Publications

Guttzeit, Gero. In/Visible Subjects: Literary Character and Narratives of Invisibility Since the Eighteenth Century. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-02639-2

Guttzeit, Gero. The Follies of Hypervisible You: Early Adolescence, Surveillance Capitalism, and the Invisibility Narrative. Children’s Literature in Education. 2026. Full text available to view here.

Guttzeit, Gero, ed. 2024. Contemporary Literature and Social Invisibility. Special issue of Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. 72 (1). 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2023-2039

Guttzeit, Gero. 2022. “Compound Invisible Objects“: Moralischer Charakter, literarische Figur und die Gyges-Problematik bei Adam Smith und Eliza Haywood. Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik. Available here.

Guttzeit, Gero. 2021. Unseeing People: Towards a Clear View of Invisible Characters in Narrative Fiction. Études Britanniques Contemporaines. 61. Available here.

Guttzeit, Gero. 2021. Re-Visioning Race: Mat Johnson’s Pym, Poe, and the Allegories of Adventure. In The Pleasures of Peril: Rereading Anglophone Adventure Fiction, Then and Now, edited by Tobias Döring and Martina Kübler. Special issue, REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 36.

Gero Guttzeit and Isabel Kalous. Covering Surveillance. The Visualization of Contemporary Surveillance on Scholarly Book Covers. On_Culture 6. Surveillance Cultures. _Perspective. 2021. Available here.

Guttzeit, Gero. 2018. “‘So Little Suffices to Make Us Visible One to the Other’: Invisibility, Monstrosity, and Whiteness in H. G. Wells’s the Invisible Man.” Journal for the Study of British Cultures 25 (1): 71–84. Available here.

Activities

The Literature of Invisibility. International Workshop. CAS LMU München. 8 March 2022.

Research project on “The Literature of Invisibility.“ Supported by a Junior Researcher in Residence Grant at Center for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich. Winter 2021-22.

Research project on “Invisible Modernity: Anglophone Narratives, Social Recognition, and the Unseen from 1776 to Today“ funded by LMUexcellent Junior Researcher Fund, 2020-2021.