Dr. Cord-Christian Casper

Against Anarchy: Political Alterity in Early Modernism. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.

(with Nikolina Hatton and Claudia Olk) Vigilance and Epistemological Uncertainty. Berlin: De Gruyter (forthcoming 2026).

(with André Schwarck and Jutta Zimmermann) Multi-Narratives. Narratologia series. Berlin: De Gruyter (forthcoming 2026).

Un/Commoning, special issue of New Formations (forthcoming 2026).

(with Nikolina Hatton and Lara Ehrenfried) Early Modern Futures, focus section of Anglistik, vol. 36, no. 3, 2025.

(with Billy Godfrey and Adeline Coignet) 100 Years with and without Kropotkin, special issue of Anarchist Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, 2023.

(with Liza B. Bauer, Anna Tabouratzidis, and Hannah Klaubert) Ecocriticism and Narrative Form, special issue of SubStance, vol. 50, no. 3, 2021.

(with Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich, Emmanuel Tristan Kugland, and Marlon Lieber) Im/Possibility, special issue of Coils of the Serpent, no. 8, 2021.

General Editor, CLOSURE: Kieler e-Journal für Comicforschung, nos. 1–12, 2014–2025.

International Journal of English Studies, vol. 36, no. 3, 2025, pp. 5–11. (peer-reviewed) https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2025/3/4

“Ambient Ecologies: Nature Writing’s Non/Narrative Approach.” Special issue of Storyworlds, ed. Brian McAllister, Erin James, and Eric Morel (forthcoming 2026). (peer-reviewed)

“Multiplying Here – Juxtaposition and Scale in Comics.” LWU, 2022.

“What is it Not Like to be a Skylark? Apophatic Form in Nature Writing.” SubStance, vol. 50, no. 3, 2021, pp. 93–114. (peer-reviewed)

“‘Trembling on the edge of change’: The Apocalyptic Gothic in the Dark Mountain Project.” Journal for the Study of British Cultures, vol. 27, no. 2, 2020. (peer-reviewed)

“The Ship as Autonomous Space in Joseph Conrad’s Nautical Fiction.” LWU, 2012.

“Narrative Sprawl: Multi-Narratives in Cyclonopedia.” In Multi-Narratives, ed. Cord-Christian Casper, André Schwarck, and Jutta Zimmermann. Narratologia. Berlin: De Gruyter (forthcoming 2026).

“Conjectural Vigilance: Environmental Uncertainty in Early Modern Comedy.” In Vigilance and Uncertainty in Early Modernity, ed. Claudia Olk, Cord-Christian Casper, and Nikolina Hatton. Berlin: De Gruyter (forthcoming).

“‘tweet tweet tweet jug jug jug’ – Vogelgesang und die Inszenierung des Missverstehens in der Naturlyrik.” Mensch-Tier-Praktiken aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive, ed. Pamela Steen and Heike Rettig. Springer, 2024.

“How To Get Outside – Compound Objects in Speculative Nature Writing.” New Materialist Literary Theory, ed. Kai Merten and Kerstin Howaldt. Lanham: Lexington, 2024.

“Hybrid Secondary Worlds: Animal Fantasy.” The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy, ed. Elana Gomel and Danielle Gurevitch. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023.

“‘Or the End of It’: Formen der Endlichkeit bei Carol Swain.” Comics, Tod, Endlichkeit, ed. Frank Thomas Brinkmann. Ch. A. Bachmann Verlag, 2022.

“Multiversaler Heroismus im Superhelden-Genre des Comic.” Heroen – Helden, ed. Christoph Petersen and Markus May. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2022.

“‘No Place in All Europe for Him’: Monstrous Migrations in the Family Gothic.” Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction: Ray Bradbury’s Elliott Family, ed. Miranda Corcoran and Steve Ellerhoff. London: Routledge, 2020.

“Dehnung.” Formen der Zeit: Ein Wörterbuch der ästhetischen Eigenzeiten, ed. Michael Gamper et al. Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2020.

“The Fourth Dimension and Impossible Knowledge in Edwardian Speculative Fiction.” Literature and Knowledge, ed. Antje Kley and Kai Merten. Bern: Lang, 2018.

“‘The hard, definite, personal word’ – Ordnung in frühmodernistischer Sprachphilosophie.” Patterns of Disorder, ed. Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Markus Wierschem. Berlin and Münster: LIT, 2017.

“‘Destroying Natural Ties’ – Radical Politics at the Margins of Modernism.” “We Speak a Different Tongue”: Maverick Voices and Modernity, 1890–1939, ed. Anthony Patterson and Yoonjoung Choi. Cambridge Scholars, 2015.

“Forms of Un/Commoning.” Un/Commoning, special issue of New Formations (forthcoming 2026).

(with Billy Godfrey) “Editorial: One Hundred Years with and without Kropotkin.” Anarchist Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, 2023.

(with Jutta Zimmermann and André Schwarck) “Multi-Narrative Working Paper.” Multi-Narratives, special issue of LWU, Neue Folge 1.2, 2022.

(with Dennis Büscher-Ulbrich, Emmanuel Tristan Kugland, and Marlon Lieber) “Im/Possibility: Introduction.” Coils of the Serpent, no. 8, 2021.

“‘What Grows in the Gutter?’ – About this Issue.” CLOSURE 7, 2020.

Review of The Law in Graphic Narratives: Legal Perspectives on Comics, Manga and Anime, ed. Giuseppe Martinico and Gianpaolo Maria Ruotolo. Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch, vol. 66, 2025.

Review of Conrad’s Presence in Contemporary Culture: Adaptations and Appropriations, ed. Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech et al. European Journal of English Studies, 2025.

Review of Unspeakable: Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot to 9/11, by Peter C. Herman. Revenant, no. 8, 2022.

“Playing Image Games.” Review of abstract? abstract! Abstraktion und Bildgeschichte, by Dietrich Grünewald. CLOSURE 8, 2021.

“The Dark Knight Returns: Again and Again.” Review. CLOSURE 1, 2015.

“‘Times shall dash against the dividing of time’: Time and Immanence in Civil War Radicalism.” November 2025. Meeting with Time – On the Religious Experience of Time in Early Modern English Literature, Universität Hamburg.

“‘You Taught Me Language’: Shakespeare zwischen Kanonisierung und Gegendiskurs.” September 2025. Kanon und Diskurs – Jahrestagung der Görres-Gesellschaft, Mannheim.

“Utopian Energy Humanities.” May 2025. Energy Humanities Workshop, Universität Erfurt.

“Intercreatural Commons in Digger Pamphlets.” February 2025. FNZ Kolloquium, Humboldt-Universität Berlin.

“Environmental Conjecture – Epistemological Uncertainty in Shakespeare’s and Lyly’s Green Worlds.” April 2024. Shakespeare Association of America Annual Conference, Portland.

“Galatea and Environmental Debt on the Early Modern Stage.” April 2024. LMU-UCB Research in the Humanities Symposium, Berkeley.

“How to Become Grass – The Intercreatural Commons in Early Modern Natural Philosophy.” July 2023. ASLE, Portland.

“Thomas Browne’s Virtual Commons.” July 2023. Literaturwissenschaftliches Kolloquium, LMU München.

“‘Disregarded Distribution’: Media and Indifference in Political Fiction.” January 2023. Signal and Sign, LMU München.

“Ambient Sequences.” November 2022. ‘Hurra, die Welt geht unter.’ Katastrophen und Krisen in der Populärkultur, CAU Kiel.

“‘Her body is divided from her head’: Offstage Violence in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam (1613).” March 2022. Adapting Violence in/from Classic Texts, Bern/Oxford.

“Vernetzte Akteure – Kulturelle Ökologien des Comics.” September 2021. GfM Jahrestagung, Innsbruck.

“Heaps of Worlds: Multi-Narrative Nature Writing.” September 2021. Multi-Narratives, CAU Kiel.

“Queer Heterochrony: Derek Jarman’s Garden.” June 2021. Research Colloquium, JLU Gießen.

“Elseworlds: Multiversaler Heroismus im Superhelden-Genre.” March 2021. Heroen – Helden, LMU München.

“Sequentiality and Multiperspectivity — ‘Unflattening’ Knowledge.” October 2020. CIAOS – Closure International Autumn Online School on Comics and Knowledge, CAU Kiel.

“Multinarrative Storyworlds: Alan Moore and the ‘solid block with four dimensions’.” March 2020. ISSN, New Orleans.

“No Story: Nature Writing Beyond Narrative.” December 2019. Ecocriticism and Narrative Form, JLU Gießen.

“Multiplying Here — Juxtaposition and Sequence in Comics.” June 2019. ISSN, Universidad de Navarra.

“Looking for Narrative in all the Wrong Places: Nature Writing, Genre, Storytelling.” May 2019. Current Topics and Methods in English and American Literary Studies, LMU München.

“‘What Is It like to Be a Mountain?’ The Nonhuman Times of Nature Writing.” February 2019. Nature Writing’s Future Pasts: The Land Lines Conference, University of Leeds.

“Eco-Poetics and the Experience of the Nonhuman.” November 2018. TZM Kolloquium, Universität Erfurt.

“The Great Outdoors: New Materialist Nature Writing.” June 2018. Erfurter Netzwerk zum Neuen Materialismus.

“Impossible Form in Literature.” September 2016. Im/Possibility, CAU Kiel.

“Strange Form: Losing Track of Comics Beginnings.” September 2016. Beginnings and Renewals in Comics, CAU Kiel.

“‘Parts made up of bodies of men’ – The Politics of the Fourth Dimension in Early Modernism.” July 2015. Modernity and the European Mind, Portsmouth University.

“‘The hard, definite, personal word’ – Order in Early Modernist Language Theory.” February 2015. Patterns of Disorder, Universität Paderborn.

“Anarchy in the UK: Anarchism in British Literature.” December 2014. Docs Talk, CAU Kiel.

“The Failure of Rejection: Anarchism and Popular Literature.” November 2014. Das Abgelehnte, FU Berlin.

“Anarchism and the State of Exception in Joseph Conrad.” November 2014. PhD Forum, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Rastatt.

“CLOSURE – Comics Research and Media Didactics.” September 2014. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Comicforschung, Berlin.

“‘Where to?’ — States of Exception in Conrad’s Literary Politics.” July 2014. The Joseph Conrad Society, University of Kent, Canterbury.

“Political Alterity in Early Modernism.” April 2014. PhD Forum, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Berlin.

“‘Destroying Natural Ties’ – Radical Politics at the Margins of Modernism.” July 2013. Maverick Voices and Modernity, 1890–1939, Durham University.

“Drawing-room Anarchism and ‘humanitarian passion’ in Joseph Conrad’s Urban Fiction.” June 2012. The Literary London Society, London.