Matthew D. Miller

• FSEM 159: Transnational Culture in Europe Today
• Core 151: Legacies of the Ancient World
• Core 152: Challenges of Modernity
• Core 184: The Danube (Core Communities)
• German 121 and 122: Beginning German I and II
• German 201 and 202: Intermediate German I and II
• German 325: Transnationalism in Contemporary German Culture
• German 341: Advanced Conversation and Composition
• German 351: Introduction to German Literary Studies
• German 352: Crisis and Critique in Germanophone Europe
• German 353: Proseminar in German Studies: Borderlands of European Multiculture (Focus: Alsace/Elsaß)
• German 353: Proseminar in German Studies: In a Europe of Waters (Focus: Rhine, Danube, Oder and Baltic)
• German 390: Freiburg Study Group Preparation
• German 457: German Literature and Culture on Site: The Freiburg Seminar
• German 477: Central European Modernity: Austria-Hungary and after
• German 479: 20th Century Literature: Modernity and Migration in German Culture
• German 479: 20th Century Literature and Film: Post-1945 Cinema and Life in Fascism's Wake
• German 485: German Drama: History, Theory, Practice
• Adviser to independent studies and honors theses in German
• Freiburg Study Group director

• Literature and film in German-speaking Europe (20th century-present)
• Theater in German-speaking Europe (18th century-present)
• Critical and aesthetic theory
• European cultural histories

Books

• "Dreaming through Endtimes: Literature and Politics in the First Austrian Republic, 1918-1934" (under construction)
• The German Epic in the Cold War: Peter Weiss, Uwe Johnson, and Alexander Kluge. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018.
  • Book Interview: The German Epic in the Cold War at New Books Network: New Books in German Studies, with Craig Sorvillo, April 2020
  • Reviews
    • Martin Brady, Monatshefte 112, no. 2 (2020): 360-362.
    • Mareike Gronich, Johnson-Jahrbuch 26 (2019): 217-225.
    • Xan Holt, Germanic Review 95, no. 1 (2020): 72-75.
    • Christoph Schmitz, Alexander Kluge-Jahrbuch: The Poetic Power of Theory, edited by Richard Langston et al. 6 (2019): 425-430.
    • Nicole Thesz, German Studies Review 43, no. 1 (2020): 208-210.
    • J. O. Wipplinger, CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 56, no. 8 (2019): 1003.
• Co-edited volume (with Marijeta Bozovic): Watersheds: The Poetics and Politics of the Danube River. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2016.
  • Review
    • Christiane Fischer, German Studies Review 41, no. 3 (2018): 639-642. 

Articles and Book Chapters

• “Epische Donau? Der Fluss als Fluchtweg und gegenhegemonialer Erinnerungsstrom in Reinhard Federmanns Das Himmelreich der Lügner." In Sprache und Literatur in Krisenzeiten. Herausforderungen, Aufgaben und Chancen der internationalen Germanistik. Beiträge des XV. IVG-Kongresses in Graz 2025 (Publikationen der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik), edited by Arne Ziegler, Christian Braun, Johanna Fanta-Jende, Rebecca Karrer, and Elisabeth Scherr. Graz University Library Publishing, 2026.
• "Resistance Archives: Bertolt Brecht in Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance,” Overcoming the Present: Peter Weiss’s Aesthetics of Resistance (1975-1981) in and beyond the Cold War World, edited by Kai Evers, Julia Hell, and Seth Howes (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2025) (under review)
• "For Europe, from Interwar Vienna: Austrian Social Democracy’s Modernist Multinational." In Österreich-Studien im 21. Jahrhundert. Teil 2:  Sozial- und geschichtswissenschaftliche Perspektiven, edited by Michael Burri, Christian Karner, and Slawomir Piontek, 189-220. BRILL/V&R unipress, 2025.
• "Post-1945 Realisms: Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl." In Realism and the Novel: A Literary History, edited by Paul Stasi, 86-104 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
• "Inner Periphery? The Rhine from Borderland to Interzone." In Spatiality at the Periphery in European Literatures and Visual Arts, edited by Kathryn Everly, Stefano Giannini, and Karina von Tippelskirch, 57-86. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
• "Renewing Resistance at Sea and on Isles: Peter Weiss’ Aesthetics’ Volume II for the Twenty-First Century." New German Critique: Special Issue on Peter Weiss 147, 49, no. 3 (2022): 135-157.
• "In a Europe of Waters." EuropeNow: Special Feature on Rethinking the Human in a Multispecies World, edited by Hélène B. Ducros, 45 (2021).
• "Europe Fluvial: Multilingual Cultural Studies on Site." Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German 53, no. 2 (2020).
• "Shedding Waters: Cinematic Mediations of European Multiculture." EuropeNow: Special Feature on United in Diversity, edited by Gisela Brinker-Gabler and Randall Halle, 26 (2019).
• "Divided Berlin and Cold War Aesthetics: Mediating the Wall in Literature and Film." Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 55, no. 3 (2019): 266-295.
• "An Epic's Hydropoetics: On the Waters of Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage." Germanic Review 93, no. 2 (2018): 109-129.
• "Bottled Messages for Europe’s Future? The Danube in Contemporary Transnational Cinema." In Crossing Central Europe: Continuities and Transformations, 1900–2000, edited by Helga Mitterbauer and Carrie Smith-Prei, 312-348. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.
• "Atlantic Transfers of Critical Theory: Alexander Kluge and the U.S. in Fiction." In Different Germanies--New Transatlantic Perspectives, edited by Konrad H. Jarausch, Harald Wenzel, and Karin Goihl, 278-297. New York: Berghahn Books, 2017.
• "Uwe Johnson, Peter Weiss, und die Möglichkeiten des modernen Epos." Johnson-Jahrbuch 23 (2016): 183-206.
• "Eigensinn in Transit: Reexamining a Concept for the Twenty-First Century." Glass Shards: Alexander Kluge-Jahrbuch 2 (2015): 83-102.
• "Zu einem Europa der Flüsse: Die Donau im transnationalen Film der Gegenwart." In Europa? Zur Kulturgeschichte einer Idee, edited by Tomislav Zelic, Zaneta Sambunjakm and Anita Pavic, 265-284. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2015.
• "Facts of Migration, Demands on Identity: Christian Petzold’s Yella and Jerichow in Comparison." The German Quarterly: Special Issue: German Film Studies 85, no. 1 (2012): 55-76.
• "Critical Storytelling and Diabolical Dialectics: Alexander Kluge and the Devil’s Blind Spots." Germanic Review 85, no. 4 (2010): 318-339.
• "Literarische Zwischenöffentlichkeit: Alexander Kluges Erzählerische Reaktionen auf die deutsche Wendezeit." In SUBversionen: Zum Verhältnis von Politik und Ästhetik in der Gegenwart, edited by Thomas Ernst, Patricia Gozalbez Cantó, Sebastian Richter, Nadja Sennewald and Julia Tieke, 129-146. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2008.
• "Der Auftrag des Chiasmus im Revolutionsdrama: Heiner Müller mit Georg Büchner Lesen." Theater der Zeit: Theaterwissenschaftliche Beiträge 2006 – Beilage zum Heft 5 (2006): 8-11.

Book Reviews

• Salvatore Pappalardo: Modernism in Trieste: The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870-1945. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 76, no. 3 (2022): 176-9.
• Caroline Rupprecht: Asian Fusion: New Encounters in the Asian-German Avant-Garde. New York: Peter Lang, 2020. Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 75, no. 4 (2021): 266-69.
• Julia Hell: The Conquest of Ruins: The Third Reich and the Fall of Rome. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. The Germanic Review 95, no. 1 (2020): 65-69.
• Leslie A. Adelson: Cosmic Miniatures and the Future Sense: Alexander Kluge’s 21st-Century Literary Experiments in German Culture and Narrative Form. De Gruyter, 2017. The German Quarterly 92, no. 2 (2019): 305-308.
• Matt Cornish: Performing Unification: History and Nation in German Theater after 1989. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 73, no. 1 (2019): 68-70.
• Friederike Eigler: Heimat, Space, Narrative: Toward a Transnational Approach to Flight and Expulsion. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2014. Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 70, no. 4 (2016): 219-221.
• Elisabeth Herrmann, Carrie Smith-Prei, Stuart Taberner, eds.: Transnationalism in Contemporary German-Language Literature. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2015. Modern Language Review 111, no. 3 (2016): 907-908.
• Kefei Qian: Die Donau von 1740 bis 1875. Eine kulturwissenschaftliche Untersuchung. Berlin: Logos Verlag für wissenschaftliche Publikationen, 2014. The German Quarterly 88, no. 1 (2015): 139-141.
• Amir Eshel: Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. The German Quarterly 86, no. 4 (2013): 513-515.

• Visiting Assistant Professor of German, Bowdoin College, 2009-10
• Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Columbia University, 2007-2009

BA, Swarthmore College
PhD, Columbia University