i) Monographs

Shifting Perspectives: East German Autobiographical Narratives Before and After the End of the GDR, Camden House, Rochester NY, 2007 (267 pp.)

Franz Fühmann: Innovation and Authenticity. A Study of his Prose-Writing, Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1995 (263 pp.)

The East German Novel: Identity, Community, Continuity , Bath University Press/St Martin’s Press, Bath & New York, 1984 (viii + 264 pp.)

ii) Edited Monographs

Dislocation and Reorientation: Exile, Division and the End of Communism in German Culture and Politics. In Honour of Ian Wallace (German Monitor 71), Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2009 (330 pp.)  [with Axel Goodbody and Pol O Dochartaigh]

Views from Abroad: Die DDR aus britischer Perspektive, Bertelsmann, Bielefeld, 2007 (284 pp.)  [with Peter Barker and Marc-Dietrich Ohse]

[with Gerd Labroisse and Ian Wallace] Heiner Müller: Probleme und Perspektiven [Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 48], Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2000 (531 pp.)

Günter de Bruyn in Perspective [German Monitor 44], Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1999 (234 pp.)

[with Axel Goodbody] Geist und Macht: Writers and the State in the German Democratic Republic [German Monitor 29], Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1992 (236 pp.)

Günter de Bruyn: Märkische Forschungen (Manchester New German Texts), Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1990 (viii + 175 pp.)

[with Michael Scriven] European Socialist Realism, Berg, Oxford & New York, 1988 (viii + 184 pp.)

iii) Articles

Brandenburg as a ‘spiritual way of life’? Günter de Bruyn and the appeal of living ‘off the beaten track’, in: The Politics of Place in Post-War Germany: Essays in Literary Criticism, ed. David Clarke and Renate Rechtien, Mellen Press, Lewiston, 2009, pp. 197-215.

‘Von der Fröhlichkeit im Schrecken’: Fred Wander’s celebration of dislocation, in: Dislocation and Reorientation: Exile, Division and the End of Communism in German Culture and Politics [see above], pp. 197-208.

‘Böhme[n] am Meer’, ‘Bohemien mit Heimweh’: Franz Fühmann’s competing identities and his tribute to ‘Tonio Kröger’, in: The Text and its Context: Studies in Modern German Literature and Society. Presented to Ronald Speirs on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, ed. Nigel Harris and Joanne Sayner, Lang, Oxford, 2008, pp. 289-301.

Das Ende des ‘Literaturstreits’ und die Rehabilitierung der autobiografischen Prosa ostdeutscher Schriftsteller in der Berliner Republik, in: Views from Abroad: Die DDR aus britischer Perspektive [see above], pp. 53-64.

Angelsächsische Forschungen: Günter de Bruyn in der englischsprachigen Welt, in: ‘Und doch gleicht keines der Dörfer dem anderen’: 80 Seiten von und zu Günter de Bruyn, ed. Lothar Jordan, Kleist Museum, Frankfurt/Oder, 2006, pp. 41-46

War as a ‘god-damned crusade’: The continuing significance of Stefan Heym’s ‘The Crusaders’, in: Schreiben gegen Krieg und Gewalt: Ingeborg Bachmann und die deutschsprachige Literatur 1945-1980, ed. Dirk Göttsche und Franziska Meyer, V&R Unipress, Göttingen, 2006, pp. 119-30

„’Ich wer ist das’ – Dropping the mask of ambiguity? The autobiographical thrust of Heiner Müller’s late writing”, in Denkbilder. Festschrift für Eoin Bourke, ed. Hermann Rasche and Christiane Schönfeld, Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2004, pp. 266-76.

„’[...] vielleicht nur für Franz geschrieben’: Volker Braun’s intertextual tributes to his special relationship with Franz Fühmann“, in Volker Braun in Perspective, ed. Rolf Jucker, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2004, pp. 71-90.

„ Travelling on the S-Bahn: German border crossings before and after unification“, in Border Crossings: Mapping Identities in Modern Europe, ed. Peter Wagstaff, Lang, Oxford, 2004, pp. 81-104.

“Uwe Johnson’s awkward legacy: A sympathetic secret policeman of the pre-‘Stasi’ era”, in Writers and the The Politics of Culture: Dealing with the Stasi, ed. Paul Cooke and Andrew Plowman, Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2003, pp. 25-40.

“Ein nicht anerkannter britischer Durchbruch: Franz Fühmanns Beitrag zum Erfolg des Films ‘Der Schwur des Soldaten Pooley’, in ‘Dichter sein heißt aufs Ganze aus sein’ – Zugänge zu Poetologie und Werk Franz Fühmanns, ed. Brigitte Krüger, Lang, Frankfurt/M., 2003, pp. 201-217.

“The end of autobiography? The older generation of East German authors take stock”, in Legacies and Identity: East and West German Responses to Unification, ed. Martin Kane, Lang, Oxford, 2002, pp. 11-26.

“Border Crossings and Walls in Heads: German Culture since Unification” [inaugural lecture, April 2001]. Published as Occasional Paper No. 13, European Research Institute, University of Bath. http://www.bath.ac.uk/eri/ERI-occasional-papers.htm

“A pioneering work of autobiographical fiction or a travesty of the biographical facts? Stephan Hermlin’s ‘Abendlicht’”, in Bestandsaufnahme: Deutsche Literatur zehn Jahre nach der Vereinigung, ed. Wolfgang Müller, Christine Cosentino and Wolfgang Ertl, glossen 10, 2000. http://www.dickinson.edu/glossen

“‘Mehr Freiheit zur Wahrheit’: The fictionalisation of adolesencent experience in Christoph Hein’s ‘Von allem Anfang an’”, in Christoph Hein, ed. Bill Niven and David Clarke, University of Wales Press, Cardiff , 2000, pp. 117-134.

“Changing perspectives on Günter de Bruyn: An introduction”, in Dennis Tate (ed.), Günter de Bruyn in Perspective [see under (ii) above], pp. 1-8.

Contributions to the Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture, ed. John Sandford, Routledge, London, 1999 [acted as consultant editor and wrote forty-five entries totalling around 15,000 words, including Berliner Ensemble, Günter de Bruyn, Censorship: GDR, Deutsches Theater, Drama: GDR, Franz Fühmann, Christoph Hein, Hermann Kant, Der deutsch-deutsche Literaturstreit, Georg Lukács, Myth, Ulrich Plenzdorf, Prose fiction: GDR, Publishing: GDR, Socialist Realism, Writers’ Congresses: GDR, Writers’ Union of the GDR, plus twenty-eight short entries].

“A history full of holes? France and the French resistance in the work of Stephan Hermlin”, in European Memories of the Second World War, ed. Helmut Peitsch, Charles Burdett and Claire Gorarra, Berghahn, New York & Oxford, 1999, pp. 55-66.

“The spectre of the apocalypse in the work of Franz Fühmann”, in Literatur und Ökologie, ed. Axel Goodbody [Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 43] Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1998, pp. 257-70.

“Fühmanns heimliche Odyssee: Die Rezeption von James Joyce in seinem Werk”, in Jeder hat seinen Fühmann: Zugänge zu Poetologie und Werk Franz Fühmanns, ed. Brigitte Krüger, Margrid Bircken and Helmut John, Lang, Frankfurt/Main, 1998, pp. 185-96.

“Keeping the Biermann Affair in perspective: Repression, resistance and the articulation of despair”, in Retrospect and Review: Aspects of the Literature of the GDR 1976-1990, ed. Robert Atkins and Martin Kane [German Monitor 40], Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1997, pp. 1-15.

“Günter de Bruyn: The ‘gesamtdeutsche Konsensfigur’ of post-unification literature?”, in German Life and Letters. 50, No. 2, 1997, pp. 201-13.

“Delusions of grandeur and Oedipal guilt: Franz Fühmann’s Greek experience as the focus of his war stories”, in Von Böll bis Buchheim: Deutsche Kriegsprosa nach 1945, ed. Hans Wagener [Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 42], Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1997, pp. 389-405.

“James Joyce and Socialist Realism: Modernist awareness and ideological constraints in GDR literature”, in In the Party Spirit: Socialist Realism and Literary Practice in the Soviet Union, East Germany and China, ed. Hilary Chung et al., Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1996, pp. 141-49.

“Unexpected affinities: Johannes Bobrowski’s ‘Boehlendorff’ and Franz Fühmann’s ‘Barlach in Güstrow’ as landmarks in the early evolution of GDR literature”, in Johannes Bobrowski (1917-1965), ed. John Wieczorek, Centre for East German Studies, University of Reading, Reading, 1996, pp. 37-52.

“Writing in the shadow of Auschwitz: The moral imperative at the heart of East German literature”, in Reconstructing the Past: Representations of the Fascist Era in Postwar European Culture, ed. Graham Bartram, Maurice Slawinski and David Steel, Keele UP, Keele, 1995, pp. 118-34.

“The failed socialist experiment: Culture in the GDR” [with Axel Goodbody and Ian Wallace], in German Cultural Studies: An Introduction, ed. Rob Burns, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995, pp. 147-208.

“‘...natürlich ein politischer Roman’. ‘Märkische Forschungen’ im Kontext der Honecker-Ära”, in Günter de Bruyn [Text und Kritik 127], ed. Heinz Ludwig Arnold, edition text und kritik, Munich, 1995, 84-91.

“Trapped in the past? The identity problems of East German writers since the ‘Wende’“, in Germany in the 1990s, ed. Hans J Hahn [German Monitor 33], Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1995, 1-16.

“Undercover Odyssey: The reception of James Joyce in the work of Franz Fühmann”, in German Life and Letters. 47, No. 3, 1994, pp. 302-12.

“‘Neue deutsche Literatur’: The forum of the divided nation”, in German Writers and the Cold War, ed. Rhys W. Williams, Stephen Parker and Colin Riordan, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1992, pp. 47-64.

“The sufferings of ‘Kamerad Fühmann’: A case of distorted reception in both German states”, in German Literature at a Time of Change 1989-90, ed. Arthur Williams, Stuart Parkes and Roland Smith, Lang, Berne, Frankfurt & New York, 1991, pp. 285-98.

“Franz Fühmann: A neglected legacy”, in Socialism and the Literary Imagination, ed. Martin Kane, Oxford & New York, 1991, pp. 91-105.

“Subjective authenticity in Franz Fühmann’s early prose writing”, in Studies in GDR Culture and Society, ed. Margy Gerber et al., Vol. 10, Lanham & New York, 1991, pp. 135-50.

“Max Schwedenow, the identikit Romantic? Günter de Bruyn’s ‘Märkische Forschungen’”, in Neue Ansichten: The Reception of Romanticism in the Literature of the GDR, ed. Howard Gaskill, Karin McPherson and Andrew Barker, Amsterdam, 1990, pp. 27-40.

“The socialist metropolis? Images of East Berlin in the literature of the GDR”, in Berlin - Literary Images of a City, ed. Derek Glass, Dietmar Rösler and John J. White, Berlin, 1989, pp. 146-61.

“The ‘other’ German literature: Convergence and cross-fertilisation”, in After the Death of literature: West German Writing of the 1970s, ed. Keith Bullivant, Oxford & New York, 1989, pp. 176-93.

“Joachim Walther: An update”, in GDR Monitor 20, 1989, pp. 81-82.

“‘Breadth and diversity’: Socialist Realism in the GDR”, in European Socialist Realism [see under (ii) above], pp. 60-78.

[with Michael Scriven] “Introduction”, in European Socialist Realism [see under (ii) above], pp. 1-10.

“The novel in the GDR”, in The Modern German Novel, ed. Keith Bullivant, Leamington Spa & New York, 1987, pp. 3-18.

“Franz Fühmann als Lyriker und Förderer der Lyrik in der DDR”, in ‘Ein Moment des erfahrenen Lebens’ - Zur Lyrik der DDR, ed. John L. Flood, Amsterdam, 1987, pp. 51-72.

“Beyond ‘Kulturpolitik’: The GDR’s established authors and the challenge of the l980s”, in The GDR in the 1980s, ed. Ian Wallace, Dundee, 1984, pp. 15-29.

“‘Ewige deutsche Misere’? GDR authors and Büchner’s ‘Lenz’“, in Culture and Society in the GDR, ed. Graham Bartram and Anthony Waine, Dundee, 1984, pp. 85-99.

“Rediscovering Marx: The coming of age of East German Literature”, in The Crane Bag.7, No.1 (Special issue on ‘Socialism and Culture’), 1983, pp. 13-16.

“Not just an Irish obsession? The sense of place in the work of Seamus Heaney and Johannes Bobrowski”, in Irland: Gesellschaft und Kultur. 3, Halle/GDR, 1982, pp. 304-17.

“Socialist Realism as an agent of protest: Stefan Heym’s ‘Five Days in June’”, in Times Higher Educational Supplement, 11.2.1977 [review article].

“Community under Scrutiny: The short story in contemporary East German writing”, in Atlantis 6, 1973-74, pp. 26-36.

September 2004