Publications
Prof. Dr. Ina Bergmann
Monographs
The Nineteenth Century Revis(it)ed: The New Historical Fiction. New York: Routledge, 2021. Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature.
Reviews:
Prashant Maurya. Rupkatha Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 13:4 (2021):1-4.
Michael Butter. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (ZAA) 72:1 (2024):107-09.
And Then the Child Becomes a Woman: Weibliche Initiation in der amerikanischen Kurzgeschichte 1865-1970. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2003. American Studies – A Monograph Series.
Edited Volumes and Journals
“The Animal in Ireland: Real and Imagined.” Special Issues. Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE), 8.2 (2025) and 9.1. (2026), forthcoming. (with Maria Eisenmann, Maureen O’Connor, and Kirsten Sandrock)
History in Stories: The Irish Past and the Challenges of the Present. Lausanne: Peter Lang, 2024. Anglo-amerikanische Studien/Anglo-American Studies 70. (with Maria Eisenmann)
Kulturen der Einsamkeit. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2020. Ringvorlesungen der Universität Würzburg 18. (with Dorothea Klein)
Reviews:
Josef Tutsch. Scienzz, August 11, 2020.
Simon Scharf. literaturkritik.de, September 28, 2020.
Kathrin Wittler. Zeitschrift für Germanistik 31:2 (2021): 147-50.
"Section: Region, Environment, and Community in American Literary Short Forms." Journal of the Short Story in English/Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle 73 (2019): 19-152.
Intermediality, Life Writing, and American Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018. Anglia Book Series. (with Nassim Winnie Balestrini)
Review:
Sofie Behluli. Amerikastudien/American Studies 64.1 (2019): 145-48.
"Cluster: Nature, Liminality, and the Short Story." ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 24.3 (Summer 2017): 477-560.
Cultures of Solitude: Loneliness – Limitation – Liberation. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2017. (with Stefan Hippler)
Review:
Carmen Birkle. Amerikastudien/American Studies 63.4 (2018): n. pag.
Liminality and the Short Story: Boundary Crossings in American, Canadian, and British Writing. New York: Routledge, 2015. Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature. (with Jochen Achilles)
Reviews:
Robert C. Clark. Amerikastudien/American Studies 62.2 (2017): n. pag.
Beryl Pong. Journal of the Short Story in English 69 (2017): 195-98.
"Section IV: Dickens and His Legacy." Proceedings: Anglistentag 2011 Freiburg. Ed. Monika Fludernik and Benjamin Kohlmann. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2012. 213-302. (with Norbert Lennartz)
Representations of Evil in Fiction and Film. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2009. Anglistik – Amerikanistik – Anglophonie. (with Jochen Achilles)
Review:
Eckart Voigts-Virchow. Anglia: Journal of English Philology 130.1 (2012): 146-48.
Global Challenges and Regional Responses in Contemporary Drama in English. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2003. Contemporary Drama in English. (with Jochen Achilles and Birgit Däwes)
Reviews:
Kurt Müller. Amerikastudien/American Studies 50.1/2 (2005): 318-320.
Stefan Horlacher. Anglistik 16.1 (2005): 166-68.
Journal Articles and Book Contributions
"A Genealogy of the New Historical Fiction." Routledge Companion to Neo-historical Fiction. Ed. Kate Mitchell and Rosario Arias. New York: Routledge, forthcoming.
“Irish History, Personal Memory & Stupid Ideas: A Conversation with Patrick Freyne.” History in Stories: The Irish Past and the Challenges of the Present. Ed. Ina Bergmann and Maria Eisenmann. Lausanne: Peter Lang, 2024. 185-99. Anglo-amerikanische Studien/Anglo-American Studies 70.
"History in Stories: The Irish Past and the Challenges of the Present." History in Stories: The Irish Past and the Challenges of the Present. Ed. Ina Bergmann and Maria Eisenmann. Lausanne: Peter Lang, 2024. 11-16. Anglo-amerikanische Studien/Anglo-American Studies 70. (with Maria Eisenmann)
"The Green Atlantic Revis(it)ed: Colum McCann’s TransAtlantic (2013) as New Irish American Historical Fiction." Great Irish Novels of the Twenty-First Century: Analysis, Interpretation, Evaluation. Ed. Katharina Rennhak. Trier: wvt, forthcoming. Irish Studies in Europe.
"The Liberty of Solitude: Einsamkeit und Freiheit im Leben und Werk von Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott und Sarah Orne Jewett." Rückzug: Produktivität des Solitären in Kunst, Religion und Geschlechtergeschichte – En retrait/e: La solitude créatice au prisme du genre dans les arts et la religion. Ed. Jenny Haase, Sophie Houdard, Beatrix Trînca and Xenia von Tippelskirch. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, forthcoming.
"In Poe's Shadow: Frances Sargent Osgood." Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction. Ed. Julia Novak and Caitríona Ní Dhúill. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2022. 247-70. Palgrave Studies in Life-Writing.
"Eine Divine Comedy für das 21. Jahrhundert: Matthew Pearls The Dante Club." Dante Intermedial: Die Divina Commedia in Literatur und Medien. Ed. Irmgard Scharold. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2022. 373-97.
"Kate Chopin." Handbook of the American Short Story. Ed. Erik Redling and Oliver Scheiding. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. 209-25. Handbooks of English and American Studies 15.
"Kulturen der Einsamkeit in Europa, Asien und Amerika: Von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart." Kulturen der Einsamkeit. Ed. Ina Bergmann and Dorothea Klein. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2020. 1-10. Ringvorlesungen der Universität Würzburg 18.
"Introduction: Region, Environment, and Community in American Literary Short Forms." Journal of the Short Story in English/Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle 73 (2019): 21-36.
"Historical Biofiction: Writing Lives in Diane Glancy's Stone Heart (2003) and John May's Poe & Fanny (2004)." The American Novel in the 21st Century: Cultural Contexts – Literary Developments – Critical Analyses. Ed. Michael Basseler and Ansgar Nünning. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2019. 309-22.
"The Remediation of 'Little Edie': From It-Girl to Loony Catlady to Cultural Icon." Intermediality, Life Writing, and American Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Nassim Winnie Balestrini and Ina Bergmann. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018. 100-18. Anglia Book Series.
"Emily Dickinson, Intermediality, and Life Writing: An Interview with Susan Snively." Intermediality, Life Writing, and American Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Nassim Winnie Balestrini and Ina Bergmann. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018. 233-43. Anglia Book Series.
"Intermediality, Life Writing, and American Studies: A Brief Introduction." Intermediality, Life Writing, and American Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Nassim Winnie Balestrini and Ina Bergmann. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018. 1-8. Anglia Book Series. (with Nassim Winnie Balestrini)
"'The Blue Zone': Liminality in Rick Bass's 'The Hermit's Story.'" ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 24.3 (Summer 2017): 545-60.
"Nature, Liminality, and the Short Story: An Analytical Triad." ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 24.3 (Summer 2017): 477-81.
"'[A]way to Solitude, to Freedom, to Desolation!': Hermits and Recluses in Julia Ward Howe's The Hermaphrodite." Cultures of Solitude: Loneliness – Limitation – Liberation. Ed. Ina Bergmann and Stefan Hippler. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2017. 101-22.
"Cultures of Solitude: Reflections on Loneliness, Limitation, and Liberation in the US." Cultures of Solitude: Loneliness – Limitation – Liberation. Ed. Ina Bergmann and Stefan Hippler. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2017. 13-42.
"'I Have Heard Many Stranger Stories Than This, in the Villages Along the Hudson': Magic Realism in Upstate New York." Liminality and the Short Story: Boundary Crossings in American, Canadian, and British Writing. Ed. Jochen Achilles and Ina Bergmann. New York: Routledge, 2015. 159-74. Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature.
"'Betwixt and Between': Boundary Crossings in American, Canadian, and British Writing." Liminality and the Short Story: Boundary Crossings in American, Canadian, and British Writing. Ed. Jochen Achilles and Ina Bergmann. New York: Routledge, 2015. 3-31. Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature. (with Jochen Achilles)
"Introducing Priya Basil: A Conversation with the Author." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 26.1 (2015): 139-55.
"From Hell: Dante, Tod und Teufel im amerikanischen Serienmörderroman." Unterwelten: Modelle und Transformationen. Ed. Joachim Hamm and Jörg Robert. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014. 247-70. Ringvorlesungen der Universität Würzburg.
"Richard Greenberg." The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights. Ed. Martin Middeke et al. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. 39-57. (with Jochen Achilles)
"Introduction: Dickens and His Legacy." Proceedings: Anglistentag 2011 Freiburg. Ed. Monika Fludernik and Benjamin Kohlmann. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2012. 213-19. (with Norbert Lennartz)
"The New Historical Fiction – Between Tradition and Innovation." Narrative is the Essence of History: Essays on the Historical Novel. Ed. John Cameron. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. 139-51.
"Stories of Female Initiation: Flannery O'Connor's 'Good Country People' and Joyce Carol Oates' 'How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again.'" A History of the American Short Story: Genres – Classics – Model Interpretations. Ed. Ansgar Nünning and Michael Basseler. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2011. 307-22.
"Reanimated Classics: Canon Appropriation and Serialization in Contemporary Fiction." Proceedings: Anglistentag 2009 Klagenfurt. Ed. Jörg Helbig and René Schallegger. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2010. 135-51.
"Working Girls: The New Woman in Juvenile and Adult Fiction by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman." LWU (Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht) XLII.4 (2009): 259-66.
"Jack the Ripper's American Cousins: Representations of Good and Evil in Historical Crime Fiction." Representations of Evil in Fiction and Film. Ed. Jochen Achilles and Ina Bergmann. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2009. 137-56. Anglistik – Amerikanistik – Anglophonie.
"Introduction." Representations of Evil in Fiction and Film. Ed. Jochen Achilles and Ina Bergmann. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2009. 1-7. Anglistik – Amerikanistik – Anglophonie. (with Jochen Achilles)
"'To You, Perceptive Reader, I Bequeath my History': Die Renaissance des historischen Romans im 21. Jahrhundert." Amerikanisches Erzählen nach 2000. Ed. Sebastian Domsch. München: Text & Kritik, 2008. 56-77.
"Tomboyism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Identity Formation, Gender Ambiguity, and Cultural Work." Cultural Memory and Multiple Identities. Ed. Rüdiger Kunow and Wilfried Raussert. Berlin: LITVerlag, 2008. 43-56. Transnational and Transatlantic American Studies.
"American Eves: The Story of Female Initiation in the EFL-Classroom." Cultural Interactions: Fifty Years of American Studies in Germany. Ed. Ulla Haselstein and Berndt Ostendorf. Heidelberg: Winter, 2005. 197-207. American Studies – A Monograph Series.
"Stories of Female Initiation: Two 19th Century Examples of Female Professional Success." COPAS (Current Objectives in Postgraduate American Studies) 2 (June 2001). Article
Miscellaneous
"Intermediality, Life Writing, and American Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives." English and American Studies in German 2018: Summaries of Theses and Monographs – A Supplement to Anglia, 1 (2019): 19-21. (with Nassim Winnie Balestrini)
"Cultures of Solitude: Loneliness – Limitation – Liberation." English and American Studies in German 2017: Summaries of Theses and Monographs – A Supplement to Anglia 7.1 (2018): 40-42. (with Stefan Hippler)
"Liminality and the Short Story: Boundary Crossings in American, Canadian, and British Writing" English and American Studies in German 2015: Summaries of Theses and Monographs – A Supplement to Anglia 5.1 (2016): 18-19. (with Jochen Achiles)
"And Then the Child Becomes a Woman: Weibliche Initiation in der amerikanischen Kurzgeschichte 1865-1970. [And Then the Child Becomes a Woman: Female Initiation in the American Short Story 1865-1970]." English and American Studies in German 2003: Summaries of Theses and Monographs – A Supplement to Anglia. Ed. Horst Weinstock. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2004. 142-44.
Contributions to Reference Works
"Michael Chabon, Maps & Legends: Reading And Writing Along the Borderlands." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, online database, J. B. Metzler, <http://www.kll-online.de>, March 2012.
"Biogramm David Ebershoff." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, online database, J. B. Metzler, <http://www.kll-online.de>, November 2011.
"David Ebershoff, The Nineteenth Wife." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, online database, J. B. Metzler, <http://www.kll-online.de>, November 2011.
"Biogramm Lorrie Moore." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, online database, J. B. Metzler, <http://www.kll-online.de>, March 2011.
"Lorrie Moore. A Gate at the Stairs." Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, online database, J. B. Metzler, <http://www.kll-online.de>, March 2011.
Reviews
"Erik Redling, ed. Traveling Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Cultural Concepts and Transatlantic Intellectual Networks." Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie 136.2 (2018): 374-77.
"Michael Butter. The Epitome of Evil: Hitler in American Fiction, 1939–2002." Amerikastudien/American Studies: A Quarterly 57.1 (2012): 139-42.
"Susan Staves. A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789." Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie 129.3-4 (2011): 528-30.
"Sylvia Lange. Die Figurenzeichnung bei William Faulkner: Dargestellt an ausgewählten Yoknapatawpha-Romanen." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 22.2 (2011): 184-86.
"Gordon Bölling. History in the Making: Metafiktion im neueren anglokanadischen historischen Roman." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 19.1 (2008): 206-9.
"Christoph Ribbat, ed. Twenty-First Century Fiction: Readings, Essays, Conversations. Anglistik und Englischunterricht, Band 66." Amerikastudien/American Studies: A Quarterly 52.3 (2007): 453-55.
"Ralph J. Poole. Kannibalische (P)Akte: Autoethnographische und satirische Schreibweisen als interkulturelle Verhandlungen von Herman Melville bis Marianne Wiggins." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 18.1 (2007): 211-13.
"Annette Simonis. Grenzüberschreitungen in der phantastischen Literatur: Einführung in die Theorie und Geschichte eines narrativen Genres." Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie 124.3 (2006): 522-28.
Interviews
"Irland, St. Patrick’s Day & Irish Studies." Interview by Daniel Dünchem. JMU Podcast. 17 March 2021. Web. Podcast
"Buch über 'Kulturen der Einsamkeit.'" Interview by Susanne Schnabel. Kultur am Mittag. WDR 3. 15 May 2020. Web. Interview
"Kulturen der Einsamkeit." Interview by Stephan Karkowsky. Die Profis. radioeins rbb. 02 May 2020. Web. Interview
"Was tun gegen Vereinsamung?" Interview by Dörte Hinrichs. Deutschlandfunk. Deutschlandradio. 16 Mar. 2018. Web. Interview
"Solitude." Interview by David Sehat. Mindpop. 17 Dec. 2017. Web. Interview
"Die Hölle in uns allen: Vorstellungen von der Unterwelt." Interview by Ralph Heringlehner. Mainpost 22 Dec. 2011. Web. Article
"Literarische Weltreise - Literatur in Amerika: Geraldine Brooks' March." Interview by Lothar Reichel. Radioredaktion der Diözese Würzburg. Bistum Würzburg. 3 Dec. 2006.
