Publications

Recent and Forthcoming Articles

  • "The Diachronic Analysis of the Anglophone Invasion Narrative and its Counter-Narrative Forms in Fiction and Film." Narrative: Special Issue on Diachronic Narratology. Eds. Monika Fludernik & Irma Taavitsainen. (In print)
  • "Anthropocene Consciousness, Time Loops and Anticipatory Collective Trauma in Narratives of Anthropogenic Environmental Disaster." Poetics Today 46:1: Special Edition on Time Loops, Temporal Uncertainty, and Problem-Solving in Narrative. Eds. Wibke Schniedermann, Steven Willemsen et al. (In print)
  • "Reconfigured Reality in Scenarios of Transformed Identity, Invasion and Environmental Threat: the Diachronic Exploration of Recognition Scenes in Anglophone Print and Film Narratives." Language and Literature. (In print)
  • "Cognitive Challenge in Complex Science Fiction: Knowledge, Reason and Threat in Narratives of Time Travel and Extraterrestrial Contact." Puzzling Stories: The aesthetic appeal of cognitive challenge in literature, film & television. Eds. Miklós Kiss & Steven Willemsen. New York/Oxford: Berghahn, 2022.  68-92.
  • "From Lost Worlds to Triffids: Fantastic Invasions and Interspecies Conflict in British Narrative Fiction, 1871 - 1952." Das Leben und die Seltsamen Abenteuer des Elmar Schenkel, aus Soest, Professor. Nicht von Ihm Selbst Verfasst. 1. Edition. Eds. Maria Fleischhack, Jürgen Ronthaler and Stefan Welz. Leipzig: Edition Hamouda, 2019. 239-245.
  • "Enigmatic Experientiality in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock." How To Do Things with Narrative: Cognitive and Diachronic Perspectives. Festschrift for Monika Fludernik on the Occasion of her Sixtieth Birthday. Eds. Jan Alber and Greta Olson. Berlin und Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. 29-41.
  • "Worlds out of Control: Invasion Narratives, Interspecies Conflict and British Culture in the Early Cold War." Journal for the Study of British Cultures 24.1 (2017): 43-57.

Selected Publications (as Hilary Dannenberg)

  • Coincidence and Counterfactuality: Plotting Time and Space in Narrative Fiction. Frontiers of Narrative. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
    Awarded the Perkins Prize in 2010 for the book making the most significant contribution to the study of narrative

Articles on Television and Film

  • "Counter-Narratives of Empire: Revisioning History in Contemporary British Television." Orts-Wechsel: Reale, imaginierte und virtuelle Wissensräume. Eds. Ulrich Port und Martin Przybilski. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2013. 135-149.

  • "Narrating Multiculturalism in British Media: Voice and Cultural Identity in Television Documentary and Comedy." Analyzing World Fiction: New Horizons in Narrative Theory. Ed. Frederick Aldama. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. 75-90.

  • "Invasion Narratives and the Cold War in the 1950s American Science-Fiction Film." Between Fear and Freedom: Cultural Representations of the Cold War. Ed. Kathleen Starck. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010. 39-52.

  • "Sharing Media Spaces. The Kumars at No. 42". Ed. Stella Borg Barthet. Shared Waters: Soundings in Postcolonial Literatures. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2009. 279-288.

  • "Interpreting the Aliens: Representations of American Society in Science-Fiction Movies of the 1950s." Rebels without a Cause? Renegotiating the American 1950s. Eds. Ann Marie Fallon and Gerd Hurm. Bern: Lang, 2007. 205-231.

  • "Marketing the British Situation Comedy: The Success of the BBC Brand on the British and Global Comedy Markets." Journal for the Study of British Cultures 10.2 (2004): 169-181. 

Articles on Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures

  • "Narrating the Postcolonial Metropolis in Anglophone African Fiction: Chris Abani's GraceLand and Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to Our Hillbrow." Journal of Postcolonial Writing. 48.1 (2012). 39-50. 

  • "The Many Voices of Things Fall Apart." Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 11.2 (2009): 176-179.

  • "Culture and Nature in The Heart of Redness." Ways of Writing: Critical Essays on Zakes Mda. Eds. David Bell and Johan Jacobs. Scottstown: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009. 169-190.

  • "Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup and the Desert Romance Tradition in Post/Colonial Anglophone Fiction." Current Writing 20.1 (2008): 69-88.

  • "Hybrid Genres and Crosscultural Dialogues in Contemporary British Television Comedy: The Kumars at No 42 and Ali G." Medialised Britain. Eds. Jürgen Kamm and Bernd Lenz. Passau: Karl Stutz, 2006. 185-200.

  • "Crossing Borders in the Sand: The Desert and the Post/Colonial Romance in Anglophone Fiction." Forging the Local and the Global. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University/African Sun Media, 2006. 53-61.

Articles on Narrative Fiction and Narrative Theory

  • "Gerald Prince and the Fascination of What Doesn't Happen." Narrative 22.3 (2014): 304-311.

  • "Fleshing out the Blend: The Representation of Counterfactuals in Alternate History in Print, Film, and Television Narratives." Blending and the Study of Narrative: Approaches and Applications. Eds. Ralf Schneider and Marcus Hartner. Narratologia: Contributions to Narrative Theory, Band 34. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2012. 121-145.

  • "Windows, Doorways and Portals in Narrative Fiction and Media." Magical Objects: Things and Beyond. Leipzig Explorations in Literature and Culture, Vol. 12. Eds. Elmar Schenkel and Stefan Welz. Berlin: Galda & Wilch, 2007. 181-198.

  • "Ontological Plotting: Narrative as a Multiplicity of Temporal Dimensions." The Dynamics of Narrative Form. Ed. John Pier. Narratologia, Vol. 4. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2005. 159-189.

  • "Coincidence," "Counterfactual History," "Plot," "Plot Types." The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Eds. David Herman, Manfred Jahn and Marie-Laure Ryan. London: Routledge, 2005. 71, 86, 435-439, 439-440.

  • "A Poetics of Coincidence in Narrative Fiction." Poetics Today 25.3 (2004): 399-436.

  • "Die Dreidimensionalisierung des erzählten Raumes in Büchners Lenz." [The Three-Dimensionalization of Narrative Space in Büchner's Lenz.] Georg Büchner Jahrbuch 9 (1995-99). Eds. Burghard Dedner and Thomas Michael Mayer. Niemeyer: Tübingen, 2000. 263-280.

  • "Virtuality in Narrative Fiction." diss.sense: http://www.dissense.de/vi/dannenberg.html

  • "Doorways to Anywhere vs. Repetitive Hierarchy: The Multiple-World Structure of C.S. Lewis’s Narnian Universe." Inklings-Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik 16 (1998): 138-163.