Publications

The West and the Word: Imagining, Formatting, and Ordering the American West in Nineteenth-Century Cultural Discourse. De Gruyter, 2020. Open Access

Periphere Räume in der Amerikanistik. With Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez. Dialektik des Globalen. Kernbegriffe. De Gruyter, 2019. Open Access

From Starved Rock to Cancer Alley: Simulated Violence and Representational Collapse in the American West. Intersectional Perspectives: Identity, Culture, and Society 2 (2023): 29–57. Open Access

Unmasking Maps, Unmaking Empire: Towards an Archipelagic Cartography. Journal of Transnational American Studies 14 (2023) 1: 137–167. Open Access

Introduction: Conceptualizing Archipelagic Mobilities. Journal of Transnational American Studies 14 (2023) 1: 75–92. With Barbara Gfoellner, Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez, and Alexandra Ganser. Open Access

Beyond the Artifact: Unfolding Medieval, Algorithmic, and Unruly Lives of Maps. Material Culture Review / Revue de la Culture Matérielle 92 (2022): 54–71. Open Access

“Then I Started for the Mountains”: Retracing Louisiana’s Human Geographies across Five Remarkable Biographies. Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 49 (2021) 1: 42–64. Print

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

The Horrors of the Oriental Space and Language in H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 68 (2020) 3: 233–249. Print

Shuffling Narratives: Apocalypticism, Postmodernism, and Zombies. ANGLICA: An International Journal of English Studies 29 (2020) 1: 87–107. Open Access

“To Be Murdered”: Simulations of Objectivity, Subjectivity, and Violence in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. Irish Journal of American Studies. 2019. Open Access

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

Exceptional Spaces: Pop-Cultural Debris and the Spatial (Re)Construction of American Exceptionalism in Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity. Polish Journal for American Studies 11 (2017): 203–222. Open Access

Feeling New York: Classless Urban Geographies and Affective Capitalist Reconciliation in Horatio Alger’s Ragged Dick. Emotion, Space and Society 24 (2017): 1–8. Print

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

American Health. aspeers: emerging voices in american studies 8 (2015): v-viii. Introduction. Open Access

Ghosts, Guides, and Go-Betweens: Mediating Indigenous Presence in Alaska’s Imperial Archive. Indigenous Explorers from Encounter to the Age of Empire. Eds. Doug Catterall and Lydia Towns. Routledge. Forthcoming (expected 2027).

From Fascist Frontiers to Red Resistance: Race, Masculinity, and Nation in German Westerns, 1933–1970s. The Routledge Companion to Transnational Westerns. Eds. Marek Paryż, Christopher Conway, and David Rio. Routledge. Forthcoming (expected 2027). Publisher

Global Imaginations of U.S. Imperialism, 1898–1945. Handbook U.S. and Globalizations. Eds. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez, Frank Schumacher, Megan Maruschke, Olaf Stieglitz, and Julius Wilms. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Forthcoming (expected 2026).

Mug Shots and Passport Photography. Encyclopedia of Visual Culture. Bloomsbury. In press (2026).

Visualizing Exploration. A Cultural History of Exploration. Vol. 5: A Cultural History of Exploration in the Industrial Age. Ed. Jane Samson. Bloomsbury. 2025: 147–172. Print

Playing the Race Card: Lovecraftian Play Spaces and Tentacular Sympoiesis in the Arkham Horror Board Game. With Amelie Rieß. The Medial Afterlives of H.P. Lovecraft: Comic, Film, Podcast, TV, Games. Eds. Tim Lanzendörfer and Max José Dreysse Passos de Carvalho. Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture. Palgrave Macmillan. 2023: 339–357. Print

The Sealsfield Enigma and the Narrative Politics of the Transatlantic Western. The Western in the Global Literary Imagination. Eds. Christopher Conway, Marek Paryż, and David Rio. European Perspectives on the United States, Vol. 5. Brill. 2022: 131–148. Print

“True Places Never Are”: Navigating (Trans)Oceanic Imaginations in Moby-Dick. American Studies Over_Seas. Vol. 1: Narrating Multiple America(s). Eds. Edgardo da Silva, Margarida Vale de Gato, Mário Avelar, Irene Maria F. Blayer, Dulce Maria Scott, and Tony McGowan. Peter Lang. 2022: 51–63. Print

Spatial Imaginations and Counter-Geographies of Oregon and the Far West. Reinventar o social: movimentos e narrativas de resistência nas Américas / Reinventing the Social: Movements and Narratives of Resistance in the Americas. Eds. Isabel Caldeira, Maria José Canelo, and Gonçalo Cholant. Coimbra University Press. 2021: 237–263. Open Access

“Fear Thy Neighbor”: Paranoia and Suburban Victim-Hood in Mark Pellington’s Arlington Road. Traditions and Transitions. Vol. 1. Eds. Emilia Slavova et al. St. Kliment Ohridski University Press. 2019: 290–302. 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

Archipelagic Spaces and Im/Mobilities. Journal of Transnational American Studies 14 (2023) 1. Co-editor. Open Access

aspeers: emerging voices in american studies 8 (2015). Co-editor. Open Access

Spatial Fictions: Imagining (Trans)national Space in the Southern and Western Peripheries of the Nineteenth Century United States. With Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez and Deniz Bozkurt. SFB 1199 Working Paper 10. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2018. Open Access

Review of Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution by Jeremy Land. Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung. Forthcoming.

Review of The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean by Tessa Murphy. Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists. 1 September 2023. Open Access

Review of Writing History in America’s Shadow: Japan, the Philippines, and the Question of Pan-Asianism by Takamichi Serizawa. Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists. 27 May 2022. Open Access

Review of Transoceanic America: Risk, Writing, and Revolution in the Global Pacific by Michelle Burnham. Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists. 8 January 2021. Open Access

Review of Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880–1930 by Dominic Davies. Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 29 (2019) 5: 102–103. Print

Review of Pacific America: Histories of Transoceanic Crossings by Lon Kurashige. Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 29 (2019) 1: 105–107. Print

Imperial Spatializations and Archipelagic Counter-Geographies, a Selected Corpus of Works, 1880–1940. 2024. GlobeData. Corpus (machine-readable XML)

Conspicuous Spatializations: Visualizing (Anti-)Imperial Spatial Imaginations of Transhemispheric America through Corpus-based Data. 2022. Interactive Visualizations

Discursive Map: An Attempt at Visualizing the Transnational Trajectories of Spatial Imaginations in R.H. Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast (1840). 2018/2022. Map

Violence, Representation, and Ecocide in the American West. 2021. For Academia Letters. Open Access

The West and the Word: Imagining, Formatting, and Ordering the American West in Nineteenth-Century Cultural Discourse. TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research. New Books. 28 January 2021. Web

Mapping Discourse in R.H. Dana’s “Two Years Before the Mast.” TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research. 31 October 2019. Web

Globe, Region, and Periphery: The Spatialization of the American West in Nineteenth-Century US Literature. TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research. 10 April 2018. Web

Berkeley Free Speech Rally Riots | United Forces (15 April 2017). Short Documentary / Video Essay. 18 April 2017. Web

The Second Cold War. The Unz Review. 9 December 2015. Web

The Second Cold War. The US Might Come Out on the Losing Side... Centre for Research on Globalization - Centre De Recherche Sur La Mondialisation. 8 December 2015. Web

Mapping Discourse in R.H. Dana’s “Two Years Before the Mast.” 28 January 2020. Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum der Universität Leipzig. Conference Poster

Urban America: Mediating City Space as Place. 2 April 2016. Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig. Conference Poster

ENMMA: European Network for Minor Mobilities in the Americas. 2018–present. Programming / Design

steffenwoell.github.io 2019–present. Programming / Design. Website