Prof. Dr. Stephan Karschay

Single-authored books
Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

As Editor
(forthcoming, with Katharina Boehm). Gothic Ecologies in British Culture: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Special issue of the Journal for the Study of British Cultures, 27/2.

(with Joanna Rostek and Gerold Sedlmayr). Hard Times 84 (2008): The Politics of British Humour.

Articles

(forthcoming), “Scandals in British Culture.” How to Do Cultural Studies: Approaches, Ideas, Scenarios. Eds. Jürgen Kramer and Bernd Lenz. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann.

“Great Britain or Little England? Brexit and the London Olympics Opening Ceremony”. Journal for the Study of British Cultures 26/1. Ed. Joanna Rostek and Anne-Julia Zwierlein, 59-72.

“George Moore, Esther Waters.” Handbook of the English Novel 1830-1900. Ed. Martin Middeke and Monika Pietrzak-Franger. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020. 482-497.

“Doyle and the Criminal Body”. The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes. Ed. Janice Allan and Christopher Pittard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 96-110.

(with Philip Jacobi) “Jack Is Back: Murder, Detection and Victorian Attitudes to Class in Contemporary British Crime TV.” Victorian Ideologies in Contemporary British Cultures. Ed. Christina Flotmann-Scholz and Anna Lienen. Heidelberg: Winter, 2019. 47-70.

“Mental Illness.” A Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction. Ed. Kevin Morrison. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 154-157.

“Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.” A Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction. Ed. Kevin Morrison. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018. 239-241.

“Foreword.” Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray – Das Verhängnis des Oscar Wilde: Ein Ausstellungskatalog. Ed. Jörg W. Rademacher. Coesfeld: Elsinor, 2017. 79-82.

(with Joanna Rostek) “Man haf fe do wha man haf fe do: Humour and Identity (Re)Formation in Bernardine Evaristo's Mr Loverman.” Anglistik 27.1 (2016) Ed. Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz: 125-136.

“Laughing in Horror: Hybrid Genre and the Grotesque Body in Psychoville.” British TV Comedies: Cultural Concepts, Contexts and Controversies. Ed. Jürgen Kamm and Birgit Neumann. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 341-358.

“An Epidemic of Perversions: Normativity and Deviance in Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s Psychopathia Sexualis.” Crimes of Passion: Repräsentationen der Sexualpathologie im frühen 20. Jahrhundert. Ed. Oliver Böni and Japhet Johnstone. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2015. 255-276.

“The Victorian Housing of Gender: The Semiotics of Ideology and Social Reality.” Moderne Sprachen 55.1 (2011), 39-60.

“(Pre-)Destined to Fail: Atavism and Character Development in Late-Victorian Fiction.” From the Cradle to the Grave: Life-Course Models in Literary Genres. Ed. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Sarah Herbe. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011. 177-191. Wissenschaft und Kunst 15.

“‘Only Connect!’ The Negotiation of Identities in E. M. Forster’s Howards End and Zadie Smith’s On Beauty.” Insular Mentalities: Mental Maps of Britain. Essays in Honour of Bernd Lenz. Ed. Jürgen Kamm and Gerold Sedlmayr. Passau: Stutz, 2007. 201-213.

Reviews
Feldmann, Doris and Christian Krug (eds.). Viktorianismus: Eine literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Einführung. In: Anglia 133/1 (2015), 195-198.

Wasson, Sara. Urban Gothic and the Second World War: Dark London and Bridget M. Marshall, The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790-1860. In: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 60.2 (2012), 196-198.

Brosch, Renate, ed. Victorian Visual Culture. In: Journal for the Study of British Cultures 16.2 (2009), 181-184

As Translator
(forthcoming, 2017), (with a student translation group at the University of Passau), “Cousin Marshall.” Harriet Martineau. Ed. Bernd Lenz. Passau: Stutz. KritBrit 8.