Book reviews:

Peter Uwe Hohendahl, ed. German Studies in the United States: A Historical Handbook. New York: MLA, 2003. Monatshefte 98.1 (Spring 2006): 139-41.

Peter O. Arnds. Representation, Subversion, and Eugenics in Günter Grass's The Tin Drum. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2004. The German Quarterly 78.2 (Spring 2005): 254-55.

Gitta Honegger. Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian. New Haven: Yale UP, 2001. Monatshefte 96.4 (Winter 2004): 624-25.

Jonathan J. Long. The Novels of Thomas Bernhard: Form and Its Function. Rochester: Camden House, 2001. The German Quarterly 76.3 (Summer 2003): 352-53

Peter Höyng, ed. Verkörperte Geschichtsentwürfe: George Taboris Theaterarbeit. Embodied Projections on History: George Tabori's Theater Work. Tübingen: Francke, 1998. The German Quarterly 74.2 (Spring 2001): 220-21.

Recent presentations:

“Memory in Beim Häuten der Zwiebel: Continuity with Grass’s Earlier Work,” Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL, December 28, 2007

"Indispensable, Inadequate Narratives: The Evolution of Grass's Oeuvre in Late Modernity," University of Liverpool International Conference, "Changing the Nation: Günter Grass in International Perspective," Liverpool, England, September 6, 2007

"The Expressionist Legacy in the Early GDR: Stephan Hermlin und Anna Seghers," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 21, 2007

"Günter Grass and Remembrance of the Nazi Era," invited lecture at Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, March 15, 2007

"Örtlich betäubt among Grass's Variations on the German Bildungsroman," Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL, November 11, 2006

"Theaterfest: A Cooperative Venture between the High School and the University," co-presentation with Jennifer Bjornstad, Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association Conference, Indianapolis, IN, November 4, 2005

"The Wende and German Identity in Thomas Brussig's Wie es leuchtet," German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI, October 2, 2005

"Exploring the Memory Gap in Thomas Brussig's GDR Narrative Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 23, 2005

"Günter Grass's Im Krebsgang and Recent Discourse on German Wartime Suffering," German Studies Association Conference, Washington D.C., October 8, 2004

"Oskar beyond Allegory: Memory and the Body in Günter Grass's Die Blechtrommel," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY, April 16, 2004

"'Geistesmenschen' and 'Staatskinder': Thomas Bernhard and Austrian National Identity," invited lecture at the Center for German and European Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, April 8, 2004

"Thomas Bernhard: A Post-National Author?" Modern Language Association Convention, San Diego, CA, December 27, 2003

"Thomas Bernhard's Early Prose and the Specter of Adalbert Stifter: Politics, National Identity, and the Canon in the Young Austrian Second Republic," Center for Austrian Studies Seminar Series, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, December 5, 2002

"'Fetzen von Merkwürdigkeiten, die man nicht mehr verstehe': Memory and the Boundaries of Identity in Thomas Bernhard's Frost," University of Pennsylvania Conference, "Austrian Writers Confront the Past: 1945-2000," Philadelphia, PA, April 14, 2002

"The Various Faces of Jakob the Liar: The Original DEFA Film and Its Hollywood Remake," University of Louisville Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 24, 2000