Journal Articles

“The Multi-Sensorial Ramayana and Its Migrant Afterlife in the Making of German Romanticism and Narendra Modi’s India,” in Special Issue: “Sensing Migrant Romanticism” Comparative Literature (June 2025), eds. Carlos Abreu Mendoza and Tanvi Solanki. Forthcoming.

Introduction to Special Issue “Sensing Migrant Romanticism,” with Carlos Abreu Mendoza, Comparative Literature (June 2025), eds. Carlos Abreu Mendoza and Tanvi Solanki. Forthcoming.

“Who Sounds most Worthy of Human Rights? Aural Cultural Diversity, the Concept of Humanity, and their Religious Investments in German Language Ideologies” in Special Issue: “Endowed by their Creator: Human Rights and Religion in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries” German Life and Letters 78.1 (2025): 76-89, ed. Claudia Nitzschke.

“A Reading of Friedrich Kittler’s Reading of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s ‘Der Goldene Topf’ (The Golden Pot) in Aufschreibesysteme 1800/1900 (Discourse Networks 1800/1900),” in Special Issue: “Canonical Pressures.” Germanic Review 99.1 (2024): 49-62, eds. Willi Goetschel and Tanvi Solanki.

Introduction to Special Issue “Canonical Pressures: German Literature and its Voices of Difference.” Germanic Review 99.1: 1-4 (2024), eds. Willi Goetschel and Tanvi Solanki. Forthcoming.

“Poesis, God, and the Connectedness of All Beings: J.G. Herder’s Comparative Method,” Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historique 50.1 (2024): 1-21.

"Listening to the Cultural Acoustics of Migrant Voices: The Archived Conversations of the BBC and the British Library’s ‘Listening Project,’” European Journal of Cultural Studies 27.1 (2024): 17-35.

“Listening to Difference: Herder’s Aural Theory of Cultural Diversity in ‘The Treatise on the Origin of Language’ (1772),” History of European Ideas 48.7 (2022): 930-947.

“Mediating the Universal and Particular: Herder’s Tone in Pastoral Performance,” Germanic Review 96.1 (2021): 1-22.

“Aural Philology: Herder Hears Homer Singing,” Classical Receptions Journal 12.4 (2020): 401-424.

“Cultural Hierarchies and Vital Tones: The Making of Herder’s ‘Mother Tongue,’”in Special Issue: “The Rise and Fall of Monolingualism.” German Studies Review 41.3 (2018): 551-565, eds. David Gramling and Bethany Wiggin.

“Une culture par l’ouïe depuis la chaire,” in Special Issue: “L’ouïe dans la pensée européenne au 18c siècle.” Revue Germanique Internationale 27 (2018): 151-162, ed. Clémence Couturier-Heinrich.

“A Book of Living Paintings: Tableaux Vivants in Goethe’s Die Wahlverwandtschaften (1809),” in Special Issue: “Goethe and the Visual Arts.” Goethe Yearbook 23 (2016): 245-270.

Co-edited Special Issues

“Sensing Migrant Romanticism,” with Carlos Abreu Mendoza, Comparative Literature (June 2025).

“Canonical Pressures: German Literature and its Voices of Difference,” with Willi Goetschel, Germanic Review 99.1 (2024).

Chapters in Edited Volumes

“The Romantic Poet as Aural Philologist: Translating the Erotic-Acoustics of the Multilingual Origins of Language,” in Literature as Sound Studies, eds. yasser elhariry and Liesl Yamaguchi, 177-192. London: Bloomsbury, 2025.

“Colonial Philology and its Erotic Imaginaries: Kalidasa’s Sakuntala in Germany,” in Gender and German Colonialism, eds. Elisabeth Krimmer and Chunjie Zhang, 207-225. London: Routledge, 2024.

“The Media-Archaeological Ear and its Difference that Goes Unheard,” in Coming to Know, vol. 2 of the series An Archaeology of Listening, eds. Nida Ghouse and Brooke Holmes, 22-39, 67-68. Berlin: Archive Books, 2022. Link to print copy of the book. 

“Rhythmus gegen den Fluss: Herder, die Oralität der Griechen und das ‘Meer der Gelehrsamkeit.’" In Materialitätsdiskurse der Aufklärung. Bilder - Dinge – Praxen, ed. Thomas Bremer, 81-92. Halle: Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, 2016.

Book Reviews and Short Essays

Review of Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany in Journal for the History of Rhetoric, by Efraim Pokosik. Journal of the History of Rhetoric, vol. 26, no. 3, 2023, pp. 413–417.

Review of Sound Writing: Experimental Modernism and the Poetics of Articulation, by Tobias Wilke. Germanic Review, vol. 98, no. 3, 2023, pp. 352-354.

Review of Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Philosophy, by Sarah V. Eldridge and C. Allen Speight. German Studies Review, vol. 46, no. 1, 2023, pp. 155-157.

“The Silent Whale Song and its Audible-Inaudible ‘H’.” A response to Silent Whale Letters, by Ella Finer and Vibeke Mascini. Ocean Archive at the Thyssen-Bornemiscza Art Contemporary Academy (TBA21), 2022.

“Symposium Introduction.” and curation of Yael Almog’s Secularism and Hermeneutics. Syndicate, 2021.

Review of China in the German Enlightenment, by Bettina Brandt and Daniel Purdy. Goethe Yearbook, 2021, pp. 374-376.

Review of Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture, by Susan Stewart. EuropeNow, 2020.

Review of Pretexts for Writing: German Romantic Prefaces, by Seán Williams. German Quarterly, vol. 93, no. 2, 2020, pp. 287-290.

Review of Metrik und Kulturpolitik. Verstheorie bei Opitz, Klopstock und Bürger in der europäischen Tradition, by Remigius Bunia. Monatshefte, vol. 109, no. 1, 2017, pp. 140-142.

Translations

Excerpts from Goethe, J.W.’s “My Life: Poetry as Truth” with Stanley Corngold and Ruth Gross in The Sufferings of Young Werther, ed. Stanley Corngold, 108-120. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2012.