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  • FRIAS interview on literature in the time of AI
    I’ve been interviewed by Karolin Viseneber from FRIAS about my fellowship project on generative AI. Read the interview here:
  • Upcoming workshop on Anglophone studies in the age of genAI at FRIAS
  • New book chapter on Gothic Germanism in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine available open-access
    “Terror is not of Germany”: Gothic Germanism and the Transnational Tale of Terror in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. In: Writing Angst. Schauerliteratur, Gothic Novel und Literarischer Schrecken von 1800 bis zur Gegenwart, edited by Jakob Baur, Lars Koch, and Barbara Schaff. Bielefeld: Transcript 2026. 111-124. Open access: click here
  • New essay on Robert Louis Stevenson’s auto-commentary on his writing of Jekyll & Hyde in Connotations
    Out now with Connotations, a journal dedicated to continuing critical debate of its contributions: Strange Case of Stevenson and Unseen Collaborators: “A Chapter on Dreams” as a Textual Double of Jekyll and Hyde. Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate, Vol. 35 (2026): 13-31. https://doi.org/10.25623/conn035-guttzeit-1 and https://www.connotations.de/article/gero-guttzeit-strange-case-of-stevenson-and-unseen-collaborators-a-chapter-on-dreams-as-a-textual-double-of-jekyll-and-hyde/ If you feel inspired to write a response, please…
  • Call for Papers: Cultures of In/Visibility and In/Audibility
    Alice Borrego, Héloïse Lecomte, Esther Peeren, and I are calling for papers for a conference on „Cultures of In/Visibility and In/Audibility“, 23-24 April 2026, held at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis. The deadline for abstracts is 31 October 2025. Please see the full CfP below:
  • New book on In/Visible Subjects out in November
    My new book on In/Visible Subjects: Literary Character and Narratives of Invisibility will be out in November 2025. Find out more on the book here: https://link.springer.com/book/9783032026385
  • Habilitation in English Literature
    Last week my postdoctoral/professorial dissertation, the Habilitationsschrift, was accepted by the Faculty of Languages and Literatures at LMU Munich and I was awarded the degree of Dr. phil. habil.! This qualifies me to teach English Literature as an associate or full professor in German-language academia (the so-called venia legendi, or right to teach). The manuscript…
  • Contemporary Literature and Social Invisibility: Special Issue of ZAA out now
    Special issue on Contemporary Literature and Social Invisibility out now!
  • Habilitationsschrift submitted
    This week I submitted my manuscript In/Visible Subjects: Literary Character and Modern Narratives of Invisibility to LMU’s Faculty of Languages and Literatures as my Habilitationsschrift. The manuscript offers readings of authors from eighteenth-century novelists and poets Eliza Haywood, Susanna Rowson, and Anna Letitia Barbauld to nineteenth-century writers John Keats, James Forbes Dalton, Fitz-James O’Brien, and…
  • Artikel über unsichtbare literarische Figuren erschienen
    Mit dem Verhältnis von Literatur, Philosophie und Rhetorik im Zeichen der Unsichtbarkeit setzt sich ein neuer Aufsatz auseinander: “Compound Invisible Objects”: Moralischer Charakter, literarische Figur und die Gyges-Problematik bei Adam Smith und Eliza Haywood. Herausgegeben ist er von Wolfgang G. Müller und Rainer Thiel als Teil von Band 5 (2022) der Internationalen Zeitschrift Kulturkomparatistik mit…