PD Dr. Harald Zapf
Chair of American Studies: Culture and Literature
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Bismarckstraße 191054 Erlangen
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Consultation Hours
By appointment via email
Publications
Authored Books
- Zapf, Harald. Object-Oriented Philology: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Approaches to American Poetry. Heidelberg: Winter, 2026.
BibTeX: Download - Zapf, Harald. Dekonstruktion des Reinen: Hybridität und ihre Manifestationen im Werk von Ishmael Reed. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2002.
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Thesis
- Zapf, Harald. Slow Reading: Studies in Contemporary American Verse. Habilitation, 2019.
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Edited Volumes
- Zapf, Harald, and Klaus Lösch, eds. Cultural Encounters in the New World: Literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Beiträge zu kulturellen Begegnungen in der Neuen Welt. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2003.
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Journal Articles
- Zapf, Harald. "Ethnicity and Performance: Bilingualism in Spanglish Verse Culture." Amerikastudien 51.1 (2006): 13-27.
BibTeX: Download - Zapf, Harald. "Ishmael Reed's Rooted Cosmopolitanism: American "Patriotism" and Global Writing." Amerikastudien 47.1 (2002): 285-299.
BibTeX: Download - Zapf, Harald. "The Theoretical Discourse of Hybridity and the Postcolonial Time-Space of the Americas." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 47.4 (1999): 302-310.
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Book Contributions
- Zapf, Harald. "Sentimental Authority: America's National Poets Laureate." Sentimental State(s): Affective Politics of Order and Belonging. Ed. Heike Paul, Sarah Pritz, Bielefeld: transcript, 2025. 49-63.
BibTeX: Download - Zapf, Harald. "The Long Shadow of Romanticism: (Un-)Popular Theories of Lyric Poetry and the Popularity of the Lyric." U.S. American Culture as Popular Culture. Ed. Astrid Böger, Florian Sedlmeier, Heidelberg: Winter, 2022. 387-404.
BibTeX: Download - Zapf, Harald. "Ted Berrigan: Guillaume Apollinaire ist tot (1970)." Brinkmann-Handbuch: Leben, Werk, Wirkung. Hrg. Markus Fauser, Dirk Niefanger, Sibylle Schönborn, Heidelberg: J.B. Metzler, 2020. 311-314.
BibTeX: Download - Zapf, Harald. "Performance Poetry: Anne Waldman and Saul Williams." A History of American Poetry: Contexts - Developments - Readings. Ed. Oliver Scheiding, René Dietrich, Clemens Spahr, Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015. 341-354.
BibTeX: Download - Zapf, Harald. "Slammin' in Transnational Heterotopia: Words Being Spoken at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe." Imagined Transnationalism: U.S. Latino/a Literature, Culture, and Identity. Ed. Kevin Concannon, Francisco A. Lomelí, Marc Priewe, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 117-136.
BibTeX: Download - Zapf, Harald. "An Othering of Language: Harryette Mullen's Experiments in Transpoetry." Another Language: Poetic Experiments in Britain and North America. Ed. Kornelia Freitag, Katharina Vester, Münster: LIT, 2008. 173-186.
BibTeX: Download - Zapf, Harald. "Structure and Event in Poetry: 12² by Charles Bernstein." Ideas of Order in Contemporary American Poetry. Ed. Diana von Finck, Oliver Scheiding, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2007. 37-62.
BibTeX: Download - Zapf, Harald, and Klaus Lösch. "Introduction." Cultural Encounters in the New World: Literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Beiträge zu kulturellen Begegnungen in der Neuen Welt. Ed. Zapf Harald, Lösch Klaus, Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2003. 11-17.
BibTeX: Download - Zapf, Harald, and Wolfgang Binder. "Interview with Ishmael Reed." American Contradictions: Interviews with Nine American Writers. Ed. Wolfgang Binder, Helmbrecht Breinig, Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1995. 101-110.
BibTeX: Download - Zapf, Harald und Wolfgang Binder. "Ishmael Reed: Interviewt von Wolfgang Binder und Harald Zapf." Facing America: Multikulturelle Literatur der heutigen USA in Texten und Interviews. Hrg. Wolfgang Binder, Helmbrecht Breinig, Zürich: Rotpunktverlag, 1994. 27-45.
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Translations
- Zapf, Harald, translato, Übersetzer. Cucujoblüte. By Magali García Ramis, Zürich: Unionsverlag, 1998.
BibTeX: Download - Zapf, Harald, translato, Übersetzer. Jeden Sonntag. By Magali García Ramis, München: Marino, 1997.
BibTeX: Download - Zapf, Harald, translato, Übersetzer. Nellie. By Roberto G. Fernández, Zürich: Rotpunktverlag, 1994.
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Miscellaneous
- Zapf, Harald. "Ishmael Reed." Metzler Lexikon amerikanischer Autoren Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2000.
BibTeX: Download - Zapf, Harald. "Charles Johnson." Metzler Lexikon amerikanischer Autoren Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2000.
BibTeX: Download - Zapf, Harald. "Amiri Baraka." Metzler Lexikon amerikanischer Autoren Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2000.
BibTeX: Download - Zapf, Harald. Rev. of Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism, by Aldon Lynn Nielsen 1999.
BibTeX: Download - Zapf, Harald. Rev. of Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction, by Naomi Lindstrom 1995.
BibTeX: Download - Zapf, Harald. Rev. of Intertextuality in García Márquez, by Arnold M. Penuel 1995.
BibTeX: Download - Zapf, Harald. Rev. of Escrito sobre Severo: Una relectura de Sarduy, by Francisco Cabanillas 1995.
BibTeX: Download - Zapf, Harald. Rev. of Ethnicity and Identity in Contemporary Afro-Venezuelan Literature: A Culturalist Approach, by Marvin A. Lewis 1994.
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