Publications

• Dimensionen literarischer Kreativität: Eine Untersuchung zum Phänomen englisch-deutscher Mischsprache in Texten der amerikanischen Populärkultur. Kiel, 1999 (unpublished Habilitationsschrift).

• Von Hannibal nach Heidelberg: Mark Twain und die Deutschen. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1993.
  Aus dem Inhalt:
  • Mark Twain in Heidelberg (PDF)
  • Mark Twain in München (PDF)

Articles and Reviews:

• "Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)." Handbook of the American Short Story. Eds. Oliver Scheiding and Erik Redling. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021: 171-196.

• Fishkin, Shelley F., Tsuyoshi Ishihara, Ronald Jenn, Holger Kersten, & Selina Lai-Henderson. "Special Forum Introduction: Global Huck: Mapping the Cultural Work of Translations of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Journal of Transnational American Studies 12.2 (2021); 7-25. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4z034978

• "[Beliefs in the Efficacy of Political Satire] Response to James Caron's Remarks." Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 34.1 (2021): 141-147.

• "America's Faith in the Laugh Resistance: Popular Beliefs about Political Humor in the 2016 Presidential Elections." Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 32.2 (2019): 299-316.

• "Mark Twain’s 'Assault of Laughter' and the Limits of Political Humor." Studies in American Humor 4.2 (2018): 171-182.

• "Mark Twain's 'Assault of Laughter': Reflections on the Perplexing History of an Appealing Idea." The Mark Twain Annual 16.1 (2018): 64-76.

• Rev. of Lawrence I. Berkove and Joseph Csicsila, Heretical Fictions: Religion in the Literature of Mark Twain. Amerikastudien/American Studies 61.2 (2016). [PDF]

• "Mark Twain on Youth and Aging." Mark Twain and Youth: Studies in His Life and Writings. Eds. Kevin Mac Donnell and Kent Rasmussen. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016: 3-10.
  • Book review: Steve Courtney. Review of Mark Twain and Youth. Mark Twain Forum, 8 Sep. 2016, http://www.twainweb.net/reviews/MarkTwainAndYouth.html [PDF]
  • Book review: Clair A. Sheehan. Review of Mark Twain and Youth. Irish Journal of American Studies. Issue 5. http://ijas.iaas.ie/index.php/review-mark-twain-and-youth-studies-in-his-life-and-writings-eds-kevin-mcdonnell-and-r-kent-rasmussen/ [PDF]

• "'It's better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise': Aging from the Perspective of America's Greatest Humorist." Crossroads in American Studies: Transnational and Biocultural Encounters. Eds. Frederike Offizier, Marc Priewe, and Ariane Schröder. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016. 411-427.

• Rev. of Friedrich W. Block and Rolf Lohse, eds., Wandel und Institution des Komischen. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 28:3 (2015): 491-495.

• "These Rays May Be Helpful or Harmful': The Depiction of Radium in Early 20th-Century American Newspapers." The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture. Eds. Sylvia Mayer and Alexa Weik von Mossner. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014. 81-100.

• Rev. of Richard Gray and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, eds., Transatlantic Exchanges: The American South in Europe—Europe in the American South. Amerikastudien/American Studies 56.2 (2011): 264-266.

• "The Rise of Local-Color Writing in the American West: Bret Harte's 'The Outcasts of Poker Flat' and Mark Twain's 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County'." A History of the American Short Story: Genres -- Developments -- Model Interpretations. Eds. Michael Basseler and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2011. 123-136.

• "Ethnic Writing." Research Guide to American Literature: Realism and Regionalism, 1865-1914. Eds. Gary Scharnhorst and Tom Quirk. Vol. 4. New York: Facts On File, 2010. 37-42.

• "Alice Dunbar-Nelson, The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories." Research Guide to American Literature: Realism and Regionalism, 1865-1914. Eds. Gary Scharnhorst and Tom Quirk. Vol. 4. New York: Facts On File, 2010. 112-117.

• "Intercultural Encounters in Bilingual Preschools." Bilingual Preschools: Learning and Development. Eds. Kristin Kersten, et al. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2010. 137-76 (in collaboration with Lydia Gerlich, Kristin Kersten, Ute Massler, and Insa Wippermann).

• "'Going Twenty Miles Out of His Way': Notions of Human Superiority and Environmental Stewardship in Jack London's Dog Stories." Only Connect: Tests – Places – Politics. Eds. Anke Bartels, Reinhold Wandel, Dirk Wiemann. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2008: 64-75.
  
• "'I Know Grammar by Ear Only': Mark Twain and the Norms of American Literature." Amerika und die Norm: Literatursprache als Modell? (Hgg. Christopher F. Laferl and Bernhard Pöll), Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2007: 25-36.

• "America's Multilingualism and the Problem of the Literary Representation of 'Pidgin English'." Amerikastudien/American Studies 51.1 (2006): 75-91.
  
• Tramps and Hobos." American History through Literature, 1870-1920. (Hgg. Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst), Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006: 1135-1141.
  
• "Mark Twain and Continental Europe." A Companion to Mark Twain (Hg. Peter Messent und Louis J. Budd), Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005: 324-337
  
• "The Erosion of the Ideal of the Heroic Explorer: Jack London's The Cruise of the Snark." Narratives of Exploration and Discovery: Essays in Honor of Konrad Gross. (Hg. Wolfgang Kloss), Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2005: 85-97.
  
• "'Allo Chinaman Talkee Englishee All Plopa': An Early Literary Record of Pidgin English Between Racial Masquerade and Counter-Discourse." At Longitude and Latitude: Essays in Honour of Bernd-Peter Lange.(Hg. Anke Bartels, Hans-Werner Breunig und Dirk Wiemann), Magdeburg: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, 2003: 31-44.

• Rev. of Gavin Jones, Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America. Nineteenth Century Literature 56:4 (2002): 547-553
  
• "The Early German Reception of American Humor." Amerikanische Populärkultur in Deutschland: Case Studies in Cultural Transfer Past and Present (Hg. Heike Paul und Katja Kanzler), Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2002: 41-59.

• "The Creative Potential of Dialect Writing in Later 19th Century America." Nineteenth Century Literature 55:1 (2000): 92-117 [abstract]

• Zwischen historischem Dokument und literarischem Text: Amerikas Einschätzung der Journals of Lewis and Clark." Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 33.1 (2000): 39-57.

• "Nonsense, Satire, and Language Art: George V. Hobart's German-American Dialect Writing." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 19:1&2 (1999): 43-51.

• "[Stephen Crane's] 'The Pace of Youth' and the Phantoms of Hope," Stephen Crane in War and Peace. (War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities, Special Issue.) Ed. James H. Meredith. [Colorado Springs, Colo.]: Dept. of English, U.S. Air Force Academy,1999: 172-182.

• "'Human Natur in a Forren Aspeck': Mark Twain's Encounters with German Culture." Mark Twain Review (The Mark Twain Circle of Korea) 4 (1999): 47-72.

• "Culture Wrapped in Broken Speech: 'Hans Breitmann's' Humorous Achievement," Essays in Arts and Sciences 27 (Oct. 1998): 37-52.
  
• "Mark Twain and the Funny Magic of the German Language," New Directions in American Humor (Hg. David E. E. Sloane), Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1998: 284-305.

• "William Henry Drummond and American Dialect Poetry," Informal Empire? Cultural Relations Between Canada, the United States and Europe (Hgg. Peter Easingwood, Konrad Groß, and Hartmut Lutz), Kiel: l&f Verlag, 1998: 149-167.

• "Mark Twain: The Tramp Abroad," Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 31:1 (1998): 45-56.

• "Sentimental Communication in Disguise: Yawcob Strauss's German Dialect Humor," Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 17:1&2 (1997): 21-35.

• "Using the Immigrant's Voice: Humor and Pathos in Nineteenth Century 'Dutch' Dialect Texts," MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 21:4 (Winter, 1996): 3-17.

• "When You Don't Get What You See: What Mark Twain Knew About Germany Before He Visited the Country," Images of Central Europe in Travelogues and Fiction by North American Writers (Hg. Waldemar Zacharasiewics), Tübingen: Stauffenberg Verlag, 1995: 77-86.

• "Sam Shepard's Fool for Love," Lexikon der Weltliteratur (Hg. Gero von Wilpert), Stuttgart: Kröner, 1994.

• "Mark Twain's First Joke on the German Language," Mark Twain Journal 31:1 (Spring, 1993): 18-21.

• "A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain Looks at Germany," Amerikanisches Deutschlandbild und deutsches Amerikabild in Medien und Erziehung (Hg. Frank Krampikowski), Baltmannsweiler, 1990: 136-155.

• Elaine V. Siegel. "Psychoanalytisch orientierte Tanz- und Bewegungstherapie: Ein ganzheitlicher Behandlungsansatz," Tanztherapie: Theorie und Praxis (Hg. Elke Wilke et al.), Paderborn, 1991: 136-155.
• J. Bhullar, B. J. Cratty. "Das Erlernen von Buchstaben und Zahlen mit der Bewegungsmethode und der traditionellen Unterrichtsmethode im Vorschulalter," Motorik: Zeitschrift für Motopädagogik und Mototherapie 12:1 (1989): 3-8.