Biographisches
CAREER
04.1996-01.10.1998 Professor for American Literature [University of Bielefeld]. C2
10.1998-30.03.2000 Full Professor American Studies [University of Hannover]. C3
04.2000 - Full Professor American Studies [University of Cologne] C4
PUBLICATIONS
1: Books
Pynchons Poetics: Interfacing Theory and Text. University of Illinois Press, 1992.
Lines of Desire: Reading Gombrowiczs Fiction with Lacan. Northwestern University Press, 1998.
In manuscript:
Writing Matter: Time | Space
Psychoanalyses: Realisms and Naturalisms
2: Editor:
with B. Herzogenrath: Near Encounters: Festschrift for Richard Martin. Peter Lang, 1995.
with D. Buchwald: Chaos-Control / Complexity:’ Chaos Theory and the Human Sciences. Special Issue: American Studies. 2000.
with D. Buchwald und H. Volkening: Grenzüberschreibungen: Feminismus und Cultural Studies. Aisthesis, Bielefeld, 2001.
with D. Buchwald and P. Hofmann: Chaos-Control / Complexity:’ Chaos Theory and the Human Sciences. Lit, Hamburg, 2002.
with L. Haferkamp: Site Specific: Pynchon | Germany. Pynchon Notes 54-55 (special issue), 2008.
with L. Haferkamp: Deleuzian Events: Writing | History. Hamburg: LIT, 2009.
3: Articles
‘Godolphin - Good ol’ Pym: A question of Integra-tion,’ Pynchon Notes, 10, 1982, 3-17.
‘A short Note on Pynchons Sources for „The Firm,“’ Pynchon Notes, 15, 1984, 7-9.
‘From the Canvas to the Page: Rhetorical Movements in the Discourse on Art,’ Subjects/Objects, 3, Brown University Publications, Providence, 1985, 115-131.
‘Even Signs must Burn: Jean Baudrillard and the Re-Emer-gence of the Object,’ Subjects/Objects, 4, Brown University Publications, Providence, 1986, 72-87.
‘V in Love: From the Other Scene to the New Scene,’ Pynchon Notes, 18-19, 1986, 5-28.
‘Foe: The Corruption of Words,’ Matatu: Zeitschrift für Afrikanische Kultur, University of Göttingen, 3/4 (special issue: Towards Liberation: Culture and Resistance in South Africa), 1988, 222-235.
‘Digging for the Truth: Archaeology and the End of His-tory,’ Proceedings of the XIth Annual Conference on Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies in German Speaking Countries, 1988, 117-131.
‘Christine Brooke-Rose: Thru the Looking Glass,’ Review of Contemporary Fiction, 9/3, 1989, 128-133.
‘The Letter! The Litter! The Defilements of the Signifier in Finnegans Wake,’ European Joyce Studies Annual, 2, 1990, 139-164.
‘Marcel Duchamp: (P)Rrose Selavy,’ Amerikastudien, 2, 1990, 151-161.
‘Witold Gombrowicz: Cosmos: The Case of the Hanged Sparrow,’ Polish Review, 1, 1991, 145-159.
‘Het decoderen van de reele text. Beschrijvingen van the zone in Gravitys Rainbow en Europa,’ Yang, 28, 1, 1992, 82-90.
‘The City as Text: Some Aspects of New York in Contemporary Art and Fiction,’ Amerikastudien, 37, 1, 1992, 107-121. A shortened version appeared as ‘Stadtraum im zeitgenössischen amerikanischen Roman,’ in D. Machule, O Mischer & A Sywottek eds., Macht Stadt krank? Vom Umgang mit Gesundheit und Krankheit, Dölling & Galitz, Hamburg, 1996, 308-314.
‘Decoding the Real Text: Writing Postmodern Spaces in Gravitys Rainbow,’ Publikationen des Kennedyinstitut, Berlin, 1992.
‘Written in Stone: The City as Symptom,’ Amerikastudien, 37, 3, 1992, 415-436.
‘...die entbrannten Degenspitzen von mächt’gen Gegnern: Witold Gombrowiczs Lectura Dantis,’ Arcadia, 28, 3/4, 1993, 47-64.
‘Forward Retreat: Historiography in Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland,’ in B. Engler & K. Müller eds. Historiographic Metafiction in Modern American and Canadian Literature, Schöningh, 1994, 357-371.
‘Strangely Attractive: The Topology of Social and Psychic Space in Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland,’ Pynchon Notes, 1994, 37-55.
‘The Visual and the Gaze in the Works of Witold Gombrowicz: The Evil Eye of Painting,’ in R. Feldstein ed. Reading Seminar XI: Lacan’s Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, SUNY Press, Albany, 1995, 175-182.
‘Christine Brooke-Rose: Thru: Journey into the Universe of Discourse II,’ in E.G. Friedman & R. Martin Eds., Utterly Other Discourse: The Texts of Christine Brooke-Rose, Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, 1995, 104-116.
‘Außer Rand und Band: Das Subjekt der Kunstwissenschaft,’ in Heinz Herbert Mann & Peter Gerlach Eds., Regel und Ausnahme: Festschrift für Hans Holländer, Thouet, Aachen, 1995, 245-262.
‘Equal, That Is, To the Real Itself: Charles Olsons Moebial Poetics,’ in: H-J. Berressem & B. Herzogenrath Eds. Near Encounters: Festschrift für Richard Martin, Lang, 1995, 6-26.
‘Unterwegs im Docuversum: Zur Topologie des Hypertext,’ in M. Klepper, R. Mayer & E-P. Schneck Eds., Hyperkultur: Zur Fiktion des Computerzeitalters, de Gruyter, Berlin, 1996, 108-129. An English version was published as ‘Negotiating the Universe of Information: The Topology of Hypertext,’ Amerikastudien, 41/3, 1996, 397-415.
‘One Surface Fits All: Texts, Images and the Topology of Hypermedia,’ Proceedings of the Word and Image Conference 1996, Dublin.
‘Twisting and Turning: The Subject of Literary Studies,’ Literature and Psychology, 42, 1-2, 1996, 18-40.
‘Dali and Lacan: Painting the Imaginary Landscapes,’ in W. Apollon & R. Feldstein Eds., Jacques Lacan: Literature, Aesthetics, Politics, SUNY Press, Albany, 1996, 263-293.
‘Architexturen: Überlegungen zu einer Topologie der Torsion,’ Kasseler Philosophische Schriften, 1997, 51-79.
‘Emotions Flattened and Scattered: Borderline Syndromes and Multiple Personality Disorders in Postmodern Literature,’ in: G Hoffmann & A. Hornung Eds., Emotions in Postmodern Literature, C. Winter, Heidelberg, 1997, 271-307
"‘The Laws of Deviation:’ Physical and Psychic Aberrations in the Novels of Witold Gombrowicz," Gombrowicz’s Grimaces, Ewa Ziarek ed. SUNY Press, 1997, 89-131.
‘Elvis and El-Vez: Regionalizing the Global, Globalizing the Regional,’ L. Hönnighausen ed., Proceedings of the Regionalism Conference, Bonn 1997.
‘Structural Stability and Morphogenesis: Herman Melville’s Bartleby, the Scrivener,’ Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1998, 1/1, 13-27.
‘The Text as Crime: The DisSolution of the Detective Novel in the Works of Witold Gombrowicz,’ P. Merivale & S. Sweeney (eds.). Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1999, 231-246.
‘EUROpäische Literatur: Literatur - Europa - Hypertext,’ H. Felten & David Nelting (eds.) Contemporary European Literature. Lang, Frankfurt a.M., , 1999.
„Tristes Traumatiques:’ Trauma in the Zone(s)“ Pynchon Notes, 1999.
"DeNarration:’ Literature at the End of the Millennium," Collection, A. Hornung ed., 1999, 246-65.
‘Draw the Line, Hit the Spot:’ Cultural Inscriptions, Traumatic Wounds and the Multiplexity of Matter in Mason & Dixon. Aufsatzsammlung. N. Abbas, J. Krafft, B. Tufoil Hrsg. 1999.
‘Body - Wound - Writing,’ Amerikastudien / American Studies, Gasthrsg. M. Klarer, 1999.
‘Negrophobia!?:’ Abjection in Darius James’ Negrophobia. In Cultural Encounters: American Studies in the Age of Multiculturalism Mario Klarer & Sonja Bahn (eds.), Stauffenberg Verlag. Tübingen, 2000.
„Introduction: Conoisseurs of Chaos:“ in: Chaos-Control / Complexity:’ Chaos Theory and the Human Sciences. Special Issue: American Studies, 2000.!!
„Pynchon reads Serres | Serres reads Pynchon.“ Postmodern Culture. 11. 3. May 2001.
“poetopology. folded space, traversal machines and the poetics of ‘emergent text.’” Dichtung Digital. 11.10.2001.
„data dance“ in: Chaos-Control / Complexity:’ Chaos Theory and the Human Sciences. Lit, Hamburg, 2002, !!
„matter that bodies“ http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de/mediating/btm/btm.html
“We Can Remember It For You Wholesale”: Memory in the Age of Virtualization. In: Sites of Memory in American Literatures and Cultures Udo Hebel Hrsg. Winter, Heidelberg. 2003, 341-368.
"Sailing with Serres, Deleuze and Guattari: Writing Nautical Space." The Sea and the American Imagination. Klaus Benesch, Jon-K Adams und Kerstin Schmidt Hrsgs. (Transatlantic Perspectives 16). Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2003. 215-251.
“We Can Remember It For You Wholesale”: Memory in the Age of Virtualization. In:Sites of Memory in American Literatures and Cultures. Udo Hebel ed., Winter. Heidelberg. 2003. 341-368
Crash: „... at an indeterminate moment, in indeterminate places...:“ in: Iconographies of Power: The Politics and Poetics of Visual Representation. Hrsg. Ulla Haselstein, Bernd Ostendorf und Peter Schneck. Winter. Heidelberg. 2003, 237-268
„Draw the Line, Hit the Spot:“ iscrizioni culturali, ferite traumatiche e la multiplessità della materia in „Mason & Dixon“ In: La dissoluzione onesta: Scritti su Thomas Pynchon. G. Alfano & M. Carratello Hrsgs. Cronopio, Napoli, 2003. 153-187.
„Of Metal Ducks, Embodied Iduros and Autopoietic Bridges:ˆ Tales of an Intelligent Materialism in the Age of Artificial Life.“ In: Science, Technology, and the Humanities in Recent American Fiction. Peter Freese & Charles B. Harris. Hrsgs Essen: Die Blaue Eule, 2003. S. 61-103. Also published in: The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction, P. Freese & Ch. Harris eds., Dalkey Archive Press, Illinois, 2004, 72-99.
"Sailing with Serres, Deleuze and Guattari: Writing Nautical Space." The Sea and the American Imagination. Klaus Benesch, Jon-K Adams und Kerstin Schmidt Hrsgs. (Transatlantic Perspectives 16). Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2004. 215-251.
Emergent Eco:logics: Cultural and Natural Environments in Recent Theory and Literature, in: Space – Place – Environment Lothar Hoennighausen & Julia Apitzsch Stauffenberg Verlag, 2004, 42-61.
Hanjo Berressem & Ulrich Prill: “…krwi zlaknione ostrza / Poteznych wrogow”, Witold Gombrowicza Lectura Dantis in: “Patagonczyk W Berlinie: Witold Gombrowicz W Oczach Krytyki Niemieckiej, ed. Marek Zybura, polonica leguntur, Kracow, 2004, 295-315.
Poetopologie: faltenraum, transversale maschinen und die poetik ‘emergenter texte’ / poetopology: folded space, transversal machines, and the poetics of ‘emergent text.’ In: P0esis. Aesthetik digitaler Poesis/The Aestheitcs of Digital Poetry ed. Friedrich W. Block, Christiane Heibach & Karin Wenz, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2004, 123-131.
“Multiplicity: Foldings in Architectural and Literary Landscapes“, in: Space in America: Theory History Culture, Klaus Benesch & Kerstin Schmidt eds. Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2005, 91-105.
“’Incerto tempore, Incertisque Locis:’ The Logic of the Clinamen and the Birth of Physics,” in: Mapping Michel Serres, ed. Niran Abbas, U of Michigan P., Ann Arbor, 2005, 51-71.
“n-1 sexes” in: rhizomes 11, http://www.rhizomes.net/test_files/issue11.html
“is it possible not to love zizek?” on slavoj zizek’s missed encounter with deleuze.” in ebr. (electronic book review), http://www.electronicbookreview.com.
"not even forgotten: trauma and electricity. " Eds. Sabine Sielke & Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche. Heidelberg: Winter, 2007. 175-196.
"on the matter of abjection." The Abject of Desire: The Aesthetization of the Unaesthetic in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Eds. Monika Müller & Konstanze Kutzbach. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 19-48.
" Ecologics|Ecosophy: The Event of the City." Historians and Nature: Comparative Approaches to Environmenttal History. Eds. Ursula Lehmkuhl & Hermann Wellenreuther. Oxford: Berg, 2007. 45-67.
"Gombrowicz reads Borges, or: Writing vs. Walking:" Ficciones de los medios en la periferia. kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/volltexte/2008/2585/pdf/19_Hanjo_Berressem.pdf
"unsichtbar werden: die mathematik des verschwindens bei gilles deleuze." T.-K. Pusse (Hg.): Rhetoriken des Verschwindens. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2008, 61-71.
"Vater, siehst du nicht, dass ich schreibe? Väter löschen in Bret Easton Ellis’ Lunar Park.“ L. Jäger, G. Fehrmann und M. Adam (Hg.): Medienbewegungen. Praktiken der Bezugnahme. München: Fink, 2008.
"structural couplings: radical constructivism and a deleuzian ecologics." B. Herzogenrath (ed.): Deleuze|Guattari & Ecology. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 57-101.
"Oekologie|Oekographie: Das Ereignis der Stadt." N. Finzsch (Hg.): Clios Natur: Vergleichende Aspekte der Umweltgeschichte. Hamburg: LIT, 2008, 8-41.
(with N. Finzsch): "Historiographic Metafiction - Metafictional Historiography: The Mason & Dixon Project." T. H. Schaub (ed.): Approaches to Teaching Pynchons The Crying of Lot 49 and Other Works. New York: Modern Language Association, 2008, 121-129.
"the habit of saying I: eigenvalues and resonances." K. Benesch and M. Zwingenberger (eds.): Scientific Cultures – Technological Challenges: A Transatlantic Perspective. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2009, 45-80.
(with L. Haferkamp): Introduction. H. Berressem and L. Haferkamp (eds.): Deleuzian Events: Writing | History. Hamburg: LIT, 2009, 2-30.
"‘Vectors and [Eigen]Values:’ The Mathematics of Movement in Against the Day." S. Pöhlmann (ed.): Against the Grain: Reading Pynchon’s Counternarratives. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2010, 349-368.
"Actual Image | Virtual Cut: Schizoanalysis and Montage." Deleuze Studies 5(2): (Jul 2011): 177-208.
"Was ist Philosophie? Gilles Deleuze: Was ist Kino? Werner Herzog." Friedrich Balke & Marc Rölli (eds.): Philosophie und Nicht-Philosophie: Gilles Deleuze – Aktuelle Diskussionen. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2011, 131-156.
"Störfall – Bitte nicht stören!." Andreas Speer, Sabine Folger-Fonfara & Artemis Klidis-Honecker (eds.): Rezeption: a.r.t.e.s. Jahrbuch 2010/11 (2011): 84-93.
"Crystal History: You Pick Up the Pieces. You Connect the Dots." Bernd Herzogenrath (ed.): Time and History in Deleuze and Serres. London: Continuum, 2011, 225-254.
4: Articles in Art Catalogues
‘Hier ist es so, wie es ist: Zu Werken von Paul Wans,’ Ausstellungskatalog, 1993.
‘Diffractors and Differentials: The Art of Fred Eerdekens,’ Ausstellungskatalog, 1994.
‘Agents in the Memory-Palace,’ Ausstellungskatalog: Someone Else with My Fingerprints, Sammlung Wilhelm Schürmann, 1996.
‘klebt überklebt: zu Bildern und Texten von Ursula Spinner-Cerutti,’ Ausstellungskatalog: Mitschriften, 1997.
5: Entries in Works of Reference
Metzler Philosophenlexikon: Félix Guattari.
Metzler Lexikon Literatur- und Kulturtheorie: Poststrukturalismus, Sublimierung, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Genotext-Phänotext, das Erhabene.
Kindler Literaturlexikon: Gaston Bachelard, Jacques Lacan: Écrits, Jacques Lacan: Seminars, Julia Kristeva, Paul de Man, Paul Virilio.
6: Reviews
The Vineland Papers: Critical Takes on Pynchons Novel in: Pynchon Notes, 30-31, 1992.
Ulla Haselstein, Entziffernde Hermeneutik, in: Amerikastudien, 39/2, 1994, 305-7.
Joseph Tabbi, Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk, in: Amerikastudien, 41/3, 1996, 508-511.
Steffi Habermeier: Science, Gender, Text, in Amerikastudien, 1998.
Peter Freese: From Apocalypse to Entropy and Beyond, ZAA, 1998.
Moderne(n) der Jahrhundertwenden: Spuren der Moderne(n) in Kunst, Literatur und Philosophie auf dem Weg ins 21. Jahrhundert. Eds. Vittoria Borsò & Björn Goldammer. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. Baden-Baden.
Charles Clerc. Mason & Dixon & Pynchon University Press of America. New York. 2000. Brooke Horvath and Irving Malin eds. Pynchon and Mason & Dixon. University of Delaware Press, Newark. 2000.
PANEL ORGANIZATION
‘Theorizing the Other: The Discontents between Cultures,’ DGfA Conference, Berlin, 1992.
Together with K. Benesch: ‘Writing and Science,’ DGfA Conference, Freiburg, 1997.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
„Chaos/Control: Complexity“ Interdisciplinary Conference on chaos theory in the humanities at the center for interdisciplinary research (ZIF) at the University of Bielefeld, June 25-27 1998.
Jumps, Fold(ing)s, Breaks: Topologies of the Millennium’ University of Hannover, January 6-8, 2000.
Pynchon | Germany: “Site Specific: From Aachen to Zwölfkinder” University of Cologne, July 4-6, 2002.
Deleuze 1: [n-1], University of Cologne, July 1-3, 2004.
Deleuze 2: deleuzian events: writing|history, University of Cologne, June 30 - July 2, 2005. |
