MONOGRAPHS AND EDITED COLLECTIONS
THE TERRITORIALITIES OF U.S. IMPERIALISM(S): CONFLICTING DISCOURSES OF SOVEREIGNTY, JURISDICTION AND TERRITORY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY U.S. LEGAL TEXTS AND INDIGENOUS LIFE WRITING.
Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg
‘The Territorialities of U.S. Imperialism(s)’ sets into relation U.S. imperial and Indigenous conceptions of territoriality as articulated in U.S. legal texts and Indigenous life writing in the 19th century. It analyzes the ways in which U.S. legal texts as “legal fictions” narratively press to affirm the United States’ territorial sovereignty and coherence in spite of its reliance on a variety of imperial practices that flexibly disconnect and (re)connect U.S. sovereignty, jurisdiction and territory.
At the same time, the book acknowledges Indigenous life writing as legal texts in their own right and with full juridical force, which aim to highlight the heterogeneity of U.S. national territory both from their individual perspectives and in conversation with these legal fictions. Through this, the book’s analysis contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the coloniality of U.S. legal fictions, while highlighting territoriality as a key concept in the fashioning of the narrative of U.S. imperialism.
REVIEWS FOR THE TERRITORIALITIES OF U.S. IMPERIALISM(S)
Biography, Volume 45, Number 1, 2022, pp. 104-107; https://muse.jhu.edu/article/869255
ACROSS CURRENTS: CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ATLANTIC AND (TRANS)PACIFIC STUDIES.
Routledge
This book explores connections between Atlantic studies and (trans)Pacific studies, including the potential discursive, topical, and historical overlaps of the two fields. It carves out mutual concerns and theoretical affinities, but also divergent approaches and differences. While acknowledging the fundamental differences that characterize the individual fields, the essays in this volume examine how both Atlantic and (trans)Pacific studies are part of global currents of political, activist, artistic, economic, and academic exchange. This volume brings together voices from Europe, North America, and the Pacific with disciplinary backgrounds in history, culture, and literature. Directed at scholars with a background in (trans)Pacific and/or Atlantic studies, this collection is an attempt to stimulate exchange between the two fields, to intensify their impact within the current transnational focus of literary and cultural studies, to encourage the questioning of well-mapped paths of inquiry, and to outline new theoretical approaches to both fields.
AMERICAN TERRITORIALITIES
Journal for Transnational American Studies
ARTICLES OR BOOK CHAPTERS
SCORCHED EARTH: DISCOURSES OF MULTIPLANETARITY, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND MARTIAN TERRAFORMING IN FINCH AND ONCE UPON A TIME I LIVED ON MARS
2022
AN ARCHIPELAGIC READING OF OUTER SPACE
Forthcoming 2023
FROM HI-SEAS TO OUTER SPACE: 'HAWAIʻI AS MARS' AND THE U.S. LEGAL DISCOURSE OF HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION.
Forthcoming 2023
WRITING LIFE ON MARS: POSTHUMAN IMAGINARIES OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL COLONIZATION AND THE NASA MARS ROVER MISSIONS.
2021
PASSING ON THE TORCH TO LIGHT OUT THE TERRITORY AHEAD: CONFLICTING TEMPORALITIES OF (ARRESTED) MOBILITY IN GERONIMO’S STORY OF HIS LIFE.
2021
THE UN/INCOROPORATED STATES OF AMERICA: THE GRAMMAR OF JURISDICTIONAL INCONGRUENCE IN US IMPERIALISM.
2020
WITH NICOLE WALLER. “INTRODUCTION: MAPPING AMERICAN TERRITORIALITIES.“
2020
THE IMPERIAL GRAMMAR OF JURISDICTIONAL INCONGRUENCE.
2020
WITH NICOLE POPPENHAGEN. “INTRODUCTION: ACROSS CURRENTS: CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ATLANTIC STUDIES AND (TRANS)PACIFIC STUDIES.“
2017
’SO IT HAPPENS THAT WE ARE RELEGATED TO THE CONDITION OF THE ABORIGINES OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT’: DISAVOWING AND RECLAIMING SOVEREIGNTY IN LILIUOKALANI’S HAWAII’S STORY BY HAWAII’S QUEEN AND THE CONGRESSIONAL MORGAN REPORT.
2016
OVERRIDING/OVERWRITING THE RESERVATION: JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE‘S THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JOAQUÍN MURIETA, THE CELEBRATED CALIFORNIA BANDIT.
2015
BLOGS AND PODCASTS
2021
AUF ZU NEUEN UFERN? DER NEUE WELTRAUMTOURISMUS VON MUSK UND CO.
Geschichten der Gegenwart, September 29, 2021
2021
WHY BILLIONAIRES IN SPACE ARE NOT GOING TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE
De Gruyter Conversations, De Gruyter, July 14, 2
2021
JENS TEMMEN ON MARS.
Talking American Studies, Verena Adamik and Anja Söyunmez, May 22, 2021. Buzzsprout