Current project(s)

Credit, Debt, and Nostalgia in American Culture

Former position(s)

Wiss. Mitarbeiter, Nordamerikastudienprogramm, Universität Bonn

Monographs (and dissertation)

The Writing of Terrorism: Contemporary American Fiction and Maurice Blanchot. Frankfurt: Lang, 2017.

Articles

"Risk and Nostalgia: Fictions of the Financial Crisis." American Literature and the Uses of Uncertainty: Chance, Risk, and Security. Ed. Johannes Voelz. Spec. issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies 60.4 (2015): 463-78.
"Poetry and Fiction after 9/11." Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies. Ed. Julia Straub. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016. 116-33.
"'Who do the saying': Amiri Baraka’s Transnational Counter-Memory of Violence." Recovery and Transgression: Memory in American Poetry. Ed. Kornelia Freitag. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, 2015. 233-47.
"Contemporary Women's Poetry: Adrienne Rich and Harryette Mullen." A History of American Poetry: Contexts – Developments – Readings. Ed. Oliver Scheiding, Clemens Spahr, and René Dietrich. Trier: WVT, 2015. 397-412.
"Systemic insecurity, spectacular violence: Bret Easton Ellis’ Glamorama.” Insecurity and Global Terror(s). Ed. Nuno Marques, Igor Furão, and Susana Araújo. Spec. issue of Estrema: Interdisciplinary Review for the Humanities 5 (Fall 2014)
"Mapping 9/11: A Review of Recent German Scholarship." Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 250.2 (2013): 371-79.
"On Hallowed Ground: The Sacred Space of Ground Zero and the Consecration of Global Business." Beyond 9/11: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Twenty-First Century U.S. American Culture. Ed. Christian Kloeckner, Simone Knewitz, and Sabine Sielke. Frankfurt: Lang, 2013. 245-62.
"Re-Orienting Impersonality: T. S. Eliot and the Self of the Far East." Modernism and the Orient. Ed. Zhaoming Qian. New Orleans: University of New Orleans Press, 2012. 163-84.

Edited volumes

Financial Times: Competing Temporalities in the Age of Financial Capitalism. Ed. Christian Kloeckner and Stefanie Mueller. Spec. issue of Finance and Society 4.1 (2018). Forthcoming.
Knowledge Landscapes North America. Ed. Sabine Sielke, Christian Kloeckner, and Simone Knewitz. Heidelberg: Winter, 2016.
Beyond 9/11: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Twenty-First Century U.S. American Culture. Ed. Christian Kloeckner, Simone Knewitz, and Sabine Sielke. Frankfurt: Lang, 2013.
American Studies/Shifting Gears: A Publication of the DFG Research Network “The Futures of (European) American Studies.” Ed. Birte Christ, Christian Kloeckner, Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche, and Michael Butter. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010.
Orient and Orientalisms in American Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Sabine Sielke and Christian Kloeckner. Frankfurt: Lang, 2009.

List of publications (Url)

https://www.nas.uni-bonn.de/people/faculty-1/christian-kloeckner

Critical Finance Studies; Financialization, Post-Fordist Theory, and Nostalgia; Poetry and Poetics; Literary Theory; Discourses on 9/11, Terrorism, and Political Violence; Intersectionality; Queer Studies