Journal Articles

  1. "Introduction to the Special Section: 'Beyond Petromodernity'" (with Francis Gene-Rowe and Stefan Rabitsch). Extrapolation 64, no. 1 (2023): 1-9.
  2. "'A serious man versus nature moment': Aquatic Monsters, Deep Time, and Climate Change." Popular Culture Review 33, no. 1 (2022): 103-136. Open Access.
  3. "The American Entrepreneurial Spirit: A Primer" (with Stefan Rabitsch). JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies 3, no. 2 (2022): 199-211. Open Access
  4. "Capturing the Shark: White (Eco-)Masculinity and the Pursuit of Science in the Docuseries Expedition Great White." Arbeiten aus Anglistik & Amerikanistik 47, no. 2 (2022): 243-258.
  5. "Creative Extinction: Serial Cycles of De-Extinction and Re-Extinction in Resurrection Business." JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies 3, no. 2 (2022): 281-297. Open Access.
  6. "The Disease Becomes the Host: Cattle Decapitation's Pandemic Discourse from Song to Music Video" (with Anna Marta Marini). Popular Culture Review 33, no. 2 (2022): 77-112. Open Access.
  7. "'I don't need your help! I'm a scientist!' Biotechnology, Digital Visual Effects, and (the Lack of) Human Control of Life in Zoo." New Horizons in English Studies, no. 7 (2022): 101-115. Open Access.
  8. "Introduction: Science and Popular Audio-Visual Media" (with Martin Butler). Arbeiten aus Anglistik & Amerikanistik 47, no. 2 (2022): 171-187.
  9. "Livin' Da Dream? Playing Black, Illusions of Meritocracy, and Narrative Constraints in Sports Video Game Story Modes." European Journal of American Studies 16, no. 3 (2021). Open Access.
  10. "PandemIcons? The Medical Scientist as Iconic Figure in Times of Crisis" (with Martin Butler and Sina Farzin). Configurations 29, no. 4 (2021): 435-451.
  11. "Crushing Life in the Anthropocene? Destroying Simulated 'Nature' in The Cabin in the Woods." CineJ: Cinema Journal 8, no. 2 (2020): 62-93. Open Access.
  12. "Going Where No White Man Has Gone Before: Monstrous Animals and the Disruption of Imperialist Fantasies." Arbeiten aus Anglistik & Amerikanistik 45, no. 2 (2020): 197-215. Open Access.
  13. "'Is this really all they had to worry about?' Past, Present, and Future Hauntings in The Last of Us." Arbeiten aus Anglistik & Amerikanistik 44, no. 1 (2019): 67-82. Open Access.
  14. "Playing America: An Introduction to American Culture Through Video Games" (with Stefan Rabitsch). Gamevironments, no. 11 (2019): 86-102. Open Access. *not peer-reviewed*
  15. "Vanishing Glaciers, the Becoming-Unextinct of Microorganisms, and Fathering a More-Than-Human World: Climate Change Horror in the Alps." Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research 6, no. 2 (2019): 11-24. Open Access.
  16. "All Teeth and Claws: Constructing Bears as Man-Eating Monsters in Television Documentaries." European Journal of American Studies 13, no. 1 (2018). Open Access.
  17. "Animals on American Television: Introduction to the Special Issue" (with Stefan L. Brandt). European Journal of American Studies 13, no. 1 (2018). Open Access. *not peer-reviewed*
  18. "'It's only cannibalism if we're equals': Carnivorous Consumption and Liminality in Hannibal" (with Michael Phillips). Quarterly Review of Film and Video 35, no. 6 (2018): 614-629. Open Access.
    Reprinted in: Hannibal Lecter's Forms, Formulations, and Transformations: Cannibalising Form and Style. Ed. Jessica Balanzategui & Naja Later. London: Routledge, 2021.
  19. "Looking through the Beast's Eyes? The Dialectics of Seeing the Monster and Being Seen by the Monster in Shark Horror Movies." Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration 3, no. 2 (2018): 1-15. Open Access.
  20. "Playing Serial Imperialists: The Failed Promises of BioWare's Video Game Adventures" (with Vanessa Erat and Stefan Rabitsch). Journal of Popular Culture 51, no. 6 (2018): 1476-1499. Open Access.
  21. "Transgression - Identification - Interaction: Blu-Ray Bonus Features and Supernatural's Cult Status." Journal of Popular Television 6, no. 3 (2018): 303-322.
  22. "Mark of the Auteur: Mark of the Devil's Blu-Ray Release and the Cult of Authorship." Cine-Excess, no. 3 (2017): 131-148. Open Access.
  23. "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth? Digital Animals, Simulation, and the Return of 'Real Nature' in the Jurassic Park Movies." On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture, no. 2 (2016). Open Access.
  24. "Cooking with Hannibal: Food, Liminality and Monstrosity in Hannibal." European Journal of American Culture 34, no. 2 (2015): 97-112. Accepted Manuscript available on my Website.
  25. "The Great Arsenal of Democracy: Uncle Sam and American Exceptionalism at the End of the American Century." Arbeiten aus Anglistik & Amerikanistik 39, no. 1 (2014): 43-69. Open Access.
  26. "'It's like Groundhog Day': Remediation, Trauma, and Quantum Physics in Time Loop Narratives on Recent American Television." GRAAT: An On-Line Journal of Anglophone Studies, no. 15 (2014): 93-113. Open Access.
  27. "'A horror story that came true': Metalepsis and the Horrors of Ontological Uncertainty in Alan Wake." Monsters & the Monstrous 3, no. 1 (2013): 95-107. Link (provided here because it doesn't seem to be available through the publisher any more).
  28. "Hauntings: Uncanny Doubling in Alan Wake and Supernatural." Textus: English Studies in Italy 25, no. 3 (2012): 63-74.