Working as a postdoctoral fellow at Leipzig University’s Collaborative Research Centre 1199, Steffen Wöll has recently published The West and the Word: Imagining, Formatting, and Ordering the American West in Nineteenth-Century Cultural Discourse (2020). In 2016, he received his master’s degree from the Institute for American Studies at Leipzig University with a paper about “American Spaces: Renegotiations of Cultural Geographies and Counter-Drafts to Spatial Master Narratives of the American West in Jack London’s Short Stories.”

 

Wöll's research interests include, but are not limited to:

• Imaginations and representations of spatio-cultural (meta)narratives

• The narrative nexus of space, mobility, agency, and otherness

• Trans-hemispheric and trans-oceanic (re)visions of fin de siècle imperialism

• (Sub)cultural and millennialist apocalypticism

 

Selected Publications

 

"Voyages through Literary Space: Mapping Globe and Nation in Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast." Polish Journal for American Studies 14 (2020): 197-209. Open Access.

 

"Spatiality and Psyche: Surviving the Yukon in Jack London's 'Love of Life' and 'To Build a Fire.'" Processes of Spatialization in the Americas: Configurations and Narratives. Interamericana. Vol. 13. Eds. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez and Hannes Warnecke-Berger. Peter Lang, 2019: 75–98. Print.

 

"Bleeding Borders: Space, Blackness, and Hybridity in Jack London's Representations of the American Southwest." Amerikastudien / American Studies 63 (2018) 1: 5-28. Open Access.

 

"Inertia and Movement: The Spatialization of the Native Northland in Jack London's Short Stories." GeoHumanities 3 (2017) 1: 65–87. Print.

 

A complete list of publications is available here.