Publications and conference organization

The content on this page was translated automatically.

Overview

Publications

1. monographs:

1.1 Shame and writing. Strategies of literary subject constitution in Duras, Goldschmidt and Ernaux. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2017.

 

Reviews in academic journals:

  • Wolfgang Asholt in: Romanische Forschungen, 131 (2019), issue 3, 421-425

  • Michael Heidgen in: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, vol. 69, issue 4 (2019), 470-472

  • Carina Zeiger in: Romanistisches Jahrbuch Vol. 71 / No. 1 (2020), 255-260

1.2 Arte nuevo de hacer amigos en este tiempo. Transformations of the discourse of friendship in 17th century Spanish theater. (Preparation for printing, to be published in 2026)

To top

2. editorships

2.1 Fantastic Climates, Ecofeminism, Queer Ecologies. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, together with Andreas Braun (in preparation for 2026)

2.2 ¿Cómo volver? Restituciones, reparaciones, resiliencias ambientales en narrativas y universos visuales en el Caribe. Together with Kirenia Rodríguez Puerto. (In preparation for 2026)

2.3Transkulturationen des Pikaresken in den romanischsprachigen Literaturen Afrikas und Lateinamerikas, Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2025, together with Susanne Goumegou and Sebastian Thies.

2.4 Fe/male Friends:Staging Gender and Friendship in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Spanish Literature, Frankfurt am Main/ Madrid: Vervuert/Iberoamericana, 2023, together with Claudia Gronemann.

2.5 Poetics of Failure. Forms and functions of uneconomic narration. Fink: Paderborn, 2018, together with Annika Nickenig.

2.6 Editing the dossier "Michel Houellebecq: Questions du réalisme d'aujourd'hui." pp.6-95. In: Lendemains 142/143 (36th year 2011) together with Jörn Steigerwald.

To top

3. articles in peer-reviewed journals

3.1 Arrastrados a la orilla: náufragos, ahogados y resucitados en la literatura caribeña. In: Journal of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 83.4 (2026, In preparation)

3.2 Affect politics and friendship in Saber del mal y el bien by Calderón de la Barca. In: Yearbook of Literary Studies 61 (2020), pp.183-214.

3.3 Construyendo el espacio teatral criollo: Los empeños de una casa de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. In: iMex. Mexico interdisciplinario / Interdisciplinary Mexico 2018/2 año 8 / N° 15, Edición XV Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: identidad criolla y procesos de transculturación, ed. by Claudia Jünke and Jutta Weiser, pp. 83-98.

3.4 Ce que les choses savent de l'histoire. François Bon et la lisibilité des objets. In: Revue des sciences humaines, N° 321, 1/ 2016, pp. 229-241.

3.5 "Mais c'est d'une ambiguïté étrange." The reception of Michel Houellebecq's novel Soumission in France and Germany." In: Romance Studies 3 / 2016, pp. 131-163.

3.6 Quel modèle pour écrire le réel ? L'expérimentation et l'exemplarité comme modèles économiques chez Émile Zola et Guy de Maupassant. In: Romanesques 7 / 2015, pp. 227-250 (together with Annika Nickenig)

3.7 La face cachée de la honte. Réflexions sur la théâtralité d'une émotion. In: Nouvelle Revue d'Esthétique 2 / 2014, N° 14, pp. 39-46.

3.8 Introduction, Michel Houellebecq: Questions du réalisme d'aujourd'hui. In: Lendemains 142/143 (36th year 2011), pp. 6-17 (together with Jörn Steigerwald).

3.9 Comment "restaurer les conditions de possibilité de l'amour"? La représentation des émotions dans Les particules élémentaires de Michel Houellebecq. In: Lendemains 142/143 (36th year 2011), pp. 32-49.

3.10. Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt's self-design as Narcisse puni. Autobiographical writing in the field of tension between desire and space. In: discussions 5 (2010) - concepts of space - perceptions of space - uses of space. http://www. perspectivia.net/content/publikationen/discussions/5-2010/komorowska_selbstentwurf

To top

4. essays in anthologies

4.1 "Fronteras y cuerpos permeables en La vie privée d'oubli de Gisèle Pineau. In: ¿Cómo volver? In: Restituciones, reparaciones, resiliencias ambientales en narrativas y universos visuales en el Caribe. Together with Kirenia Rodríguez Puerto. (In preparation for 2026)

4.2 Queer Ecologies in Wendy Delorme's Viendra le temps du feu. In: Fantastic Climates, Ecofeminism, Queer Ecologies. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, together with Andreas Braun (in preparation)

4.3 La empresa multinacional, lugar de imaginarios distópicos: El año del desierto (2005) de Pedro Mairal. In: Jan-Henrik Witthaus / Karolin Schäfer (eds.) "Redes de poder y dominación en oficinas, burocracias y empresas", CLACSO/CALAS (in press)

4.4 Negotiating (Re-)marriage and Female Agency in the Golden Age Novella. The Widow as Head of the Household and the Economy of Space and Desire in María de Zayas and Mariana de Carvajal. In: Annika Nickenig / Esther Schomacher (eds.): Emotion and Calculation. Marriage Markets and Match Making from Antiquity to the Present. Paderborn: Brill / Fink, 2025, pp.101-136.

4.5 Modelos de la amistad ilustrada: las Cartas Marruecas de José Cadalso y El Periquillo Sarniento de José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi. In: Susanne Schlünder, Rolando Carrasco (eds): Configuraciones y transferencias de la modernidad ilustrada (s. XVII) entre España y América. Madrid/Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2025, pp. 65-92.

4.6 Picaresque figures of Christ in Mongo Beti and Calixthe Beyala. In: Susanne Goumegou, Agnieszka Komorowska, Sebastian Thies (eds.): Transkulturationen des Pikaresken in den romanischsprachigen Literaturen Afrikas und Lateinamerikas, Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2025, pp. 205-228.

4.7 Introduction. In: Susanne Goumegou, Agnieszka Komorowska, Sebastian Thies (eds.): Transkulturationen des Pikaresken in den romanischsprachigen Literaturen Afrikas und Lateinamerikas, Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2025, pp. 7-20, together with Susanne Goumegou / Sebastian Thies.

4.8 Gender Matters. Historical Discourse on Friendship. An Introduction", together with Claudia Gronemann In: Claudia Gronemann/Agnieszka Komorowska (eds.): Fe/male Friends:Staging Gender and Friendship Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Spanish Literature, Frankfurt am Main/ Madrid: Vervuert/Iberoamericana, 2023, pp. 7-35.

4.9 Mi casa es su casa. The Gender Politics of Hospitality and Friendship in the Spanish comedia of the Seventeenth Century. In: Claudia Gronemann/Agnieszka Komorowska (eds.): Fe/male Friends:Staging Gender and Friendship in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Spanish Literature, Frankfurt am Main/ Madrid: Vervuert/Iberoamericana, 2023, pp. 61-87.

4.10. The Spiritual Bond of Female Friendship in Early Modern Monastic Literature (Teresa of Ávila and Marcela de San Félix). In: Claudia Gronemann/Agnieszka Komorowska (eds.): Fe/male Friends:Staging Gender and Friendship in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Spanish Literature, Frankfurt am Main/ Madrid: Vervuert/Iberoamericana, 2023, pp. 121-148.

4.11. States of exhaustion in the Rélation de captivité of Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly. In: Andreas Gipper, Susanne Goumegou (eds.): Elan und Müdigkeit. Between vigor and relaxation: Literary figurations and anthropological discourse. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2023, pp. 31-52.

4.12. "Y esta tal ternura, delicadeza y trato se debe dejar a las mujeres." Negotiations of tenderness, friendship and gender in 17th-century Spain using the example of Tirso de Molina. In: Jörn Steigerwald, Burkhard Meyer-Sickendiek (eds.): The Theater of Tenderness. Affektkultur und Inszenierungsstrategie in Komödie, Tragödie und Oper des vorbürgerlichen Zeitalters (1630-1760), Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 2020, pp.77-100.

4.13. Toute honte vue. Les images de la honte chez Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt. In: Wolfgang Asholt, Catherine Coquio, Jürgen Ritte (eds.): Traverser les limites. Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt : le corps, l'histoire, la langue, Paris: Hermann, 2019, pp. 131-145.

4.14. Le regard clinique et la question du genre. La représentation de la psychiatrie dans le film algérien. In: Claudia Gronemann, Sonia Zlitni Fitouri (eds.): Le corps à l'épreuve du genre dans la littérature, le cinéma et le blogue maghrébins de langue française. Tunis: Latrach, 2018, pp. 106-112.

4.15. El arte de negociar el iustum pretium. Mercaderes, amigos y amantes en El amigo hasta la muerte de Lope de Vega. In: Christoph Strosetzki (ed.): El poder de la economía: La imagen de los mercaderes y el comercio en el mundo hispánico de la Edad Moderna, Frankfurt am Main / Madrid: Vervuert / Iberoamericana, 2018, pp. 247-268.

4.16. "Saber usar de los amigos." On the Economy of Friendship and its Failure in the Siglo de Oro, In: Agnieszka Komorowska, Annika Nickenig (eds.): Poetiken des Scheiterns. Forms and functions of uneconomic narration. Fink: Paderborn, 2018, pp.95-117.

4.17. "Le mot 'écrit' ne conviendrait pas." Marguerite Duras' La douleur between autofiction and testimony. In: Christine Ott, Jutta Weiser (eds.): Medienrealität und Autofiktion. Cultural Formations of the Postmodern Subject. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2013, pp.107-127.

4.18. Brave new people: On Michel Houellebecq's Particules élémentaires. In: Anna Sieben, Katja Sabisch-Fechtelpeter, Jürgen Straub (eds.): Menschen machen. The bright and the dark sides of human scientific optimization programs. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2012, pp.445-469. (together with Jörn Steigerwald)

To top

5 Other contributions

5.1 Interview with Joseph Vogl for the thematic issue "Inventer l'économie" (ed. by Claire Pignol / Christophe Reffait) of fabula LhT (Littérature, Histoire, Théorie) (together with Annika Nickenig, in preparation, to be published in 2022)

5.2 La réception allemande de Michel Houellebecq, In : Cahier Houellebecq, ed. by Agathe Novak-Lechevalier, Cahiers de l'Herne 01/ 2017.

To top

6. conference organization

 

29.09.-02.10.2026, University of Kassel

Organization of the 15th Francoromanistiktag "res:soures", together with Claudia Schlaak.

29.09.-02.10.2026, University of Kassel

Organization of the section " Haïti et la crise des ressources : entre dévastation systémique et refondation institutionnelle ", at the 15th French Romance Studies Day, together with Jean Hérald Legagneur

24.06.2025, University of Kassel

Organization of the Italy Day, Glanz und Abgrund: Italien in Kassel gestern und heute / Splendore e abisso: l'Italia a Kassel ieri e oggi

02-04.06.2025, Université de la Sorbonne, CEISAL

Panel: ¿Cómo volver? Restituciones reparaciones, resiliencias ambientales en narrativas y universos visuales en el Caribe / Comment revenir ? Restitutions, réparations, résilience écologique dans les récits et les univers visuels des Caraïbes.together with Kirenia Rodríguez Puerto

20.02.2025, Environmental Forum Berlin

Panel session: "Where does sustainability science meet the humanities in leveraging change?", together with Andra Horcea-Milcu, at the Sustainability Science Summit 2025

05.09.2024, University of Kassel

Panel "Fantastic Climates, Ecofeminism, Queer Ecologies: Doing Gender and Genre, together with Andreas Braun at the 15th Annual Conference of the Society for Fantastic Research

03-04.07.2024, University of Kassel / Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos

Encuentro Latinoamericano 2024: Ecofeminismo y Ecocrítica. Nuevas perspectivas interdisciplinarias desde América Latina y el Caribe, together with Jan-Henrik Witthaus

20.06.2024, University of Kassel

Italientag 2024: Discourses on violence and gender / Discorsi sulla violenza di genere

07-08.06. 2024, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Journée d'études: Imaginaires de la Richesse, together with Claire Pignol

01.03.2024, Kassel Institute for Sustainability

Scoping Workshop: Enlightenment reloaded. Communication in 'hot' societies. Together with Jan-Henrik Witthaus, Angela Schrott, Claudia Schlaak, as part of the Kassel Institute Retreat 2024

13.07.2023, University of Kassel, Institute for Romance Studies

Workshop: Narrativas, Representaciones, (Re)construcciones: Perspectivas cruzadas sobre América Latina, together with Jan-Henrik Witthaus

20.01.2023, University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute for Romance Languages and Literatures

Study day "Authorship in motion", together with Stephanie Bung, Ines Kremer, Guillermo Millán Arana

13.11.2019, University of Mannheim

Workshop "Viajes y naufragios en la literatura española e hispanoamericana", together with Claudia Gronemann and Leonardo Sancho Dobles (Universidad de Costa Rica)

20-22.09.2018, Humboldt University of Berlin

Workshop "Economic Agency between Misfortune and Failure", together with Claire Pignol (PHARE, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Annika Nickenig (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Verena Rauen (University of St. Gallen)

17-19.05.2018, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Workshop "Between domestic and political economy: Concepts of economic agency", together with Claire Pignol (PHARE, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Annika Nickenig (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

01.06.-03.06. 2017, University of Mannheim

International, interdisciplinary conference: "For what it's worth. Challenging and negotiating value in literature and economic theory", in collaboration with Annika Nickenig (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Claire Pignol (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, PHARE)

28.09-01.10.2016, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, French Romance Studies Conference 2016

Section: Le Maghreb renouvelle ses fantômes. Résurgence, recyclage, ressuscitation dans la littérature actuelle (together with Ines Bugert and Claudia Gronemann)

17-20.03.2016, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, ACLA-Conference

Section: Male or female friends? Writing and staging friendship in 17th and 18th century Spanish literature. (together with Claudia Gronemann)

26-29.07.2015, University of Mannheim, Romance Studies Conference 2015

Section: The added value of failure. Forms and functions of uneconomic narration. (together with Annika Nickenig)

13.11.2014, University of Mannheim

Jornada cultural: "The Spanish Nobility: Culture and History(s)", together with Claudia Gronemann

03.03.-6.03.2010, Ruhr University Bochum

Conception and realization of the international doctoral conference "Espace et affectivité /Space and affectivity" with speakers from the universities of Bologna, Madrid, Tours, Utrecht and Wroclaw.

04.11.2009, Ruhr-University Bochum

Workshop "Archive and Knowledge" (organized in collaboration with Hanna Höfer-Lück and Alexander Berner)

03.07.2009, Ruhr-University Bochum

Journée d'études: "The return of narrative in contemporary French literature?" (In collaboration with Jörn Steigerwald)

To top