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Monograhps<\/h5>\n

\"transformingbodies\"<\/a><\/em> Transforming Bodies: Makeovers and Monstrosities in American Culture<\/a><\/em>. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Review: <\/strong>Judy Verseghy, “Book Review: Transforming Bodies: Makeovers and Monstrosities in American Culture<\/em>.<\/a> Steinhoff, Heike (2015)”. Health Tomorrow <\/em>3 (2015): 145-146.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"11100-5Steinhoff.indd\"<\/a><\/em>Queer Buccaneers: (De)Constructing Boundaries in the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN Film Series<\/a><\/em>. M\u00fcnster: LIT, 2011.
Press:<\/strong> “Kulturelle Bedeutungstr\u00e4ger: Studie zum ‘Fluch der Karibik’\u201c. [Cultural Carriers of Meaning: Study of Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em>]. WDR 3. Resonanzen: Die Welt aus dem Blickwinkel der Kultur. Radio interview.
Review:<\/strong> Ganser, Alexandra. “Grenz\u00fcberschreitungen 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<\/em>, Oct. 2012<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Edited Volumes<\/h5>\n

\"\"<\/a>Hipster Culture: Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives<\/em>. Bloomsbury, 2021.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Epidemics and Othering: The Biopolitics of COVID-19 in Historical and Cultural Perspectives. transcript, 2023.<\/p>\n

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Steinhoff, H., and C. W\u00e4chter, eds. Urban Masculinities: Representations, Practices, Performances<\/em>, special issue, <\/a>Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Vol. 13, issue 1, 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

Steinhoff, H. and M. Sulimma, eds. Gentrification Screens: Narratives of Displacement on TV<\/em>, special issue, Critical Studies in Television, <\/em>forthcoming 2027.<\/p>\n

Articles<\/h5>\n

Steinhoff, H. \u201cThe Ambiguous Dis\/Orientations of Less: Minimalism as Oppositional Lifestyle, Self-Help and Complicity (Critique),\u201d Complicity: Enfoldings and Unfoldings<\/em> (DFG Network). Ed. Cornelia W\u00e4chter and Ivan Stacy, forthcoming.<\/p>\n

Steinhoff, H. \u201c(Dis)Enfreakment and the Body Politics of Popular Feminism\u201d. Enfreakment in (Transnational) North American Culture<\/em>. Eds. Katja Kanzler, et. al., forthcoming.<\/p>\n

Steinhoff, H., \u201cFlipping Houses on American Reality TV: Gentrification, Self-Entrepreneurship, and the (Un)Making of Homes.\u201d Gentrification Screens: Narratives of Displacement on TV<\/em>, special issue Critical Studies in Television<\/em>, Eds. M. Sulimma and H. Steinhoff, forthcoming.<\/p>\n

Steinhoff, H., and K. G\u00f6thling-Zimpel. \u201cReligious Studies and Cultural Studies Perspectives on Transgressive Bodies,\u201d Transgressive Bodies. <\/em>Grenz\u00fcberschreitende K\u00f6rper und soziale Ordnungen<\/em>, Ed. Kristina G\u00f6thling-Zimpel and Claudia Jahnel, Nomos, forthcoming.<\/p>\n

Steinhoff, H. \u201cNoir Masculinities and Seductive Femininities in the City of Angels: Space, Gender, and Cinema in Nicolas Winding Refn\u2019s L.A. Movies,\u201d ReFocus: The Films of Nicolas Winding Refn<\/em>. Ed. Eddie Falvey, Tom Watson, and Kate Moffat. Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming.<\/p>\n

Steinhoff, H. and C. W\u00e4chter, “Urban Masculinities: Representations, Practices<\/a>
and Performances. Editorial.” Urban Masculinities: Representations, Practices, Performances<\/em>, special issue, Journal of Urban Cultural Studies<\/em>, Eds. H. Steinhoff and C. W\u00e4chter, 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.<\/p>\n

Steinhoff, H. “Beyond Hashtags: Popular Feminisms, Body Positivity and Self-Help Books.” U.S. American Culture as Popular Culture<\/em>. Ed. Astrid B\u00f6ger and Florian Sedlmeier. Universitaetsverlag Winter, 2022.<\/p>\n

Steinhoff, H. “Noir Masculinities and Seductive Femininities in the City of Angels: Space, Gender, and Cinema in Nicolas Winding Refn\u2019s L.A. Movies”. ReFocus: The Films of Nicolas Winding Refn<\/em>. Ed. Tom Watson and Eddie Falvey. Edinburgh University Press, accepted<\/em> \/ forthcoming<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Steinhoff, H. “Hipster Culture: A Definition”. Hipster Culture: Transnational and International Perspectives<\/em>. Ed. Heike Steinhoff. Bloomsbury, 2021.<\/p>\n

Steinhoff, H. \u201cOf Ladies, Fruit Girls and Brothel Madams: Womanhood and Female Sexuality in American City Mysteries Novels\u201d. Ed. Daniel Stein and Lisanna Wiele. Popular Culture \u2013 Serial Culture: Nineteenth-Century Serial Fictions in Transnational <\/em>Perspective, 1830s-1860s<\/em>. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.<\/p>\n

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

Steinhoff, H. “Piraten im Hollywoodkino: Genre, Gender und Sexualit\u00e4t in Pirates of the Caribbean I-IV<\/em>“. [Pirates in Hollywood Cinema: Genre, Gender and Sexuality in Pirates of the Caribbean I-IV”<\/em>]. Popul\u00e4re Piraten: Vermessung eines Feldes<\/em><\/a>. Ed. Irmtraud Hnilica und Marcel Lepper. Berlin: Kadmos Kultuverlag, 2017.<\/p>\n

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

Steinhoff, H. \u201cGender, Sexuality, Nationality, and the Pirate as Mobile Signifier in Captain Blood<\/em>, Anne of the Indies<\/em>, Cutthroat Island<\/em> and Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em>\u201d. Pirates, Drifters, Fugitives: Figures of Mobility in American Culture and Beyond<\/em><\/a>. <\/em>Ed. Ganser, Alexandra, Heike Paul and Katharina Gerund. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012.<\/p>\n

Steinhoff, H., and V. Siebert. “The Female Body Revamped: Beauty, Monstrosity and Body Transformation in the Twilight<\/i> Saga.”<\/a> Kultur und Geschlecht <\/i> 8 (2011).<\/p>\n

Steinhoff, H. \u2018Monstrous Makeovers: Self-Transformation, Gender Trouble and Bodily Resistance in Chuck Palahniuk\u2019s Invisible Monsters\u2018<\/i>. El cuerpo del significante. La literatura contempor\u00e1nea desde las teor\u00edas corporales<\/em><\/a>. Eds. Falcon\u00ed, Diego and Noem\u00ed Acedo. 2011.<\/p>\n

Steinhoff, H. “‘Yo-ho, A Pirate’s Life For Me’ \u2013 Queer Positionalities, Heteronormativity and Piracy in Pirates of the Caribbean<\/i>“<\/a> in Copas<\/i> Vol. 8 (2007).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Reviews:<\/h5>\n

Steinhoff, H. Rezension: Fletchall, A., Lukinbeal, C., McHugh, K. Place, Television, and the Real Orange County<\/em>.<\/a> rezensionen:kommunikation:medien<\/em>. 2013. [Invitation]<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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