Recent publications

Books / Monographs

2011 (in press): with B. Empson, K.L. Reinhold: New Theory of the Human Capacity for Representation (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter) (annotated edition with introduction, notes and translation): 440 pp. (projected publication date: April 2011)

2011 (in press): Heinrich von Kleist: Writing After Kant (Rochester: Camden House), ca. 260 pp. (projected publication date: November 2011)

2011 (in press): editor,Companion to the Works of J.M. Coetzee (Rochester: Camden House): ca. 260 pp. (projected publication date: September 2011)

2011: editor, with Bernd Fischer: Kleist and Modernity/Kleist und die Moderne (Rochester: Camden House): ca. 350 pp.

2008: editor, Frameworks, Artworks, Place: The Space of Perception in the Modern World (Amsterdam: Rodopi): 260 pp.

2007:guest editorship of special issue of the journal Seminar with the theme "Image, Body, Text" (November), pp. 379-572

2007:with B. Empson, editorship of issue of the interdisciplinary internet journal Double Dialogues on the theme of "Space": approx. pp. 300

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

2011 (in press): “The Process of Inferential Contexts: Franz Kafka reading Heinrich von Kleist.” Kleist’s Legacies. Ed. Jeffrey High (Amsterdam: rodopi) (7,400 words)

2010 (in press): “Some Thoughts on Autopoiesis in View of Kant’s ‘Copernican Turn’  and Two Essays by Heinrich von Kleist.” Festschrift für Philip Thomson.Ed. Christiane Weller et al. (St Ingbert: Röhrig-Universitätsverlag) (6,700 words)

2010: “‘Der Donnerkeil des Mirabeau.’ Kleists Entdeckungen nach der Kant-Krise im Gebiete des Bewusstseins.” Kleist. Relektüren.Ed. B. Schaller-Fornoff, R. Fornoff. (Dresden: Dresdner Universitätsverlag Thelem): 271–288

2010: “Robert Musil.” Praktizierte Intermedialität. Deutsch-französische Porträts von Schiller bis Goscinny/Uderzo. Ed. Fernand Hörner, Harald Niemeyer and Bernd Stiegler. (Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag): 87–103

2010: “Legality as a ‘Fact of Reason’: Heinrich von Kleist’s Concept of Law, with special reference to Michael Kohlhaas.” Literatur und Recht. Ed. Bernhard Greiner (Heidelberg: Winter Verlag): 153–170

2010: “From Heraclitus to Deleuze: Thoughts on Science and Art and the ‘Sober Revolution’ of the New Europe.” Arena (104) January 2010: 42–7

2008: “‘Aufklärung,’ Freemasonry, the Public Sphere and the Question of Enlightenment.” Journal of European Studies 38 (1) 2008: 5–25

2008: “The Space of Perception.” T.M. (ed.): Frameworks, Artworks, Place: The Space of Perception in the Modern World (Amsterdam: Rodopi): 7–24

2008: "Kleist und die Tiere. Zur Frage des ausgeschlossenen Dritten in dem Trauerspiel Penthesilea." Rüdiger Campe (ed.): Penthesileas Versprechen. Exemplarische Studien über die literarische Referenz. (Freiburg: Rombach): 291-311

2008: "'Aufklärung,' Freemasonry, the Public Sphere and the Question of Enlightenment." Journal of European Studies 38 (1) 2008: 5-25

2007: "'Die künftige Schule Europens': Reflections on K. L. Reinhold's Theorie des menschlichen Vorstellungsvermögens (1789)." C. Weller et al. (eds): Moderne begreifen. Zur Paradoxie eines sozio-ästhetischen Deutungsmusters. (Amsterdam: Rodopi): 311-324

2007: "Image, Body, Text: Situating the New German Studies." Seminar, Special Issue: "Image, Music, Text" (November): 379-384

2007: "Postcritical Criticism: Musil as an Example." N. Saul, R. Schmidt (eds): Literarische Wertung und Kanonbildung, ed. by N. Saul, R. Schmidt (Berlin: de Gruyter/Königshausen & Neumann): 50-65

2007: "The Game of the Narrative: Kleist's Fiction from a Game-Theoretical Perspective." G. Fischer, B. Greiner (eds): The Play within the Play. The Performance of Meta-Theatre and Reflection Internationale Studien zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft. Vol. 112 (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi): 405-419

2007: with B. Empson: "Shaping Space. Notes on the Problem of Space in Art and Philosophy." T.M., B.E. (eds): Double Dialogues: Space. http://www.doubledialogues.com/issue_seven/introduction_on_space.html

2007: "Towards another Modernity? Multicultural Discourse in German and Australian Film from the 1970s to the 1990s." Anja Schwarz & Russell West-Pavlov (eds): Polyculturalism and Discourse: Interdisplinary Perspectives from Germany and Australia. (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi): 157-172

2007: "Literature and the Theory of Games: Kleist's Die Verlobung in St Domingo as an Example." Gillian Beer, Malcolm Bowie, Beate Perrey (eds): In(ter)discipline. New Languages for Criticism (London: Legenda): 188-198

Newspaper Article

2008: "How 'user pays' has tied our tongues." The Australian (Higher Education Supplement) (May 7)

Book Review

2010 (in press): “P.Payne et al. (ed.): Companion to the Works of Robert Musil”; Germanic Review

2010 (in press): “Carol Jacobs: Skirting the Ethical”; Consciousness, Literature and the Arts (CLA)

2009: “Andreas Gailus: Passions of the Sign. Revolution and Language in Kant, Goethe, and Kleist”; AUMLA 111 (May): 135–139

2009: “William Crooke: Mysticism as Modernity. Nationalism and the Irrational in Hermann Hesse, Robert Musil and Max Frisch”; Modern Austrian Literature 42/4: 96–8

2007: "Patrizia C. McBride. The Void of Ethics. Robert Musil and the Experience of Modernity. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2006. xi + 231 pp." Seminar (September): 375-78.

Lectures and Conferences (since 2007)

2011: “’Der Donnerkeil des Mirabeau.’ Kleists Entdeckungen nach der Kant-Krise im Gebiete des Bewusstseins,” conference on the works of Kleist entitled “Wissensfiguren”, Sydney, Australia (February)

2010: “The Process of Inferential Contexts: Franz Kafka reading Heinrich von Kleist,” annual conference of the German Studies Association of America, Oakland, Ca., USA (October)

2010: “Kleist and the Problem of Self-Consciousness,” opening address to the conference “Kleist and Modernity/Kleist und die Moderne,” University of Otago, Dunedin (September)

2009: “From Heraclitus to Deleuze: Thoughts on Science and Art and the ‘Sober Revolution’ of the New Europe,” invited address to the School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney (February)

2008: “Tykwer, von Donnersmarck and the New Ethics in German post-Wende Film,” German Studies Association annual conference, Minneapolis/St Paul, USA (October)

2008: “Technik als Kulturvermittlung? Am Beispiel von Robert Musil” Asian German Studies Association annual conference, Kanazawa, Japan (August)

2008: “Motivation and Language Learning,” keynote address to the New Zealand Association of Language Teachers’ bi-annual conference, Wellington, New Zealand (July)

2008: “Inter-University Cooperative Arrangements in New Zealand Higher Education,” New Zealand Council for Humanities annual conference, Wellington, New Zealand (February)

2007: “Empire of the Insect: Kafka and Musil Between the Two Cultures,” German Studies Association annual conference, San Diego, USA (October)

2007: “Reading the Civilization/Culture Debate as a Crisis of Memory,” German Studies Association of Australia conference, “Erinnerungskrisen/Memory Crises,” University of Melbourne, Australia (September)

2007: “Reflections on The Lives of Others and the Current State of Germany’s ‘Living with the Past,’” inaugural professorial lecture, University of Otago, Dunedin, USA (September)