Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
"A Contest Between Words and Deeds": Karl Kraus and Hannah Arendt on Proto-Totalitarian "Wahrlügen" in, editor(s)Gal Hertz , Ron Mieczkowski und Ari Linden , Karl Kraus 1933: Citing Violence, Inciting Critique, Boston/Berlin, de Gruyter, 2025, [Björn Quiring]
Björn Quiring, Out-paganing the Pagans: "Paradise Lost" as Christian Theogony, Milton Quarterly, 58, (1-2), 2024
Björn Quiring, Rhetoriken der Aneignung in William Wordsworths "Prelude", Internationales Jahrbuch für Rhetorik, 42, (1), 2023, p99 - 115
"Under Their Head Embodied All in One": The Representational Production of Cosmic Order in Milton's "Paradise Lost" in, editor(s)Michael Waltenberger and Frieder von Ammon , Mikrokosmen. Ästhetische Formen und diskursive Figurationen einer Repräsentativität des Partikularen , Berlin , Peter Lang , 2022, [Björn Quiring ]
Curse in, editor(s)Lowell Gallagher, James Kearney, and Julia Reinhard Lupton , Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare, Philosophy and Performance , Toronto, University of Toronto Press , 2021, pp86 - 101, [Björn Quiring]
Björn Quiring , Trials of Nature: The Infinite Law Court of Milton's "Paradise Lost", 1st Edition, London/New York, Routledge, 2021, 394pp
Björn Quiring , Interpreting Hamlet's Pregnant Silences: Nietzsche and Benjamin, Poetica: Zeitschrift für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft , 52, (3-4), 2021, p315 - 333
Andreas Höfele, Christoph Levin, Reinhard Müller and Björn Quiring, Formations of the Formless: Chaos from the Ancient World to Early Modernity , 1st Edition , Berlin/Boston, Walter de Gruyter , 2021, 244 pp
The Tartarean Jurisdiction of Chaos in Milton's "Paradise Lost" in, editor(s)Andreas Höfele, Christoph Levin, Reinhard Müller and Björn Quiring , Formations of the Formless: Chaos from the Ancient World to Early Modernity , Berlin/Boston, Walter de Gruyter , 2021, pp201 - 218, [Björn Quiring]
Lost in Paradise: Miltons Eva in, editor(s)Andreas Höfele, Beate Kellner , Natur Geschlecht Politik: Denkmuster und Repräsentationsformen vom Alten Testament bis ins 18. Jahrhundert , Paderborn, Wilhelm Fink - Brill , 2020, pp175 - 198, [Björn Quiring ]
"God and not we hath safely fought today": Theologisch-politische Undarstellbarkeiten in Shakespeares Kriegstheater in, Michael Auer, Claude Haas , Kriegstheater: Darstellungen von Krieg, Kampf und Schlacht in Drama und Theater seit der Antike, Stuttgart , Metzler/Springer Nature , 2018, pp49 - 64, [Björn Quiring ]
Fluch in, editor(s)Daniel Weidner , Handbuch Literatur und Religion, Stuttgart , Metzler, 2016, pp363 - 367, [Björn Quiring]
Milton's God and Hobbes' Leviathan: Elective Affinities in, editor(s)Kay Jankrift, Alexander Kagerer, Christian Kaiser and María Ángeles Martín Romera , Natur und Herrschaft: Analysen zur Physik der Macht, Berlin and New York, de Gruyter, 2016, pp273 - 284, [Björn Quiring]
"Look on the Tragic Loading of this Bed": Performing Community and its Other in Shakespeare's "Othello" in, editor(s)Björn Quiring , "If Then the World a Theatre Present...": Revisions of the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor in Early Modern England, Berlin and New York , de Gruyter , 2014, [Björn Quiring ]
Björn Quiring , Shakespeare's Curse , 1 , London/New York , Routledge , 2014, 280 pp
Björn Quiring , Joseph S. Jenkins, "Inheritance Law and Political Theology in Shakespeare and Milton: Election and Grace as Constitutional in Early Modern Literature and Beyond", Review of "Inheritance Law and Political Theology in Shakespeare and Milton: Election and Grace as Constitutional in Early Modern Literature and Beyond", by Joseph S. Jenkins , Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik , 2014, p153 - 163
Björn Quiring , Pain and Memory in Benjamin's Mourning Play, Benjamin-Studien , 3, 2014, p153 - 163
Björn Quiring (Ed.) , "If Then the World a Theatre Present...": Revisions of the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor in Early Modern England , Berlin/Boston , de Gruyter, 2014, 246pp
"Men should be that they seem": Antitheatralität in Shakespeares "Othello" in, editor(s)Gabriele Brandstetter, Stefanie Diekmann and Christopher Wild , Theaterfeindlichkeit, Paderborn and Munich , Wilhelm Fink , 2011, [Björn Quiring]
"A Fiction That We Must Inhabit": Sense Production in Urban Spaces According to Alan Moore's and Eddie Campbell's "From Hell" in, Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence, London and New York , Continuum , 2010, [Björn Quiring]
Björn Quiring , Dieter Groh, Die Ausrufung der Naturgesetze in John Miltons "Paradise Lost", Poetica: Zeitschrift für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft , 2010
Björn Quiring , Shakespeares Fluch: Die Aporien ritueller Exklusion im Königsdrama der englischen Renaissance , Paderborn and Munich, Wilhelm Fink, 2009
Björn Quiring , Dieter Groh, "Mark the high noises": "King Lear" und der natürliche Grund des Donners, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 144, 2008
Lost in Proto-Performance: Tod Browning's "West of Zanzibar" and the Last Stand of the Primal Father in, The Cinema of Tod Browning, Jefferson (NC) , McFarland , 2008, [Björn Quiring]
Kästchenwahl: Die Performanz der Latenz in Shakespeares "Merchant of Venice" in, editor(s)Stefanie Diekmann and Thomas Khurana , Latenz: 30 Annäherungen an einen Begriff, Berlin , Kadmos , 2007, [Björn Quiring ]
Björn Quiring , A Consuming Dish: Supplementing Raffield, Law & Literature, 17, (4), 2005
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Björn Quiring , The Mystery of Twofold Justice in Wordsworth's "Prelude", Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas (online), 31 March, 2023 , 2023
Björn Quiring , The Ecstasy of Eternal Administration: The Conflation of Divine Judgment and Eternal Bliss in "Paradise Lost" and the "Doctrina Christiana", International Milton Symposium 13, University of Toronto , 10 July, 2023 , 2023
Björn Quiring , William Wordsworth's "Prelude" and the Dialectics of Property, Center for Arts and Humanities, American University of Beirut, Lebanon , October 27, 2022 , 2022
Björn Quiring , Shylock or Timon? The Immanent Critique of Karl Kraus and Shakespeare's Theatre of Judgement, The Frankfurt School and Shakespeare, Kingston Shakespeare Seminar at Garrick's Temple, Kingston University, London [Online], June 25, 2022 , 2022
A Hall of Sound Mirrors/Schallspiegelkabinett in, editor(s)Elín Hansdóttir and Anne Kockelkorn , Long Place (Exhibition Catalogue) , Berlin , Distanz, 2021, pp75 - 81, [Björn Quiring ]
Björn Quiring , Hamlet's Pregnant Silence: Nietzsche and Benjamin, Walter Benjamin and Shakespeare, Kingston Shakespeare Seminar at Garrick's Temple, Kingston University, London, April 4, 2019 , 2019
Björn Quiring , Before the Law? The Tribunal of Nature in Milton's "Paradise Lost", Talma Yzraely Memorial Lecture, Department of English and American Studies, Tel Aviv University, April 11, 2018, 2018
Björn Quiring, Hamlet's Pregnant Silence, Walter Benjamin and Shakespeare, Warburg Institute London, November 29, 2018, 2018
Björn Quiring , "Crack Nature's Moulds!": The Convergence of First and Last Judgment in "King Lear", Conference: First Philosophy, Last Judgments: The Lear Real , Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, April 28, 2017 , 2017
Björn Quiring , "And a Million Million Slimy Things Lived On, and So Did I": Samuel T. Coleridges "Ancient Mariner" mit Kant und Sade, Colloquium: Texte. Zeichen. Medien , University of Erfurt, June 7, 2017 , 2017
Björn Quiring , "All Things with Double Terror": Nature as First and Last Judgment in Milton's "Paradise Lost", Renaissance Colloquium and Center for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies , Princeton University , November 10, 2016, 2016
Björn Quiring, "All Things with Double Terror": Nature as First and Last Judgment in Milton's "Paradise Lost", Department of Comparative Literature, Cornell University, Ithaca, November 3, 2016, 2016
Björn Quiring, "King Lear" and the Curse of Nature, University of California, Irvine, School of Humanities, March 18, 2014, 2014
"The Traditional Accent of the Ecstasy of Catastrophe": Dublin als Katastrophengebiet in Joyces "Ulysses" in, Unfälle der Sprache: Literarische und philologische Erkundungen der Katastrophe, Vienna and Berlin , Turia und Kant , 2014, [Björn Quiring ]
Björn Quiring , "The Law I Gave to Nature": Aporetic Proclamations of Natural Law in "Paradise Lost", Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, New York , March 29, 2014, 2014
Björn Quiring , Nature as First and Last Judgment: Remarks on the Early History of an Absolute Metaphor, : Yale University, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, April 3, 2014, 2014
Introduction in, editor(s)Björn Quiring , "If Then the World a Theatre Present...": Revisions of the Theatrum Mundi Metaphor in Early Modern England, Berlin and New York, de Gruyter, 2014, [Björn Quiring]
Unlesbarkeit (Poes The Man of the Crowd) in, Denkfiguren. Für Anselm Haverkamp/Figures of Thought. For Anselm Haverkamp , Berlin , August Verlag , 2013, [Björn Quiring ]
Armen Avanessian and Björn Quiring (Eds.) , Abyssus Intellectualis: Spekulativer Horror, Berlin , Merve , 2013, 296 pp
Björn Quiring , Dieter Groh, "Göttliche Weltökonomie: Perspektiven der Wissenschaftlichen Revolution vom 15. bis zum 17. Jahrhundert", Review of Göttliche Weltökonomie: Perspektiven der Wissenschaftlichen Revolution vom 15. bis zum 17. Jahrhundert, by Dieter Groh , Arbitrium, Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Literaturwissenschaft , 2013
Björn Quiring , The Production of Theatrical and Extra-theatrical Evidence in Shakespeare's "Othello", Conference: Stages of Knowledge, Spaces of Faith: Allegory, New Science and Baroque Theater, Tel Aviv University and Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, February 19, 2013 , 2013
Björn Quiring (Ed.) , Theatrum Mundi: Die Metapher des Welttheaters von Shakespeare bis Beckett , Berlin , August Verlag , 2013, 224pp
Björn Quiring , Shakespeares Fluch und die Souveränität des Theaters, Workshop: Ästhetische Souveränität , Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, November 6, 2013, 2013
Einführung in, editor(s)Björn Quiring , Theatrum Mundi: Die Metapher des Welttheaters von Shakespeare bis Beckett, Berlin, August Verlag, 2013, [Björn Quiring]
Zur Einführung in, editor(s)Armen Avanessian and Björn Quiring , Abyssus Intellectualis: Spekulativer Horror, Berlin, Merve, 2013, [Armen Avanessian and Björn Quiring]
Judging the New Bloomusalem: Persistent Apocalyptic Remnants in Joyce's "Ulysses" in, editor(s)Katrin Röder and Ilse Wischer , Anglistentag 2012 Potsdam: Proceedings , Trier , WVT , 2013, [Björn Quiring ]
Björn Quiring , "At the Time of the Catastrophe, Important Legal Debates Were in Progress": Recht, Ökonomie und Katastrophe in Joyces "Ulysses", Conference: Kata/strophe: Ereignis, Figur und Wissensstruktur, Universität Potsdam, May 25, 2012 , 2012
Björn Quiring , Gravitationsgesetz und Sündenfall in Miltons "Paradise Lost", Workshop: Just in Case: Poetiken des Falls , Bauhaus-Universität, Weimar, June 23, 2012 , 2012
Björn Quiring , "The Greatest Share of Endless Pain": Sakrament und Schmerz in Miltons "Paradise Lost", Workshop: Grenzen der Profanierung, Förderkolleg der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich, July 7, 2011 , 2011
The Foundational Sounds of Vitruvius in, editor(s)Brandon LaBelle und Cláudia Martinho , Site of Sound # 2: Of Architecture and the Ear, Berlin, Errant Bodies , 2011, [Björn Quiring ]
Björn Quiring , "With Real Hunger To Transubstantiate": Die Dispersion der Eucharistie in John Miltons "Paradise Lost", Mitteilungen des Sonderforschungsbereichs 573, "Pluralisierung und Autorität in der Frühen Neuzeit", (1), 2011
Björn Quiring , "They Smile At Me Who Shortly Shall Be Dead": Der prophetische Entzug der Gegenwart in Shakespeares York-Tetralogie, Workshop: Prophetie - Poetik - Politik , Förderkolleg der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich, July 28, , 2011
Die unsicheren Grenzübergänge der Philologien in, editor(s)Johanna-Charlotte Horst et al. , Unbedingte Universitäten: Was passiert? Stellungnahme zur Lage der Universität, Zurich , Diaphanes , 2010, [Björn Quiring ]
Björn Quiring , "Dowered with Our Curse and Strangered with Our Oath": "King Lear" and the Naturalized State of Exception, Ports and Piers and Roads " Self and World in Early Modern Culture , Universidade de Porto , April 24, 2010, 2010
Björn Quiring , Der Fluch " ein Ausnahmefall der Sprechakttheorie?, 5. Workshop des Instituts für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, February 12, 2010, 2010
Björn Quiring, Die Ausrufung der Naturgesetze in John Miltons "Paradise Lost", Workshop: Studientag Literatur und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, June 13, 2009, 2009
Björn Quiring , König Lear und die Naturalisierung des Ausnahmezustands, Autumn Conference of the German Shakespeare Society , Cologne, November 28, 2009, 2009
"With Real Hunger To Transubstantiate": Die Dispersion der Eucharistie in John Miltons "Paradise Lost", Workshop: Sakramentale Repräsentation , Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin, January 31, 2009 , 2009
Björn Quiring , "I remember thine eyes well enough": The Eclipse of Anagnorisis in "King Lear", Conference: Wrong Again, Tragedy's Comedy, DFG Research Colloquium "Representation"Rhetoric"Knowledge" , Universität Potsdam, June 30, 2006 , 2006
The Aporias of Theologico-Judical Exclusion and Shakespeare's "Richard III", Björn Quiring , Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America , San Francisco , March 23, 2006, 2006
Zippy the Pinhead: Ein Superheld der Avantgarde? in, editor(s)Stefanie Diekmann and Matthias Schneider , Szenarien des Comic: Helden und Historien im Medium der Schriftbildlichkeit, Berlin , Sukultur , 2005, [Björn Quiring ]
Björn Quiring, Legal Levitations, Law, Satire, Incapacity, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, February 13, 2005, 2005
Die Repräsentation von devianten und normativen Körpern in Tod Brownings Film "Freaks" in, editor(s)Matthias Rothe and Hartmut Schröder , Körpertabus und Umgehungsstrategien, Berlin , Weidler , 2005, [Björn Quiring ]
Recognition
Representations
Peer reviewer for Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, University of Michigan Press
Awards and Honours
Guest Researcher at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL), Berlin
Memberships
Gesellschaft für Englische Romantik (Society for English Romanticism)