Books and Edited Volumes
Co-Editor with Christiane Schönfeld, A Youth in Germany by Ernst Toller, translated by Eoin and Eva Bourke, Broadview Press, 2024
Co-Editor with Christiane Schönfeld, “Ernst Toller in Exile,” German Life & Letters Vol. LV, No. 2, April 2022
Editor, Hamann and the Tradition, Northwestern University Press, 2012
German Expressionism and the Messianism of a Generation, Editions Rodopi, 2011
Hegel on Hamann, Northwestern University Press, 2008
Selected Articles and Chapters
“Unheimliche Heimkehr: Alteritäts- und Rassifizierungsdiskurse in Hinkemann und Trommeln in der Nacht,” Bertolt Brecht und Ernst Toller, J.B. Metzler, under review
“Ernst Toller’s Eine Jugend in Deutschland and the German Avant-Garde,” Journal of Avant Garde Studies 3, December 2023, 31-51.
“Antifascism and Free Speech on Campus: Ernst Toller’s Queens College Affair,” German Life & Letters LV.2, April 2022, 298-309.
“Speech in a Low Dishonest Decade,” The Wilson Quarterly, Winter 2020.
“Countering Catastrophe: Goethe’s Novelle in the Aftershock of Heinrich von Kleist,” The Goethe Yearbook 2019, 65-78.
“The Meaning of Failure and the Failure of Meaning: Ernst Toller on Pacifist Language and Literature in Interwar Germany,” Pacifist and Anti-Militarist Writing in German 1892-1928, Iudicium Verlag, 2018, 136-148.
“The Pacifism of Ernst Toller,” Germanistik in Ireland 12 (2017), 129-143.
“From Abstraction to Documentary: Ernst Toller’s Plays as War Dramas,” Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature 41.2 (Summer 2017).
“‘Sehenden Auges und mitfühlenden Herzens’: Ernst Toller’s Witness to the First World War,” Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute XIII (2014), 411-34.
“Of Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics: Configuring the Messianic in Early Twentieth Century Europe,” Messianic Thought Outside Theology, Fordham UP, 2014, 15-27.
“Margarete Susman: The ‘Meisterin des deutenden Essais’ on the First World War and the German Revolution,” Discovering Women’s History: German-Speaking Journalists (1900-1950), Peter Lang, 2014, 93-120.
“Toward Professional Integration in the Humanities: One Teacher-Researcher’s Experience with Portraiture,” Arts & Humanities in Higher Education 10.1 (2011), 103-119.
“Der Herr Etatsrat: Theodor Storm’s Critical Reflection on Ersatzreligion,” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 45.1 (2009), 18-30.
“Adam’s Return to the Garden: The Political Messianic in German Expressionism and Activism,” On the Outlook: Figures of the Messianic, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, 71-81.
“Redemption and the Aesthetic Imagination: The Messianism of German Expressionism,” Messianism, Apocalypse, Redemption: 20th-Century German Thought, Australian Theological Forum, 2006, 127-137.
Selected Translations
Kurt Hiller, “Anti-Cain,” in Toward the Critique of Violence: A Critical Edition, ed. Peter Fenves and Julia NG, Stanford UP, 2021, 179-193.
Peter Sloterdijk, “Voices for Animals: A Fantasy on Animal Representation,” in Strangers to Nature: Animal Lives and Human Ethics, Lexington Books, 2012, 263-269.
“Else Lasker-Schüler’s ‘An Old Tibetan Rug’: A New Translation,” Translation 2 (2007), 149-151.
Book Reviews
Ernst Toller, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Ausgabe, ed. Dieter Distl et al, Germanistik in Ireland 12 (2017).
Robert Ellis, Ernst Toller and German Society: Intellectuals as Leaders and Critics, 1914-1939, The German Studies Review 39.1 (2016): 184-186.
Johann Gottfried Herder, Shakespeare, trans. and ed. Gregory Moore, The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms 14.4 (2009): 473.