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PUBLICATIONS

Co-Edited Volumes

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KEYWORDS FOR TODAY: A 21ST CENTURY VOCABULARY. THE KEYWORDS PROJECT. EDS. COLIN MACCABE AND HOLLY YANACEK

New York: Oxford University Press, 2018

Berlin: DeGruyter, November 2021

PUBLICATIONS

Recent Research and Articles

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Animal Kingdom
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Novel: A Forum on Fiction 54.1 (Spring 2021)

In Fontane in the Twenty-First Century, eds. John B. Lyon and Brian Tucker (Camden House, 2019)

Book Trailer: Animals, Machines, and AI: On Human and Non-Human Emotions in Modern German Cultural History (DeGruyter, 2021)

PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS

BOOKS (Co-edited)

Animals, Machines, and AI: On Human and Non-Human Emotions in Modern German Cultural History. Berlin: DeGruyter, November 2021.

Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary. The Keywords Project. Eds. Colin MacCabe and Holly Yanacek. Oxford University Press, October 2018.

​SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

Yanacek, Holly. "Love in the Time of Hubots: Imagining Posthuman Care and Intimacy in Emma Braslavsky's 'Ich bin dein Mensch: Ein Liebeslied' (2019)."Feminist German Studies 39.2 (Fall / Winter 2023): 98-124.

Quinn, Erika, and Holly Yanacek. “Introduction: Feeling beyond the Human.” In Animals, Machines, and AI: On Human and Non-Human Emotions in Modern German Cultural History. Berlin: DeGruyter, November 2021. (available in open access)

Yanacek, Holly. “Benevolent Bots: Human-Robot Friendship and Empathy in German Children's Literature.” In Animals, Machines, and AI: On Human and Non-Human Emotions in Modern German Cultural History. Eds. Erika Quinn and Holly Yanacek. Berlin: DeGruyter, November 2021.

Arac, Jonathan, and Holly Yanacek. “Keywords, Structures of Feeling, and the Novel.” First installment in “Virtual Archives” feature in Novel: A Forum on Fiction 54.1 (Spring 2021): 121-129.

 

Yanacek, Holly A. “Mobilising Disgust and Compassion: Elpis Melena's Gemma; oder,

Tugend und Laster (1877) and the Anti-Vivisection Movement.” German Life and Letters 73.4 (October 2020): 564-580.

Yanacek, Holly A. “Fighting Fascism through Theater: Defining a Socialist Humanist

Aesthetic in Willi Bredel's Die Enkel (1953).” Monatshefte 112.1 (Spring 2020): 20-37.

Yanacek, Holly A. “Nasty Women: Female Anger as Moral Judgment in Fontane’s Grete

Minde and Effi Briest.” In Fontane in the Twenty-First Century. Ed. John B. Lyon and Brian Tucker, 31-47. Camden House. April 2019. 

Yanacek, Holly A. “Investigating the Unexplained: Paranormal Belief and Perception in

Kleist’s ‘Die heilige Cäcilie’ and ‘Das Bettelweib von Locarno.’” Colloquia Germanica 45.2 (2012): 163-178. Published on August 19, 2015. 

REFEREED TRANSLATIONS

Yanacek, Holly A. “The Symbol.” English translation of Friedrich Theodor Vischer’s

philosophical treatise “Das Symbol”(1887). Art in Translation 7.4 (February 2016): 417-448. Published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Online.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17561310.2015.1107314

REFEREED WEB PUBLICATIONS

Yanacek, Holly. “Well-being.” Keywords Project. University of Pittsburgh, Jesus College,

University of Cambridge, and Critical Quarterly. July 2016. http://keywords.pitt.edu/

keywords_defined/well-being.html

Yanacek, Holly. “Empathy.” Keywords Project. University of Pittsburgh, Jesus College,

University of Cambridge, and Critical Quarterly. April 2014.

http://keywords.pitt.edu/keywords_defined/empathy.html 

Yanacek, Holly. “Emotion.” Keywords Project. University of Pittsburgh, Jesus College,

University of Cambridge, and Critical Quarterly. January 2014.

http://keywords.pitt.edu/keywords_defined/emotion.html

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION

Yanacek, Holly A. “Rethinking Feeling: On the Renegotiation of Emotion in German Novels at the Fin de Siecle. (monograph)

Yanacek, Holly. I'm Your Human: A Love Song. English translation of Emma Braslavsky's German novella "Ich bin dein Mensch: Ein Liebeslied" (2019).

Yanacek, Holly A. “Care, Emotion, and the Novel in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” (monograph)

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