Publications

Queer Buccaneers: (De)Constructing Boundaries in the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN Film Series. Münster: LIT, 2011.
Press: “Kulturelle Bedeutungsträger: Studie zum ‘Fluch der Karibik’“. [Cultural Carriers of Meaning: Study of Pirates of the Caribbean]. WDR 3. Resonanzen: Die Welt aus dem Blickwinkel der Kultur. Radio interview.
Review: Ganser, Alexandra. “Grenzüberschreitungen in den Pirates of the Caribbean. Heike Steinhoff, Queer Buccaneers: (De)Constructing Boundaries in the Pirates of the Caribbean Film Series.” Pop. Kultur und Kritik, Oct. 2012

Edited Volumes

Hipster Culture: Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives. Bloomsbury, 2021.

 

 

 

 

Epidemics and Othering: The Biopolitics of COVID-19 in Historical and Cultural Perspectives. transcript, 2023.

 

 

 

 

 

 Special Issues

Steinhoff, H., and C. Wächter, eds. Urban Masculinities: Representations, Practices, Performances, special issue, Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Vol. 13, issue 1, 2026.

Steinhoff, H. and M. Sulimma, eds. Gentrification Screens: Narratives of Displacement on TV, special issue, Critical Studies in Television, forthcoming 2027.

Articles

Steinhoff, H. “The Ambiguous Dis/Orientations of Less: Minimalism as Oppositional Lifestyle, Self-Help and Complicity (Critique),” Complicity: Enfoldings and Unfoldings (DFG Network). Ed. Cornelia Wächter and Ivan Stacy, forthcoming.

Steinhoff, H. “(Dis)Enfreakment and the Body Politics of Popular Feminism”. Enfreakment in (Transnational) North American Culture. Eds. Katja Kanzler, et. al., forthcoming.

Steinhoff, H., “Flipping Houses on American Reality TV: Gentrification, Self-Entrepreneurship, and the (Un)Making of Homes.” Gentrification Screens: Narratives of Displacement on TV, special issue Critical Studies in Television, Eds. M. Sulimma and H. Steinhoff, forthcoming.

Steinhoff, H., and K. Göthling-Zimpel. “Religious Studies and Cultural Studies Perspectives on Transgressive Bodies,” Transgressive Bodies. Grenzüberschreitende Körper und soziale Ordnungen, Ed. Kristina Göthling-Zimpel and Claudia Jahnel, Nomos, forthcoming.

Steinhoff, H. “Noir Masculinities and Seductive Femininities in the City of Angels: Space, Gender, and Cinema in Nicolas Winding Refn’s L.A. Movies,” ReFocus: The Films of Nicolas Winding Refn. Ed. Eddie Falvey, Tom Watson, and Kate Moffat. Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming.

Steinhoff, H. and C. Wächter, “Urban Masculinities: Representations, Practices
and Performances. Editorial.” Urban Masculinities: Representations, Practices, Performances, special issue, Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Eds. H. Steinhoff and C. Wächter, 2026.

Steinhoff, H. “Biopolitics, Othering, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Introduction.” Epidemics and Othering: The Biopolitics of COVID-19 in Historical and Cultural Perspectives, transcript, 2023.

Steinhoff, H. “Beyond Hashtags: Popular Feminisms, Body Positivity and Self-Help Books.” U.S. American Culture as Popular Culture. Ed. Astrid Böger and Florian Sedlmeier. Universitaetsverlag Winter, 2022.

Steinhoff, H. “Noir Masculinities and Seductive Femininities in the City of Angels: Space, Gender, and Cinema in Nicolas Winding Refn’s L.A. Movies”. ReFocus: The Films of Nicolas Winding Refn. Ed. Tom Watson and Eddie Falvey. Edinburgh University Press, accepted / forthcoming.

Steinhoff, H. “Hipster Culture: A Definition”. Hipster Culture: Transnational and International Perspectives. Ed. Heike Steinhoff. Bloomsbury, 2021.

Steinhoff, H. “Of Ladies, Fruit Girls and Brothel Madams: Womanhood and Female Sexuality in American City Mysteries Novels”. Ed. Daniel Stein and Lisanna Wiele. Popular Culture – Serial Culture: Nineteenth-Century Serial Fictions in Transnational Perspective, 1830s-1860s. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Steinhoff, H. “‘Let It Go’?: Re-Inventing the Disney Fairy Tale in Frozen“. Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between: Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children’s Entertainment Media. Ed. CarrieLynn D. Reinhard and Christopher J. Olson. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017.

Steinhoff, H. “Piraten im Hollywoodkino: Genre, Gender und Sexualität in Pirates of the Caribbean I-IV“. [Pirates in Hollywood Cinema: Genre, Gender and Sexuality in Pirates of the Caribbean I-IV”]. Populäre Piraten: Vermessung eines Feldes. Ed. Irmtraud Hnilica und Marcel Lepper. Berlin: Kadmos Kultuverlag, 2017.

Steinhoff, H. “Lonely Men in the City: Refn’s Drive and McQueen’s Shame“. Visions of Identity: Global Film and Media. Ed. Philipp Drummond. London: The London Symposium, 2016. 337-348.

Steinhoff, H. “Gender, Sexuality, Nationality, and the Pirate as Mobile Signifier in Captain Blood, Anne of the Indies, Cutthroat Island and Pirates of the Caribbean”. Pirates, Drifters, Fugitives: Figures of Mobility in American Culture and Beyond. Ed. Ganser, Alexandra, Heike Paul and Katharina Gerund. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012.

Steinhoff, H., and V. Siebert. “The Female Body Revamped: Beauty, Monstrosity and Body Transformation in the Twilight Saga.” Kultur und Geschlecht 8 (2011).

Steinhoff, H. ‘Monstrous Makeovers: Self-Transformation, Gender Trouble and Bodily Resistance in Chuck Palahniuk’s Invisible Monsters‘. El cuerpo del significante. La literatura contemporánea desde las teorías corporales. Eds. Falconí, Diego and Noemí Acedo. 2011.

Steinhoff, H. “‘Yo-ho, A Pirate’s Life For Me’ – Queer Positionalities, Heteronormativity and Piracy in Pirates of the Caribbean“ in Copas Vol. 8 (2007).