PD Dr. Eva-Sabine Zehelein
Monographien
Science: Dramatic. Science Plays in America and Great Britain, 1990-2007. Heidelberg: Winter, 2009.
“Space as Symbol:” John Updike’s “Country of Ideas” in den Rabbit-Romanen. Essen: Blaue Eule, 2003.
Edited Volumes
Family in Crisis? Crossing Borders, Crossing Narratives, edited with Andrea Carosso and Aida Rosende-Pérez. Bielefeld: Transcript, August 2020.
“Family and the Media: Cultural Politics and Public Narratives.” International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics 15.2 (June 2019), guest edited with Tetiana Havlin and Andrea Carosso. Online version: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/mcp/2019/00000015/00000002;jsessionid=3pmsd9rs5b2jh.x-ic-live-01.
“Family Matters 2.0: Literary and Cultural Representations of the American Family in Transition.” CoSMo – Comparative Studies in Modernism 12 (Spring 2018), guest edited with Andrea Carosso. http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COSMO/issue/view/272.
For (Dear) Life: Close readings of Alice Munro’s Ultimate Fiction. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2014.
Aufs?tze in Fachzeitschriften und Sammelb?nden
“At home, à la Southern Gothic: Florida and the 19th century American imaginary.” Iperstoria: Journal of American and English Studies, spring/summer 2022, special issue on “Coasts, Oceans and Rivers: Encounter and Crises in the Atlantic World,” ed. Sonia Di Loreto.
“Family Trees – mnemonics, genealogy, identity and cultural memory.” Daniela Fargione, Carmen Concilio, eds., Trees in Literatures and the Arts: Humanarboreal Perspectives in the Anthropocene. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021; 263-79.
“Medicalized Masculinities: (In)fertility, Sperm Donation and Fatherhood.” Altre Modernità 24 (2020); 139-152 [special issue on “Storytelling as Care: representing illness in the new protocols of Medical Humanities,” eds. Paolo Caponi, Laura Scarabelli, Nicoletta Vallorani]. https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/14605
“Family in Crisis? What Crossing Borders and Crossing Narratives Tell Us About the State of the Family (Today).” Andrea Carosso, Aida Rosende-Pérez, ESZ, eds. Family in Crisis? Crossing Borders, Crossing Narratives. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2020; 9-23.
“He’s Not Family: Family between Genetic Essentialism and Social Parenthood in MTV’s Generation Cryo.” Andrea Carosso, Aida Rosende-Pérez, ESZ, eds. Family in Crisis? Crossing Borders, Crossing Narratives. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2020; 89-100.
“Family and the media: Cultural politics and public narratives” (with Andrea Carosso und Tetiana Havlin). International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics 15.2 (2019); 119-124.
“Mummy, me, and her podcast – feminist and gender discourses in contemporary podcast culture.” International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics 15.2 (2019); 143-161.
“’India is our twins’ motherland’: Transnational Cross-Racial Gestational Surrogacy and the Maternal Body in ‘IP Memoirs’.” Feminist Encounters – A Journalof Critical Studies in Culture and Politics 3.1-2 (2019): article number 11; 1-12.
“Love, Marriage and Family in the 21st Century: All We Had (Annie Weatherwax), The Nest (Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney).” Michael Basseler, Ansgar Nünning, eds. The American Novel in the 21st Century: Cultural Contexts – Literary Developments – Critical Analyses. Trier: EVT, 2019; 215-230.
“Motherhood and Mothering in Contemporary ‘IP Memoirs.’” Fabienne Portier-Le Cocq, ed. Motherhood in Contemporary International Perspective: Continuity and Change. London: Routledge, 2019; 93-104.
“Breaking Conventions, Crossing Genres – Motherhood and Memoir in the Age of Surrogacy.” Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles, Sue Joseph, eds. Still Here: Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss. London: Routledge, 2019; 176-188.
“Reproductive Justice and (the Politics of) Transnational Gestational Surrogacy: Pande, Wombs in Labor: Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India, Rudrappa, Discounted Life: The Price of Global Surrogacy in India, Jacobson, Labor of Love: Gestational Surrogacy and the Work of Making Babies, Solinger/Ross, Reproductive Justice, Briggs, How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics.” American Quarterly 70.4 (December 2018); 889-901.
“Beyond the Page” content to review essay – online website of American Quarterly December 2018 [AQ’s promo of digital humanities]. https://www.americanquarterly.org/content/december-2018.
“Mothers, ART and Narratives of (Be)longing.” CoSMo 12 (Spring 2018); 74-91. http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COSMO/issue/view/272.
“Family Matters in Contemporary Literature – an introduction.” CoSMo 12 (Spring 2018); 7-10. http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/COSMO/issue/view/272.
“Anacreon in Baltimore: the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ as Poem, Song and National Anthem.” Engelbert Thaler, ed. Singer-Songwriters –Music & Poetry in Language Teaching.” Tübingen: Narr, 2018; 25-47.
“’At the other end of life’s rainbow’: Rabbit’s journey from adolescence to old age and other transcendental trajectories.” Laurence W. Mazzeno, Sue Norton, eds. European Perspectives on John Updike. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2018; 28-44.
“Community as Commodity: of Rotary Dream Homes and Gated Geritopias as Collective Attempts to Lead a Private Life.” Lukas Etter, Julia Straub, eds. American Communities: Between the Popular and the Political. Tübingen: Narr, 2017; 19-41.
“’Sara, Bill, Kristine, ...you’re pregnant!’ Gestational surrogacy, biomedicalized bodies and reconceptualizations of motherhood.” Hektoen International. A Journal of Medical Humanities (Fall 2017). http://hekint.org/2017/11/20/sara-bill-kristine-youre-pregnant-gestational-surrogacy-biomedicalized-bodies-reconceptualizations-motherhood/.
“’My mother composed me as I now compose her’: Catharsis and Cathexis in Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother?” Kerstin Shands, Guilia Grillo Mikrut, et al., eds. Writing the Self. Essays on Autobiography and Autofiction. Stockholm: S?dert?rn UP [English Studies 5], 2015; 163-172.
“Octavia Butler’s Kindred: ‘neo slave narrative’ als ‘literature of memory.’” Uwe Baumann, Karl August Neuhausen, eds. Autobiographie: Eine interdisziplin?re Gattung zwischen klassischer Tradition und (post-)moderner Variation. Super alta perennis. Studien zur Wirkung der Klassischen Antike Bd. 14. G?ttingen: V&R UniPress, 2013; 411-432.
“’Been to Barbados’ – Rum(bullion), race, the Gaspée, and the American Revolution.” Susanne Schmid, Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, eds. Drink in the 18th and 19thCenturies: Consumers, Cross-Currents, Conviviality. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013; 141-150, 216-219.
“’Whatever senior living choice or lifestyle option you desire, you’re sure to find it’: 55+, Age Segregation and the American Social Landscape.” Philip Coleman, Stephen Matterson, eds. “Forever Young”? The Changing Images of America. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012; 21-41.
“’Ambition without love it cold’: Priority and Kudos in Oxygen by Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffman.” Walter Grünzweig, ed. The SciArtist: Carl Djerassi's Science-in-Literature in Transatlantic and Interdisciplinary Contexts. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2012; 75-90.
“Middle Class Life in the (Realist) Short Story of the 20th Century: John Updike’s ‘The Music School’ and John Cheever’s ‘The Enormous Radio.’” Michael Basseler, Ansgar Nünning, eds. A History of the American Short Story: Genres – Classics – Model Interpretations. Trier: WVT 2011; 289-305.
“Ciência e Drama: a situa??o.” [“Science and Drama: the situation”] Portuguese theater journal Sinais de Cena 15 (2011) ; 17-23.
“Fun in the Cup: From the Italian Espresso Bar to the Globalized ‘Starbucks Experience.’” Marina Camboni, Andrea Carosso, Sonia Di Loreto, Marco Mariano, eds. Translating America. Bern: Lang, 2011; 49-64.
“’A good deal about California does not, on its own preferred terms, add up’: Joan Didion, America’s highly personal, cultural literary historian, between apocalypse dawning and a retrogressive utopia.” David Rio, Oyunn Hestetun, eds. EJAS Special Issueon Postfrontier Writing 6.3 (2011) (http://ejas.revues.org/9245).
“’Pouring Your Heart Into It’ – a brand brewed from the grounds of Arabica.” Marina Camboni, Andrea Carosso, Sonia di Loreto, eds. Translating America: Importing, Translating, Misrepresenting, Mythicizing, Communicating America.Proceedings of the 20th AISNA Biennial Conference Torino, September 24-26, 2009. Torino: Otto, 2010; 219-229.
“James Watson and Rosalind Franklin: the backlash of gendered marginalization.” Jane Jordan, Meg Jensen, eds. Life Writing: The State of the Art and The Spirit of the Age. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars P, 2009; 87-98.
“Staging Science With Albert Einstein.” Cedric Barfoot, Valeria Tinkler, eds. Restoring the Mysteries of the Rainbow: Literature’s Reflection of Science. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009; 554-566.
“Staging It: Bridging the Two Cultures? Mick Gordon, Paul Broks: On Ego.” Conference volume ISSEI conference 2008 “Language and the Scientific Imagination” http://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/15321/55_Zehelein.pdf?sequence=1
“Carl Djerassi’s Seed.” Critical Survey 20.1 (2008): 56-67.
“Against All Odds – ’Sam Hall’ and ‘The Man in Black’: From British Social Disparagement to American Defiant Individualism.” The Outlaw and the American Cultural Landscape. ed. Dr. Keagan LeJeune. American Studies Journal 50 (autumn 2007). http://www.asjournal.org/50-2007/sam-hall-and-the-man-in-black/
“’After all, sex isn’t everything’: T.C. Boyle’s The Inner Circle and Adam Thirlwell’s Politics as indices of ‘progressive sexual pessimism.’” Henry Frendo, ed. The European Mind: Narrative and Identity. Vol. 1. Valetta: Malta UP, 2006; 757-768.
Rezensionen
Richard Powers, “La vendetta del antropocene - The Overstory / Il Sussuro del Mondo.” NY: Norton, 2018. L’Indice dei Libri del Mese. September 2019; 11.
Rosanna Hertz, Margaret K. Nelson, Random Families. Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2018.International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics 15.2 (June 2019); 249-252. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/mcp/2019/00000015/00000002;jsessionid=3pmsd9rs5b2jh.x-ic-live-01
Jan D. Kucharzewski, Propositions about Life. Reengaging Literature and Science. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011. Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen. Vol. 250 (2013); 392-394.
Jerome de Groot, Consuming History. Historians and heritage in contemporary popular culture. NY: Routledge, 2009. European Legacy 18.6 (2013); 811-812.
Peter S. Wenz, Beyond Red and Blue. How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009. European Legacy 17.6 (2012); 861-862.
Carl Djerassi, Four Jews on Parnassus [A Conversation]: Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, Sch?nberg. NY: Columbia UP, 2008. European Legacy 14.4 (2009); 506-507.
Helmut Schwarztrauber, Fiktion der Fiktion. Begründung und Bewahrung des Erz?hlens durch theoretische Selbstreflexion im Werk N. Hawthornes und E. A. Poes. Heidelberg: Winter, 2000. Amerikastudien A Quarterly 50.3 (2005); 539-541.
Gregg D. Crane, Race, Citizenship and Law in American Literature. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge UP, 2002.AmerikastudienA Quarterly 48.3 (2003); 469-470.
Beitr?ge
“Junot Díaz: This Is How You Lose Her.” Heinz Ludwig Arnold, ed. Kindlers Literatur Lexikon 3rd revised edition. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, 2009; online update; 2014.
“Joseph O’Neill: Niederland.” [Netherland] Heinz Ludwig Arnold, ed.Kindlers Literatur Lexikon 3rd revised edition. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, 2009; online update; 2012.
“Joseph O’Neill: Biogramm.” Heinz Ludwig Arnold, ed. Kindlers Literatur Lexikon 3rd revised edition. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, 2009; online update; 2012.
“Siri Hustvedt: Was Ich Liebte.” [What I Loved] Heinz Ludwig Arnold, ed. Kindlers Literatur Lexikon 3rd revised edition. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, 2009. Pagination unknown.
“Siri Hustvedt: Biogramm.” Heinz Ludwig Arnold, ed. Kindlers Literatur Lexikon 3rd revised edition. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, 2009. Pagination unknown.
“Moses Herzog (Saul Bellow: Herzog).” Matthew J. Bruccoli, Judith S. Baughman et al., eds. The Student’s Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters. NY: Facts on File, 2008; 82.