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School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Publications

Monographs

  • Ambivalent Similarities. German-Islamic Cultural Kinships, 1770-1918 (forthcoming)
  • Women and Writing in the Works of Novalis: Transformation beyond Measure? (New York & Rochester: Camden House, November 2007), pp. 216.

Edited volumes

  • German in the World. The National, Transnational and Global Contexts of German Studies, ed. by James Hodkinson and Benedict Schofield (NY & Rochester: Camden House, 2020).
  • Deploying Orientalism in Culture and History: From Germany to Central and Eastern Europe, ed. by James Hodkinson, John Walker, Shaswati Mazumdar and Johannes Feichtinger (New York & Rochester: Camden House, 2014).
  • Encounters with Islam in German Literature and Culture, ed. by James Hodkinson and Jeff Morrison (New York & Rochester: Camden House, Dec 2009), pp.255. Order this text now! Reviewed in Modern Language Review, April 2011.

Special editions/ Sonderausgaben

  • Poetics Today, 41 (3), 2020, Special Edition. Postsecularisms. Edited by James Hodkinson and Silke Horstkotte.

Essays in Journals

  • 'Families, Similarities and Multi-Faith Futures: Re-Imagining Islam and Muslims in Lessing and Novalis', in: German Life and Letters, Vol 76 (3), June 2023, 334-57. Special Edition: Imagining the Beliefs of Others in German Literature from the Enlightenment to the Present, ed. by Joseph Twist and Rey Conquer.
  • 'The Hafis-Goethe-Denkmal and Cultural Sounds? As artistic responses to Goethe’s Divan : between close reading and cultural politics' in: Publications of the English Goethe Society, 89 (2), January, 2021.
  • 'Returning Again. Resurrection Narratives and Afterlife Aesthetics in Contemporary Television Drama' in: Poetics Today, 41 (3), 2020, 395-416.
  • 'Doing German Differently: New Research Practices and Partnerships around the UK,' co-authored with Rebecca Braun, Benedict Schofield and others, in: German Life and Letters, 71 (3), July 2018, 374-94.
  • 'Playing the Gallery: Time, Space and the Digital in Brian Eno’s Recent Installation Music' in: Oxford German Studies, 46 (3), 2017. Special Edition: 'Eigenzeit' and The Longing for Time in Contemporary Film, Literature and Art, ed. Anne Fuchs and Ines Detmers, 315-328.
  • 'Transnational encounters in the Maghreb: Para-colonial writing in the travelogues of German soldiers in colonial Algiers, 1830-1890'. In: Studies in Travel Writing, 21:3, 2017. ed Patrick Crowley, 1-16.
  • 'Engaging with Islam: a Cosmopolitan Dynamics in fin-de-siècle German Culture and Politics?' in: Comparative Critical Studies, 10 (2), 283-382.
  • 'Romantic Cosmopolitanism? On the Tensions and Topicalities of an Intellectual and Literary Tradition', in: LIMBUS: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft / Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies, 5, 2012, 69-90.
  • ‘Genius beyond Gender: Novalis, Women and the Art of Shapeshifting’ in: Modern Language Review (Vol. 96, Jan 2001), 103-15.

Chapters in edited volumes

  • 'Towards a Socially Engaged Academy: Islam in German History and Its Relevance for Nonacademic Publics' in: German in the World. The National, Transnational and Global Contexts of German Studies, ed. by James Hodkinson and Benedict Schofield (NY & Rochester: Camden House, 2020), pp. 194-218.
  • 'Trasnnationalizing Faith. Re-Imagining Islam in German Culture' in: B. Schofield and R. Braun (eds), Transnational German Studies (Liverpool: ULP, 2020), pp. 193-212.
  • 'Müßiggang, Zurückhaltung und die (Zusammen-)Arbeit der Poesie in Novalis’ Heinrich von Oftderingen.' in: Claudia Lillge, Thorsten Unger und Björn Weyand (eds) Arbeit und Müßiggang in der Romantik (Stuttgart: Fink, 2017), pp. 237-254.
  • 'Tales from the Oriental Borderlands: On the Making and Uses of Colonial Algiers in Germanophone Travel Writing from the Maghreb around 1840' in: Deploying Orientalism in Culture and History: From Germany to Central and Eastern Europe, ed. by James Hodkinson, John Walker, Shaswati Mazumdar and Johannes Feichtinger (New York & Rochester: Camden House, 2014): 78-98.
  • 'Der Islam im Dichten und Denken der deutschen Romantik: zwischen Kosmopolitismus und Orientalismus' in: Michael Hofmann and Klaus von Stosch (eds.) Islam in der deutschen und türkischen Literatur (Beiträge zur Komparativen Theologie; 4), (Paderborn u.a.: Schöningh-Verlag, 2012): 61-80.
  • 'Moving beyond the Binary? Christian-Islamic Encounters and Gender in the Thought and Literature of German Romanticism', in: James Hodkinson and Jeff Morrison (eds.), Encounters with Islam in German Literature and Culture, ed. by James Hodkinson and Jeff Morrison (New York: Camden House, Dec 2009): 108-127.
  • ‘Novalis und die Poetisierung des Weiblichen’ in: Novalis – Poesie und Poetik (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2004): 201-220.
  • ‘The Cosmic-Symphonic: Novalis, Music and Universal Discourse’ in: Siobhán Donovan and Robin Elliot (eds.), Music and Literature in German Romanticism (New York: Camden House, 2004): 13-26.

Reviews

  • Review of: Nile Green, For the Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London in: Journal of Contemporary Religion, 32 (2), 2017: 338–339.
  • Review of: Andrew Wright Hurley, Into the Groove: Popular Music and Contemporary German Fiction in: Journal of European Studies, 46 (1), 2016: 87-89.
  • Review of: Katharina Mommsen, Goethe and the Poets of Arabia in: German Quarterly, 89, February 2016: 107-08
  • Review of: Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics, ed. Helmut Hühn and James Vigus in: The Modern Language Review 110, (3), July 2015: 786-788.
  • Review of: Cathy S. Gelbin, The Golem Returns: From German Romantic Literature to Global Jewisch Culture, 1808-2008 (Ann Arbor: UMP, 2011), in: Modern Language Review, Vol. 107, No. 3, July 2012: 1001-1002.
  • Review of: Ian Almond, History of Islam in German Thought from Leibniz to Nietzsche (London: Routledge, 2010), in: Modern Language Review, Vol. 107, No. 3, July 2012: 1004-06.
  • Review of: Romantic Prose Fiction (A Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, vol. XXIII), edited by Gerald Gillespie, Manfred Engel, Bernard Dieterle, (Amsterdam: John Benjamins 2008). In: The Yearbook of English Studies, Volume 40, Numbers 1-2, 1 July 2010: 320-22.
  • Review of: Paradox, Aphorism and Desire in Novalis and Derrida. By Clare Kennedy. (MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 71) London: Maney. 2008. In: Modern Language Review, 105, (1), January 2010: 206-8.
  • Review of: Sophie Mereau: Verbindungslinien in Zeit und Raum. Ed. By Katharina von Hammerstein, Katrin Horn. Heidelberg/ Germany: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008. 458 pp. In: German Quarterly, Vol 82, Autumn 2009: 529-31.
  • 'Dangerous Women? Gender, Authorship, and the German Literary Scene around 1800' in: The Cambridge Quarterly - Volume 37, Number 2, 2008: 276-280. A review article focusing on: Women and Literature in the Goethe Era 1770-1820: Determined Dilettantes, by Helen Fronius, (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2007.
  • Review of: Dances of the Self in Heinrich von Kleist, E. T. A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Heine. By Lucia Ruprecht. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2006. In: Modern Language Review, Volume 103, Number 3, 1 July 2008: 895-896.
  • Review of: A Companion to European Romanticism, ed. by Michael Ferber (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005) in: BARS: Bulletin and Review, Issue No 31 March 2007: 25-28.

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