Publications

Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama. University of Nebraska Press, 2016. [Habilitation thesis]

Narrating the Prison: Role and Representation in Charles Dickens' Novels, Twentieth-Century Fiction, and Film. Cambria Press, 2007. [Doctoral dissertation]

Special Issue of the Journal Storyworlds ("Political Narratives", ed. Jan Alber and Jan Rupp), forthcoming. 

Special Issue of the Journal of Narrative Theory ("Narrative Literacy"), ed. with S.-J. Moenandar and Cecilia Thirlway, 2025. 

Special Issue of the Journal Anglistik, vol. 31, no. 1 ("Empirical Approaches to Narrative", ed. Jan Alber and Sven Strasen), 2020. 

Special Issue of the European Journal of English Studies, vol. 23, no. 2 ("Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives", ed. Jan Alber and Alice Bell), 2019.

Special Issue of the Journal Poetics Today, vol. 39, no. 3 ("Unnatural and Cognitive Approaches to Narrative", ed. Jan Alber, Marco Caracciolo, Stefan Iversen, Karin Kukkonen and Henrik Skov Nielsen), 2018.  

Special Issue the Journal Storyworlds, vol. 9, no. 1-2 ("Narrative and Ideology", ed. Jan Alber), 2017. 

With Ralf Schneider. Ed. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Cognitive Studies. Routledge, 2026. 

With Deborah de Muijnck and Jessica Jumpertz. Ed. Pandemic Storytelling. Brill, 2025.

With Peter Wenzel. Ed. Introduction to Cognitive Narratology. WVT, 2021. 

The Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change. De Gruyter, 2021. 

With Alice Bell. Ed. Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives. Routledge, 2021. 

With Brian Richardson. Ed. Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges. The Ohio State University Press, 2020. 

With Greta Olson. Ed. How to Do Things with Narrative: Cognitive and Diachronic Perspectives. Festschrift for Monika Fludernik on the Occasion of her Sixtieth Birthday. De Gruyter, 2017. 

With Per Krogh Hansen. Ed. Beyond Classical Narration: Transmedial and Unnatural Challenges. De Gruyter, 2014. 

With Henrik Skov Nielsen and Brian Richardson. Ed. A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative. The Ohio State University Press, 2013. 

With Stefan Iversen, Louise Brix Jacobsen, Rikke Andersen Kraglund, Henrik Skov Nielsen and Camilla Møhring Reestorff. Ed. Why Study Literature? Aarhus University Press, 2011. 

With Rüdiger Heinze. Ed. Unnatural Narratives, Unnatural Narratology. De Gruyter, 2011. 

With Monika Fludernik. Ed. Postclassical Narratology: Approaches and Analyses. The Ohio State University Press, 2010. 

With Frank Lauterbach. Ed. Stones of Law, Bricks of Shame: Narrating Imprisonment in the Victorian Age. University of Toronto Press, 2009. 

With Monika Fludernik. Ed. Moderne – Postmoderne. WVT, 2003.

With Ivo Steininger. "Understanding How We Understand: The Role of Metahermeneutics in Narrative Analysis and Teaching." Journal of Literary Semantics, forthcoming. 

With Deborah de Muijnck. "Neutralization Techniques in Nabokov's Scandalous Lolita: Strategies of Unreliable Narration Revisited." Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies, forthcoming  

With Alice Bell, Nadia Georgiou and Denise Wong. "Multimodality, Transmediality, and Ethics in Post-Postmodernist Fictions of the Digital." Narrative, vol. 33, no. 3, 2025, pp. 338-60. 

"Disruptive Stories, Narrative Literacy, and the Case of QAnon." Journal of Narrative Theory, vol. 55, no. 1, 2025, pp. 81-102.  

With S.-J. Moenandar and Cecilia Thirlway. "Introduction: Narrative Literacy." Journal of Narrative Theory, vol. 55, no. 1, 2025, pp. 1-11.

With Cristina Loi, Giulia Scapin and Maria Ángeles Martínez. "Measuring Storyworld Possible Selves in Depression Stories: Linguistic Features, Personal Relevance, and the Narrative Experience." Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000721 

With Kang Mengni. "Timbuktu: An Unnatural Narrative, an Emotional Reading Experience, and a Cognitive Explanation." Journal of Narrative Theory, vol. 53, no. 2, 2023, pp. 195-216. 

 Brian Richardson. "Reading Unnaturally: A Response to Ellen Peel." Narrative, vol. 31, no. 1, 2023, pp. 102-5. 

"Hypothetical Intentionalism: Cinematic Narration Reconsidered." Foreign Literary Theories and Comparative Poetics, vol. 7, 2021, pp. 53-71. (Chinese translation of "Hypothetical Intentionalism: Cinematic Narration Reconsidered" –translated by Lan Xiujuan).

"Binary Systems, Deeper Meanings, and 'Correct' Pictures of Narratives: A Few Comments on Dan Shen's Analyses of Covert Progressions." Style, vol. 55, no. 1, 2021, pp. 59-63.

With Jessica Jumpertz and Axel Mayer. "How Professional Readers Process Unnatural Narrators: An Empirical Perspective." Scientific Study of Literature, vol. 10, no. 2, 2020, pp. 193-214. 

With Alice Bell. "The Importance of Being Earnest Again: Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives across Media." European Journal of English Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, 2019, pp. 121-35. 

With Marco Caracciolo, Stefan Iversen, Karin Kukkonen und Henrik Skov Nielsen. "Introduction: Unnatural and Cognitive Perspectives on Narrative (A Theory Crossover)." Poetics Today, vol. 39, no. 3, 2018, pp. 429-45. 

With Marco Caracciolo and Irina Marchesini. "Mimesis: The Unnatural between Situation Models and Interpretive Strategies." Poetics Today, vol. 39, no. 3, 2018, pp. 447-71. 

"Rhetorical Ways of Covering Up Speculations and Hypotheses, or Why Empirical Investigations of Real Readers Matter." Style, vol. 51, no. 1-2 , 2018, pp. 34-39. 

"Introduction: The Ideological Ramifications of Narrative Strategies." Storyworlds, vol. 9, no. 1-2, 2017, pp. 3-25. 

"Indigeneity and Narrative Strategies: Ideology in Contemporary Non-Indigenous Australian Prose Fiction." Storyworlds, vol. 9, no.1-2, 2017, pp. 159-81. 

"Narratology and Performativity: On Processes of Narrativization in Live Performances." Narrative, vol. 25, no. 3, 2017, pp. 358-72. 

"Gaping before Monumental Unnatural Inscriptions? The Necessity of a Cognitive Approach." Style, vol. 50, no. 4, 2016, pp. 434-41.  

"Towards Resilience and Literary Virtuosity: The Negotiation of Indigenous Australian Identities in Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Prose." European Journal of English Studies, vol. 20, no. 3, 2016, pp. 292-309. 

"Absurd Catalogues: The Functions of Lists in Postmodernist Fiction." Style, vol. 50, no. 3, 2016, pp. 342-58. 

"The Indigenous Other in Non-Indigenous Travel Narratives: The Case of Bruce Chatwin's Songlines." Literaria Pragensia, vol. 26, no. 51, 2016, pp. 97-110.    

"What Commodities Have to Say about Consumerism: The Eighteenth-Century Novel The Adventures of a Black Coat." Material Culture, vol. 48, no. 1, 2015, pp. 55-66.

"The Social Minds in Factual and Fictional We-Narratives of the Twentieth Century." Narrative, vol. 23, no. 2, 2015, pp. 212-25.

"Unnatural Narrative Theory: The Systematic Study of Anti-Mimeticism." Literature Compass, vol. 10, no. 5, 2013, pp. 449-60.

With Natalie Churn. "Creative Indigenous Self-Representation in Humorous Australian Popular Culture as a Vital Communication Channel for Refiguring Public Opinion." Anglistica: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 17, no. 2, 2013, pp. 65-75.

With Stefan Iversen, Henrik Skov Nielsen and Brian Richardson. "What Really is Unnatural Narratology?" Storyworlds, vol. 5, 2013, pp. 101-18.

With Alice Bell. "Ontological Metalepsis and Unnatural Narratology." Journal of Narrative Theory, vol. 42, no. 2, 2012, pp. 166-92. 

With Stefan Iversen, Henrik Skov Nielsen and Brian Richardson. "What is Unnatural about Unnatural Narratology? A Response to Monika Fludernik." Narrative, vol. 20, no. 3, 2012, pp. 371-82. 

"Cinematic Carcerality: Prison Metaphors in Film." The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 44, no. 2, 2011, pp. 217-32. 

With Stefan Iversen, Henrik Skov Nielsen and Brian Richardson. "Unaturlige Fortaellinger, Unnaturlig Narratologi: Hinsides Mimetiske Modeller." Kultur & Klasse, vol. 112, no. 11, 2011, pp. 7-32 (Dutch translation of "Unnatural Narratives, Unnatural Narratology: Beyond Mimetic Models").

With Stefan Iversen, Henrik Skov Nielsen and Brian Richardson. "Unnatural Narratives, Unnatural Narratology: Beyond Mimetic Models." Narrative, vol. 18, no. 2, 2010, pp. 113-36. 

"Darkness, Light, and Various Shades of Gray: The Prison and the Outside World in Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities." Dickens Studies Annual, vol. 40, 2009, pp. 95-112. 

"Impossible Storyworlds – and What to Do with Them." Storyworlds, vol. 1, 2009, pp. 79-96.

"The 'Moreness' or 'Lessness' of 'Natural' Narratology: Samuel Beckett's "Lessness" Reconsidered." Style, vol. 36, no. 1, 2002, pp. 54-75; Reprinted in Short Story Criticism 74, 2004, pp. 113-24. 

With Bianca Schüller. "Metalepsis in Postmodernist and Post-Postmodernist Narratives: A Comparison of At Swim-Two-Birds (1939) and Barbie (2023)." Diachronic Metalepsis, edited by Thomas Kuhn-Treichel and Sebastian Hammer, De Gruyter, under review. 

"Narratology and Cognition." The Routledge Companion to Literature and Cognitive Studies, edited by Jan Alber and Ralf Schneider, Routledge, 2026, pp. 21-37.

With Ralf Schneider. "Introduction." The Routledge Companion to Literature and Cognitive Studies, edited by Jan Alber and Ralf Schneider, Routledge, 2026, pp. 1-15. 

"Gender and Cognitive Narratology." The Palgrave Handbook of Feminist, Queer, and Trans Narrative Studies, edited by Vera Nünning and Corinna Assmann, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, pp. 221-38. 

With Deborah de Muijnck and Jessica Jumpertz. "Introduction: What is Pandenic Storytelling?" Pandemic Storytelling, edited by Jan Alber, Deborah de Muijnck and Jessica Jumpertz, Brill, 2025, pp. 1-12. 

"Metalepsis in English Literature: From the Middle Ages to Postmodernism." Handbook of Diachronic Narratology, edited by Peter Hühn et al., De Gruyter, 2023, pp. 751-69. 

"Forbidden Mental Fruit? Dead Narrators and Characters from Medieval to Postmodernist Narratives." Routledge Companion on Death and Literature, edited by Neil Murphy, Routledge, 2021, pp. 42-52. 

With Steffen Jöris and Wolfgang Römer. "The Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change between the Disciplines." The Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change, edited by Jan Alber, De Gruyter, 2021, pp. 1-10. 

With Zoë Takvorian. "Climate Change, the Apocalypse, and Other Ideologies in The Day after Tomorrow." The Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change, edited by Jan Alber, De Gruyter, 2021, pp. 157-73.  

With Brian Richardson. "Introduction." Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges, edited by Jan Alber and Brian Richardson, The Ohio State University Press, 2020, pp. 1-12. 

With Brian Richardson. "Afterword." Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges, edited by Jan Alber and Brian Richardson, The Ohio State University Press, 2020, pp. 209-19.

"Logical Contradictions, Possible Worlds Theory, and the Embodied Mind." Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology, edited by Alice Bell and Marie-Laure Ryan, University of Nebraska Press, 2019, pp. 157-76. 

"Ideological Ambivalence: A Reading of Rushdie's Midnight's Children." Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives, edited by Divya Dwivedi, Henrik Skov Nielsen and Richard Walsh, The Ohio State University Press, 2018, pp. 120-38.

"They-Narratives." Pronoun Use in Literature, edited by Alison Gibbons and Andrea Macrae, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 131-50.  

With Greta Olson. "Monika Fludernik and the Invitation to Do Things with Narrative." How to Do Things with Narrative: Cognitive and Diachronic Perspectives, edited by Jan Alber and Greta Olson. Festschrift for Monika Fludernik on the Occasion of her Sixtieth Birthday, De Gruyter, 2017, pp. 1-18. 

"Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho." Handbook of British Romanticism – Text and Theory, edited by Ralf Haekel, De Gruyter, 2017, pp. 308-25.  

"The Representation of Character Interiority in Film: Cinematic Versions of Psychonarration, Free Indirect Discourse, and Direct Thought." Emerging Vectors of Narratology, edited by Per Krogh Hansen, John Pier, Philippe Roussin and Wolf Schmid, De Gruyter, 2017, pp. 265-83. 

"The Narrator." Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis, edited by Lis Møller et al., Bloomsbury, 2017, pp. 67-80. 

"Postmodernist Impossibilities, the Creation of New Cognitive Frames, and Attempts at Interpretation." Beyond Classical Narration: Transmedial and Unnatural Challenges, edited by Jan Alber and Per Krogh Hansen. Narratologia, De Gruyter, 2014, pp. 261-80. 

With Per Krogh Hansen. "Introduction." Beyond Classical Narration: Transmedial and Unnatural Challenges, edited by Jan Alber and Per Krogh Hansen. Narratologia, De Gruyter, 2014, pp. 1-14.

"Unnatural Narrative." The Handbook of Narratology. Vol. II., edited by Peter Hühn, John Pier, Wolf Schmid and Jörg Schönert, De Gruyter, 2014, pp. 887-95. 

With Monika Fludernik. "Mediacy [2009]." Handbook of Narratology. Vol I., edited by Peter Hühn, John Pier, Wolf Schmid and Jörg Schönert, De Gruyter, 2014, pp. 310-25. 

"Unnatural Spaces and Narrative Worlds." A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative, edited by Jan Alber, Henrik Skov Nielsen and Brian Richardson, The Ohio State University Press, 2013, pp. 45-66.

With Stefan Iversen, Henrik Skov Nielsen and Brian Richardson. "Introduction." A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative, edited by Jan Alber, Henrik Skov Nielsen and Brian Richardson, The Ohio State University Press, 2013, pp. 1-15.

"Unnatural Temporalities: Interfaces between Postmodernism, Science Fiction, and the Fantastic." Narrative Interrupted: The Plotless, the Disturbing and the Trivial in Literature. Festschrift for Pekka Tammi, edited by Mari Hatavara, Markku Lehtimäki and Maria Mäkelä, De Gruyter, 2012, pp. 174-91.

With Henrik Skov Nielsen and Brian Richardson. "Unnatural Voices, Minds, and Narration." The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature, edited by Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons and Brian McHale, Routledge, 2012, pp. 351-67.

"The Diachronic Development of Unnaturalness: A New View on Genre." Unnatural Narratives, Unnatural Narratology, edited by Jan Alber and Rüdiger Heinze, De Gruyter, 2011, pp. 41-76. 

With Rüdiger Heinze. "Introduction." Unnatural Narratives, Unnatural Narratology, edited by Jan Alber and Rüdiger Heinze, De Gruyter, 2011, pp. 1-19. 

"The Ethical Implications of Unnatural Scenarios." Why Study Literature?, edited by Jan Alber, et al., Aarhus University Press, 2011, pp. 211-33. 

With Stefan Iversen, Louise Brix Jacobsen, Rikke Andersen Kraglund, Henrik Skov Nielsen and Camilla Møhring Reestorff. "Introduction." Why Study Literature?, edited by Jan Alber et al., Aarhus University Press, 2011, pp. 7-22.

"Mahdottomat tarinamaailmat – ja mitä niillä voi tehdä." Luonnolliset ja luonnottomat kertomukset. Jälkiklassisen narratologian suuntia, edited by Mari Hatavara, Markku Lehtimäki and Pekka Tammi, Gaudeamus, 2010, pp. 44-61 (Finnish translation of "Impossible Storyworlds and What to Do with Them" – translated by Laura Karttunen).

"Hüpoteetiline kavatsuslikkus: uus vaade filminarratsioonile." Jutustamise teooriad ja praktikad, edited by Marina Grishakova, Kirjastus, 2010, pp. 10-30 (Estonian translation of "Hypothetical Intentionalism: Cinematic Narration Reconsidered" – translated by Birgit Laasi). 

"Hypothetical Intentionalism: Cinematic Narration Reconsidered." Postclassical Narratology: Approaches and Analyses, edited by Jan Alber and Monika Fludernik, The Ohio State University Press, 2010, pp. 163-85.

With Monika Fludernik. "Introduction." Postclassical Narratology: Approaches and Analyses, edited by Jan Alber and Monika Fludernik. The Ohio State University Press, 2010, pp. 1-31. [Peer-Review]

With Frank Lauterbach. "Introduction." Stones of Law, Bricks of Shame: Narrating Imprisonment in the Victorian Age, edited by Jan Alber and Frank Lauterbach, University of Toronto Press, 2009, pp. 3-24. [Peer-Review]

"Narrativisation." Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory, edited by David Herman, Manfred Jahn and Marie-Laure Ryan, Routledge, 2005, pp. 386-7. [Peer-Review]

"'Natural' Narratology." Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory, edited by David Herman, Manfred Jahn and Marie-Laure Ryan, Routledge, 2005, pp. 394-5. [Peer-Review]

With Thomas Niehr and Hans-Jörg Sigwart. "Disruptive Narratives: A New Research Paradigm." Diegesis, vol. 12, no. 2, 2024, pp. 141-68. 

With Sven Strasen. "Empirical Literary Studies: An Introduction." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, vol. 31, no. 1, 2020, pp. 5-14.

"Reading Unnatural Narratives." Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, vol. 24, no. 2, 2013, pp. 135-50. 

"The Specific Orientalism in Lord Byron's Poetry." Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, vol. 38, no. 2, 2013, pp. 107-27. 

"Unnatural Narratology: Developments and Perspectives." Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, vol. 63, no. 1, 2013, pp. 69-84. 

"Pre-Postmodernist Manifestations of the Unnatural: Instances of Expanded Consciousness in 'Omniscient' Narration and Reflector-Mode Narratives." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, vol. 61, no. 2, 2013, pp. 137-53. 

"Formerzählung/erzählte Form." Literarische Form, edited by Matthias Erdbeer, Florian Kläger and Klaus Stierstorfer, De Gruyter, 2022, pp. 323-46. 

"Towards a Critical Ethical Narratology: Narrative Strategies and World Views." Literature and Literary Studies in the 21st Century: Cultural Concerns – Concepts – Case-Studies, edited by Ansgar and Vera Nünning, WVT, 2021, pp. 51-72.  

"What is Cognitive Narratology?" Introduction to Cognitive Narratology, edited by Jan Alber and Peter Wenzel, WVT, 2021, pp. 1-20. 

With Clarissa von Meer. "Cognitive Challenges: Difficult Narratives." Introduction to Cognitive Narratology, edited by Jan Alber and Peter Wenzel, WVT, 2021, pp. 191-212.  

"The Humorous Negotiation of Aboriginal Poverty: Busted Out Laughing by Dot Collard and Alexis Wright's Carpentaria." Representing Poverty in the Anglophone Postcolonial World, edited by Verena Jain-Warden and Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp, V&R unipress, 2021, pp. 145-59. 

"Literature as Identity Laboratory: Storyworld Possible Selves and Boundary Expansions." The Value of Literature, edited by Ansgar and Vera Nünning, Narr, 2021, pp. 55-69. 

With Caroline Kutsch and Sven Strasen. "Empirical Methods in Literary Studies." Methods of Textual Analysis in Literary Studies: Approaches, Basics, Model Interpretations, edited by Vera Nünning and Ansgar Nünning, WVT, 2020, pp. 273-96.

"Unnatürliche erzählte Welten." Welt(en) erzählen: Paradigmen und Perspektiven, edited by Christoph Bartsch and Frauke Bode, De Gruyter, 2019, pp. 155-76.

"Postmoderne Stimmen aus dem Jenseits." Jenseitserzählungen in der Gegenwartsliteratur, edited by Isabelle Stauffer, Winter, 2018, pp. 47-59. 

"Künstlerisches Erzählen – ästhetische Fiktion." Handbuch Erzählen, edited by Matías Martínez, Metzler, 2017, pp. 133-39.

"Narrating the Orient: Some Brief Eastern Moments in Romantic Poetry." Narratives of Romanticism, edited by Sandra Heinen and Katharina Rennhak, WVT, 2017, pp. 149-62. 

"Comparison, Inclusiveness, and Non-Hierarchical Incommensurability: Narrative Strategies in Two New Aboriginal Life Stories." Anglistentag 2016 Hamburg: Proceedings, edited by Ute Berns and Jolene Mathieson, WVT, 2017, pp. 273-82. 

With Miriam Nandi. "Reading Multiraciality in Anglophone Narratives." Anglistentag 2015 Paderborn: Proceedings, edited by Merle Tönnies et al., WVT, 2016, pp. 103-8.

"Innovative Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Case of the Speaking Objects in Circulation Novels." Anglistentag 2014 Hannover: Proceedings, edited by Rainer Emig and Jana Gohrisch, WVT, 2015, pp. 187-202.

"Unnatural Narratology and the Retrogressive Temporality in Martin Amis's Time's Arrow." New Approaches to Narrative: Cognition, Culture, History, edited by Vera Nünning, WVT, 2013, pp. 43-56. 

"George Farquhar: The Beaux' Stratagem." Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon, edited by Heinz Ludwig Arnold, J.B. Metzler, 2009. 

With Jörg Drews. "Harold Pinter: The Homecoming." Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon, edited by Heinz Ludwig Arnold, J.B. Metzler, 2009. 

"The Ideological Underpinnings of Prisons and their Inmates from Charles Dickens's Novels to Twentieth-Century Film." Images of Crime III: Representations of Crime and the Criminal, edited by Telemach Serassis, Harald Kania and Hans-Jörg Albrecht, Duncker & Humbolt, 2009, pp. 133-48. 

With Martin Brandenstein. "'Hart aber gerecht'? Ethik und Strafen im öffentlichen Diskurs: Das Gefängnis als missbrauchtes Abschreckungsmittel am Beispiel der Kampagne gegen Raubkopierer." Bausteine zu einer Ethik des Strafens, edited by Hans-Helmuth Gander, Monika Fludernik and Hans-Jörg Albrecht, Ergon, 2008, pp. 281-301.

"Narratologie postcoloniale." Glossaire du réseau des narratologues francophone, 2025. https://wp.unil.ch/narratologie/glossaire/ 

"Nick Hornby: Funny Girl." Kindler Online, 2017. www.kll-online.de/

"Christine Brooke-Rose: Remake." Kindler Online, 2014. www.kll-online.de/

"Time's Arrow." The Literary Encyclopedia, January 4, 2010. www.litencyc.com

"Unnatural Narratives." The Literary Encyclopedia, September 21, 2009. www.litencyc.com

"Ethical Judgments Presuppose Minds: A Response to Henrik Skov Nielsen's Paper 'New Ethics, New Formalism.'" Amsterdam International Electronic Journal of Cultural Narratology 5, 2009. cf.hum.uva.nl/narratology/  

"Narrating beyond Traditional Narratological Categories: You-, We-, and They-Narratives." Modelle in der Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft sowie ihrer Didaktik. Festschrift for Peter Wenzel, edited by Sven Strasen and Julia Vaeßen, WVT, 2019, pp. 7-27. 

"Interview Conducted by Merja Polvinen: 'Peeking into the Neighbouring Grove: Speculative Fiction in the Work of Mainstream Scholars.'" Fafnir: The Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research, vol. 1, no. 1, 2014, pp. 61-64.

"Jan Alber" (Interview). Narrative Theories and Poetics: Five Questions, edited by Peer F. Bungård, Henrik Skov Nielsen and Frederik Stjernfelt, Automatic Press/VIP, 2012, pp. 11-20.

"Legitimating the Prison – Reproducing Cultural Hegemonies: The Case of American Prison Movies." Euresis, 2010, pp. 171-78.  

"Bodies Behind Bars: The Disciplining of the Prisoner's Body in British and American Prison Movies." In the Grip of the Law: Prisons, Trials and the Space Between, edited by Monika Fludernik and Greta Olson, Lang, 2004, pp. 241-69.

"Das Gefängnis im Hollywoodfilm: Strafvollzug zwischen Fiktion und Realität." Zeitschrift für Strafvollzug und Straffälligenhilfe, vol. 52, no. 1, 2003, pp. 31-40. 

With Monika Fludernik. "Einleitung." Moderne – Postmoderne, edited by Jan Alber and Monika Fludernik, WVT, 2003, pp. 1-15.

Bibliography of Monika Fludernik’s Obituary of Dorrit Cohn. Offprint from Almanach der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, vol. 162, 2013, pp. 543-46.  

"Bibliography of 'German' Narratology." Style, vol. 38, no. 2, 2004, pp. 253-72. 

"Marco Caracciolo and Karin Kukkonen: With Bodies: Narrative Theory and Embodied Cognition." Anglistik, vol. 33, no. 3, 2022, pp. 147-49. 

"Woijech Małecki et al.: Human Minds and Animal Stories: How Narratives Make Us Care about Other Species." Scientific Study of Literature, vol. 11, no. 1, 2021, pp. 142-46. 

"David Herman: Narratology beyond the Human." Style, vol. 53, no. 2, 2019, pp. 272-77. 

"Liesbeth Korthals Altes: Ethos and Narrative Interpretation." Style, vol. 50, no. 3, 2016, pp. 365-69. 

"Nora Berning: Towards a Critical Ethical Narratology." Anglia, vol. 134, no. 1, 2015, pp. 1-4. 

"Marie-Laure Ryan and Jan-Noël Thon (eds.): Storyworlds across Media." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, vol. 63, no. 4, 2015, pp. 472-76. 

"Ulrich Suerbaum: Das elisabethanische Zeitalter." Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, vol. 252, no. 1, 2015, pp. 238-39. 

"Christoph Bode and Rainer Dietrich: Future Narratives: Theory, Poetics, and Media-Historical Moment." Anglistik, vol. 26, no. 1, 2015, pp. 180-81.   

"Brian Richardson (ed.): Narrative Beginnings and Caroline Levine/Mario Ortiz-Robes (eds.): Narrative Middles." Style, vol. 47, no. 3, 2013, pp. 397-401.  

"Christoph Bode: The Novel." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, vol. 60, no. 2, 2012, pp. 187-89.

"Jürgen H. Petersen: Die Erzählformen: Er, Ich, Du und andere Varianten." Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur, vol. 103, no. 4, 2011, pp. 656-58. 

"Leona Toker: Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission and Francesco Marroni: Victorian Disharmonies: A Reconsideration of Nineteenth-Century English Fiction." Dickens Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 2, 2011, pp. 168-71.  

"Birgit Neumann, Ansgar Nünning, and Bo Petterson: Narrative and Identity: Theoretical Approaches and Critical Analyses." Anglistik, vol. 21, no. 2, 2010, pp. 202-6. 

"H. Porter Abbott: The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (Second Edition)." Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, vol. 35, no. 1, 2010, pp. 131-35.

"Christian Moraru: Memorious Discourse: Reprise and Representation in Postmodernism." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, vol. 56, no. 4, 2008, pp. 409-11. 

"Thomas Harris: Policing the City: Crime and Legal Authorities in London, 1780-1840." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, vol. 4, no. 4, 2006, pp. 413-14.