Emotion’s Empire. Attachment, Grieving and Coping in the Anglo-Atlantic, 1688–1847 [under review]

with Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Are Books still „Different“? Literature as Culture and Commodity in a Digital Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. [Open Access] https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/are-books-still-different/118D0CF55B20BD6733EC661BA4E490A8.

Critical Branding. Postcolonial Studies and the Market. New York: Routledge, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315144825.

       Reviewed in:

• Journal of 21st-Century Writings (2021)
• Oxford Academic’s “The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory” (2019)
• Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JPW), 2019
• Interventions. International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2020

 

with Pavan Malreddy and Marlena Tronicke, eds. Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. https://www.routledge.com/Writing-Brexit-Colonial-Remains/Koegler-Malreddy-Tronicke/p/book/9780367775872.

with Jesper Reddig and Klaus Stierstorfer, eds. Citizenship, Law and Literature. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2021. http://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110749830/html.

with Marlena Tronicke, eds. Queering Neo-Victorianism Beyond Sarah Waters, Special Issue of Neo-Victorian Studies, 2020. http://www.neovictorianstudies.com/past_issues/13-1-2020/default.htm

with Pavan Malreddy and Marlena Tronicke, eds. Writing Brexit: Colonial Remains, Special Issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2020. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpw20/56/5.

with Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Deborah Nyangulu, and Mark Stein, eds. Locating African European Studies: Interventions-Intersections-Conversations. New York: Routledge, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429491092.

 

 

Journal Articles

“Ocean and Emotion in Shakespeare’s The Tempest,“ [under review”]

“Uneasy Forms of Interdisciplinarity: Literature, Business Studies, and the Limits of Critique.” Anglistik. International Journal of English Studies 32,3, 2021. https://angl.winter-verlag.de/data/article/10753/pdf/92103006.pdf.

“Follow the Hatred: The Production of Negative Feeling in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847).” NOVEL. A Forum on Fiction 54,2: 270-286, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-9004531.

“Queer Home-Making and Black Britain: Claiming, Ageing, Living.” Interventions. International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 22,7: 879-896, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2020.1718536.

with Marlena Tronicke, “Neo-Victorianism’s Queer Potentiality: Livability and Intersectional Imaginaries.” Neo-Victorian Studies 13,1: 1-43, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4317163.

with Pavan Malreddy and Marlena Tronicke. “The Colonial Remains of Brexit: Empire Nostalgia and Narcissistic Nationalism.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 56,5: 582-592, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2020.1818440.

“Posthumanism and Colonial Discourse: Nineteenth Century Literature and Twenty-First Century Critique.” Reading in Ruins. Exploring Posthumanist Narrative Studies. Special Issue of Open Library of Humanities Journal, eds. Roman Bartosch und Julia Hoydis, 2020. https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.613.

“Deadly Desires, Dubious Pleasures—Grievability, Status, and the Subjection of Female Autonomy in Eliza Haywood’s Love in Excess (1719).” Women’s Writing 28,1: 20-36, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2019.1616954.

“Precarious Urbanity. ‘The Jungle’ (Calais) and the Politics of Performing the Urban.” Postcolonial Text 12,3: 1-15, 2017. https://www.postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/view/2309/2125.

Book Chapters

with Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Petra Pohlmann and Gernot Sieg, "Must Writers Be Moral?“: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf 'Morality Clauses‘ im Literaturbetrieb.” Literatur und Recht: Materialität. Formen und Prozesse gegenseitiger Vergegenständlichung, eds. Eric Achermann, Andreas Blödorn, Corinna Norrick-Rühl and Petra Pohlmann. Berlin: DeGruyter, 71-105, 2023. https://link.springer.com/book/9783662661611.

“Memorialising African Being and Becoming in the Atlantic World: Affective Herstories by Yaa Gyasi and Bernardine Evaristo.” The Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect, edited by Todd W. Reeser. New York: Routledge, 374–385, 2023. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003045007-40/memorializing-african-being-becoming-atlantic-world-caroline-koegler.

“Oceans of Non-Relation. Affect and Narcissistic Imperialism in Sea Poetry by James Thomson, Charlotte Brontë, and Hannah More.” Practices of Comparing: Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century, eds. Nadine Böhm-Schnitker and Marcus Hartner. Berlin: DeGruyter, 179-202, 2022. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783839457993-008/html.

mit Jesper Reddig und Klaus Stierstorfer, “Citizenship-as-Literature, Citizenship-in-Literature.” Citizenship, Law and Literature, eds. Caroline Koegler, Jesper Reddig and Klaus Stierstorfer. Berlin: DeGruyter, 1-12, 2021. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110749830-001/html.

“Literature and Performative Citizenship: Moshin Hamid’s Exit West (2017).” Citizenship, Law and Literature, eds. Caroline Koegler, Jesper Reddig and Klaus Stierstorfer. Berlin: DeGruyter, 45-46, 2021. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110749830-004/html.

“Newfound Futures: Queer Planetary Perspectives on Loss, Exile, and Post-Exile in Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods (2007).” Nach-Exil / Post-Exile. Jahrbuch für Exilforschung, eds. Bettina Bannasch and Katja Sarkowsky. Berlin: DeGruyter, 216-239, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110688030-011.

“The Market as a Dimension of Practice. Commodification, Ideology, and Postcolonial Studies.” Ideology in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts,eds. Katja Sarkowsky and Mark Stein. Leiden: Brill, 43-56, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004437456_005.

“Village Du Monde? (Fortress) Europe, the ‘Jungle’ of Calais, and the African European Paradigm.” Locating African European Studies: Interventions-Intersections-Conversations, eds. Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Caroline Koegler, Deborah Nyangulu and Mark Stein. New York: Routledge, 45-61, 2020. https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429491092-3.

with Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Deborah Nyangulu, and Mark Stein, "African European Studies as a Critique of Contingent Belonging.“ Locating African European Studies: Interventions, Intersections, Conversations. New York: Routledge, 1-28, 2020. https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429491092-1.

“At Whose Cost? A Critical Reading of Carolyn Cooper’s Keynote Lecture ‚Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation.” Contested Communities, ed. Susanne Mühleisen. Leiden: Brill, 291-301, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335288_019.

“Responding and Responsibility: Postcolonial Intertextuality in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe.” Literaturtheorie als Theorie der Gesellschaft, ed. Promotionskolleg Literaturtheorie als Theorie der Gesellschaft. Heidelberg: Winter, 315-342, 2015.

“‘On the Shore of the Mind’: Derek Walcott’s Transoceanic Collage of Caribbean Identity.” “Die Lyrik ist eine Insel, die sich vom Festland“ – Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie 2013 an Derek Walcott und Werner von Koppenfels, eds. Hermann Wallmann und das Kulturamt Münster. Münster: Daedalus, 50-57, 2013.

"‘Am Ufer der Gedanken‘: Derek Walcotts transozeanische Collage karibischer Identität.“ "Die Lyrik ist eine Insel, die sich vom Festland ablöst.“ Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie 2013 an Derek Walcott und Werner von Koppenfels, ed. Hermann Wallmann, 42-49, 2013.

Encyclopedic Entries

with Corinna Norrick-Rühl, Christian Peter, Petra Pohlmann, Lena Schüler, Gernot Sieg, "Markt," Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, edited by SFB 1385 Recht und Literatur, n.pag., 2022. https://lawandliterature.eu/index.php/de/inhalt?view=article&id=29&catid=11

“Posthumanism and the Question of Race; or: Posthumanisation in the Colonial Anthropocene,” criticalposthumanism.net. Tagged ANTHROPOCENE, BLACKNESS, COLONIALISM, POSTCOLONIALISM, RACE. Ivan Callus, Stefan Herbrechter, Manuela Rossini, eds, 2022. https://criticalposthumanism.net/posthumanism-and-the-question-of-race-or-posthumanisation-in-the-colonial-anthropocene/.

“Jackie Kay: Trumpet (1998).” The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: Postwar and Contemporary English Writing and Culture, 1945-present, 2021. https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10263.

“Bernardine Evaristo: Mr Loverman (2013).” The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: Postwar and Contemporary English Writing and Culture, 1945-present, 2020. https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38876.

Reviews

“Kristine Steenbergh and Katherine Ibbett eds, Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture. Feeling and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021,” Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 2022.

“Kai Wiegandt: J.M. Coetzee’s Revisions of the Human (Palgrave, 2020),” Anglistik. International Journal of English Studies, 2022. https://angl.winter-verlag.de/data/article/11343/pdf/92203013.pdf.

“Paul Crosthwaite: The Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2019),” Journal of 21st Century Literature, 2020. https://doi.org/10.16995/c21.2918.

“Judith Butler: Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly,” Symbolism. An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics 17. 285-291, 2017.

“Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Birte Heidemann, Ole Birk Laursen and Janet Wilson’s Reworking Postcolonialism: Globalization, Labour and Rights,“ EACLALS Newsletter, 2016.

Other Publications

“Branding Justice“ PSA Newsletter #24. 16-19 Postcolonial Studies Association, 2020.

mit Michael Butt. “Die Wirtschaftskrise aus Sicht der Unternehmensberatungen – eine kritische Analyse.“ Arbeitspapier Nr. 51. Münster: Institut für Anlagen und Systemtechnologien, 2011.

In Progress:

-       “Unwriting Health: Failed Coping as Resistance in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative (1789)” | Chapter for Rewriting Medicine: Healthcare, Literature, and Culture, ca. 1660-1832, eds. Clark Lawlor, Leigh Wetherall Dickson, Ashleigh Blackwood [under review with Cambridge University Press]

 

-      “Re-Writing and Re-Reading as Methods of Economic Criticism,” with Natalie Roxburgh and Melissa Kennedy | Chapter for Handbook of Methodologies of Economic Criticism, eds. Ellen Grünkemeyer, Nora Plesske and Joanna Rostek; German Research Foundation Network “Methodologies of Economic Criticism”

 

Talks

Public Feelings, Published Feelings: Authorship and Responsibility in an Affective Industry | Universität Münster | Conference "Publishing, Literature, and Responsibility" | 26th September 2024

Tracing Global Forms: Pigafetta’s Logbook of Magellan’s Circumnavigation, 1519-1522 | Freie Universität Berlin | DFG-Network Conference "Model Imaginaries: Literature, Economics, Abstraction" | 4th July 2024

Writing and Publishing Postcolonial Literatures: Marginalised Aesthetics? | Panel Discussion between Caroline Koegler and Madhu Krishnan | Freie Universität Berlin | Conference "Literary Value: Artistic, Academic, and Critical Practices" | 3rd July 2024

“To cry to th’ sea that roared to us”: (Affective) Survival in Early Modern Seascapes| Universität Bremen | Guest Lecture | 26/11/2023

Archives of Transformation: from the Black Atlantic to the Digital Black Atlantic| Universität Dortmund | Guest Lecture | 26/10/2023

The Book as Medium in the 2020s. Re-writing the Publishing Industry fromBibliodiversity to the Digital Literary Sphere | Universität Graz (Austria) | Guest Lecture | 04/10/2023

With Harshan Kumarasingham und Almuth Ebke: Stuart Ward, Untied Kingdom. A Global History of the End of Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2023) | Roundtable Book Launch | Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität Berlin | 13/02/2023

Pandemic Literature in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Guest Lecture (online), Universität Konstanz, 11/01/2023

Literary Studies and the Economic: On Interdisciplinarity and the Limits of Critique. Inaugural lecture (PD) | Universität Münster | 06/12/2022

Prizing Non-Citizenship Literature: Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend But The Mountains and the Economy of Literary Nationalism | NO DATE

International Workshop (Münster/Monash University, Melbourne) on “Gender Imbalance in the Book Industry” | Universität Münster | 24/11/2022

Reading Attachment in the Early Black Atlantic: From Adam Smith to the Plantation BGECS-Jahrestagung [Bonn Group for Eighteenth-Century Studies] | Universität Bonn | 07/10/21

When Gender Became Deadly? Homes, Lockdowns, and Normativity in Current Pandemic Fiction | ESSE Konferenz | Universität Mainz | 30/08/2022

The Perishing Organization: Between Pandemic Fiction and Organizational Storytelling in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Corporations, Communities, Crowds: The Aesthetics of Collective Agency in Twenty-First Century Culture| Schloss Herrenhausen, Hannover | 21/07/2022

Transformational Archives, Distant Presence - Between Atlantic Historicity and Digital Renewal. Guest Lecture, Universität Hamburg, 30/06/2022

Transregional Queer Imaginaries of Belonging. Polyphonic Gatherings and Archipelagic Archives. Guest Lecture, Universität Frankfurt | 24/06/2022.

The End of Men und The Last She - Perspektiven auf Well-Being und Gesellschaft in Aktueller Pandemischer Literatur. Habilitations-Vortrag, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster | 13/06/2022.

Implicated Affect, or: Traumatic Attachments – Historical Perspectives. Contested Solidarities (GAPS annual conference), Universität Frankfurt, 27/05/2022

From the Black Atlantic to the Digital Black Atlantic: Transformational Archives and Distant Presence. Guest Lecture, Freie Universität Berlin | 06/05/2022

Alternative Archives in the Making. From Bernardine Evaristo to the Digital Literary Sphere | Guest Lecture, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen | 25/02/2022

Grievable Feelings, Capital Constraints: Emotion and/as Property in Henry Mackenzie’s Julia de Roubigné (1777), Anonymous’ The Woman of Colour (1808), and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847). Romantic Interventions: From Idealism to Activism | Universität Dortmund | 04/02/2022

Kulturelle Ungleichheit: Differenz, Diversität, und Partizipation im Verlagswesen—Literaturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Forschungstag der Nordrheinwestfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste zum Thema „Ungleichheit“ | 26/01/2022

“Torn From Her, From France”: Figurations of Homesickness and Imperial Dread in Sarah Scott’s The History of Sir George Ellison, Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling and Julia de Roubigné. British Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) | University of Oxford | 07/01/2022

Archipelagic Feeling in The Woman of Colour (1808): Writing Away From / Toward the Colonial Attachment Narrative. Hotspots Lecture Series | English Seminar, Münster | 11/01/2022

mit Georgina Lewis, University of Exeter: Whose Boundaries? Joint Perspectives from Sociology and Literary Studies on Forced Migration, Trauma, & the Integrity of Borders. Breaking Boundaries. Reimagining Borders in Postcolonial and Migrant Studies. Manchester Metropolitan | 03/09/21

Follow the Hatred: The Production of Negative Feeling in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847). Brontë2020 | Brontë Parsonage Museum | 04/09/2020

Cultural Good or Economic Good? The Book, Fixed Book Prices, and the Singularity of Literature in an Age of Digitisation. Book Studies Lecture Series (Corinna Norrick-Rühl) [Gastvortrag] | University of Münster | 07/07/2020

Cinematic Representation and Imperial Politics of Emotion: UK Film Adaptations of 18th Century Slavery and Abolitionism

Gastvortrag „Imperial Fictions“ Seminar (Dr. Jennifer S. Henke) | Universität Bremen | 31/01/2020

The Gothic Horrors of Suicide and Trauma: Failed Coping as Resistance in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative (1789). British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference (BSECS) | University of Oxford | 09/01/2020

Fixed Book Prices, Digitisation, & the Profitable Notion of the Singularity of Literature.Intersections of Finance and Society Conference. University of London |12/12/2019

Heathcliff’s Hate, Catherine’s Liberation: Reading Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) as a Fantasy of Violation. Hotspots Lecture Series, English Seminar, Münster | 22/10/2019

Adapting Abolitionism, Sentimentalizing Whiteness: Imperialist Politics of Emotion in Contemporary British Film. Zehnte BGECS-Jahrestagung. Das 18. Jahrhundert in Film und Populärkultur | Universität Bonn | 02/10/2019

Literature and … Business Studies. Conflicts and Crossovers. Anglistentag | Universität Leipzig | 23/09/2019

Branding Justice. PSA (Postcolonial Studies Association) Convention | University of Manchester | 12/09/2019

Deeply Affected: Reading Trans-Atlantic Journeys and the Politics of Self-preservation in Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders and Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative. ISECS International Congress on the Enlightenment | University of Edinburgh, GB | 18/07/2019

Deeply Affected: Reading Trans-Atlantic Journeys and the Politics of Self-preservation in Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders and Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative. GAPS Konferenz “Postcolonial Oceans- Contradictions and Heterogeneities in the Epistemes of Salt Water” | Universität Bremen | 30/06/2019

Magic Pathways, Open Doors: Literature, Performative Citizenship, and Moshin Hamid’s Exit West (2017). Citizenship, Law and Literature Konferenz | Villa Vigoni, Centro Italo-Tedesco per l’Eccellenza Europea, Italia | 26/03/2019

mit Pohlmann, Petra | Markt und Literatur. Begehung SFB „Law and Literature“ | Universität Münster | 10/01/2019

Grievability, Status, and Deadly Desires in Eliza Haywood’s Love in Excess (1719). Konferenz “Gendered Emotions” | University of Sheffield, UK | 29/06/2018

The Market as a Dimension of Practice. Commodification, Ideology, and Postcolonial Studies. “Lange Nacht der Postkolonialen Theorie“ | Institut für Politikwissenschaft, WWU Münster | 21/06/2018

Sexual Identity and Diaspora: Bernardine Evaristo’s Mr Loverman. Konferenz “On Whose Terms? – Ten Years Later” | Goldsmiths, University of London, UK | 23/03/2018

Precarious Urbanity: ‚The Jungle’ (Calais) and the Politics of Performing the Urban. PSA Convention 2017 | University of London, UK | 18/09/2017

Precarious Urbanity: ‚The Jungle’ (Calais) and the Politics of Performing the Urban. GAPS-Konferenz “Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World” | Universität Bonn | 25/05/2017

Precarious Urbanity: ‚The Jungle’ (Calais) and the Politics of Performing the Urban. EACLALS triennial conference “Performing the Urban: Embodiments, Inventories, Rhythms” | University of Oviedo, Spain | 15/04/2017

Sexual Identity and Diaspora: Bernardine Evaristo’s Mr Loverman. Hotspots Lecture Series, English Department Muenster | English Seminar, Münster | 25/01/2017

Critical Branding in Postcolonial Studies. ACLALS triennial conference “Stories that Float from Afar” | University of Stellenbosch, South Africa | 13/7/2016

Postcolonial Studies and the Market. GAPS-Konferenz “The Postcolonial and the Material” | Universität Augsburg | 05/05/2016

Orientalismen in der Postmoderne. Seminar der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung „Königreiche der Ungleichheit: Mechanismen der Ausgrenzung in der Popkultur“ | Akademie Frankenwarte, Würzburg | 15/01/2016

A Critique of Ideological Rejections of Market Practices in Postcolonial Studies. GAPS-Konferenz „Ideologies in Postcolonial Texts and Contexts“ | Universität Münster | 15/05/2015

Is Our Fascination with Uncommon Wealths Symptomatic of Our Own Frustration with 21st Century Capitalism? EACLALS triennial conference “Uncommon Wealths” | Universität Innsbruck, Austria | 17/04/2014

A Note on Interdisciplinary Debate: Postcolonialism and Economics – Commodification, Attitude, and Language Politics [Keynote]. “Platform for Postcolonial Readings at the University of Amsterdam” | University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands | 18/01/2013

Do You Sometimes Feel Marginalised? – The Commodification of Marginality in Robert Young’s Postcolonialism. A Very Short IntroductionConference “Narratives of Difference in the Global Literary Marketplace” | University of Northampton, UK | 26/10/2012

Postcolonialism Meets Business Management. GNEL/ASNEL-Konferenz “Post-Empire Imaginaries“ | Universität Bern, Switzerland | 18/05/2012