PUBLICATIONS:
In 2000 Das Schreiben des anderen Geschlechts appeared at Königshausen & Neuman: A comparative study of the creation and creativity of female writing figures in key narrative texts of the 18th century, the book examines writing and reading according to gender, narrative inscription of the body, and entanglement of desire for and simultaneous repression of the other in Richardson's Pamela novels, in Rousseau's Julie and Émile, and in Goethe's three Wilhelm Meister novels.

"Psychoanalyse eines Mythos: Nachdenken über Christa T.," Monatshefte 79 (1987): 463-77.

"Normative Gender Discourse: Laplanche vs. Freud's Critics," in Fictions of Culture:Essays in Honor of Walter H. Sokel, ed. Steven Taubeneck (New York: Lang, 1991), 247-72.

"Body Language as Expression of Repression: Lethal Reverberations of Fascism in Die Ausgesperrten," in Framed by Language, ed. Jorun B. Johns and Katherine Arens (Riverside: Ariadne Press, 1994), 194-228.

"'Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand, wer ist Subjekt in diesem Land?': Spektakuläre Spekulationen schreibender Frauen," in Bodies, Discourses, Practices:Readings in the German Cultural Tradition, ed. Brigitte Prutti and Sabine Wilke (Dresden: Dresden University Press, 2003).

WORK IN PROGRESS:
My current book project, entitled Narratives of the Repressed: Accounts of Violence in German Women's Writing, is an interdisciplinary study of law, ethics, and literature that investigates the possible evolution of a feminine ethics in literature by women. The historical parameters are the Prussian legal code of 1794, the Allgemeines Landrecht, and its regressive revisions during the 19th century, on the one hand, and the post-WWII reforms of family and marriage laws in the German civil code on the other.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
20th-, 19th-, and 18th-Century German Literature and Culture / Austrian Cultural History / 18th-Century European Novel
Women Writers / Law and Literature / Contemporary Literary Theory