Prof. Dr. Gerd Bayer
Research Interests
Restoration and early modern prose fiction; Holocaust studies; postmodern and contemporary novel; heavy metal studies; epistolarity
Research Supervision
I welcome (post)graduate research proposals in the fields listed above.
Current Research Projects
- textual edition of prose fiction from Peter Motteux’s The Gentleman’s Journal (1692-94), with Mariajosé Coperias (University Valencia)
- Holocaust literature and film
- David Mitchell’s postcolonial cosmopolitanism
- epistolarity in early modern prose fiction
- English and American Studies and Geography, FAU Erlangen: M.A. & 1. Staatsexamen (1998), Dr. phil. (2003), Dr. phil. habil. (2012)
- PAD Lecturer, University of Toronto (1998-99)
- Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University (1999-2004)
- Assistant Professor (tenure track), University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (2004-05)
- Akademischer Rat/Oberrat (LfbA), Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (2005-13/2013-16)
- paternity leave (Summer Semester 2009 and Summer Semester 2012)
- Akademischer Direktor, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (2016-)
- außerplanmäßiger Professor (2017-)
- Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin (March 2006)
- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, The Journal of Popular Culture (USA), 2007-
- DFG Grant (personal research leave), project on Restoration prose, paratext and genre (October 2009 – March 2012)
- Participant at Early Career Researchers Forum, European Science Foundation, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (June 2011)
- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies (Spain), 2011-
- Professeur invité, English Department, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (September 2012)
- Associate Editor, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing (UK), 2012-22
- Research Fellowship, travel stipend, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin (March 2013)
- Member, Editorial Board, Anthem Studies in Popular Culture, Anthem Press (UK), 2013-
- Visiting Professor, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Tallinn (February 2015)
- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Studies in World Literature, Ibidem Press, 2015-
- Elected Member, Academia Europaea (Literary and Theatrical Studies), 2017-
- Thyssen-Foundation Grant, project on Restoration epistolarity (2018-2023)
- Member, Editorial Board, Humanities (Switzerland), 2021-
- Member, Editorial Board, Epistolographia: An International Journal (Italy), 2022-
- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies (US), 2023-
- Peer Reviewer for journals:
The Journal of Popular Culture (USA)
The Journal of Postcolonial Writing (UK)
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies (Spain)
Callalloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Art and Letters (USA)
Ariel: A Reivew of International English Literature (Canada)
Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch (Germany)
Res musica (Estonia)
Film Quarterly (USA)
Papers on Language and Literature (USA)
Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly (Hawai’i)
LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory (USA)
Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History (UK)
College Literature (USA)
Concentric: Literary & Cultural Studies (Taiwan)
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (UK)
Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal (Canada)
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings (UK)
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: An Intern. Rev. of English Studies (Poland)
Journal of Perpetrator Research (Netherlands)
Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies (Australia)
Genealogy (Switzerland)
Sederi Yearbook (Spain)
Metal Music Studies (UK)
Humanities (Switzerland)
Geosciences (Switzerland)
Imaginaires (France)
Music, Sound and the Moving Image (UK)
ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews (UK)
Arts (Switzerland)
Anglistik (Germany)
Journal of Multicultural Discourses (China/UK)
New German Critique (USA)
e-Rea (France)
Philosophies (Japan)
Women’s Writing (USA)
- Peer Reviewer for publishers: Routledge (USA), Manchester University Press (UK), Cambridge University Press (UK), Bloomsbury (UK), Ibidem Press (Germany), Anthem Press (UK)
- Peer Reviewer for grant agencies: European Science Foundation, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Schweizerischer Nationalfond, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), National Science Centre (Poland), Humboldt Stiftung
- Erasmus teaching and staff mobilities to: Roskilde (Denmark), University College Cork (Ireland), Limerick (Ireland), Ulster (Northern Ireland), London (England), Verona (Italy), Wroclaw (Poland), and Poznan (Poland).
Authored Books
- Bayer, Gerd. Novel Horizons: The Genre Making of Restoration Fiction. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, et al. Fit für's Abi: in Englisch. Schriftliche und mündliche Prüfung. Hannover: Schroedel, 2008.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Greener, more mysterious processes of mind": Natur als Dichtungsprinzip bei John Fowles. Münster: Lit, 2004.
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Edited Volumes
- Bayer, Gerd, and Jaroslaw Jasenowski, eds. Restoration Epistolarity. Wiley, 2024.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, and María José Coperías-Aguilar, eds. The Short Fiction in Peter Motteux’s The Gentleman’s Journal (1692-1694): A Critical Edition. Lausanne: Peter Lang, 2024.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, ed. Contemporary Holocaust Film. New York: Routledge, 2021.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, and Rudolf Freiburg, Hrg. The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture. London: Palgrave, 2021.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, ed. Heavy Metal at the Movies. New York: Routledge, 2019.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, and Guido Isekenmeier, eds. Recollecting John Fowles / Wiedererinnerungen an John Fowles. Münster: Lit, 2018.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, and Florian Kläger, eds. Early Modern Constructions of Europe: Literature, Culture, History. New York: Routledge, 2016.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, and Oleksandr Kobrynskyy, eds. Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Images, Memory, and the Ethics of Representation. New York: Wallflower-Columbia University Press, 2015.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, and Ebbe Klitgard, eds. Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe. New York: Routledge, 2011.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, ed. Heavy Metal Music in Britain. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.
BibTeX: Download - Freiburg, Rudolf, and Gerd Bayer, Hrg. Literatur und Holocaust. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2009.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, ed. World Encyclopedia of Popular Culture: Europe. Westport: Greenwood, 2007.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, ed. Mediating Germany: Popular Culture Between Tradition and Innovation. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006.
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Journal Articles
- Bayer, Gerd, and Jaroslaw Jasenowski. "Introduction: Restoration Epistolarity." Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 47.1 (2024): 3-13.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "The Bishop of Exeter vs Benjamin Hoadly: Pamphlets, Controversy, and the Uses of Epistolarity in Restoration England." Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 47.1 (2024): 45-58.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Letter Matters: Corporeality, Physicality, Epistolarity." Restoration 46-47.2-1 (2023): 121-137.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "No Apologies: Jenny Diski’s Apology for the Woman Writing as Fictional Memoir." a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 38.1 (2023): 289-307.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "“Whiteness and Colourblindness”." Philosophy & Technology 35.15 (2022).
URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-022-00499-2
BibTeX: Download - Clements, Madeline, and Gerd Bayer. "Editors' note." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 57.6 (2021): 735-737.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Confronting the Past on Screens." Holocaust Studies 27.2 (2021): 147-155.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Specters of Mob in David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises." Humanities (2021).
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, Javier Moral, and Fernando Carnet. "Facing the perpetrator’s legacy: post-perpetrator generation documentary films." Continuum-Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 34.2 (2020): 255-70.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "On (not) Watching The Lady in Number 6: Digital Holocaust Film, Copyright Infringement and the Obligation to Remember." Pólemos - Journal of Law, Literature and Culture 14.2 (2020): 337-347.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Editor’s note." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 55.1 (2019): 1-4.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, and Jaroslaw Jasenowski. "Dragging out the Truth: Restoration Periodicals and the Textual Creation of Gendered Identities." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 79 (2019): 15-31.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "When Earth Matters: Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather." Open Cultural Studies 3.1 (2019): 448-455.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Being Lemmy Kilmister: Performativity and Metal." Rock Music Studies 4.3 (2017): 221–33.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Perpetual Apocalypses: David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and the Absence of History." Critique - Studies in Contemporary Fiction 56.4 (2015): 345-354.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Romance Self-Fashioning and the Proto-Gothic in Mary Pix’s The Inhumane Cardinal." English Studies 95.4 (2014): 410–240.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "A Possible Early Publication by Mary Davys and Its Swiftian Afterglow." Notes and queries 59.2 (2012): 194-197.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Negotiating Ethnic Difference in Restoration Travel Fiction." Arcadia 47.1 (2012): 34-53.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "A Cuckolding Source for Tristram’s Clock." Notes and queries 58.3 (2011): 419–422.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Early Modern Prose Fiction and the Place of Poetics." Anglia 129.3/4 (2011): 362-377.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "After Postmemory: Holocaust Cinema and the Third Generation." Shofar 28.4 (2010): 117–133.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "On Filming Metafiction: John Fowles’s Unpublished “The Last Chapter” and the Road to Postmodern Cinema." English Studies 91.8 (2010): 893-906.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Deceptive Narratives: On Truth and the Epistolary Voice." Zeitschrift fur Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 39.154 (2009): 173-187.
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BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Islands and Shipwrecks: John Fowles and the Enviroment." Anglistik 18.1 (2007): 61-76.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Traveling Urban Utopias and the Birth of Suburbia." Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 55.4 (2007): 361-377.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Violence and the Postcolonial Project: On Watching City of God." Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 14.2 (2007): 36-49.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Tragicomic Historiography in Tibor Fischer's Under the Frog." Anglia 123.3 (2005): 441-53.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Theory as Hierarchy: Positioning German Migrantenliteratur?" Monatshefte 96.1 (2004): 1-19.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Representations of Political Power in African Writing." Journal of Cultural Studies 3.1 (2001): 138-51.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "The Band J.B.O. and Exploding the Serious Side of Pop Culture." Journal of Popular Culture 34.3 (2000): 109-28.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "'A sterile promontory': Jane Rogers's and Jenny Diski's Views of the Future." Arachne: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Humanities 6.1 (1999): 79-92.
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Book Contributions
- Bayer, Gerd. "Filming Auschwitz." The Routledge Handbook of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Ed. Sarah Cushman, Joanne Pettitte and Dominic Williams, New York: Routledge, 2025. 217-233.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, et al. "Holocaust Studies." Handbuch kulturwissenschaftliche ‚Studies‘. Ed. Jonas Nesselhauf und Florian Weber, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. 285-300.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, and María José Coperías-Aguilar. "Introduction." The Short Fiction in Peter Motteux's The Gentleman’s Journal (1692-1694) A Critical Edition. Ed. Gerd Bayer and María José Coperías-Aguilar, Lausanne: Peter Lang, 2024. 13-41.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, and Rudolf Freiburg. "Survival: An Introductory Essay." The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Ed. Freiburg, Rudolf, and Gerd Bayer, London: Palgrave, 2021. 1-45.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Surviving: Jenny Diski, Illness, and Gratitude." The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Ed. Freiburg, Rudolf, and Gerd Bayer, London: Palgrave, 2021. 203-220.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. ""Dramatisierungen im Dokumentarfilm: The Future of Food und die Affekte der Rezipienten." Politische Ziele und ästhetische Strategien von Umweltdokumentarfilmen: Eine interdisziplinäre Annäherung. Hrg. Susanne Kaul und Stefan Lange, Braunschweig: Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, 2020. 141-53.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Fiktionalität in der Renaissance/Frühmoderne." Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Fiktionalität. Hrg. Lut Missinne, Ralf Schneider, Beatrix Theresa van Dam, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. 103-121.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Metal studies, visual culture and popular consumption - Introduction." Heavy Metal at the Movies. Ed. Gerd Bayer, 2019. 1-15.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "David Mitchell’s Slade House and the Non-Place of Transmodernism." Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English. Ed. Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen and José María Yebra-Pertusa, New York: Routledge, 2019. 121-135.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. ""Displaced Memory: The Screened Past of Fugitive Pieces"." Law and the Humanities: Cultural Perspectives. Ed. Chiara Battisti and Sidia Fiorato, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. 451-62.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Fragmentary Transtextuality: David Mitchell and His Novel." The Poetics of Fragmentation in Contemporary British and American Fiction. Ed. Vanessa Guignery and Wojciech Drag, Delaware: Vernon Press, 2019. 57-66.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Introduction: metal studies, visual culture and popular consumption." Heavy Metal at the Movies. Ed. Gerd Bayer, New York: Routledge, 2019. 1-15.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Making the Postmodern English Novel: John Fowles's Unpublished Tesserae." Recollecting John Fowles / Wiedererinnerungen an John Fowles. Ed. Guido Isekenmeier und Gerd Bayer, Münster: Lit, 2018. 113-125.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "The Right Sort of Form for "The Right Sort" David Mitchell's Tweet-Story." The Epistolary Renaissance: A Critical Approach to Contemporary Letter Narratives in Anglophone Fiction. Ed. Maria Löschnigg, Rebekka Schuh, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. 277-288.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "The Short Narrative Form in David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks." Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle. Ed. Patrick Gill, Florian Kläger, London: Routledge, 2018. 245-59.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Trauma and the Literature of War." Trauma and Literature. Ed. J. Roger Kurtz, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 213-225.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Metal Documentaries: The National, the Global, and the Cosmopolitan." Connecting Metal to Culture: Unity in Disparity. Ed. Mike Elovaara and Bryan Bardine, Chicago: Intellect-Chicago University Press, 2017. 143-161.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, and Florian Kläger. "Introduction: Early Modern Constructions of Europe." Early Modern Constructions of Europe: Literature, Culture, History. Ed. Kläger F, Bayer G, New York: Routledge, 2016. 1-23.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Nothing to be Frightened Of: The Literary Correspondence of Two Senior Writers, Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee." Crossed Correspondences: Writers as Readers and Critics of Their Peers. Ed. Vanessa Guignery, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2016. 153-165.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Sentimentality and the Heavy Metal Documentary." Heavy Metal Studies and Popular Culture. Ed. Brenda Gardenour Walter, Gabby Riches, Dave Snell, and Bryan Bardine, London: Palgrave, 2016. 36–57.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, and Oleksandr Kobrynskyy. "Introduction: The Next Chapter in the History of Holocaust Cinema." Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Images, Memory, and the Ethics of Representation. Ed. Kobrynskyy, Oleksandr; Bayer, Gerd, New York: Wallflower-Columbia UP, 2015.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Cannibalizing the Other: David Mitchell’s Jacob de Zoet and the Incorporation of Exotic Pasts." Exoticizing the Past in Contemporary Neo-Historical Fiction. Ed. Elodie Rousselot, London: Palgrave, 2014. 117–132.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "History, Dreams, and Shards: On Starting Over in Jenny Diski’s Then Again." Trauma in Contemporary Literature: Narrative and Representation. Ed. Marita Nadal and Mónica Calvo, New York: Routledge, 2014. 88–99.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Loss and the Nation: Growing up in David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green." Narrating Loss: Representations of Mourning, Nostalgia and Melancholia in Contemporary Anglophone Fictions. Ed. Brigitte Johanna Glaser and Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz, Trier: WVT, 2014. 15-26.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "The Artist in a Foreign Land: The Liminal Spaces of Minority Literature." A Different Germany: Pop and the Negotiation of German Culture. Ed. Claude Desmarais, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2014. 43-57.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "The Broken Letters of Early Modern Fiction." Anglistentag 2013 Konstanz, Proceedings. Ed. Silvia Mergenthal and Reingard M. Nischik, Trier: WVT, 2014. 117–126.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "The Ethics of Breaking up the Family Romance in David Mitchell's number9dream." The Ethics of Form in Contemporary Limit-Case Trauma Narratives. Ed. Jean Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega, New York: Routledge, 2014. 120–136.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Crusoe’s Empire." Critical Insights : Cultural Encounters. Ed. Birns Nicholas, Ipswich: Salem Press, 2013. 107-120.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "The Spirit of Conviviality and the Demons of the Marketplace in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road." The famished road : Ben Okri's imaginary homelands. Ed. Guignery Vanessa, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publ., 2013. 77-91.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Yesterday, dir. Darrell Roodt." Teaching contemporary literature and culture : 3,2. Ed. Susanne Peters, Klaus Stierstorfer, Laurenz Volkmann, Dirk Vanderbeke, Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2013. 671-685.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Alter, Tod, Erinnerung: Lebenswertes und Lesenswertes bei Graham Swift und Howard Jacobson." Alter(n) in Literatur und Kultur der Gegenwart. Ed. Rudolf Freiburg, Dirk Kretzschmar, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2012. 169–184.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, and Christina Wald. "Introduction: Early Modern Narratives and the Genesis of Genre." Anglistentag 2011 Freiburg, Proceedings. Ed. Fludernik Monika, Kohlmann Benjamin, Trier: Wiss. Verl. Trier, 2012. 107-111.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Mockumentary und ethnographischer Film: Postkoloniale Umkehrung in Babakiueria und Das Fest des Huhnes." Das Spiel mit der Wahrheit : Fälschungen in Literatur, Film und Kunst. Ed. Barbara Potthast, Münster: LIT, 2012. 79-93.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Character Speech, Narration, and Individual Identity in Early Modern Prose." Proceedings : Anglistentag 2010 Saarbrücken. Ed. Joachim Frenk, Lena Steveker, Trier: WVT, 2011. 255–266.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, and Ebbe Klitgard. "Introduction: A Narrative of Transformation." Narrative developments from Chaucer to Defoe. Ed. Bayer Gerd, Klitgard Ebbe, New York: Routledge, 2011. 1–21.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Paratext and Genre: Making Seventeenth-Century Readers." Narrative developments from Chaucer to Defoe. Ed. Bayer Gerd, Klitgard Ebbe, New York: Routledge, 2011. 199–218.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Subverting the Tropical Island." Projections of paradise : Ideal elsewheres in postcolonial migrant literature. Ed. Ramsey-Kurz Helga, Ganapathy-Doré Geetha, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. 49-72.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "World War II Fiction and the Ethics of Trauma." Ethics and trauma in contemporary british fiction. Ed. Susana Onega, Jean Michel Ganteau, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. 157-177.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Writing the Penitentiary: Voicing Australia’s Colonial Crimes." Proceedings : Anglistentag 2009 Klagenfurt. Ed. Helbig Jörg, Schallegger Rene, Trier: Wiss. Verl. Trier, 2010. 363–373.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Der Holocaust als Metapher in postmodernen und postkolonialen Romanen." Literatur und Holocaust. Ed. Freiburg Rudolf, Bayer Gerd, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2009. 271-294.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, and Rudolf Freiburg. "Einleitung." Literatur und Holocaust. Ed. Bayer Gerd, Freiburg Rudolf, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2009. 1-39.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Introduction: Doing Cultural Studies with Earplugs." Heavy metal music in Britain. Ed. Bayer Gerd, Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. 1-13.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Rocking the Nation: One Global Audience, One Flag." Heavy metal music in Britain. Ed. Bayer Gerd, Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. 181-193.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, and Rudolf Freiburg. "Vorwort." Literatur und Holocaust. Ed. Rudolf Freiburg, Bayer Gerd, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2009. V-VI.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "'Ancestor' by Thomas Kinsella." Companion to 20th-Century British Poetry. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 10-11.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Coral Reefs and Scientific Discourse: Gunesekera's Reef as Post-Colonial Resistance." British Asian Fiction: Framing the Contemporary. Amherst: Cambria Press, 2008. 303-319.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "J.M. Coetzee's Foe." Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture. Trier: WVT, 2008. 109-122.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Madness in the City: Crazy Flaneurs in the Writings of Jenny Diski, Tibor Fischer, and Jane Rogers." (Re-)Mapping London: Visions of the Metropolis in the Contemporary Novel in English. Paris: Publibook, 2008. 21-35.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "'Tear', by Thomas Kinsella." Companion to 20th-Century British Poetry. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 467.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "'The Ebony Tower' by John Fowles." Companion to the British Short Story. New York: Facts on File, 2007. 131-133.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd, and Martin Sachs. "Travel and Transportation." World Encyclopedia of Popular Culture: Europe. Ed. Gerd Bayer, Westport: Greenwood, 2007. 385-405.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Images of Terror: Documentary Filmmaking and the RAF." Mediating Germany: Popular Culture between Tradition and Innovation. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholar Press, 2006. 126-45.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Introduction: The Impossibility of Defining 'German' Popular Culture." Mediating Germany: Popular Culture between Tradition and Innovation. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006. vi-xvi.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Jenny Diski." Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature. New York: Routledge, 2006. 348-50.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Thomas King." Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. Westport: Greenwood, 2006. 1247-50.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Tomson Highway." Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. Westport: Greenwood, 2006. 981-82.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Artifice and Artificiality in Mockumentaries." Docufictions: Essays on the Intersection of Documentary and Fictional Filmmaking. Jefferson: McFarland, 2005. 164-78.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Black Box BRD." Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. New York: Routledge, 2005. 124-25.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Chinua Achebe." Encyclopedia of African History. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005. 10-11.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Ngugi wa Thiong'o." Encyclopedia of African History. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005. 1085-86.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Christian Dietrich Grabbe." Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004. 447-48.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Junges Deutschland." Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004. 589-90.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Fiction II: 18th Century Novel." A Reader's Guide to British History. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 510-11.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Peter Shaffer." Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 514-16.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Poetry V: Romantic Era." A Reader's Guide to British History. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 1052-53.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "Tom Stoppard." Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 562-64.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "'I'm very fond of tea and Shakespeare': An Interview with Tibor Fischer." Do you consider yourself a postmodern author?. Münster: Lit, 1999. 103-17.
BibTeX: Download - Bayer, Gerd. "'Novel is character': An Interview with Jane Rogers." Do you consider yourself a postmodern author?. Ed. Rudolf Freiburg & Jan Schnitker, Münster: Lit, 1999. 203-17.
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Translations
- Bayer, Gerd, and Christian Krug, translators. Marilyn : A Paragone of the Camera Gaze. By Kay Kirchmann, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007.
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- “The Fact/Fiction-Continuum in Bram Presser’s The Book of Dirt.” Valedictory Address, An International Seminar on Trauma Studies, Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore, India, October 2023.
- “Novels, Genres, Histories: The Prose Fictions in Peter Motteux’s Gentleman’s Journal.” International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Rome, Italy, July 2023.
- “Getting Your Letters Wrong: Early Modern Epistolary Writing.” Keynote, Sederi Conference, Valencia, Spain, May 2023.
- “The Bishop of Exeter vs Benjamin Hoadly: Pamphlets, Controversy, and the Uses of Epistolarity.” Invited talk, Alicante, Spain, May 2023.
- “Apologies, Gratitude, Consolation: Jenny Diski‘s Writing as Moral Reckoning.” Consolation in Contemporary British and Postcolonial Literatures, ENS Lyon, France, April 2023.
- “Epistolary Frames: Restoration Fiction and the Making of Lettered Truths.” Anglistentag, Mainz, Germany, September 2022.
- “Jenny Diski’s Writing, Illness, and Survival.” Invited Keynote. Crossroads III: Risk and Safety, University of Białystok, Poland, October 2021.
- “The Unapologetic Writer: Jenny Diski, Michel Montaigne, and Marie De Gournay.” Jenny Diski: A Celebration, Oxford University, UK, April 2021.
- “Faking Factuality: Restoration Fiction and Epistolarity.” Invited Plenary Lecture. Shaping the Novel: New Critical Perspectives on Early Prose Fiction in English, University of Huelva, Spain, October 2019.
- “The Bishop of Exeter vs. Benjamin Hoadly: Pamphlets, Controversy, and the Uses of Epistolarity.” International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Edinburgh, Great Britain, July 2019.
- “Dramatisierungen im Dokumentarfilm: The Future of Food (2004) und die Affekte der Rezipienten.” Politische Ziele und ästhetische Strategien von Umwelt-Dokumentarfilmen, Bielefeld, May 2019.
- “The Performance of Gender in Heavy Metal Film.” Invited Lecture. Poznan University, Poland, April 2019.
- “Restoration Fiction and Epistolary Deceptions.” British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Oxford, Great Britain, January 2019.
- “On (not) Watching The Lady in Number 6: Digital Holocaust Film, Copyright Infringement, and the Obligation to Remember.” Digital Ontology and Epistemology: Between Law, Literature and the Visual Arts, Verona, Italy, November 2018.
- “The Shadow Lines of an Antique Land: Modernist Impressions of Conflict.” The Shadow Lines Thirty Years After: International Conference, Milano & Torino, Italy, November 2018.
- “Paratextual Poetics of Restoration Fiction.” Invited Lecture. Salzburg University, Austria, June 2018.
- “Echte Rockstars: Spiel und Ernst in performativen Identitäten des Heavy Metal.” Wissenschaft im Schloss, FAU Erlangen, June 2018.
- “Fragmentary Transtextuality: David Mitchell and His Novel.” Fragmentary Writing in Contemporary British and American Fiction. Wroclaw, Poland, September 2017.
- “David Mitchell’s Slade House and the Non-Place of Transmodernism.” Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English. Zaragoza, Spain, April 2017.
- “When Earth Matters: Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather.” MatteReality: Historical Trajectories and Conceptual Futures for Material Culture Studies, FRIAS Freiburg, March 2017.
- “Restoration Fiction and Paratextual Genre Making.” Invited lecture. Bayreuth University, December 2016.
- “Early Modern Epistolary Culture: Truly Yours or Truly Told?” Invited talk, GRK Erzählen. University of Freiburg, October 2016.
- “Displaced Memory: The Screened Past of Fugitive Pieces.” BAHS conference. London, UK, July 2016.
- “The Proto-Gothic in Mary Pix’s The Inhumane Cardinal.” Invited lecture. Stuttgart University, May 2016.
- “Is This a Novel Which I See Before Me? The Short Narrative Form in David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks.” Creating Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle. Mainz, October 2015.
- “Nothing to Be Frightened Of: The Literary Correspondence of Two Senior Writers, Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee.” Writers as Readers and Critics of Their Peers. Lyon, France, October 2014.
- “Grenzenlose Performanz? Lemmy als ‘Lemmy’ in Lemmy (2010).” Welcome to My Nightmare: Metal & Theatralität. Mainz, June 2014.
- “Colonialists, Clans, and Can-Do Farming: Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather (1968).” European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Innsbruck, Austria, April 2014.
- “The Broken Letters of Early Modern Fiction.” Anglistentag. Konstanz, September 2013.
- “Spectres of Mob in Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises.” Invited Talk. University of Bamberg, July 2013.
- “Making the Postmodern English Novel: John Fowles’s Unpublished ‘Tesserae’.” Narrative: An International Conference. Manchester, UK, June 2013.
- “Sentimental Comedy and the Heavy Metal Documentary.” International Conference on Heavy Metal and Popular Culture. Bowling Green, Ohio, USA, April 2013.
- “The Paratextual Poetics of Restoration Fiction.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Cleveland, Ohio, USA, April 2013.
- “The Spirit of Conviviality and the Demons of the Marketplace.” The Famished Road by Ben Okri, ENS Lyon, October 2012.
- “Perpetual Apocalypses: David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and the Absence of History.” Anglistentag. Potsdam, September 2012.
- “Refractions of Empire: David Mitchell’s Jacob de Zoet and the Global Search for Humanity.” Interrogating Cosmopolitan Conviviality: New Dimensions of the European in Literature. Bamberg, May 2012.
- “True Horror and the Proto-Gothic: Mary Pix’s The Inhuman Cardinal.” British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Oxford, Great Britain, January 2012.
- “Human Nature in Early Modern Travel Writing.” Biennial Meeting of the Defoe Society. University of Worcester, Great Britain, July 2011.
- “Alter, Tod, Erinnerung: Lebenswertes und Lesenswertes bei Graham Swift und Howard Jacobson.” Erlangen University, June 2011.
- “Displaced Memory: The Screened Past of Fugitive Pieces.” Invited talk. University of Barcelona, Spain, April 2011.
- “Fragments of Cultural Memory: The Dormant Past in Jenny Diski’s Then Again.” Beyond Trauma: Narratives of (Im)possibility. University of Zaragoza, Spain, April 2011.
- “Genre and the Reader in Restoration Fiction.” British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Oxford, Great Britain, January 2011.
- “Character Speech, Narration, and Individual Identity in Early Modern Prose.” Anglistentag. Saarbrücken, September 2010.
- “Early Modern Prose and the Place of Poetics.” European Society for the Study of English. Torino, Italy, August 2010.
- “Making the Early Modern Reader: Restoration Paratexts and Prose Fiction.” Invited talk. Temple University, Philadelphia, April 2010.
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“Narrating before Narrators: Restoration Prose and the Instance of Speech.” Narrative: An International Conference. Cleveland, Ohio, April 2010.
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“The Nature of the Other in Restoration Travel Fiction.” British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Oxford, Great Britain, January 2010.
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“Mockumentary und ethnographischer Film: Eine postkoloniale Umkehrung.” Invited talk. Conference Fälschungen: literarisch, medial. Stuttgart University, December 2009.
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“Writing the Penitentiary: Voicing Australia’s Colonial Crimes.” Anglistentag. Klagenfurt, Austria, September 2009.
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“Facing Trauma: Generations, Memory, Cinema.” ACLA Annual Meeting. Boston, March 2009.
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“Paratext and Genre: Making 17th-Century Readers.” European Society for the Study of English. Aarhus, Denmark, August 2008.
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“Der Holocaust als Metapher in postmodernen und postkolonialen Romanen.” Ringvorlesung: Literatur und Holocaust. Erlangen University, January 2008.
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“Fake Films as Media Criticism.” Anglistentag, Münster, September 2007.
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“Am Rande der Küste: Insel und Schiffbruch.” Collegium Alexandrinum, Erlangen University, July 2007.
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“Nature and Science: Indian Novels of Eco-Resistance.” Re-Routing the Postcolonial, University of Northampton, July 2007.
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“Madness in the City: Crazy Flâneurs in the Writings of Jenny Diski, Tibor Fischer, and Jane Rogers.” Ecritures de Londres dans le roman contemporain de langue anglaise (1950-2007). Sorbonne, France, March 2007.
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“On Filming Metafiction: John Fowles and the Filmmakers.” European Society for the Study of English. London, August 2006.
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“Ocean Life and Scientific Discourse: Gunesekera’s Reef as Post-Colonial Resistance.” Narrative: An International Conference. Ottawa, Ontario, April 2006.
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“Deceptive Narratives: On Truth and the Epistolary Voice.” Narrative: An International Conference. Louisville, Kentucky, April 2005.
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“Germany’s Reaction to the Holocaust.” Peace Conference. University of Wisconsin – Whitewater, April 2005.
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“Images of Terror: Documentary Filmmaking and the RAF.” Invited Talk. U of Arizona, Tucson, March 2005.
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“Violence and the Postcolonial Project in City of God.” Invited Talk. Tulane U, New Orleans, November 2004.
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“Narrators in Love: Amorous Voices in Zaimoglu and Pirinçci.” German Studies Association Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C., October 2004.
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“Cinematic Violence and Decorum: Postcolonialism vs. The Spectacular.” Narrative: An International Conference. Burlington, Vermont, April 2004.
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“Cinematic Cities: Inventing Memories of Past and Future Urban Spaces.” ACLA Annual Meeting. Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 2004.
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“Urbanism and the Generation X: Douglas Coupland’s Cityscapes.” MLA Annual Meeting. San Diego, California, December 2003.
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“Zaimoglu’s Kanak Attack: The Cinematic Performance of Violence.” Popular Culture Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana, April, 2003.
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“Moving to Cyborgia: Virtual Liminality in Cronenberg’s eXistenZ.” ACLA Annual Meeting. San Diego, California, April 2003.
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“Chaos vs. The Postmodern: A Narrative Differentiation.” Narrative: An International Conference. Berkeley, California, March 2003.
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“William Morris’s Rural Utopia and the Un-Malling of America.” Society for Utopian Studies Annual Meeting. Orlando, Florida, October 2002.
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“The Artist in a Foreign Land: Hybridity in Feridun Zaimoglu’s Work.” ACLA Annual Meeting. San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2002.
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“Tragicomic Historiography in Tibor Fischer’s Under the Frog.” 20th Century Literature Conference. Louisville, Kentucky, February 2002.
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“How Nature Writing Questions Science.” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, June 2001.
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“Eco-Narrative: The Green Chaos of John Fowles’s Art.” Narrative: An International Conference. Houston, Texas, March 2001.
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“Politics and Politicians: The Representation of Power in African Novels.” The Republic of Letters 2000. Oxford University, England, September 2000.
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“Native Writers in Canada: Postcolonialism of the 3rd Dimension?” Is Canada Postcolonial? Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, September 2000.
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“Postcolonial, or what? How to read German Migrantenliteratur.” Invited Talk. U of Texas, Austin, May 2000.
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“New Symptoms, Same Diagnosis? Themes in Meja Mwangi’s Novels.” 26th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association. Lawrence, Kansas, April 2000.
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“Culture and Identity: The Rhetorics of Migrantenliteratur.” Narrative: An International Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, April 2000.
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“Pop or Sub? Struggles Within Culture.” German Studies: The Future of the Disciplines (graduate student conference). University of Toronto, Canada, March 2000.
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“‘A sterile promontory:’ Jane Rogers’s and Jenny Diski’s Views of the Future.” Interdisciplinary Humanities Reflections on the Future. Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, May 1999.
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“Islands, Shipwrecks, and the Lost Domain: John Fowles and Environmental Ethics.” ACLA Annual Meeting. Montréal, Canada, April 1999.
- Christof Beer, “Jugendliche Entfaltungs- und Gestaltungsräume im britischen Drama der 1950er und 1960er Jahre.” (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2021)
- Jaroslaw Jasenowski, “Performing Factuality in John Dunton’s Athenian Cosmos: The Rites of Truth.” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
- Anna Gruber, “Time and the (Post)colonial Self: Oppressive Uses of Time and the Construction of Postcolonial Identities.” (2024)