Publications

2025

Mayer, Sylvia
Resilience and Environmental Futurity in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy
Margaret Atwood's Aesthetics : The Artpolitical
New York : Routledge, 2025. - page 124-139
doi:10.4324/9781003450559 ...

Mayer, Sylvia
Vorwort
Apokalypse und Apathie : Handlungs(un)fähigkeiten in der Klimakrise
Bielefeld : transcript, 2025. - page 11-14 . - (Climates, Cultures, Contexts; 1)
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7437-8 ...

2023

Klestil, Matthias
Reading Green in Black : Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature, 1830s ...
Bayreuth, 2023. - VI, 369 page
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00003816 ...
(dissertation, 2018, )

2023

Rethinking Solidarity
publ: Aghoro, Nathalie; Gerund, Katharina; Mayer, Sylvia
Amerikastudien = American Studies
2023. - 127 page
doi:10.33675/AMST/2023/4/1 ...

Aghoro, Nathalie; Gerund, Katharina; Mayer, Sylvia
Rethinking Solidarity : An Introduction
in Amerikastudien = American Studies volume 68 (2023) issue 4. - page 431-440
doi:10.33675/AMST/2023/4/4 ...

2022

Krstic, Marija
Environmental Violence and Oil Extraction Culture in Linda Hogan's Mean Spirit
Climate Changes Global Perspectives
Würzburg : Würzburg University Press, 2022. - page 119-126 . - (Challenges of Modernity; 1)
doi:10.25972/WUP-978-3-95826-195-2 ...

Horn, Katrin
#god im so glad i got to go : The Monster Ball Tour, Transnational Performances, and Digital Tr ...
American Cultures as Transnational Performance : Commons, Skills, Traces
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. - page 147-160 . - (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
doi:10.4324/9781003048947 ...

2022

American Cultures as Transnational Performance : Commons, Skills, Traces
publ: Horn, Katrin; Lippert, Leopold; Saal, Ilka; Wiegmink, Pia
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. - 206 page . - (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
doi:10.4324/9781003048947 ...

Mayer, Sylvia
Klimawandelfiktionen und gesellschaftlicher Klimadiskurs
Schlüsselwerke der sozialwissenschaftlichen Klimaforschung
Bielefeld : transcript, 2022. - page 367-372 . - (Soziologie der Nachhaltigkeit; 2)
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5666-4 ...

2021

Horn, Katrin; Foltinek, Selina
Cushmania : Reconstructing Queerness and Celebrity of a Nineteenth-Century Actress
Digital Humanities and Gender History
Jena : dbt, 2021
doi:10.22032/dbt.48957 ...

Horn, Katrin
“Every One Knew” : Epistemologies of the City in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence
in Edith Wharton Review volume 36 (2021) issue 2. - page 148-164
doi:10.5325/editwharrevi.36.2.0148 ...

2020

Horn, Katrin
Bewegte Bilder / Bewegte Vergangenheit : Queeres Kino der USA
Zuordnungen in Bewegung : Geschlecht und sexuelle Orientierung quer durch die Disziplinen
Erlangen : FAU University Press, 2020. - page 151-172 . - (FAU Studien Gender Differenz Diversität; 1)

Foltinek, Selina
Creative Openings and World-Making : Postcritique, Reparative Readings, and Anzaldúa’s Borderla ...
in Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies volume 21 (2020) issue 1. - page 25-42
doi:10.5283/copas.333 ...

Mayer, Sylvia
Environmental Risk Fiction and Ecocriticism
in Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment volume 11 (2020) issue 2. - page 147-153
doi:10.37536/ECOZONA.2020.11.2.3534 ...

Horn, Katrin
Of Gaps and Gossip : Intimacy in the Archive
in Anglia : Zeitschrift für englische Philologie volume 138 (2020) issue 3. - page 428-448
doi:10.1515/ang-2020-0037 ...

Horn, Katrin
Right or Obligation? : Privacy in Henry James' "The Bostonians"
We the People? : The United States and the Question of Rights
Heidelberg : Winter, 2020. - page 137-156 . - (American Studies; 309)

Hannah, Matthew G.; Mayer, Sylvia
Scale and Speculative Futures in Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker and Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312
Practices of Speculation : Modeling, Embodiment, Figuration
Bielefeld : transcript, 2020. - page 191-208 . - (Culture & Theory; 202)
doi:10.14361/9783839447512-009 ...

2019

Horn, Katrin
‘Period Sex’ : Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and the Feminist Politics of Offence
Media and the Politics of Offence
Basingstoke : Palgrave, 2019. - page 127-145
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-17574-0_7 ...

Mayer, Sylvia
Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behaviour (2012) : Class and Religion in Cli-Fi
CLi-Fi : A Companion
Oxford : Peter Lang, 2019. - page 111-117 . - (Genre Fiction and Film Companions)
doi:10.3726/b12457 ...

Horn, Katrin
reviewed by: Bradbury-Rance, Clara: Lesbian cinema after queer theory. Edinburgh, 2019
in New Review of Film and Television Studies volume 17 (2019) issue 3
doi:10.1080/17400309.2019.1623512 ...

Horn, Katrin
Dangerous Domesticity : Gossip and Gothic Homes in Edith Wharton's Fiction
in Edith Wharton Review volume 35 (2019) issue 1. - page 22-46
doi:10.5325/editwharrevi.35.1.0022 ...

Mayer, Sylvia
Oil fiction as risk fiction : inhabiting risk in Linda Hogan’s Mean Spirit
in Green Letters volume 23 (2019) issue 2. - page 168-178
doi:10.1080/14688417.2019.1650660 ...

2018

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

2017

Dexl, Carmen; Horn, Katrin
“Beef Jerky in a Ball Gown” : the Camp Excesses of Titus Andromedon in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmid ...
in Open Cultural Studies volume 1 (2017) . - page 442-453
doi:10.1515/culture-2017-0041 ...

2017

Tabur, Şemsettin
Contested Spaces in Contemporary North American Novels : reading for space
Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. - 254 page
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/contested-spaces ...
(dissertation, , )

2017

Horn, Katrin
Women, Camp, and Popular Culture : Serious Excess
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. - 264 page
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319 ...

2016

Mayer, Sylvia
From an Ethics of Proximity to an Ethics of Connectivity : Risk, Mobility, and Deterritorializa ...
in Amerikastudien = American Studies volume 61 (2016) issue 4. - page 489-505

Mayer, Sylvia
Risk Narratives : Climate Change, the American Novel, and the World Risk Society
America after nature : democracy, culture, environment
Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016. - page 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 volume 64 (2016) issue 2. - page 207-221
doi:10.1515/zaa-2016-0019 ...

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

2015

Horn, Katrin
30 Rock : Complexity, Metareferentiality and the Contemporary Quality Sitcom
Amerikanische Fernsehserien der Gegenwart : Perspektiven der American Studies und der Media Studies
Bielefeld : transcript, 2015. - page 153-183

Horn, Katrin
'It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels' : Geschlechterrollen und Klassenzugehörigkeit in Cou ...
Stimme, Kultur, Identität : Vokaler Ausdruck in der populären Musik der USA, 1900-1960
Bielefeld : transcript, 2015. - page 303-332 . - (Texte zur populären Musik; 8)

Mayer, Sylvia
Klimawandelroman
Ecocriticism: eine Einführung
Köln : Böhlau, 2015. - page 233-244 . - (Böhlau Studienbücher)

Horn, Katrin
'Sometimes I Live in the Country/ Sometimes I Live in Town' : Von Folklore zum Urban Folk Reviv ...
Stimme, Kultur, Identität : Vokaler Ausdruck in der populären Musik der USA, 1900-1960
Bielefeld : transcript, 2015. - page 271-302 . - (Texte zur populären Musik; 8)

2015

Stimme, Kultur, Identität : Vokaler Ausdruck in der populären Musik der USA, 1900-1960
publ: Pfleiderer, Martin; Hähnel, Tilo; Horn, Katrin; Bielefeldt, Christian
Bielefeld : transcript, 2015. - 518 page . - (Texte zur populären Musik; 8)

Horn, Katrin
USA 1900-1960 : Populäre Musik im/als Spiegel ihrer Zeit
Stimme, Kultur, Identität : Vokaler Ausdruck in der populären Musik der USA, 1900-1960
Bielefeld : transcript, 2015. - page 23-52 . - (Texte zur populären Musik; 8)

2014

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

2014

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

2014

Horn, Katrin
Camp / Pop : Interventions into Popcultural Discourses of Gender and Sexuality
Erlangen, 2014
(dissertation, 2014, )

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

2013

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

2012

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

Horn, Katrin
Follow the Glitter Way : Lady Gaga and Camp
The Performance Identities of Lady Gaga : Critical Essays
Jefferson, NC : McFarland, 2012. - page 85-106

Horn, Katrin
Lady Gaga : Pop als Maske, Weiblichkeit als Maskerade
in Kjl & m : Forschung, Schule, Bibliothek volume 12 (2012)

2011

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

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

2010

9/11 as Catalyst : American and British Cultural Responses
publ: Mayer, Sylvia; Mohr, Dunja M.
Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Bayreuth 2010
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zaa.2010.58.issue- ...

Horn, Katrin
Camping with the Stars : Queer Perfomativity, Pop Intertextuality, and Camp in the Pop Art of L ...
in Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies volume 11 (2010)
doi:10.5283/copas.131 ...

2007

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

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

2006

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

2006

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

Mayer, Sylvia
Literary Studies, Ecofeminism, and the Relevance of Environmentalist Knowledge Production in th ...
Mayer, Sylvia ; Gersdorf, Catrin (Hrsg.): Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism
Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2006. - page 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 volume 124 (2006) issue 1. - page 101-121

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

2006

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

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

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

2005

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

2005

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

2004

Mayer, Sylvia
Naturethik und Neuengland-Regionalliteratur : Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rose Terry Cooke, Sarah Or ...
Heidelberg : Winter, 2004. - 275 page . - (American Studies; 116)

2003

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

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

2003

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

2000

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

1999

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 volume 8 (1999) issue 3. - page 343-356
http://www.connotations.de/pdf/articles/mayer00803 ...

1996

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

1994

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

1994

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