• Forthcoming: American Soundscapes. Eds. Lea Brenningmeyer, Martin Butler, Rebecca Käpernick and Michaela Keck. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
• Representations of Health, Illness, and Repair in the Works of Louisa May Alcott. Lanham, MD: Lexington / Bloomsbury, November 2024 (hardback 2025).  https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/representations-of-health-illness-and-repair-in-the-works-of-louisa-may-alcott-9781666922646/.
• Deliberately Out of Bounds: Women's Work on Classical Myth in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017. https://www.winter-verlag.de/en/detail/978-3-8253-7676-5/Keck_Deliberately_Out_of_Bounds_PDF/.
• Walking in the Wilderness. The Peripatetic Tradition in Nineteenth-Century American Painting and Literature. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2006. https://www.winter-verlag.de/en/detail/978-3-8253-5196-0/Keck_Michaela_Walking_in_the_Wilderness/. 

Co-editor of the IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship: https://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-literature-and-librarianship/.

• Forthcoming: "Colliding Temporalities and Collaborative Writing in The Whole Family (1908): A Response to Hannah Champion," Canadian Review of American Studies, special issue on The Whole Family. 
• Forthcoming: "The Embodied Child in Edith M. Eaton's Mrs. Spring Fragrance." Canadian Literature / Littérature canadienne, Forum, 2026. 
• "Like Asteroids Spinning Through Time and Space: Chronotopicity in The Whole Family." IAFOR Journal for Literature & Librarianship 14.1 (2025): 7-22. Web. https://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-literature-and-librarianship/volume-14-issue-1/.
• "A Shared Passion for Nonsense: Laura E. Richards and Margaret Atwood.” European Journal of American Studies 19.4 (2024). Web. https://doi.org/10.4000/12war.
• "The Artpolitics of the Powerless in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad.” Margaret Atwood Studies 17 (2024): 61-80. https://atwoodsociety.org/volume-17-2024-table-of-contents/.
• "Psyche and Pygmalion: The Heart's Desires Revised in Louisa May Alcott's A Marble Woman." Special issue of European Journal of American Studies 17.3 (2022). Web.  
• „Women's Complicity, Resistance, and Moral Agency: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments.” Gender Forum 82 (2022): 12-33. Web. https://doi.org/10.18716/ojs/gefo/2022.2572.
• "Plastic (in) Paradise: Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rain Forest." IAFOR Journal for Literature & Librarianship 10.1 (July 2021): 26-40. Web.
• "Indian Education for All on Montana's Flathead Reservation." Academia Letters (March 2021). Web.
• "Paradise Retold: Revisionist Mythmaking in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy." Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment  9.2 (2018): 23-40. ecozona.eu/issue/view/152/showToc.
• "Marginocentricity and cosmopolitan interconnections of black radical thought in Arna Bontemps's Black Thunder." Atlantic Studies 14.1 (2017): 37-50. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FUabP9Aw38T5sA8CMT2Q/full
• "Culture-Crossing in Madison Smartt Bell's Haitian Trilogy and Neo-Captivity Narrative." Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology 12.1 (2015): 115-28.
• "Complicating the Reading of Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting: Albert Bierstadt’s Western Visions, Aesthetics, and Sociology." Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 39.2 (September 2013): 139-161.
• "Female Self-Possession and Material Feminism in Elizabeth Stoddard's 'A Study for a Heroine' (1885)." Sun Yat-sen Journal of the Humanities 33 (July 2012): 133-150.
• "Mythology and Mythography in Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard’s Two Men." Sun Yat-sen Journal of the Humanities 30 (January 2011): 185-216.
• “‘Murder in the Dark’: Lying Games, or Margaret Atwood’s Ioci.” Margaret Atwood Studies 2.2 (May 2009): 3-14.
• “‘Kindred Spirits’ in Romantic Walks: Durand’s Kindred Spirits Compared to Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Mist.” Amerikastudien 52.1 (June 2007): 35-46.

• Forthcoming: „Feminist Revisionist Mythmaking.” Metzler Lexikon Mythentheorien. Eds. Almut-Barbara Renger and Roland Ißler. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.  
• Forthcoming: „Classica Africana.” Metzler Lexikon Mythentheorien. Eds. Almut-Barbara Renger and Roland Ißler. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.  
• Forthcoming: "Toni Morrison (1931-2019)." Metzler Lexikon Mythentheorien. Eds. Almut-Barbara Renger and Roland Ißler. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.
• "And the Story Lives On: Fred Fordham's Graphic Novel Adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird." Writing, Retelling, and Cricitally Reading Children's and Young Adult Tales. Ed. Bernard Montoneri. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-89767-2?utm_medium=catalog&utm_source=sn-bks&utm_campaign=search_tool&utm_content=online_result_list&srsltid=AfmBOorqalFNNg8Z5G38RRnSRNwMWEgzb5ufDOv8x2__7vPMXjKhjH-b.
• "Black Time Travel, Chronotopicity, and the Reparative Desire for Beauty in Pauline E. Hopkins's Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self.” In: Time Travel in World Literature and Cinema. Ed. Bernard Montoneri. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 171-201.
• "With Second Sight and Afro-pessimism: The Im/Possibility of Black Utopia in Martin R. Delany's Blake; or, The Huts of America." Science Fiction and Anticipation: Utopias, Dystopias and Time Travel. Ed. Bernard Montoneri. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. 67-89.
• "Of Birds and Men: Lessons from Mark Cocker’s Crow Country.” Multispecies Futures: New Approaches to Teaching Human-Animal Studies. Eds. Maria Moss, Micha Gerrit Philipp Edlich, and Andreas Hübner. Neofelis, 2022. 115-30.
• "Aquatic Insights from Roger Deakin's Waterlog." Signs of Water: Community Perspectives on Water, Responsibility, and Hope. Eds. Robert Boschman and Sonya L. Jakubec. Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary Press, 2022. 37-58. (University of Calgary Open Access Books)
• "Paradoxien von Authentizität: Kunstauthentizität und Unmittelbarkeit in der Bildwahrnehmung bei Edward Hopper und seiner Kunst." Authentizität transversal: Multiperspektivische Betrachtungen von 'Echtheit'. Ed. Berit Callsen. Frank und Timme, 2021. 55-73.
• "Prophesy and Racial Trauma in the Black Freedom Struggle: Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi." Life Mapping as Cultural Legacy. Eds. I-Chun Wang and Mary Theis. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021. 90-105. books.google.de/books?id=V5QYEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA90&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false.
• "Uncanny New Worlds in Harriet Prescott Spofford's 'D'Outre Mort' and 'The Black Bess.'" Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities. Eds. Julius Greve and Florian Zappe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 25-40.
• "Lydia Maria Child: Hobomok (1824)." Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth-Century. Ed. Christine Gerhardt. De Gruyter Series Handbooks of English and American Studies, vol. 7. Eds. Martin Middeke, Gabriele Rippl, Hubert Zapf. De Gruyter, 2018. 183-200.
• "Teacher Bye Bye: Memories of Teaching Literature in Taiwan." Education and EFL in Taiwan: Policy and Practice. Ed. Paul W. Mathews. Warrior Publishers, Australia, 2017. 188-97.
• "Of Marble Women and Sleeping Nymphs: Louisa May Alcott's A Modern Mephistopheles." Translating Myth. Eds. Ben Pestell, Pietra Palazzolo, and Leon Burnett. Oxford: Legenda, 2016. 120-36.
• "'Maenad-in-Motion': Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Reconfiguration of the Dionysius Cult in A New-England Tale (1822)." Proceedings of the 2nd International Aksit Gögtürk Conference: Myths Revisited. Istanbul: Diltra, 2014. 53-66.
• “Notions of Love in Louisa May Alcott’s A Modern Mephistopheles.” Emotions in Literature. Eds. An, Sonjae and Francis So. Seoul: National Korean University Press, 2010. 191-215.
• "Discourses in Antebellum American Art: Frederic Edwin Church’s Natural Bridge, Virginia in Dialogue with Robert Scott Duncanson’s Uncle Tom and Little Eva.” An Interpretive Turn: Art, Literature, and Culture in the 19th and 20th Century. Eds. Yuan, Heh-hsiang and Shu-fang Lai. Taipei: Bookman, 2010. 41-68.
• “Changing Iconologies in Twentieth-Century Cinema: Three Versions of Alcott’s Little Women.” Reading Films: Proceedings of the 2009 Providence University English Festival. Ed. Haseltine, Patricia. Taipei: Providence University, 2009. 12-31.
• “Thoreau’s Walden and the American Dream: Challenge or Myth?” Bloom’s Literary Themes: The American Dream. Eds. Bloom, Harold and Blake Hobby. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2009. 213-23.
• “Der Spaziergang in der Neuen Welt: Henry David Thoreaus ‘Art of Walking.’” Kopflandschaften–Landschaftsgänge. Kulturgeschichte und Poetik des Spaziergangs. Eds. Gellhaus, Axel, Christian Moser and Helmut J. Schneider. Cologne: Böhlau, 2007. 201-17.
• “‘The Abbot’s Ghost’–Alcott’s Struggle for Virtuous Womanhood.” Ghosts, Stories, Histories: Ghost Stories and Alternative Histories. Ed. Sladja Blazan. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. 21-31.

• "Agnes Hoffmann: Landschaft im Nachbild: Imaginationen von Natur in der Literatur um 1900 bei Henry James und Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Baden-Baden: Rombach Wissenschaft, 2020. 356 S.” Arcadia 57.2 (2022): 366-71. https://doi.org/10.1515/arcadia-2022-9060.
• "Philipp Löffler (ed.). Reading the Canon: Literary History in the 21^st Century. American Studies – A Monograph Series, vol. 281. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017, 458 pp., € 58.00." Anglia 136.3 (2018): 555-559.
• "Christina Schäffer. The Brownies' Book: Inspiring Racial Pride in African-American Children. Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik 60 (Frankfurt et. al: Peter Lang, 2012), 536 pp." and "Gary D. Schmidt, Making Americans: Children's Literature from 1930 to 1960 (Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2013), 318 pp." Amerikastudien 62.3 (2017). dgfa.de/category/reviews/volume-62-3/african-american-childhood-and-childrens-literature/
• "Sabina Matter-Seibel. Contending Forces: Romantraditionen amerikanischer Schriftstellerinnen 1850-1900." Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik 61 (Frankfurt et. al: Peter Lang, 2013), 622 pp." Amerikastudien 61.1 (2016). dgfa.de/sabina-matter-seibel-contending-forces-romantraditionen-amerikanischer-Schriftstellerinnen-1850-1900-mainzer-studien-zur-amerikanistik-61-frankfurt-et-al-peter-land-2013-622-pp/
• "Angelica’s Daughters: Filipina American Collaborative Writing, Art Form, and Collective Experience.” Asian Studies Journal 47 (2011): 109-116.

• In the summer semester 2024, the students of the master course "19th-Century American Women's fiction" participated in a COIL project (Collarborative Online International Learning) with a class by Professor Damon-Bach from Salem State University. The students worked on an annotated online version of that part of Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home (1841) that covers her travels through Germany. In addition to Sedgwick's letters, the document also contains an introduction written by the students, a brief afterword by myself, and a short bibliography with reading and teaching materials for the project: https://oops.uni-oldenburg.de/6937/.
• "An Homage to Diversity: Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth (1991)." American Studies Blog. 2 December 2020. blog.asjournal.org/draft-an-homage-to-diversity-jim-jarmuschs-night-on-earth-1991/#more-5131.
• "Louisa May Alcott." (12:51-21:51). CUTS: Der kritische Film Podcast from Steady, 30 January 2020, cuts.podigee.io/7-little-women.
• "Personal Recollections: The Fall of the Berlin Wall." American Studies Blog. 6 November 2019. blog.asjournal.org/personal-recollections-the-fall-of-the-wall/.
• "The 'Deep Story' of the White American South, or Strangers in Their Own Land (2016) by Arlie Russell Hochschild." American Studies Blog. 23 May 2018. Web. blog.asjournal.org/the-deep-story-of-the-white-american-south-or-strangers-in-their-own-land-2016-by-arlie-russell-hochschild-part-i/.
• "Hiking in the Anthropocene." American Studies Blog. 17 May 2017. Web. blog.asjournal.org/hiking-in-the-anthropocene/.
• "Walking on Cape Cod." American Studies Blog. 26 October 2016. Web. blog.asjournal.org/walking-cape-cod/.
• "Under Dark Skies." American Studies Blog. 27 January 2016. Web. blog.asjournal.org/under-dark-skies-a-review-essay/.
• "Three Decades of Nature and Culture: Barbara Novak’s Cultural (Art) History in Retrospect." Bulletin of the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences 2.3 (2008). www.academia.edu/25382762/Three_Decades_of_Nature_and_Culture_Barbara_Novaks_Cultural_Art_History_in_Retrospect.
• Comment added 21st Sept 2008 to Ron Anderson's Blog: "'The Last Lecture' - Glorifying Self-Centered Achievement." Sociological Eye. 5 Sept. 2008. thesocietypages.org/eye/2008/09/05/the-last-lecture-%E2%80%93-glorifying-self-centered-achievement/.

I am presently working on various smaller projects that concern, among others, contributions to a new encyclopedia on theories on myth. I am delighted and thrilled that feminist revisionist mythmaking, „Classica Africana,” and Toni Morrison will all be included in this new encyclopedia! 

Having finished a short forum contribution to Canadian Literature on the constructions of children and their dis/embodiment in selected short fiction in Edith M. Eaton's [Sui Sin Far's] Mrs. Spring Fragrance, the next fascinating project is a little-known novel by her sister with the pen-name Onoto Watanna, stemming from her residence in the Bow River Valley in Alberta, Canada. Here, I am interested in the rage that enflames the human characters—villains and heroines alike—, animals, the natural environment, even pandemic. 

The intersection of modernism, temporality, and collaborative writing from an earlier article still occupies me in a study that explores the (high) modernist spatiotemporal currents—including the queer countercurrents—in the composite novel The Whole Family (1908).