Dr. Uwe Juras

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Research Interests

• Early American Drama
  
• English Renaissance Drama
  
• British and American Gothic Literature and Film
  
• American Psychology, 1887–1929
  
• The American Novel, 1875–1934
  
• American Science Fiction, 1960s–1980s
  
• Stories of Initiation
  
• Passing in American Culture
  
• The American Film Noir
  

Publications

• In Melodrama! The Mode of Excess from Early America to Hollywood, edited by Frank Kelleter, Barbara Krah, and Ruth Mayer. Heidelberg: Winter, 2007.
  
• Reprinted in Passionate Politics: The Cultural Work of American Melodrama from the Early Republic to the Present, edited by Ralph J. Poole and Ilka Saal. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
  
  
  “From Acts of God to Acts of Man: Rationalizing and Nationalizing Catastrophe in America.” In Das Erdbeben von Lissabon und der Katastrophendiskurs im 18. Jahrhundert, edited by Gerhard Lauer and Torsten Unger. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2008.
  
  Reference Works
  
  “John Cotton”; “Theodore Dreiser”; “F. Scott Fitzgerald”; “Thomas Jefferson”; “Cotton Mather”; “John Winthrop.” In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. 3rd ed. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2009.
  
  “Schwester Carrie” (Theodore Dreiser). In Kindler Kompakt: Amerikanische Literatur – 20. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2015.
  
  Review
  
  Review of Marek Paryz, Social and Cultural Aspects of Madness in American Literature, 1798–1860. Amerikastudien 54, no. 4 (2010).