Bureaucritics

Bibliography

A selection of publications by network members.

Becerra, Felipe. “Communities, Bureaucracy, and Office Technologies in Ulises Carrión’s Publishing Projects.” Ulises Carrión: Bookworks and Beyond. Princeton University Press, 2024, pp. 38-70.

Bishop, Nicola. Lower-Middle-Class Nation: The White-Collar Worker in British Popular Culture. Bloomsbury, 2021.

Bishop, Nicola. “Middlebrow ‘Everyman’ or Modernist Figurehead? Experiencing Modernity through the Eyes of the Humble Clerk.” Middlebrow and Gender, 1890-1945, Brill, 2016, pp. 99-120.

Bishop, Nicola. “The Office in Popular Culture, or the ‘Plight of the Clerk’.” Behind Office Doors: Use and Users in the History of Office Buildings. Leuven UP, 2026.

Dreier, Chris and Gary Farrelly. Self-Institution: A Terminology Audit. Set Margins, 2025.

Drier, Chris and Gary Farrelly. Auditing Intimacy. Fantôme Verlag, 2021.

Ferrer-Bartomeu, Jérémie. L’État à la lettre. Écrit politique et société administrative en France durant les guerres de religion (vers 1560 – vers 1620). Champ Vallon (Époques), 2022, 386 p.

Ferrer-Bartomeu, Jérémie. “La figure du ministre ou le troisième corps du roi. Contribution à l’histoire des représentations et des matérialités politiques (Europe, première modernité).” La Part de l’Œil, 39 (2025): 235-249.

Ferrer-Bartomeu, Jérémie. “Quand le pouvoir vint à l’écrit. Les bureaux des secrétaires d’État de Villeroy à Richelieu.” Genèses, 126.1 (2022): 11-33.

Foster, Jonathan. Irish Writers in the Civil Service. Liverpool UP, 2026.

Foster, Jonathan. Writing the State: Administrative Fiction in Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Britain. PhD Thesis, Stockholm University, 2025.

Foster, Jonathan. “Bureaucratic Sensibility: Bleak House as a Layperson’s Guidebook to Officialdom.” Dickens Quarterly 39.1 (2022): 24-41.

Foster, Jonathan. “The Literariness of Red Tape: Civil Service Periodical Fiction in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain.” Administory 8 (2025): 159-174.

Foster, Jonathan. “Maladministration: Dickens, Decadence and the Higher Civil Service.” Dickens and Decadence. Edinburgh UP, 2025, pp. 71-91.

Foster, Jonathan, and Elliott Mills. “Bureaucratic Poetics: Brian O’Nolan and the Irish Civil Service.” The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 6.1: 1-15.

Foster, Jonathan, and Alexandra Irimia. “Rule by Algorithm: A Bureaucratic Horror Story.” KWI Blog, 2025.

Foster, Jonathan, Alexandra Irimia and Burkhardt Wolf. “Looking Like an Administration: Towards an Aesthetics of Bureaucracy.” Administory 8 (2025): 3-11.

Gokhale, Nishant. “Official Cultures and Literary Worlds of Nineteenth Century Provincial Administrators in Company India.” Administory 8 (2025): 143-158.

Irimia, Alexandra. “Alexandra Irimia reviews The Rise of Office Literature.” Critical Inquiry 52.3 (Spring 2026), pp. 564-566.

Irimia, Alexandra. “Retorica antibirocratică a populismului.” Scena9 (2025).

Irimia, Alexandra. “Im Labyrinth der Formulare: Die seltsame Anziehungskraft der Bürokratie.” Interview with Katrin Piecha for Uni Bonn News (2025).

Irimia, Alexandra. “In the Maze of Forms: The Curious Allure of Bureaucracy.” Interview with Katrin Piecha for Uni Bonn News (2025).

Irimia, Alexandra. “The Absent Self: Bureaucratic Subjects and the Archive.” Figures of Radical Absence, De Gruyter, 2023, pp. 144-164.

Irimia, Alexandra. “Bureaucratic Sorceries in The Third Policeman: Anthropological Perspectives on Magic and Officialdom.” The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies 6.1 (2022): 1-21.

Irimia, Alexandra. “Bureaucratic Fanatics: Modern Literature and the Passions of Rationalization by Benjamin Lewis Robinson.” The Comparatist 45.1 (2021): 389-391.

Jenkin-Smith, Daniel. “Earthly Intermundia: Office Space in the Works of Charles Dickens.” European Journal of English Studies 27 (2023): 331-350.

Jenkin-Smith, Daniel. “Between ‘Engrossing’ and ‘Penning’: Charles Lamb and the Romantic Aesthetics of Emergent Bureaucracy.” European Romantic Review 35.4 (2024): 615-632.

Jenkin-Smith, Daniel. “A Tale of Two Bureaucracies: The Formal Development of Mid-Nineteenth-Century French and British Office Novels.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 77.2-3 (2022): 93-123.

Jenkin-Smith, Daniel. The Rise of Office Literature: Bureaucratization and Aesthetics in Britain and France, 1810-1900. Bloomsbury, 2025.

Kleinwächter, Livia. “Leitzordnerliteratur revisited. Erzählen von und in Akten bei Thomas Bernhard und Ernst-Wilhelm Händler.” Die Akte/n. Eds. Peter Plener and Burkhardt Wolf. Berlin: Metzler, 2025, pp. 423–442.

Kleinwächter, Livia, and Nicolas Pethes. “Exotik des Alltags. Siegfried Kracauers feuilletonistische Ethnologie des verwalteten Angestelltenlebens.” Zeiten der Alltäglichkeit. Eine schwer fassbare Erfahrung in den Künsten und der Philosophie. Eds. Jonas Cantarella, Dina Emundt and Michael Gamper. Basel: Schwabe, 2024, pp. 123–142.

Kleinwächter, Livia, and Nicolas Pethes. “Männer ohne Eigenschaften. Alltägliches Erzählen im Büroroman des langen 20. Jahrhunderts.” Alltag! Literaturgeschichte eines Theoriereservoirs seit dem 18. Jahrhundert. Eds. Alexander Kling. Hannover: Wehrhahn, 2023, pp. 125–148.

Meyer zu Eppendorf, Katharina. “Die fabelhafte Welt der Bürokratie.” Die Zeit Campus (2026).

Müller, Alexandra. “Zwischen Biologie und Bürokratie: Unheimliche Bürolandschaften in Georg Kleins Miakro und Jeff VanderMeers Authority.” Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung 12.1 (2024): 1–35

Müller, Alexandra. “‘He would do nothing in the office’: Work and Alienation in Cinematic Adaptations of Herman Melville’s Bartleby.” Journal of Narrative and Language Studies 12.25 (2024): 104-118.

Müller, Alexandra. “Ludifizierung von Arbeit. Die Darstellung des Büros im Videospiel.” Komparatistik Online (2023): 90–140.

Stüssel, Kerstin. In Vertretung: Literarische Mitschriften von Bürokratie zwischen früher Neuzeit und Gegenwart. Niemeyer, 2004.

Stüssel, Kerstin. “Mitschrift revisited: Hans Joachim Schädlichs »Papier und Bleistift« (1971).” Administory, 8, no. 1 (2025), pp. 117-126.

Telfer, Michaela. “Rational Scribbling: Bureaucratic Mythologies in Saltykov-Shchedrin’s ‘The Golovlevs.’” Administory 8, no. 1 (2025): pp. 57-72.

Telfer, Michaela. “Bureaucratic Modernity: Huysmans as ‘rond-de-cuir.’” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 51, no. 3-4 (2023): pp. 169-184.

Vermeulen, Pieter. “Do Bureaucrats Dream of Excel Sheets? On Imagination and Administration.” The Sleep of Reason – Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art, 2025.

Wagner, Benno and Stanley Corngold. Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine, Northwestern UP, 2011.

Wagner, Benno, Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg. Franz Kafka: The Office Writings. Princeton University Press, 2009.

Wagner, Benno. “Der dritte Körper des Königs. Anmerkungen zu Symbolkritik und Symbolexperiment in Musils ›Mann ohne Eigenschaften‹.” Diagonal. Zeitschrift der Universität Siegen, no. 5 (1993), pp. 83–92.