Articles and contributions

Peer-reviewed journal articles:

  • “Verbesserung… oder Posthumanismus ‘jenseits’ von Gewalt?”, Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 15.3 (2022): 6-19. Available online here.
  • “Posthumanism and the Tragic (Guest Editor’s Introduction)”, CounterText 8.3 (2022): 343-357. Available online here.
  • “The CounterText Interview: Mark McGurl”, CounterText 8.3 (2022): 358-367. Available online here.
  • “Critical Posthumanism, Again”, Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism 1.1 (2021): 66-68. 
  • “Posthuman/ist Literature? Don DeLillo’s Point Omega and Zero K”, Open Library of Humanities 6.2 (2020): 1-25. Available online here.
  • “CounterText, or, the future of criticism”, CounterText 6.1 (2020): 13-25.
  • “Posthumanism and the Ends of Education”, On Education: Journal for Research and Debate 1.2 (2018): 1-5.
  • “Critical Proximity”, Journal for Cultural Research 21.4 (2017): 323-336. 50 free eprints available here.
  • “Fortress”, Parallax 23.1 (special issue on “Autoimmunities”, eds Stefan Herbrechter and Michelle Jamieson; 2017): 1-10. 50 eprints available here.
  • “Hamlet and Posthumanist Politics”, Word & Text 6.1 (2017): 11-21; available online here.
  • “Inhuman – Posthuman – Nonhuman“, PhiN. Philologie im Netz: Beihefte 10 (2016): 9-24; available online here.
  • “Perdre la mesure… Or, The Ecologics of Extinction”, CounterText 2.1 (2016). Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Gegen, or Translating the (En)counter”, CounterText 1.2 (2015): 154-168. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Posthumanistische Bildung?”, Jahrbuch für Pädagogik 2014 (special issue on Menschenverbesserung und Transhumanismus), Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2014: 267-81. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Dis/locating Posthumanism in European Literary and Critical Traditions”, European Journal of English Studies 18.2 (2014), co-authored by Ivan Callus, Stefan Herbrechter and Manuela Rossini: 103-20. Available here. Short version available on the Genealogy of the Posthuman. 
  • “‘Nicht dass ich fürchtete, ein Tier zu werden…’; Ökographie in Marlen Haushofers Die Wand”, Figurationen 15.1 (2014): 41-55. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Posthumanism, Subjectivity, Autobiography”, Subjectivity 6 (2012), special guest- edited issue on “Posthumanist Subjectivities”, eds Stefan Herbrechter & Ivan Callus: 327-47. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Posthumanist Subjectivities, or, Coming After the Subject” (with Ivan Callus), Subjectivity 6 (2012), special guest-edited issue on “Posthumanist Subjectivities”, eds Stefan Herbrechter & Ivan Callus: 241-64. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “What is a Posthumanist Reading?” (with Ivan Callus) Angelaki 13.3 (2008): 95-111. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Criticial Posthumanism or, the inventio of a posthumanism without technology”, with Ivan Callus, Subject Matters 3.2/4.1 (2007): 15-29. Available here.
  • “Badiou, Derrida and The Matrix: Cultural Criticism between Objectless Subjects and Subjectless Objects”, Polygraph 16 (2005; special issue on ‘The Philosophy of Alain Badiou’): 205-220. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “The Latecoming of the Posthuman, Or, Why ‘We’ Do the Apocalypse Differently, ‘Now.’” Reconstruction 4:3 (2004). Available online.
  • “Preface: Alterities – Politics of In(ter)vention”, Parallax 33 (special issue “Derrida & Labarrière, Alterities”, trans. and ed. Stefan Herbrechter) 2004: 1-16. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Durrell, Encounter, Deconstruction”, Agora 3.1 (2004). Available here.
  • “Plus d’un – Deconstruction and the Translation of Cultural Studies”, Culture Machine 6 (special issue on Cultural Studies and Deconstruction) 2004. Available online.
  • “What’s Wrong with Posthumanism?” (with Ivan Callus) Rhizomes 7 (special issue ‘Theory’s Others’) (Fall 2003). Available online.
  • “Postwriting: Intertextuality and the End of History in Durrell, Swift and Barnes”, In-Between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism 11:2 (2002): 241-262. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Durrell – Auto/Bio/Graphie”, Confluences XXI (2002): 191-202 [in French] available here.
  • “L’Histoire de Durrell”, Confluences XV (1998): 243-262 [in French] available here.

Peer-reviewed contributions to edited collections:

  • “Figuration, or the Desire of the Posthuman ”, ed. Nidesh Lawtoo, Homo Mimeticus 2.0 in Art, Philosophy and Technics, Critical Posthumanisms CPH5 (Leiden: Brill, 2024): 215-236. Open access.
  • “Unlearning to Be Human? The Pedagogical Implications of Twenty-first-Century Post-Anthropocentrism”, eds Christine Daigle and Matt Hayler, Posthumanism in Practice (London: Bloomsbury, 2024): 212-226. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Yearning for the Human in Posthuman Times: On Camus’s Tragic Humanism”, eds. Basak Agin and Safak Horzum, Posthuman Pathogenesis: Contagion in Literature, Arts, and the Media (New York: Routledge, 2023): 23-41. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Dead, Alive: Deconstruction, Biopolitics and Life Death”, eds Saul Newman and Tihomir Topuzovski, The Posthuman Pandemic (London: Bloomsbury, 2022): 60-77. Pre-publication copy here. 
  • “Biohumanities”, ed. Danielle Sands, Bioethics and the Posthumanities (London: Routledge, 2022): 67-76. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Poststructuralism and the End(s) of Humanism”, ed. Sherryl Vint, After the Human: Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the 21st Century (Cambridge: CUP, 2020): 31-43. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Posthumanist Education?”, ed. Paul Smeyers et al., International Handbook of Philosophy of Education (Dordrecht: Springer, 2018): 727-745. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Critical Posthumanism”, Posthuman Glossary, eds Rosi Braidotti & Maria Hlavajova (London: Bloomsbury, 2018): 94-96. Online version on the Genalogy of the Posthuman.
  • “Microbes”, The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies, eds. Lynn Turner, Undine Sellbach and Ron Broglio (Edinburgh: EUP, 2018): 354-366.
  • “Postmodern”, Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman, eds. Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017): 54-68. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Derrida On Screen”, The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television, eds Michael Hauskeller et al. (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2015): 28-36. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Shakespeare – Early, Late or Posthumanist? The Case of Hamlet”, Literature and The Long Modernity, eds Mihaela Irimia & Andreea Paris (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014): 45-56. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Hamlet jenseits einer psychologischen Deutung (1): Post-Humanist Hamlet”, Hamlet-Handbuch, ed. Peter W. Marx (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2014): 96-101. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Treasuring the Self: Romanticism… in Theory”, Treasure in Literature and Culture, ed. Rainer Emig (Heidelberg: Winter, 2013): 35-48. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Posthumanism” (with Ivan Callus), Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory, eds. Paul Wake and Simon Malpas, 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 2013): 144-53. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Theory… for Life”, Style in Theory: Between Literature and Philosophy, eds Ivan Callus, James Corby & Gloria Lauri-Lucente (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2012): 303-22. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Introduction – Shakespeare Ever After”, Posthumanist Shakespeares, eds Stefan Herbrechter & Ivan Callus (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2012): 1-22. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “‘a passion so strange, outrageous, and so variable’: The Invention of the Inhuman in The Merchant of Venice”, Posthumanist Shakespeares, eds Stefan Herbrechter & Ivan Callus (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2012): 41-57. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Shakespeare Ever After: Posthumanism and Shakespeare”, Humankinds: The Renaissance and Its Anthropologies, eds Andreas Höfele & Stephan Laqué (Berlin & New York: De Gruyter, 2011): 261-278. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Humanity without Itself: Robert Musil, Giorgio Agamben and Posthumanism” (with Ivan Callus), Towards a New Literary Humanism, ed. Andy Mousley (Houndmills: Palgrave, 2010): 143-58. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Postmodernism”,  The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science, eds Bruce Clarke & Manuela Rossini (New York: Routledge, 2011): 518-528. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Introduction: Did Somebody Say ‘Cy-Borges’?”, Cy-Borges, eds Stefan Herbrechter & Ivan Callus (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2008): 15-38. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Posthumanism in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges” (with Ivan Callus),  Latin American Cyberculture and Cyberliterature, eds Thea Pitman & Claire Taylor (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007): 179-193. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “The Grammar of Deconstruction” (with Ivan Callus), Encountering Derrida: Legacies and Futures of Deconstruction, eds Simon Morgan Wortham & Allison Weiner (London: Continuum, 2007): 137-151. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “The Posthuman Subject in The Matrix”, The Matrix in Theory, eds Miriam Diocaretz & Stefan Herbrechter (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006): 249-289.  Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Auto/bi(o)/graphy”, Fiction and Autobiography: Modes and Models of Interaction, eds. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Wolfgang Görtschacher, Salzburg Studies in English Literature and Culture 3 (Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2006): 315-326. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Xenography – The Stranger in The Merchant of Venice”, Realigning Renaissance Culture: Intrusion and Adjustment on the Renaissance Stage, eds Stephan Laqué and Enno Ruge (Trier: WVT, 2004): 15-31. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Introduction: The Resistibility of Theory: Repositioning, Returning, Reclaiming Critical Practice” (with Ivan Callus), Discipline and Practice, eds Stefan Herbrechter & Ivan Callus (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2004): 23-44. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Extroduction: The Irresistibility of the Posthuman: Questioning ‘New Cultural Theory’” (with Ivan Callus), Discipline and Practice, eds Stefan Herbrechter & Ivan Callus (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2004): 226-258. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Toying with the Postmodern – ‘To Infinity and Beyond’”, Post-Theory, Culture, Criticism, eds Ivan Callus and Stefan Herbrechter (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2004): 141-166. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Theory Reloaded” (with Ivan Callus), Post-Theory, Culture Criticism, eds Ivan Callus and Stefan Herbrechter (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2004): 281-294. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “The Translation of Cultural Studies”, Cultural Studies/ Études culturelles, eds André Kaenel et al. (Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2003): 55-71. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Nice Work Sisters – Marketing (and) Cultural Studies (and) the Third Way”, Nice Work? Critical Perspectives on the Changing Nature of Labour, Leisure, and Unemployment in Britain, ed. Peter Drexler (Trier: WVT , 2003): 83-93. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Masculinity in the Work of Irvine Welsh”, Subverting Masculinity: Alternative and Hegemonic Versions of Masculinity in Contemporary Culture, eds West, Russell et al. (Rodopi: Amsterdam, 2000): 109-127. Pre-publication copy here.
  • “Cosmopolitanism and (E)Urope: Translating the Other”, Britons and Germans, ed. Rainer Emig (London: Macmillan, 2000): 187-201. Pre-publication copy here.