Books (Co-Editor)

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. https://www.degruyter.com/serial/IGCS-B/html 

Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary. The Keywords Project. Ed. Colin MacCabe and Holly Yanacek. Oxford University Press, October 2018.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/keywords-for-today-9780190636579?cc=us&lang=en& 

Peer-Reviewed 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. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/917809 

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. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110753677-010/html

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. Eds. Erika Quinn and Holly Yanacek. Berlin: DeGruyter, November 2021. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110753677-001/html 

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

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. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/glal.12282 

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. http://mon.uwpress.org/content/112/1/20.short 

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. Eds. John B. Lyon and Brian Tucker. 31-47. Camden House, April 2019. https://boydellandbrewer.com/fontane-in-the-twenty-first-century.html 

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 in August 2015.

Short Keywords Essays Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals

Yanacek, Holly. “Intelligence.” Critical Quarterly, November 2023. Early view published online before inclusion in an issue. https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12756 

Yanacek, Holly. “Care.” Critical Quarterly 65, no. 3 (May 2023): 51–54. https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12727 

Peer-Reviewed Translations

Yanacek, Holly. I’m Your Man: A Love Song. English translation of Emma Braslavsky’s novella Ich bin dein Mensch: Ein Liebeslied (2019). Forthcoming in Summer 2024.

“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. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17561310.2015.1107314 

Manuscripts in Progress

Yanacek, Holly A. “Rethinking Feeling: On the Renegotiation of Emotions in German Novels at the Fin de Siècle” (book project)