Publications

Monographs        Edited books & journals       Articles       Reviews       Other short publications

Monographs:

Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination: Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900.
Evanston IL: Northwestern University Press 2017.

Winner of the ESSE Book Award 2018 (European Society for the Study of English) in the category "Cultural and Area Studies".

Reviewed in:
Eighteenth-century Scotland 32 (2018), 25 f (by Alastair Noble)
Études écossaises 22 (2023) (by Cyril Besson)
Northern Scotland 10.2 (2019), 202–204 (by Thomas Black)
Postcolonial Text 13.2 (2018) (by Wilson McLeod)
Scottish Literary Review 9.2 (2017), 168–170 (by Emma Dymock)
Studies in Scottish Literature 43.2 (2017), 351 f (by Carla Sassi; title: “Gaelic Scotland and Post-Colonial Readings”)

Uneasy Subjects: Postcolonialism and Scottish Gaelic Poetry.
SCROLL series (Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature), vol. 17. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2011.

Reviewed in:
Anglistik 23.2 (2012), 183–185 (by Carla Sassi)
The Bottle Imp 12 (2012) (by Gioia Angeletti)
Cothrom 70 (2011), 43
Eighteenth-century Scotland 26 (2012), 30 f (by Matthew Dziennik)
International Review of Scottish Studies 37 (2012), 150–154 (by Michael Newton)
Journal for the Study of British Cultures 19.1 (2012), 102–105 (by Graeme Dunphy)
Postcolonial Text 6.4 (2011) (by Manfred Malzahn)
Representations and Contexts: A Transdisciplinary Journal of International Relations and Cultural Studies 3 (2014) (by Anke Bartels)
Scottish Gaelic Studies 29 (2013), 301–304 (by Michael Newton)
Scottish Literary Review 4.2 (2012), 213–215 (by Kirsten Sandrock)
Transnational Literature 7.2 (2015) (by Graham Tulloch)

Edited books and journals:

Mosques, Manses, Muirs, and ‘Moors’: Representations of Muslims and Islam in Scottish Culture.
Ed. with Manfred Malzahn. Issue no. 13.1 of Scottish Literary Review, 2021.

The Black Diaspora and Germany / Deutschland und die Schwarze Diaspora
Ed. with other members of the research network “Black Diaspora and Germany” (‘BDG Network’). Münster: Edition Assemblage 2018.

Reviewed in:
KULT_online: Review Journal for the Study of Culture 58 (2019) (by Jeannette Oholi; title: “Black Subversion: Die Schwarze Diaspora in Deutschland heute und damals”)
WeiberDiwan (Sommer 2019), 3 (title: “Schwarze Diaspora im deutschen Kontext”)

Empires and Revolutions: Cunninghame Graham and his Contemporaries.
Ed. with Carla Sassi. Glasgow: Scottish Studies International 2017.

Postcolonial Translocations: Cultural Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking.
Ed. with Marga Munkelt, Markus Schmitz & Mark Stein. Cross/Cultures series, vol. 156. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2013.​

E.g. reviewed in:
Anglistik 25.2 (2014), 189–191 (by Anke Bartels)
Wasafiri 29.1 (2014), 95 f (by Ruksana Abdul-Majid)

Hybrid Cultures – Nervous States: Britain and Germany in a (Post)Colonial World.
Ed. with Ulrike Lindner, Maren Möhring & Mark Stein. Cross/Cultures series, vol. 129. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2010.
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Reviewed in:
Anglistik 23.1 (2012), 223 f (by Ellen Grünkemeier)
The European English Messenger 22.1 (2013), 85 f (by Carla Sassi)
Journal of Postcolonial Writing 47.5 (2011), 571–573 (by Dieter Riemenschneider)
Research in African Literatures 43.3 (2012), 127–129 (by Nina Berman)

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Transcultural Identities: Britain.
Ed. with Britta Freitag. Issue no. 95 of Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch  (‘Teaching English as a Foreign Language’), 2008.

Postcolonial Theory: The Emergence of a Critical Discourse. A Selected and Annotated Bibliography.
Assistant editor, & author of 139 entries. Main editor: Dieter Riemenschneider. Preface Homi K. Bhabha. Tübingen: Stauffenburg 2004. Repr. Jaipur & New Delhi: Rawat 2006.

Acolit
(newsletter of the Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English, ASNEL; https://g-a-p-s.net/acolit/)
Member of the editorial team 1996.

Articles

Peer-reviewed:

"Shifting Grounds: Writers of Colour in Twenty-first-century Scottish Literature." Scottish Writing After Devolution: Edges of the New, ed. by Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon, Camille Manfredi & Scott Hames, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2022, 104–122.

“Literature and Beyond: The Uses of Postcolonial Perspectives in Gaelic Studies.” Cànan is Cultar / Language and Culture: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 10, ed. by Wilson McLeod, Anja Gunderloch & Rob Dunbar, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press 2021, 1-18.

“Orientalism, Islamophobia and Scottish Multiculturalism in Torcuil Crichton’s Rewriting of Kidnapped”, in Scottish Literary Review 13.1 (2021), special issue: Mosques, Manses, Muirs, and ‘Moors’: Representations of Muslims and Islam in Scottish Culture, ed. Manfred Malzahn & Silke Stroh, 69–88.

“(Post)Colonial Contexts of the Declaration: Conquest, Resistance and the Ambiguities of Writing Back.” Scotland and Arbroath 1320 – 2020: 700 Years of Fighting for Freedom, Sovereignty, and Independence, ed. Klaus Peter Müller, Scottish Studies International, vol. 43, Berlin et al.: Peter Lang 2020, 55–73.

"Scottish–Indian Connections and (Trans)National Identity: Bashabi Fraser’s Engagement with the Literary and Visual Archive,” in Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (LWU) 49.4 (officially dated 2016, but actually published in 2019), pp. 249–264.

“Migration, Multiculture and Mirroring: Gaelic / South Asian Outreach in Iain Crichton Smith’s ‘An Duine Dubh’ and ‘The Exiles,’" in Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture 28.55 (2018), themed issue: Irish-Language & Scottish Gaelic Literatures: A Global Context, ed. Radvan Markus & Petra Johana Poncarová, 82-95.

“Postcolonialism, Celticity, and the Nation State: Interrogating Old and New Multiculturalisms in Europe and beyond,” in Contested Identities: Literary Negotiations in Time and Place, ed. Claudia Marquis, Roger Nicholson & Gertrud Szamosi, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars 2015, 3–30.

“British (Post)Colonial Discourse and Imagined Roman Precedents: From Bernardine Evaristo's Londinium to Caesar's Britain and Gaul,” in Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires, ed. Barbara Buchenau & Virginia Richter, with Marijke Denger; Cross/Cultures series, vol. 182; Leiden & Boston MA: Brill Rodopi 2015, 181–215.

“Theories and Practices of Transmigration: Colonial British Diasporas and the Emergence of Translocal Space,” in Postcolonial Translocations: Cultural Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking, ed. S. Stroh, Marga Munkelt, Markus Schmitz & Mark Stein; Cross/Cultures series, vol. 156; Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2013, 295–320.

“Towards a Postcolonial Environment? Nature, 'Native', and Nation in Scottish Representations of the Oil Industry,” in Local Natures, Global Responsibilities: Ecocritical Perspectives on the New English Literatures, ed. Ines Detmers, Nancy Grimm, Katrin Thomson & Laurenz Volkmann; Cross/Cultures series, vol. 121; Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2010, 189–203.

“Transperipheral Translations? Native North American / Scottish Gaelic Connections,” in Translation of Cultures, ed. Petra Rüdiger & Konrad Gross, Cross/Cultures series, vol. 106; Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi 2009, 255-271.

“The Long Shadow of Tacitus: Classical and Modern Colonial Discourses in the Eighteenth- and Early-nineteenth-century Scottish Highlands,” in Transcultural English Studies: Theories, Fictions, Realities, ed. Frank Schulze–Engler & Sissy Helff, Cross/Cultures, vol. 102; Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi 2009, 339–354.

Other essays:​

“Gaelic Poetry and Drama” (c.1910–1979), in The Cambridge History of Scottish Literature, ed. Ian Duncan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2023/24 (with Michelle MacLeod).

“Scottish Writers of Colour and their Place in the Canon: A European Perspective”, in The Meeting of Scotland and Europe, ed. Aniela Korzeniowska & Izabela Szymańska, Warsaw: Semper, forthcoming 2023.

“Introduction,” in The Black Diaspora and Germany / Deutschland und die Schwarze Diaspora, ed. by BDG Network (S. Stroh et al.), Münster: Edition Assemblage 2018, 17-32 (co-written with other network members).

“George Padmore’s Writings in and about Germany: Interfaces of Race, Class and (Anti-)Imperialism”, in The Black Diaspora and Germany / Deutschland und die Schwarze Diaspora, ed. by BDG Network (S. Stroh et al.), Münster: Edition Assemblage 2018, 118-134.

“Introduction,” in Empires and Revolutions: Cunninghame Graham and his Contemporaries, ed. Carla Sassi & Silke Stroh, Glasgow: Scottish Literature International 2017, vii–xviii (with Carla Sassi).

“Nation and Home,” in The International Companion to Scottish Poetry, ed. Carla Sassi, Glasgow: Scottish Literature International 2015, 144–155 & 247 f (with Carla Sassi). 

“The Gaelic Voice in (Post)Colonial Discourse: An Alignment Illustrated by Case Studies of Neil Gunn, William Neill and Tormod Caimbeul,” in Within and Without Empire: Scotland Across the (Post)Colonial Borderline, ed. Carla Sassi & Theo van Heijnsbergen, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars 2013, 77–91.

“Revisioning Irish Postcolonialism: The Scottish Connection,” in Anglistentag 2012 Potsdam: Proceedings, ed. Katrin Röder & Ilse Wischer; Proceedings of the Conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English, vol. 34; Trier: WVT 2013, 35–46.

“Damien O’Donnell, East Is East (1999),” in Film, ed. Susanne Peters, Klaus Stierstorfer, Dirk Vanderbeke & Laurenz Volkmann; Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture, vol. 3.1; Trier: WVT 2013, 259–277.

“Introduction: Directions of Translocation – towards a Critical Spatial Thinking in Postcolonial Studies,” in Postcolonial Translocations: Cultural  Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking, ed. S. Stroh, Marga Munkelt, Markus Schmitz & Mark Stein; Cross/Cultures series, vol. 156; Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2013, xiii–lxxix (with M. Munkelt, M. Schmitz & M. Stein).

“Alistair MacLeod and the Casualties of Global Modernity: Colonisation, Diaspora and Class in No Great Mischief,” Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (LWU) 44.4 (2011), 237–253.

“Gaeldom and Multi-ethnic Scotland: A Long History and a Short Story,” in The Bottle Imp 10 (Nov. 2011).

“Introduction,” in Hybrid Cultures, Nervous States: Britain and Germany in a (Post)Colonial World, ed. S. Stroh, Ulrike Lindner, Maren Möhring & Mark Stein; Cross/Cultures series vol. 129; Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2010, xi–xlvi (with U. Lindner, M. Möhring & M. Stein).

“Muslims, the Discourse on (Failed) Integration in Britain, and Kenneth Glenaan’s Film Yasmin,” in Hybrid Cultures, Nervous States: Britain and Germany in a (Post)Colonial World, ed. S. Stroh, Ulrike Lindner, Maren Möhring & Mark Stein; Cross/Cultures, vol. 129; Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2010, 229–251.

“Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of NOT,” in Novels, ed. Susanne Peters, Klaus Stierstorfer & Laurenz Volkmann; Teaching Contemporary Literature and Culture, vol. 2.1; Trier: WVT 2008, 135–156.

“Crossing cultures – from Burns to Bhangra! Identitätsentwürfe im Film Ae Fond Kiss untersuchen” (‘… Analysing identity constructions in the film Ae Fond Kiss’), in Transcultural Identities: Britain, issue no. 95 of Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch (‘Teaching English as a Foreign Language’), ed. S. Stroh & Britta Freitag, 2008, 30-37 (with Britta Freitag).

“Cultural Identities on the Move,” in ibid., 2–6 (with Britta Freitag & Uta v. Reinersdorff).

“Transkulturalität und Intertextualität in der Oberstufe: Arranged marriage in Film und Drama” (‘Transculturality and intertextuality in senior high school teaching: Arranged marriage in film and drama’), in Moderne Dramendidaktik für den Englischunterricht (‘Modern methods and suggestions for teaching drama in EFL classrooms’), ed. Rüdiger Ahrens, Maria Eisenmann & Matthias Merkl; Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008, 371–384.

“Moral und Politik in Conrads nichtfiktionalen Schriften: Eine postkoloniale Polemik“ (‘Morality and politics in Conrad’s non-fictional writings: A postcolonial polemic’), in Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), ed. Cordula Lemke & Claus Zittel; Memoria, vol. 8; Berlin: Weidler 2007, 33–57.

“Scotland as a Multifractured Postcolonial Go-between? Ambiguous Interfaces between (Post-)Celticism, Gaelicness, Scottishness and Postcolonialism,” in Global Fragments: (Dis)Orientation in the New World Order, ed. Anke Bartels & Dirk Wiemann; Cross/Cultures series, vol. 90; Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi 2007, 181–195.

Reviews

Wilson McLeod, Gaelic in Scotland: Policies, Movements, Ideologies (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2020). In: Journal of British Studies 61.4 (2022), 1068–1070.

Inspiring Views from “a’ the airts” on Scottish Literatures, Art & Cinema: The First World Congress of Scottish Literatures in Glasgow 2014, ed. Klaus Peter Müller, Ilka Schwittlinsky & Ron Walker (Frankfurt am Main et al.: Peter Lang Edition 2017). In: Scottish Literary Review 9.2 (2017), 188–190.

Beredter Norden: Schottische Lyrik seit 1900 ('Eloquent north: Scottish poetry since 1900'), ed. Iain Galbraith (Berlin: Edition Rugerup 2011). In: The Bottle Imp 19 (June 2016).

Seanchaidh na Coille: The Memory-Keeper of the Forest. Anthology of Scottish-Gaelic Literature of Canada, ed. Michael Newton (Sydney, N.S.: Cape Breton University Press 2015). In: The Bottle Imp 19 (June 2016).

Scotland 2014 and beyond – Coming of Age and Loss of Innocence?, ed. Klaus Peter Müller (Frankfurt am Main et al.: Peter Lang 2015). In: Études Écossaises 18 (2016), 168–174.

Michael Klevenhaus, Grammatikübungsbuch Schottisch-Gälisch (Hamburg: Buske 2014). In: Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 62 (2015), 227–230.

Ideological Battlegrounds: Constructions of Us and Them before and after 9/11, Vol. 1: Perspectives in Literatures and Cultures, ed. Joanna Witkowska & Uwe Zagratzki (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2014). In: Anglistik 26.2 (2015), 211–213.

Rosemary Anne Selle, The Parritch and the Partridge: The Reception of Robert Burns in Germany. A History, 2nd revised and augmented edition by Lennart Brieger, Tiana Mareen Fischer, Ines Gundlach, Mirja Kristina Michels, Juliane Pflugmacher, Frauke Reitemeier & Mar Sydymanov (Frankfurt am Main et al.: Peter Lang 2013). In: Scottish Studies Newsletter 45 (May 2015), print version: pp. 65-69; online version: pp. 59–62.

Listening to Africa: Anglophone African Literatures and Cultures, ed. Jana Gohrisch & Ellen Grünkemeier (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2012), and The Freetown Bond: A Life under Two Flags by Eldred Durosimi Jones, with assistance from Marjorie Jones (Woodbridge: James Currey 2012). In: Wasafiri 29.1 / issue 77 (2014), 93 f.

Us and Them – Them and Us: Constructions of the Other in Cultural Stereotypes, ed. Anna Gonerko-Frej, Malgorzata Sokol, Joanna Witkowska & Uwe Zagratzki (Aachen: Shaker 2011). In: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 37.2 (2012), 279–283.

Stefanie Lehner, Subaltern Ethics in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Literature: Tracing Counter-Histories (Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan 2011). In: Postcolonial Text 7.2 (2012).

Monika Bednarek, The Language of Fictional Television: Drama and Identity (London & New York: Continuum 2010). In: Anglistik 22.2 (2011), 178–181.

Cheeky Fictions: Laughter and the Postcolonial, ed. Susanne Reichl & Mark Stein (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi 2005). In: Journal for the Study of British Cultures 13.1 (2006), 91 f.

Postcolonial Wales, ed. Jane Aaron & Chris Williams (Cardiff: U of Wales P 2005). In: Journal for the Study of British Cultures 12.2 (2005), 182–184.

Other short publications:

“Editorial”, in Scottish Literary Review 13.1 (2021), special issue: Mosques, Manses, Muirs, and ‘Moors’: Representations of Muslims and Islam in Scottish Culture, ed. Manfred Malzahn & Silke Stroh, v–x. (co-written with Manfred Malzahn)

“Ùpraid anns a' ghàrradh: Mì-mhodh, mion-chànain, agus feum air àite tèarainte” (‘Uproar in the Garden: Impoliteness, Minority Languages and the Need for Safe Space’), Clish, 3 August 2020; republ. on Progressive Gaelic, 5 September 2020.

“Preface,” in The Black Diaspora and Germany / Deutschland und die Schwarze Diaspora, ed. by BDG Network (S. Stroh et al.), Münster: Edition Assemblage 2018, 10-16 (co-written with other network members).

Conference report:  “‘Empires and Revolutions: R. B. Cunninghame Graham and other Scottish Writers on Globalisation and Democracy, c. 1850–1950’, Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS), Stirling, 3–5 July 2015.” In: Scottish Studies Newsletter 46 (2016), 95–97.

Endorsement of Michael Newton's Seanchaidh na Coille: The Memory-Keeper of the Forest. Anthology of Scottish-Gaelic Literature of Canada (Sydney, N.S.: Cape Breton University Press 2015) as one of the “Best Scottish Books of 2015.” In: The Bottle Imp 18 (2015).

“Celticity and the Gaelic Voice in (Post)Dolonial Discourse,” on homepage of seminar 31 of the 2010 conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE; Torino, Italy, 24–28 August; seminar title: “Dis/placing the British Empire: Theoretical and Critical Views from Scottish Studies”), School of English & Scottish Language & Literature (SESLL), University of Glasgow, Homepage: www.gla.ac.uk/departments/sesll/ seminarsandconferences/esse2010seminar31/papersandabstracts/#d.en.150544; direct URL: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_165657_en.pdf (publ. July 2010).

“Auswahlbibliografie“ (select bibliography for further reading on the journal issue’s topic), in Transcultural Identities: Britain, issue no. 95 of Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch (‘Teaching English as a Foreign Language’), ed. S. Stroh & Britta Freitag, 2008, 7 (with Britta Freitag).

Abstract of PhD dissertation “(Post)Colonial Scotland? Literature, Gaelicness and the Nation,” Acolit 58 (July 2006), 68–72.

“Die Bildungsstandards und ihre Umsetzung in den 16 Bundesländern: Der Stand der Dinge” (‘The new national educational standards and their implementation in the 16 federal states of Germany: The current situation’), Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch 81 (3 / 2006), special issue: Bildungsstandards, ed. Wolfgang Hallet & Andreas Müller–Hartmann, 10 f.

139 entries in Postcolonial Theory: The Emergence of a Critical Discourse. A Selected and Annotated Bibliography, main ed. Dieter Riemenschneider, preface Homi K. Bhabha, Tübingen: Stauffenburg 2004; repr. Jaipur & New Delhi: Rawat 2006.

Conference report: “Global Fragments: Dis-Orientation in the New World Order (Magdeburg),” The European English Messenger 12.2 (2003), 76–78.

Conference report: “The Cultural Politics of English as a World Language (Freiburg),” The European English Messenger 10.2 (2001), 75–77.

Conference report: “Shakespeare: Vom Globe zur Globalisierung (Bremen)” (‘Shakespeare: From the Globe to globalisation’), Acolit 48 (June 2001), 9 f.

Abstract of M.A. thesis “Affirmation und Kritik des Imperialismus in ausgewählten Schriften Joseph Conrads” (‘The apology and critique of imperialism in selected writings by Joseph Conrad’), Acolit 47 (December 2000), 22 f.

Conference report: “Towards a Transcultural Future (Aachen),” Acolit 46 (June 2000), 10–12.

Conference report: “Colonies, Missions, Cultures in the English-Speaking World (Tübingen),” Anglistik 10.2 (1999), 195–199.

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