select publications
- Heredity, Race, and the Birth of the Modern. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2008.
- Sara Eigen and Mark Larrimore, eds. The German Invention of Race. New York: SUNY Press, 2006. Reissued in paperback, 2007.
- “Liebe Perla, Memento Mori,” Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature and Culture 22 (2006): 1-20.
- “Introduction: The German Invention of Race.” Co-authored with Mark Larrimore. In The German Invention of Race. Eds. Sara Eigen and Mark Larrimore. SUNY Press, 2006. 1-7.
- “Policing the Menschen=Racen.” In The German Invention of Race. Eds. Sara Eigen and Mark Larrimore. SUNY Press, 2006. 185-202.
- “Self, Race, and Species: Blumenbach’s Atlas Experiment,” German Quarterly 78 (2005): 277-298.
- “Hannah Arendt’s Lessing-Rede and the ‘Truths’ of History,” Lessing Yearbook 32 (2000): 309-324.
- “A Mother’s Love, a Father’s Line: Law, Medicine, and the Eighteenth-Century Fictions of Patrilineal Genealogy,” in Genealogie als Denkform. Eds. Kilian Heck and Bernhard Jahn. Tübingen: Niemeyer Verlag, 2000. 87-107.
working project
- Enemies, Neighbors, Next-of-Kin: Enlightened Theories of Amity, Enmity, Talk, and War. Manuscript in progress.
recent presentations
- “The Caucasian Slave Race: Racial Improvement by Racial Mixing,” Workshop on “Human Breeding for the Improvement of the Nations,” German Historical Institute, 2008.
- “Colonial Metamorphosis: Hans Grimm’s African Writings,” 2nd Annual Transdisciplinary Literary and Cultural Studies Conference: Metamorphosis and Place, Fatih University, Istanbul (Turkey), 2007.
- “Enemies, Neighbors, Next-of-Kin: Prussia’s Enlightening Theories of War,” Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Studies Workshop, 2006.
- “A Catechism for War: Frederick the Great’s Brotherhood of Man”, GSA, Pittsburg, 2006.
- “Hans Grimm. Reading Style Against Theme (or, how literature—even Hans Grimm’s—eludes monochromatic political interpretation),” GSA, Milwaukee, 2005.
- “Extreme Natural History: Portraiture and Anthropological Illustration in the Eighteenth Century,” Conference on “Extreme and Sentimental History,” Vanderbilt University, 2004.
- “Liebe Perla: Voyeurism, Medical Ethics, and the Use of Nazi Analogy,” GSA, Washington, D.C., 2004.
- “Political Theater and the Limits of Empathy (Lessing’s Nathan),” ASECS, Boston, 2004.
- “Zeugung des Gutes,” for a symposium on “Generation als symbolische Form,” Zentrum für Literaturforschung, Berlin, 2002. Full travel and residency support provided by host institution.
public lectures
- Public Panel discussion on “The Protocols of Zion,” The Belcourt Theater, Nashville, 2005 Public Lecture/Introduction and discussion of “Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust,” Nashville Jewish Film Festival, 2005
- Public Lecture/Introduction and discussion of “Alles auf Zucker,” Nashville Jewish Film Festival, 2005
- Public Lecture at the Frist Museum of Art on “Children in Royal Portraiture,” 2004
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