Privatdozent Dr. phil. Ulf Schulenberg

Lehre

• der moderne und postmoderne amerikanische Roman
• die amerikanische und englische Romantik
• afro-amerikanische Literatur und Kultur
• Geschichte der American Studies
• Postcolonial Studies
• Cultural Studies

Forschung/Research

• Literatur- und Kulturtheorie
• die amerikanische kulturelle Linke
• der moderne und postmoderne amerikanische Roman
• die amerikanische und englische Romantik
• afro-amerikanische Literatur und Kultur
• die französische Literatur der Moderne

Publikationen/Publications

Monographien/Monographs

Zwischen Realismus und Avantgarde: Drei Paradigmen für die Aporien des Entweder-Oder. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000. 355 pp.

Lovers and Knowers: Moments of the American Cultural Left. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2007. 341 pp.

Romanticism and Pragmatism: Richard Rorty and the idea of a Poeticized Culture. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 251 pp.

Marxism, Pragmatism, and Postmetaphysics: From Finding to Making. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 244 pp.

Pragmatism and Poetic Agency: The Persistence of Humanism. New York: Routledge, 2021. 235 pp. 

Humanism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Literary Aesthetics: Pragmatist Stories of Progress. New York: Bloomsbury, 2023. 250 pp.

Marxismus, Pragmatismus und Postmetaphysik: Vom Finden zum Machen. Heidelberg: J.B. Metzler, 2024. (Forthcoming).

There Is a Light: 1980s Pop Music, Aestheticism, and Utopia. (Current book project).

Poetic Pragmatism: Richard Rorty, Literature, and Pragmatist Aesthetics. (Current book project).

Mitherausgeber/Coeditor

Gerhard Bach, Sabine Broeck, and Ulf Schulenberg (eds.). Americanization – Globalization – Education. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2003. 190 pp.

Marcel Hartwig and Ulf Schulenberg (eds.). American Rock Journalism; Special Issue of Rock Music Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1 (February 2017).

Aufsätze/Articles

 “Fredric Jameson’s American Neo-Marxism and the Dialectics of Totality and Difference.” Amerikastudien/American Studies Vol. 46, No. 2 (2001). 281-299.

„Auf der Suche nach den finsteren und fensterlosen Hauptquartieren: Adorno in der Postmoderne.“ Johannes Angermüller, Katharina Bunzmann und Martin Nonhoff (Hrsg.). Diskursanalyse: Theorien, Methoden, Anwendungen. Hamburg: Argument, 2001. 209-221.

“Narrating the Disappearance of Reality: From Textualized Spatiality to Glamorous Panfictionality in Postmodern American Fiction.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Vol. 50, No. 1 (2002). 32-54.

“Back to Class Politics?: Richard Rorty’s Remapping of the American Cultural Left.” Thomas Doerfler and Claudia Globisch (eds.). Postmodern Practices. Münster: LIT, 2002. 101-114.

“Gestures of Despair and Gestures of Hope: Remarks on Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Specters of Theory.” Gerhard Bach, Sabine Broeck, and Ulf Schulenberg (eds.). Americanization – Globalization – Education. Heidelberg: Winter, 2003. 1-33.

“Wanting Lovers Rather than Knowers: Richard Rorty’s Neopragmatism.” Amerikastudien/American Studies Vol. 48, No. 4 (2003). 577-608.

“From Liberal Consensus to Postmodern Alliance Politics: Mediation, the Openness of the Promesse, and the Return of Universalism.” Susanne Kollmann und Kathrin Schödel (Hrsg.). PostModerne De/Konstruktionen. Münster: LIT, 2004. 95-109.

“Humanistic Criticism, Prophetic Pragmatism, and the Question of Antifoundationalism: Remarks on Edward Said and Cornel West.” Günter H. Lenz, Gesa Mackenthun, and Holger Rossow (eds.). „Between Worlds“: The Legacy of Edward Said. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Vol. 52, No. 4 (2004). 379-393.

“Theorizing the Dialectic of Race and Class: Cornel West’s Prophetic Pragmatism as Radical Cultural Criticism.” Dirk Wiemann, Agata Stopinska, Anke Bartels, and Johannes Angermüller (eds.). Discourses of Violence – Violence of Discourses: Critical Interventions, Transgressive Readings, and Post-National Negotiations. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2005. 177-189.

“’Against Theory?’ Stanley Fishs Version des Neopragmatismus.” Christiane Solte-Gresser, Karen Struve und Natascha Ueckmann (Hrsg.). Von der Wirklichkeit zur Wissenschaft: Aktuelle Forschungsmethoden in den Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften. Münster: LIT, 2005. 307-325.

“Theorizing the Red Decade: Theodor W. Adorno, the American Cultural Left, and the Semi-Autonomy of the Aesthetic.” Ulla Haselstein and Berndt Ostendorf (eds.). Cultural Interactions: Fifty Years of American Studies in Germany. Heidelberg: Winter, 2005. 71-90.

“Rhetoric and Worldly Criticism.” Anglia – Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie Band 123, Heft 3 (2005). 454-464.

“’Strangle the singers who will not sing you loud and strong’: Emerson, Whitman, and the Idea of a Literary Culture.” Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik Vol. 31, No. 1 (2006). 39-61.

“Democratic Space and Poetic Agency: Emerson, Whitman, and the (Im)Possibility of Dissent.” Anke Bartels, Michael Schulze, and Agata Stopinska (eds.). Re/defining the Matrix: Reflections on Time – Space – Agency. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2006. 187-199.

“Books, Rocks, and Sentimental Education: Self-Culture and the Desire for the Really Real in Henry David Thoreau.” Amerikastudien/American Studies Vol. 51, No. 2 (2006). 167-191.

“From Redescription to Writing: Rorty, Barthes, and the Idea of a Literary Culture.” New Literary History Vol. 38., No. 2 (Spring 2007). 371-387.

“Transcultural Humanities: Between Globalization and Postcolonial Re-Readings of History. A Conference Report.” Put online June 10, 2007. URL: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/globalstudies/pdfs/Transcultural%20Humanities%20-%20Conference%20Report1.pdf (Website des Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Duke University). 20 pp.

“Reading the Transitory Signs and Disappearing Traces: Rorty, Adorno, and the Idea of a Literary Culture.” Christa Buschendorf and Astrid Franke (eds.). Transatlantic Negotiations. Heidelberg: Winter, 2007. 201-223.

“From Conceptual Revolutions to the Privacy of Mourning: Barthes, Proust, and the désir d’écrire.” Agata Stopinska, Anke Bartels, and Raj Kollmorgen (eds.). Revolutions: Reframed-Revisited-Revised. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007. 253-265.

“’Speaking Out of the Most Passionate Love’: James Baldwin and Pragmatism.” European Journal of American Studies, EJAS 2007-2. Put online Nov. 05, 2007. URL: http://ejas.revues.org/document1333.html. 22 pp.

“Sentimental Education, Morality, and All the Little Things.” Frank Kelleter and Daniel Stein (eds.) American Studies as Media Studies. Heidelberg: Winter, 2008. 239-248.

“’Becoming the Poets of Our Own Lives’: Pragmatism and Romanticism.” Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik Vol. 34, No. 2 (2009): 293-314.

“Bridging the Gap?: Postmodernism, Science, and the Two Cultures.” Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies Vol. 21, No. 1 (2010): 193-208.

“Empire, Theoretical Practice, and Postnational American Studies.” Elzbieta H. Oleksy and Wieslaw Oleksy (eds.). Transatlantic Encounters: Philosophy, Media, Politics. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2011. 211-232.

“'This morning I read as angels read': Self-Creation, Aesthetics, and the Crisis of Black Politics in W.E.B. Du Bois's Dark Princess.” Winfried Fluck, Katharina Motyl, Donald E. Pease, and Christoph Raetzsch (eds.). States of Emergency - States of Crisis. Tübingen: Narr, 2011. 167-190.

“New Frontiers: Richard Wright's Journey from Communism to Cosmopolitanism.” Heiner Böttger, Gabriele Gien und Thomas Pittrof (Hrsg). Aufbrüche. Eichstätt: Eichstätt Academic Press, 2011. 246-260.

“Pragmatismus und Romantik: Zu Richard Rortys antifundamentalistischer Geschichte des Fortschritts.” Matthias Buschmeier und Espen Hammer (Hrsg.). Pragmatismus und Hermeneutik: Beiträge zu Richard Rortys Kulturpolitik. Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 2011 (Themenheft der Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Kunstwissenschaft). 173-196.

“Poets, Partial Stories, and the Earth of Things: William James and the Worldliness of Pragmatism.” Susanne Rohr and Miriam Strube (eds.). Revisiting Pragmatism:William James in the New Millennium. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. 103-122.

“‘Soucie-toi de toi-même’: Zur Idee der Selbsterschaffung im amerikanisch-französischen Theoriedialog.” Johannes Angermüller, Jens Maeße und Jan Standke (Hrsg.). Moving (Con)Texts: Produktion und Verbreitung von Ideen in der globalen Wissensökonomie. Berlin: Logos, 2011. 159-174.

“Formalism and Structuralism.” Martin Middeke, Timo Müller, Christina Wald, and Hubert Zapf (eds). English and American Studies: Theory and Practice. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2012. 180-184.

“Hermeneutics and Critical Theory.” Martin Middeke, Timo Müller, Christina Wald, and Hubert Zapf (eds). English and American Studies: Theory and Practice. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2012. 185-189.

“Resuscitating Georg Lukács: Form, Metaphysics, and the Idea of a New Realism.” Culture, Theory and Critique Vol. 58, No. 1 (2017): 1-17. (Electronic version published in 2016).

“'Where the people can sing, the poet can live': James Baldwin, Pragmatism, and Cosmopolitan Humanism.” Susan McWilliams (ed.). A Political Companion to James Baldwin. Louisville: Kentucky UP, 2017. 270-300.

“Marxism, Pragmatism, and Narrative.” New Literary History Vol. 48, No. 1 (2017): 149-70.

“'Visions and Versions of America': Greil Marcus's Rock Journalism as Cultural Criticism.” Marcel Hartwig and Ulf Schulenberg (eds.). American Rock Journalism. Special Issue of Rock Music Studies Vol. 4, No. 1 (2017): 11-22.

“Introduction (with Marcel Hartwig).” Marcel Hartwig and Ulf Schulenberg (eds.). American Rock Journalism. Special Issue of Rock Music Studies Vol. 4, No. 1 (2017): 1-4.

“From Finding to Making: Jacques Rancière, Richard Rorty, and the Antifoundationalist Story of Progress.” Culture, Theory and Critique Vol. 58, No. 3 (2017): 275-93.

"150 Years of Pragmatism." Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences Vol. 4 (2018): 143-152.

"Statement." Pragmatism and Its History: Recent Interpretations. Moscow: Academic Project, 2018. 219-224. (In Russian translation).

"'The priest departs, the divine literatus comes': Walt Whitman and Pragmatism." Winfried Herget (ed.). Revisiting Walt Whitman: On the Occasion of His 200th Birthday. Berlin and New York: Peter Lang, 2019. 187-204.

"Zwischen Liberalismus und Marxismus: Rortys Pragmatismus im politischen Kontext." Veith Selk, Christoph Held und Torben Schwuchow (Hrsg)., Soziale Hoffnung, liberale Ironie: Zur Aktualität von Richard Rortys politischem Denken. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2021. 25-48.

"Nothing Will Ever Trump Poetry: Rorty's Humanism." Forma de Vida, No. 20, special issue "Rorty," ed. Elin Danielsen Huckerby and Pedro Ferrao. Put online in January 2021.

"William James, Romanticism, and the 'Humanistic Principle.'" Sarin Marchetti (ed.), The Jamesian Mind. Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2022. 365-374.

"Pragmatism, Humanism, and Form." European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 2022. (Forthcoming). 

Rezensionen/Book Reviews

“Aktualität und Pluralität des Marxismus” – Wolfgang Fritz Haug (Hrsg.). Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, Band 4: Fabel bis Gegenmacht. Z. Zeitschrift Marxistische Erneuerung 11. Jahrgang, Nr. 44 (2000). 187-193.

„Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen“ – Thomas Metscher et al. Mimesis und Ausdruck. Z. Zeitschrift Marxistische Erneuerung 12. Jahrgang, Nr. 47 (2001). 218-221.

Steven Helmling. The Success and Failure of Fredric Jameson: Writing, the Sublime, and the Dialectic of Critique. New York: SUNY Press, 2001. Amerikastudien/American Studies Vol. 47, No. 1 (2002). 180-183.

Richard Rorty. Philosophy and Social Hope. London and New York: Penguin, 1999. Amerikastudien/American Studies Vol. 47, No. 2 (2002). 311-313.

Steven Best and Douglas Kellner. The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium. New York: Guilford Press, 2001. Amerikastudien/American Studies Vol. 47, No. 3 (2002). 432-434.

Michael A. Peters. Poststructuralism, Marxism, and Neoliberalism: Between Theory and Politics. Lanham, MD, and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. Amerikastudien/American Studies Vol. 47, No. 3 (2002). 430-432.

Alan W. Brownlie. Thomas Pynchon’s Narratives: Subjectivity and Problems of Knowing. New York: Peter Lang, 2000. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Vol. 50, No. 2 (2002). 214-215.

Matthew Festenstein and Simon Thompson (eds). Richard Rorty: Critical Dialogues. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2001. Amerikastudien/American Studies Vol. 48, No. 2 (2003). 277-280.

Fredric Jameson. A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present. New York and London: Verso, 2002. Amerikastudien/ American Studies Vol. 48, No. 4 (2003). 627-630.

Gary A. Olson. Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric. New York: SUNY Press, 2002. Amerikastudien/American Studies Vol. 49, No. 1 (2004). 130-134.

Robert B. Westbrook. Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2005. Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik Band 32, Heft 1 (2007). 116-120.

Richard Rorty. Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers, Volume 4. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik Band 33, Heft 1 (2008). 144-149.

Eric Lott. The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual. New York: Basic Books, 2006. Amerikastudien/American Studies Vol. 53, No. 1 (2008). 120-123.

Francois Cusset. French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik Band 34, Heft 1 (2009). 182-186.

Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. Amerikastudien/American Studies Vol. 54, No. 1 (2009). 151-152.

Terry Eagleton. After Theory. New York: Penguin, 2004. Amerikastudien/American Studies Vol. 54, No. 2 (2009). 249-252.

Catherine Morley. The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction: John Updike, Philip Roth, and Don DeLillo. New York: Routledge, 2009. Anglia - Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie Vol. 128, No. 3 (2011). 547-550.

Monica L. Miller. Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diaspora. Durham: Duke UP, 2009. Amerikastudien/American Studies Vol. 56, No. 2 (2011). 166-169.

Friedrich Balke und Marc Rölli (Hrsg.). Gilles Deleuze: Philosophie und Nicht-Philosophie. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2011. Anglistik Vol. 23, No. 2 (2012). 211-213.

Sonja Altnöder, Ansgar Nünning and Wolfgang Hallet (Hrsg.). Schlüsselthemen der Anglistik und Amerikanistik: Key Topics in English and American Studies. Trier: WVT, 2010. Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 249.2 (2012). 386-388.

Kendahl Radcliffe, Jennifer Scott, and Anja Werner (eds.). Anywhere But Here: Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic World and Beyond. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015. Amerikastudien/American Studies Vol. 62, No. 4 (2017).

Elizabeth Anker and Rita Felski (eds.). Critique and Postcritique. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2017. Amerikastudien/American Studies Vol. 63, No. 1 (2018).

Robert Doran. The Ethics of Theory: Philosophy, History, Literature. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. Comparative Literature Studies Vol. 56, No. 4 (2019). 847-850.