Publications

Monographs

• Philipp Kneis.
  (S)aged by Culture.
  Representations of Old Age in American Indian Literature and Culture.
  Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2013. 298 p.

  
  
  


• Philipp Kneis.
  The Emancipation of the Soul.
  Memes of Destiny in American Mythological Television.
  Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2010. 153 p.
  

Edited Volumes

• Antje Dallmann, Reinhard Isensee, Philipp Kneis (Eds.)
  Envisioning American Utopias.
  Fictions of Science and Politics in Literature and Visual Culture.
  Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2011. 239 p.

  
  
  


• Antje Dallmann, Reinhard Isensee, Philipp Kneis (Eds.)
  Picturing America.
  Trauma, Realism, Politics and Identity in American Visual Culture.
  Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2007. 204 p.
  

Book Chapters & Articles

In preparation

• "Administering Old Age. The Co-Production of Aging Between Humanistic Gerontology and Public Administration."
  With Keith Baker and Carolyn Mendez-Luck
  (planned for 2024)

2019

• "Rural Policy and the Cultural Construction of the Urban/Rural Divide in the United States."
  In: Vittuari, Matteo; Marco Pagani; John Devlin, eds.
  The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Rural Policy. London: Routledge, 2019. 223-233.

• "Aging in Rural Areas." With Keith Baker.
  In: Vittuari, Matteo; Marco Pagani; John Devlin, eds.
  The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Rural Policy. London: Routledge, 2019. 203-211.

2016

• "Old Age and Disability"; with Antje Dallmann
  In: Boesenberg, Eva, Antje Dallmann, Marin Klepper, eds."
  Approaches to American Cultural Studies.
  London: Routledge, 2016.

• "Elders in Exile: Three American Indian Stories of Survivance."
  In: Offizier, Frederike, Marc Priewe, Ariane Schröder, eds.
  Crossroads in American Studies: Transnational and Biocultural Encounters.
  Heidelberg: Winter, 2016.

2014

• "Evolution."
  In: Steel, Brent, ed.
  Science and Politics: An A-to-Z Guide to Issues and Controversies.
  Washington, DC: CQ Press. 2014.

2011

• "Introduction: Utopia and America".
  in: Dallmann, Antje, Reinhard Isensee, Philipp Kneis, eds.
  Envisioning American Utopias. Fictions of Science and Politics in Literature and Visual Culture.
  Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2011. 7-17.

• "Finding Atlantis Instead of Utopia: From Plato to Starfleet and Stargate Command".
  in: Dallmann, Antje, Reinhard Isensee, Philipp Kneis, eds.
  Envisioning American Utopias. Fictions of Science and Politics in Literature and Visual Culture.
  Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2011. 79-102.

• "Barbarians at the Gate: (Ig)noble Savages and Manifest Destiny at the Final Frontier".
  in: Dallmann, Antje, Reinhard Isensee, Philipp Kneis, eds.
  Envisioning American Utopias. Fictions of Science and Politics in Literature and Visual Culture.
  Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2011. 103-128.

2007

• "'Normal Again': Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Psychotic Narration" (with Chris Flor).
  in: Dallmann, Antje, Reinhard Isensee, Philipp Kneis, eds.
  Picturing America. Trauma, Realism, Politics and Identity in American Visual Culture.
  Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2007. 65-77.

• "Communicating Democracy. Entering the American Republic
  Through The West Wing or the Commander in Chief".
  in: Dallmann, Antje, Reinhard Isensee, Philipp Kneis, eds.
  Picturing America. Trauma, Realism, Politics and Identity in American Visual Culture.
  Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2007. 131-149.

Conference Presentations Published Online (Not Refereed)

• "Finding Atlantis instead of Utopia: From Plato to Starfleet and Stargate Command?"
  Approaching Literary and Cultural Theory. 9th Annual Students and Graduate Conference.
  Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, November 11-13, 2010
  <> see also: complete version in Envisioning American Utopias

• "'Friends of Ours'. Strategies of Minority Self-Assertion and Self-Definition on The Sopranos"
  Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor? Immigration and Citizenship in the United States and the European Union.
  4th Transatlantic Students Symposium. Georgetown University, Washington D.C., March 4-12, 2006.

• "Narrating the Dinosaurs: Pushing the Public Understanding of Science"
  Capturing the... Truth? Changing Strategies in Documentary Cinema.
  Students Conference. Berlin, February 8-11, 2005.

• "'I Touch the Fire and it Freezes Me'. Soul-Searching on Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
  The Slayage Conference on BtVS. Nashville, May 28-30, 2004. Organizers: David Lavery, Roz Kaveney
  <> see also: complete version in The Emancipation of the Soul

• "The Wilderness Masters the Colonist. Nature, Culture, and the Truth Out There"
  Haunted Dreams. Nightmares in American Culture.
  2nd Annual Students and Graduate Conference. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 23-25, 2002.
  <> see also: complete version in The Emancipation of the Soul

• "The Gentleman's a Killer. Introducing Bond"
  Licence to Thrill. Reading James Bond as a Cultural Phenomenon.
  1st Annual Students and Graduate Conference. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, May 10-12, 2001.

• Erratic Attempts. Occasional Reflections on Culture and Politics
• Versuche über Politik. philkneis.com
• philjohn.com diary