Publications – Lynn L. Wolff

Monograph (*peer-reviewed)

*W.G. Sebald’s Hybrid Poetics: Literature as Historiography. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014 hardcover; 2016 paperback. [Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies 14]

Reviews:

Richard Sheppard, Journal of European Studies 44.4 (2014): 440-442 http://jes.sagepub.com/content/44/4/440.citation
Josh Robinson, The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 23 (2015): 248-269
Rob Kohn, Gegenwartsliteratur 14 (2015): 361-363
Stephan Jaeger, Monatshefte 108.3 (2016): 458-460
Terry Pitts, Nov. 28 2016: https://sebald.wordpress.com/2016/11/28/what-is-literature-good-for-lynn-l-wolff-on-sebalds-hybrid-poetics/

Edited Volumes (*peer-reviewed)

*Narrating Reality in Comics / Wirklichkeit erzählen im Comic. Special Issue of Diegesis 8.1 (2019) Eds. Christian Klein, Matías Martínez, and Lynn L. Wolff. https://www.diegesis.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/diegesis/issue/view/18

*A Modernist in Exile: The International Reception of H.G. Adler (1910–1988). Ed. Lynn L. Wolff. Oxford: Legenda, 2019 hardcover; 2021 paperback. [Studies in Comparative Literature 42] http://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Modernist-in-Exile

Reviews:

Forum for Modern Language Studies 56.2 (2020): 250
Richard Sheppard, Journal of European Studies 50.3 (2020): 295-301
Traci O’Brien, Monatshefte 112.4 (2021): 747-750

*Witnessing, Memory, Poetics: H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald. Eds. Helen Finch and Lynn L. Wolff. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2014. [Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture, and Thought 1]

Reviews:

Terry Pitts in four installments, September, October, November 2014: http://sebald.wordpress.com/category/witnessing-memory-poetics-book/
German Quarterly 87.4 (2014): 509-510
Lia Deromedi, Holocaust Studies. A Journal of Culture and History 21.3 (2015): 194-196
Mark R. McCulloh, Choice 6 (2015): 977
Richard Sheppard, Journal of European Studies 45.3 (2015): 275-277
Margarete Landwehr, Journal of Austrian Studies 48.3 (2015): 153-156
Mark R. McCulloh, Monatshefte 108.1 (2016): 149-152.

Aisthesis und Noesis. Zwei Erkenntnisformen vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Eds. Hans Adler and Lynn L. Wolff. München: Fink, 2013.

Reviews:

Beate Allert, Goethe Yearbook 22 (2015) 311-313 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/gyr/summary/v022/22.allert.html
Germanistik 3-4 (2014): 542

Articles and Book Chapters (*peer-reviewed)

*“Framing H.G. Adler: A Survivor, Scholar, and Author in the Wake of the Shoah.” A Modernist in Exile: The International Reception of H.G. Adler (1910–1988) Oxford: Legenda, 2019. 3-21.
*“Literatur als Historiografie nach W.G. Sebald.” Romanhaftes Erzählen von Geschichte: Vergegenwärtigte Vergangenheiten im beginnenden 21. Jahrhundert. Eds. Elena Agazzi, Daniel Fulda, and Stephan Jaeger. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2019. 279-302. [Studien und Texte zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur]
“Austerlitz” W.G. Sebald Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung. Eds. Michael Niehaus and Claudia Öhlschläger. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2017. 48-58.
“Zur Sebald-Forschung.” W.G. Sebald Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung. Eds. Michael Niehaus and Claudia Öhlschläger. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2017. 312-318.
*“‘Die Grenzen des Sagbaren’: Towards a Political Philology in H.G. Adler’s Reflections on Language.” H.G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy. Eds. Julia Creet, Sara R. Horowitz, and Amira Bojadzija-Dan. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2016. 273-301.
*Finch, Helen and Lynn L. Wolff. “Introduction: The Adler-Sebald Intertextual Relationship as Paradigm for Intergenerational Literary Testimony” Witnessing, Memory, Poetics: H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald. Eds. Helen Finch and Lynn L. Wolff. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2014.
*“‘Der Autor zwischen Literatur und Politik’: H.G. Adler’s ‘Engagement’ and W.G. Sebald’s ‘Restitution.’” Witnessing, Memory, Poetics: H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald. Eds. Helen Finch and Lynn L. Wolff. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2014.
Adler, Hans and Lynn L. Wolff. “Einleitung. Literatur in der Aisthesis-Noesis-Konstellation.” Aisthesis und Noesis. Zwei Erkenntnisformen vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Hans Adler and Lynn L. Wolff. Munich: Fink, 2013. 13-23.
“Literary Knowledge of the Past: Seeing/Remembering/Imagining.” Aisthesis und Noesis. Zwei Erkenntnisformen vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Eds. Hans Adler and Lynn L. Wolff. Munich: Fink, 2013. 145-160.
*“The ‘Solitary Mallard’: On Sebald and Translation.” Journal of European Studies, Special Issue: W.G. Sebald. Ed. Richard Sheppard. 41.3-4 (December 2011): 323-340.
*“W.G. Sebald: A ‘Grenzgänger’ of the 20^th/21^st” Eurostudia – Revue Transatlantique de Recherche sur l’Europe, Special Issue 7.1-2 (2011): 191-198.
*Catling, Jo, Richard Hibbitt, and Lynn L. Wolff. “W.G. Sebald: Secondary Bibliography.” Saturn’s Moons: W.G. Sebald—A Handbook. Eds. Jo Catling and Richard Hibbitt. Oxford: Legenda, 2011. 495-543.
*“H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald: From History and Literature to Literary Historiography.” Monatshefte, Special Issue: H.G. Adler. Rüdiger Görner; Klaus L. Berghahn. 103.2 (2011) 257-275.
*“Literary Historiography: W.G. Sebald’s Fiction.” W.G. Sebald: Schreiben ex patria / Expatriate Writing. Ed. Gerhard Fischer. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2009. 317-330.
*“‘Das metaphysische Unterfutter der Realität’: Recent Publications and Trends in W.G. Sebald Research.” Monatshefte 99.1 (2007) 78-101.
*“‘The Mare of Majdanek’: Intersections of History and Fiction in Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser.” Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der Literatur (IASL) 29.1 (2004) 84-117.

Book Reviews

Comics & Archive. Ed. Felix Giese and Anna Stemmann. Berlin: Christian A. Bachmann Verlag, 2021. Closure: Kieler e-Journal für Comicforschung 8 (2021) https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/wolff
Gwyer, Kirstin. Encrypting the Past: The German-Jewish Holocaust Novel of the First Generation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Monatshefte, 109.2 (2017): 326-329.
A Literature of Restitution: Critical Essays on W.G. Sebald, ed. Jeannette Baxter, Valerie Henitiuk, and Ben Hutchinson. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Modern Language Review, 111.2 (2016): 589-592.
Finch, Helen. Sebald’s Bachelors: Queer Resistance and the Unconforming Life. Oxford: Legenda, 2013. Modern Language Review 111.1 (2016): 292-294.
Osborne, Dora. Traces of Trauma in W.G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr. Oxford: Legenda, 2013. Modern Language Review 111.1 (2016): 294-296.
From Kafka to Sebald. Modernism and Narrative Form, ed. Sabine Wilke. London: Continuum, 2012. Monatshefte 105.4 (2013): 730-732.
Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First Century, eds. Lyn Marven and Stuart Taberner. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2011. Gegenwartsliteratur 11 (2012): 372-374.
W.G. Sebald and the Writing of History, eds. Anne Fuchs and J.J. Long. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2007. Monatshefte 100.3 (2008): 455-457.
W.G. Sebald. History—Memory—Trauma, eds. Scott Denham and Marc McCulloh. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2006. Monatshefte 100.2 (2008): 313-316.

Manuscript reviews for De Gruyter, Edinburgh German Yearbook, Genre, German Quarterly, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Humanities, Journal of Holocaust Research, Monatshefte, Mosaic, Northwestern University Press, Scientia Poetica, Seminar, Trespassing Journal, Twentieth Century Literature,

Radio Reviews

The Kraus Project. Essays by Karl Kraus, translated and annotated by Jonathan Franzen with assistance and additional notes from Paul Reitter and Daniel Kehlmann. A bilingual edition. London: Fourth Estate, 2013. “Kritikergespräch” together with Denis Scheck and Zaia Alexander, “Büchermarkt,” Deutschlandfunk, broadcast February 4, 2014.
Spiegelman, Art. MetaMaus. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 2012. “Kritikergespräch” together with Denis Scheck and Zaia Alexander, “Büchermarkt,” Deutschlandfunk, broadcast December 14, 2012.
Dorn, Thea and Richard Wagner. Die deutsche Seele. München: Knaus, 2011. “Kritikergespräch” together with Denis Scheck and Zaia Alexander, “Büchermarkt,” Deutschlandfunk, broadcast February 28, 2012.

Translations

Hermand, Jost. “More than a House-Painter? Brecht’s Hitler” in Unmasking Hitler. Cultural Representations of Hitler from the Weimar Republic to the Present. Eds. Klaus L. Berghahn and Jost Hermand. (Oxford; New York: Peter Lang, 2005) 171-192.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945: Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe. Volume 1: Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA). Ed. Geoffrey Megargee. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. Translations of the following entries from German into English:
- Kurt Schilde, “Columbia House” (59-61)
- Herbert Diercks, “Fuhlsbüttel [aka Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel]” (77-79)
- Marcus Kienle, “Gotteszell” (83-84)
- Marcus Kienle, “Heuberg [aka Stetten am kalten Markt” (95-97)
- Martina Ruppert, “Landau [aka Schutzhaftlager in der Landauer Fortkaserne]” (114-115)
- Martina Ruppert, “Neustadt an der Haardt [aka Rheinpfalz” (135-137)
- Dieter Zühlke, “Hardehausen” (363-365)
- Dieter Vaupel, “Hessisch Lichtenau” (365-367)
- Dietfrid Krause-Vilmar, “Kassel” (368)
- Gernot Römer, “Augsburg (Michelwerke)” (451-452)
- Evelyn Zagenhagen, “Bad Ischl [aka Bad Ischl, Umsiedlerlager]” (455)