (Hrsg.): The Anticipation of Catastrophe. - Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014 . - pp. 21-38

Mayer, Sylvia:
"Dwelling in Crisis": Terrorist and Environmental Risk Scenarios in the Post 9/11 Novel.
In: Kloeckner, Christian ; Knewitz, Simone ; Sielke, Sabine (Hrsg.): Beyond 9/11: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Twenty-First Century U.S. American Culture. - Frankfurt : Peter Lang, 2013 . - pp. 77-92 . - (Transcription, Cultures, Concepts, Controversies ; 6 )

American Environments : Climate - Cultures - Catastrophe.
ed.: Mayer, Sylvia ; Mauch, Christof
Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter , 2012 . - (Publications of the Bavarian American Academy ; 12 )

Beyond Uncle Tom's Cabin : Essays on the Writing of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
ed.: Mayer, Sylvia ; Müller, Monika
Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press , 2011 . - VI, 247 p.

Mayer, Sylvia:
Mapping the Environmental Ethical Dimension in Harriet Beecher Stowe's New England Novels.
In: Mayer, Sylvia ; Müller, Monika (Hrsg.): Beyond Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe. - Madison, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011 . - pp. 189-208

9/11 as Catalyst : American and British Cultural Responses.
ed.: Mayer, Sylvia ; Mohr, Dunja M.
Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. Vol. 58 (2010) Issue 1 .

Mayer, Sylvia:
Environmentalism and Encounters with the Abject: T. Coraghessan Boyle's A Friend of the Earth.
In: Kutzbach, Konstanze ; Müller, Monika (Hrsg.): The Abject of Desire: The Aestheticization of the Unaesthetic in Contemporary Literature and Culture. - Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007 . - pp. 221-234

Mayer, Sylvia:
The Rhetoric of Toxic Discourse: Uses of Irony in John Cheever's Oh What A Paradise It Seems.
In: Stock, Angela ; Kühle, Cornelia (Hrsg.): Representing the Unimaginable: Narratives of Disaster. - Frankfurt : Peter Lang, 2007 . - pp. 163-172

Boyle, T. C.: After the Plague and other stories.
ed.: Mayer, Sylvia ; Wilson, Graham
Stuttgart : Reclam , 2006 . - 237 p. - (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek ; 9149 )

Ecodidactic Perspectives on English Language, Literatures and Cultures.
ed.: Mayer, Sylvia ; Wilson, Graham
Trier : WVT Wiss. Verl. Trier , 2006 . - 238 p.

Mayer, Sylvia:
Literary Studies, Ecofeminism, and the Relevance of Environmentalist Knowledge Production in the Humanities.
In: Mayer, Sylvia ; Gersdorf, Catrin (Hrsg.): Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism. - Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2006 . - pp. 111-128 . - (Nature, Culture and Literature ; 3 )

Mayer, Sylvia:
Literature and Environmental Ethical Criticism : Sarah Orne Jewett's New England Texts.
In: Anglia : Zeitschrift für englische Philologie. Vol. 124 (2006) Issue 1 . - pp. 101-121.

Mayer, Sylvia:
Nachwort.
In: Boyle, T. C.: After the Plague and Other Stories. - Stuttgart : Reclam, 2006 . - pp. 213-237 . - (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek ; 9149 )

Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies : Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism.
ed.: Mayer, Sylvia ; Gersdorf, Catrin
Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2006 . - 490 p. - (Nature, Culture and Literature ; 3 )

Mayer, Sylvia:
Orientalism in the Melodrama of the Early American Republic: William Munford, Almoran and Hamet.
In: Schäfer, Heike (Hrsg.): America and the Orient. - Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2006 . - pp. 21-36 . - (American Studies ; 130 )

Mayer, Sylvia:
Teaching Hollywood Environmentalist Movies : The Example of "The Day after Tomorrow".
In: Mayer, Sylvia (Hrsg.): Ecodidactic Perspectives on English Language, Literatures and Cultures. - Trier : WVT Wiss. Verl. Trier, 2006 . - pp. 105-120

Mayer, Sylvia ; Gersdorf, Catrin:
Ökologie und Literaturwissenschaft : Eine Einleitung.
In: Gersdorf, Catrin (Hrsg.): Natur - Kultur - Text : Beiträge zu Ökologie und Literaturwissenschaft. - Heidelberg : Winter, 2005 . - pp. 7-28 . - (Beiträge zur neueren Literaturgeschichte ; 219 )

Natur - Kultur - Text : Beiträge zu Ökologie und Literaturwissenschaft.
ed.: Mayer, Sylvia ; Gersdorf, Catrin
Heidelberg : Winter , 2005 . - 329 p. - (Beiträge zur neueren Literaturgeschichte ; 219 )

Mayer, Sylvia:
Naturethik und Neuengland-Regionalliteratur : Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rose Terry Cooke, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.
Heidelberg : Winter , 2004 . - 275 p. - (American Studies ; 116 )

Mayer, Sylvia:
Genre and Environmentalism : Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower, Speculative Fiction, and the African American Slave Narrative.
In: Restoring the Connection to the Natural World: Essays on the African American Environmental Imagination. - Münster : LIT, 2003 . - pp. 175-196 . - (Forecaast ; 10 )

Mayer, Sylvia:
Introduction.
In: Mayer, Sylvia (Hrsg.): Restoring the Connection to the Natural World : Essays on the African American Environmental Imagination. - Münster : LIT, 2003 . - pp. 1-9 . - (Forecaast ; 10 )

Restoring the Connection to the Natural World: Essays on the African American Environmental Imagination.
ed.: Mayer, Sylvia
Münster : LIT Verlag , 2003 . - (Forecaast ; 10 )

Mayer, Sylvia:
The Traveller as Topographer: Jonathan Raban's Bad Land : An American Romance.
In: Frenk, Joachim (Hrsg.): Spatial Change in English Literature. - Trier : Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2000 . - pp. 173-183

Mayer, Sylvia:
Assessments of the Urban Experience : Toni Morrison's Jazz and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land.
In: Connotations : A Journal for Critical Debate. Vol. 8 (1999) Issue 3 . - pp. 343-356.

Mayer, Sylvia:
"The Name of the Sound" : das Motiv des Klanges in den Romanen Toni Morrisons.
Heidelberg : Mattes , 1996 . - VIII, 169 p. - (Heidelberger Frauenstudien ; 2 )

Mayer, Sylvia:
You Like Huckleberries? : Toni Morrison's Beloved and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
In: Sollors, Werner ; Diedrich, Maria (Hrsg.): The Black Columbiad : Defining Moments in African American Literature and Culture. - Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1994 . - pp. 337-346 . - (Harvard English Studies ; 19 )

Zwischen Schrift und Bild : Entwürfe des Weiblichen in literarischer Verfahrensweise.
ed.: Mayer, Sylvia ; Krause, Christine ; Schuchard, Margret ; Speck, Agnes
Heidelberg : Mattes , 1994 . - VIII, 260 p. - (Heidelberger Frauenstudien ; 1 )