Monographs
Elizabeth Bishop's Hemisphere. (Dissertation) Los Angeles: Doheny Library Micrographics, 1993. 385 pp.
The Borderlands of Identity in Mexican American Literature. Forthcoming.
Edited Volumes
Das 20. Jahrhundert - Nachkriegszeit. Eichstätter Kolloquium, Band 6. Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet Verlag, 1998. 248 pp.
Negotiations of America's National Identity. (with Roland Hagenbüchle) 2 vols. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2000. 553+654 pp.
American Vistas and Beyond: A Festschrift for Roland Hagenbüchle. (with Marietta Messmer) Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002. 425 pp.
Klassische Menschenbilder. Eichstätter Kolloquium, Band 10. Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet Verlag, 2004. 216 S.
Die deutsche Präsenz in den USA/The German Presence in the U.S.A. (with Jan Wirrer) Münster: LIT Verlag, 2008.
Hybrid Americas: Contacts, Contrasts, and Confluences in New World Literatures and Cultures. (with Martin Butler) Tempe: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe and Münster: LIT Verlag, 2008.
E Pluribus Unum?: National and Transnational Identities in the Americas/Identidades nacionales y transnacionales en las Américas. (with Sebastian Thies) Tempe: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe and Münster: LIT Verlag, 2009.
ImagiNations: Documentaries and the Narration of Nation in the Americas/ImagiNaciones: El cine documental y la narración de la nación en las Américas. (with Sebastian Thies) Tempe: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe and Münster: LIT Verlag. Forthcoming 2009.
Latina/o Images for the 21st Century: Interethnic Relations and the Politics of Representation in the United States. (with Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez, Sebastian Thies and Gary D. Keller) Sondernummer der Zeitschrift Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingüe. Tempe: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, forthcoming 2009.
Edited Book Series
Inter-American Perspectives/Perspectivas Interamericanas. (with Sebastian Thies) Tempe: Bilingual Review Press and Münster: LIT Verlag, since 2008.
Essays and Articles
"Leftist Liberators: American Literary Criticism in the Thirties." Ilha do Desterro 23 (1); 1990: 43-73.
"'Where Everybody Knows Your Name': Types and Rituals in Cheers." Popular Culture Review 3 (2); Dec. 1991: 76-87.
"The Utopian Community of Northern Exposure." (with Jessica Johnston) Popular Culture Review 5 (2); August 1994: 73-85.
"The Political Dimension of Elizabeth Bishop." Selected Papers from the Bishop Symposium at Vassar College, Sept. 1994. Ed. Barbara Page. http://iberia.vassar.edu/bishop/Raab.html.
"Elizabeth Bishop's Autobiographical Silences." Semantics of Silences in Linguistics and Literature. Ed. Gudrun M. Grabher and Ulrike Jeßner. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1996. 291-308.
"Literatur als symbolisches Handeln: Das Beispiel Sandra Cisneros." Wozu Wissenschaft heute? Ed. Hans Hunfeld. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1997. 121-134.
"The Poetics of Life: Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell." Poetics in the Poem: Critical Essays on American Self-Reflexive Poetry. Ed. Dorothy Z. Baker. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. 195-219.
"Einleitung: Kontinuität und Neuanfang." Das 20. Jahrhundert - Nachkriegszeit. Ed. Josef Raab. Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet Verlag, 1998. 7-21.
"Pan-amerikanisches Ideal und US-amerikanische Vormacht. José Martís Sicht des 'vecino formidable'." Transatlantische Perzeptionen: Lateinamerika - USA - Europa in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Ed. Hans-Joachim König and Stefan Rinke. Stuttgart: Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, 1998. 139-160.
"The Metapoetic Element in Dickinson." The Emily Dickinson Handbook. Ed. Gudrun Grabher, Roland Hagenbüchle and Cristanne Miller. Amherst: The U of Massachusetts P, 1998. 273-295.
"Chicanos and Anglos: Mestizaje in Jovita González, Gloria Anzaldúa, and John Sayles." ZAA (Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik) 47 (4); Dez. 1999: 359-71.
"Preface." (with Roland Hagenbüchle) Negotiations of America's National Identity. Ed. Roland Hagenbüchle and Josef Raab. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2000. I: xii-xvi.
"Los Gringos: Latin American Literary Views of the United States." Negotiations of America's National Identity. Ed. Roland Hagenbüchle and Josef Raab. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2000. II: 538-70.
"Inszenierte Identitäten: Das Eigene und das Fremde in der Chicano Literatur." Erzählte Identitäten. Ed. Michael Neumann. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2000. 166-86.
"El gran viejo: Walt Whitman in Latin America." Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal. 3.2; June 2001. http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb01-2/raab01.html.
"Tony Kushner." (with Melissa Knox) American Writers. Supplement IX. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002. 131-49.
"Introduction." (with Marietta Messmer) American Vistas and Beyond: A Festschrift for Roland Hagenbüchle. Ed. Marietta Messmer and Josef Raab. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002. 1-10.
"De-/Constructing Screen Identities: Robert Altman's The Player." American Vistas and Beyond: A Festschrift for Roland Hagenbüchle. Ed. Marietta Messmer and Josef Raab. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002. 179-96.
"Deviance and Exclusion in Toni Morrison's Paradise." Millennial Perspectives: Lifeworlds and Utopias. Ed. Brigitte Georgi-Findlay and Hans-Ulrich Mohr. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2003. 211-225.
"The Changing Face of the U.S.A." ZiF Mitteilungen 2/2003 (April): 7-17. Reprint: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/ZIF/Publikationen/03-2-Raab.pdf.
"Symbiose, Hybridisierung und Entgrenzung in der zeitgenössischen mexikanisch-amerikanischen Kultur." Abgrenzen oder Entgrenzen: Zur Produktivität von Grenzen. Ed. Markus Bieswanger et al. Frankfurt and London: IKO - Verlag für interkulturelle Kommunikation, 2003. 171-195.
Science, Technology, and the Humanities in Recent American Fiction. Ed. Peter Freese and Charles B. Harris. Essen: Verlag Die Blaue Eule, 2003. 485-519.
Reprint in The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Recent American Fiction. Ed. Charles B. Harris and Peter Freese. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2004. 238-60.
"Mutual Constructions of a Usable Tradition: The Case of Jorge Luis Borges." in North Americanization of Latin America?: Culture, Gender, and Nation in the Americas. Ed. Hans-Joachim König and Stefan Rinke. Stuttgart: Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, 2004. 205-227.
"Einleitung: Annäherungen an den Begriff der 'Klassik'." in Klassische Menschenbilder. Ed. Josef Raab. Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet Verlag, 2004. 7-16.
"Homo americanus: Benjamin Franklins Selbstinszenierungen in Wort und Bild." in Klassische Menschenbilder. Ed. Josef Raab. Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet Verlag, 2004. 135-52.
"'It Ain't Me, Babe': Bob Dylans Selbstinszenierungen." in "Da habt Ihr es, das Argument der Straße": Kulturwissenschaftliche Studien zum politischen Lied. Ed. Martin Butler and Frank Erik Pointner. Trier: WVT, 2007. 167-83.
"Introduction" (with Jan Wirrer). Die deutsche Präsenz in den USA/The German Presence in the U.S.A. Ed. Josef Raab and Jan Wirrer. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2008. 13-24.
"'Ich bin ein Fremder - aber hier, unter Ihnen, habe ich es ganz vergessen': Mark Twain's Assessments of the 'Sivilized' German Other." Die deutsche Präsenz in den USA/The German Presence in the U.S.A. Ed. Josef Raab and Jan Wirrer. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2008. 381-96.
"The Imagined Inter-American Community of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton." Amerikastudien/American Studies 53.1 (2008): 77-95.
"Introduction: Cultural Hybridity in the Americas" (with Martin Butler). Hybrid Americas: Contacts, Contrasts, and Confluences in New World Literatures and Cultures. Ed. Josef Raab and Martin Butler. Tempe: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe and Münster: LIT Verlag, 2008. 1-18.
"E Pluribus Unum? - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on National and Transnational Identities in the Americas" (with Sebastian Thies). E Pluribus Unum?: National and Transnational Identities in the Americas/Identidades nacionales y transnacionales en las Américas. Ed. Sebastian Thies and Josef Raab. Tempe: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe and Münster: LIT Verlag, 2009. 1-23.
"Latinos and Otherness: The Films of Gregory Nava." E Pluribus Unum?: National and Transnational Identities in the Americas/Identidades nacionales y transnacionales en las Américas. Ed. Sebastian Thies and Josef Raab. Tempe: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe and Münster: LIT Verlag, 2009. 175-92.
"Hyphens, Hybridity, and Rotating Identities: A Conversation with Ilan Stavans." E Pluribus Unum?: National and Transnational Identities in the Americas/Identidades nacionales y transnacionales en las Américas. Ed. Sebastian Thies and Josef Raab. Tempe: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe and Münster: LIT Verlag, 2009. 391-401.
"Introduction" (with Sebastian Thies). ImagiNations: Documentaries and the Narration of Nation in the Americas/ImagiNaciones: Documentarios y la narración de la nación en las Américas. Ed. Sebastian Thies and Josef Raab. Tempe: Bilingual Review Press and Münster: LIT Verlag. Forthcoming 2009.
"The Politics of Documentation: Inter-American Dystopia and Utopia in Salt of the Earth (1954)." ImagiNations: Documentaries and the Narration of Nation in the Americas/ImagiNaciones: El cine documental y la narración de la nación en las Américas. Ed. Sebastian Thies and Josef Raab. Tempe: Bilingual Review Press and Münster: LIT Verlag. Forthcoming 2009.
Review of Scholarship
"'I wasn't meant for this': Diversification in Bishop Studies." [Susan McCabe, Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss; Marilyn May Lombardi, The Body and the Song: Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics; Gary Fountain and Peter Brazeau, Remembering Elizabeth Bishop: An Oral Biography] Elizabeth Bishop Bulletin 4 (1-2); 1995: 2-4.
Book Reviews
"Facing Texts: Encounters Between Contemporary Writers and Critics. ed. by Heide Ziegler." The International Fiction Review 16 (2); Summer 1989: 132-133.
"Emily Dickinson: Wagnis der Selbstbegegnung by Roland Hagenbüchle." American Literature 61 (4); Dec. 1989: 697-698.
"Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? ed. by Gustavo Pérez Firmat." American Literature 63 (3); Sept. 1991: 584-585.
"An Enabling Humility: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and the Uses of Tradition by Jeredith Merrin and Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry by Lorrie Goldensohn." American Literature 64 (4); Dec. 1992: 857-859.
"Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It by Brett C. Millier and Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Intimacy by Victoria Harrison." American Literature 67 (2); June 1995: 406-408.
"Die zeitgenössische Chicana-Literatur. Eine interkulturelle Untersuchung von Karin Ikas." Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 2003: 426-29.
"U.S. Latino Literatures and Cultures: Transnational Perspectives ed. by Francisco Lomelí and Karin Ikas." Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 2003: 430-32.
"Die Ordnung der Form im Chaos der Dinge: Die formale Lyrik von Elizabeth Bishop und Richard Wilbur by Carsten Albers." Amerikastudien/American Studies 52.4 (2007): 584-86.
"MexAmerica: Genealogien und Analysen postnationaler Diskurse in der kulturellen Produktion von Chicanos/as by Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez." Amerikastudien/American Studies
"Ethics of Literary Forms in Contemporary American Literature by Rüdiger Heinze." ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Translations
Homi K. Bhabha, "Die Frage der Identität," Verortungen der Kultur," "DissemiNation: Zeit, Narrative und die Ränder der modernen Nation." in Hybride Kulturen: Beiträge zur anglo-amerikanischen Multikulturalismusdebatte. Ed. Elisabeth Bronfen, Benjamin Marius, and Therese Steffen. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 1997. 97-194.
Encyclopedia Entries
"The Connection [by Jack Gelber]." Masterplots II: Drama Series. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1990. 391-396.
"The Connection [by Jack Gelber]," "Indians [by Arthur Kopit]," "Tiny Alice [by Edward Albee]." Cyclopedia of Literary Characters II. Ed. Frank N. Magill. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1990. 330-31, 759-60, 1572-73.
"George Bernard Shaw." Magill's Survey of World Literature. Ed. Frank N. Magill. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp., 1993. 1737-1748.
"Ralph Waldo Emerson," "Henry David Thoreau," "Transcendentalism." An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia. Ed. Jane Donahue Eberwein. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. 100-101, 287, 291-292.
"Long Day's Journey Into Night," "Tony Kushner," and "August Wilson." The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Oxford UP, 2003.
"Tony Kushner." in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Oxford UP, 2003.
"August Wilson." in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Oxford UP, 2003.
"Aztlán," "López, Yolanda," "La Llorona," "Valdez, Luis." in Encyclopedia Latina. Ed. Ilan Stavans. Danbury, CT: Grolier Academic Reference, 2005. I: 167-69, III: 26-28, III: 31-32, IV: 245-56.
"Lorna Dee Cervantes: Das lyrische Werk," "Rodolfo Gonzales: 'I Am Joaquín'," "Beth Henley: Crimes of the Heart," "Rolando Hinojosa: The Valley," "Tony Kushner: Angels in America," "José Antonio Villarreal: Pocho," "Wendy Wasserstein: The Heidi Chronicles." in Kindlers Literaturlexikon. Stuttgart: Verlag J.B. Metzler, forthcoming 2009.
Miscellaneous
"Bishop in the Western Hemisphere." The Elizabeth Bishop Bulletin 1 (2); Winter 1992: 3.
"Elizabeth Bishop's Hemisphere." Dissertation Abstracts International 54 (7); Jan. 1994: 2581.
"Elizabeth Bishop's Hemisphere." American Quarterly 46 (4); Dec. 1994: 647.
"American Literature and Culture I: Beginnings to 1800." Syllabus. Society of Early Americanists - Teaching Early American Topics - Syllabus Exchange. http://www.lehigh.edu/~ejg1/sylx/raab.html
"Die Zeitlosigkeit von Liebe, Verlust und Hoffnung: Vom Winde verweht als Klassiker der Weltliteratur." Audio-book notes. Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, 2008.
Creative Writing
"Jorge and Bernard" (short story). Brushstroke 5; 1992: 41-47.