My article on „Unseeing People: Towards a Clear View of Invisible Characters in Narrative Fiction“ has just come out in Études britanniques contemporaines: https://doi.org/10.4000/ebc.11098.

The article is connected to an ongoing conversation about invisibility and silence: check out the programme for the international seminar „Invisible Lives, Silent Voices“, organised by Alice Borrego, Guillaume Le Blanc, and Héloïse Lecomte: https://invisibilitysilence.wordpress.com/programme/

As part of this seminar, I’m very happy to be speaking about „The Invisible Author, Then and Now“ in the session on „Invisible Writers“ on 9 December, 6pm. For access to the online meeting, please contact the organizers at invisibilitysilence@gmail.com

If you like to view a recording of this event, please get in touch with me!

I’m very glad that Jim Phelan will be responding to my lunchtime talk at CAS on 18 November, titled „On Narrative Invisibility“. The event will be held online via Zoom on Thursday, 18 November at 11 a.m. EST / 5 p.m. CET. Please drop me an email or write to CAS to join us:

„On Narrative Invisibility“ – Join us for the lunch time talk by @CASResearcher in Residence Gero Guttzeit @LMU_Muenchen in conversation with James Phelan @OhioState
👉 Livestream, Thursday, 18 November, 5 p.m. (CET)
👉 register at: info@cas.lmu.de pic.twitter.com/10gzl9M4KE— CAS_LMU (@cas_lmu) November 12, 2021

My review of Tom F. Wright’s highly recommendable collection Transatlantic Rhetoric: Speeches from the American Revolution to the Suffragettes has just come out with Rhetorica. You can read it here.

A series of four panels I’ve co-organized with Dana Medoro, Sean Moreland, Cristina Pérez, and John Tresch on “Poe in the Maelstrom of Nineteenth-Century Science” has been accepted for inclusion in the programme of the 5th International Edgar Allan Poe Conference sponsored by the Poe Studies Association. The conference will be held at Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, April 7-10, 2022.

I’ll be giving a paper on „Monstrous Vision: Poe and the Optical Culture of Monstrosity“ and chairing the session on „Vortices of Aesthetic Judgement.“ Hopefully, the pandemic situation will allow the conference to go forward as planned – especially, since it’s already been postponed for a year!

A new article of mine on Mat Johnson’s novel Pym, Poe, and the generic traditions of adventure fiction has just been published in a special issue of REAL on The Pleasures of Peril, edited by Tobias Döring and Martina Kübler:

„Re-Visioning Race: Mat Johnson’s Pym, Poe, and the Allegories of Adventure.“ REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. 37.1 (2021). 215–233 10.24053/REAL-2021-0010

I will spend the winter term 2021/22 as Junior Researcher in Residence at LMU Munich’s Center for Advanced Studies, working on my second book project on invisible literary characters and organising a workshop on The Literature of Invisibility.

Das kommende Wintersemester 2021/22 werde ich als Junior Researcher in Residence am Center for Advanced Studies der LMU München verbringen, dabei an meinem Habilitationsprojekt zu unsichtbaren literarischen Figuren arbeiten und einen Workshop zum Thema Die Literatur der Unsichtbarkeit veranstalten.