“Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens walks the tightrope between pop culture and science” by Olivia Congdon, ANU College of Science (2023).

– Peer reviewed journal articles & book chapters – 

Visconti, Will and A.-S. Jürgens (2024): “Joker stages: popular performance and theatrical sensibilities in Joker comics and film adaptations“, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (online).

Kinsella, A. and A.-S. Jürgens (2024): “Gender and terror tangled in the weeds: Poison Ivy between eco-feminism and eco-terrorism“, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (online).

Jürgens, A.-S., Darragh, L., Peace, P., Agha, R., Viana, J. N. and Richards, I. (2024). “Studying science in pop culture through textual analysis. An introduction to examining science in visual texts — Street art, comics and (animated) film”, JCOM 23(03), Y01.

Jürgens, A.-S., Fiadotava, A. and D. Tscharke (2024): “The Cheshire Clown: Joker’s Infectious Laughter“, Moral Dimensions of Humour: Essays on Humans, Heroes and Monsters, ed. by Ben Nickl and Mark Rolfe. Tampere: Tampere UP, 186-204.

Jürgens, A.-S., Fiadotava, A. and C.-L. Clitheroe (2024): “Vaude-villain and violent funster: Harley Quinn and Humour“, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.

Neil J Hogan and A.-S. Jürgens (2024): “Work in Space: The Changing Image of Space Careers in the TV series Doctor Who“, Outer Space and Popular Culture: Influences and Interrelations, Part 4, Springer: 19-43.

Hemkendreis, A. and A.-S. Jürgens (2024): “Communicating Loss: Ice Research, Popular Art and Aesthetics – Introduction”, Communicating Ice through Popular Art and Aesthetics, ed. Anne Hemkendreis and Anna-Sophie Jürgens, Palgrave Macmillan, 3-24.

Jürgens, A.-S., Buchenberger, S., Grove, M. and M. Farinella (2024): “On the Visual Narratives of Ice in Popular Culture: Comics on Ice, Icy Villains and Ice Science”, Communicating Ice through Popular Art and Aesthetics, ed. Anne Hemkendreis and Anna-Sophie Jürgens, Palgrave Macmillan, 235-255.

Hemkendreis, A., Jürgens, A.-S. and K. Judd (2024): “On the Aesthetic Facets of Ice Urgency: Some Final Reflections”, Communicating Ice through Popular Art and Aesthetics, ed. Anne Hemkendreis and Anna-Sophie Jürgens, Palgrave Macmillan, 273-282.

Santos, D. and A.-S. Jürgens (2023): “From Harleen Quinzel to Harley Quinn: Science, Symmetry and Transformation”, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2023): ““Human or Machine?” performing Androids, “Elektro-Homos,” and the “Phroso” and “Moto Phoso” Manias on the Popular Stage around 1900“, Journal of Popular Culture.

Thompson, B., A.-S. Jürgens, BOHIE and Rod Lamberts (2023): “Street Art and Environmental Science Communication”, Journal of Science Communication 22(04), A01.

Jürgens, A.-S., Sujatha Raman, Rebecca Hendershott, Tara Roberson, John Noel Viaña, Joan Leach (2023): “He Who Gets Slapped: How can Clowning in Film Interrogate Technoscientific Culture and Help Enact the Ideals of Responsible Innovation?”, Journal of Responsible Innovation 10/1.

Richards, I. and A.-S. Jürgens (2023): “Being the Environment: Conveying Environmental Fragility and Sustainability through Indigenous Biocultural Knowledge in Contemporary Aboriginal Science Fiction”, Journal of Science & Popular Culture 4/2, 153-171.

Jürgens, A.-S. and Anne Hemkendreis (2023): “Jellyfish from Outer Space: Tentacular Creatures and Cosmic Responsibility in Environmental Art and Pop Culture”, Southern Space Studies: Outer Space and Popular Culture 3, ed. by Annette Froehlich, Cham: Springer.

 Soucy-Humphreys, J., Judd, K. and A.-S. Jürgens (2023): “Challenging the Stereotype Through Humor? Comic Female Scientists in Animated TV Series for Young Audiences“, Frontiers in Communication / Science and Environmental Communication 7.

Thaker, P., Jürgens, A.-S., Judd, K., Fiadotava, A., Hemkendreis, A. and C. Holliday (2023): “Humour for Change? Melting Ice and Environmental Fragility in the Animated Film Comedies Ice Age: The Meltdown and Happy Feet Two”, Journal of Science and Popular Culture 4/2,95-114.

Fiadotava, A., Astapova, A., Hendershott, R., McKinnon, M., & Jürgens, A.-S. (2023): “Injecting fun? Humour, conspiracy theory and (anti)vaccination discourse in popular media”, Public Understanding of Science (online first).

Jürgens, A.-S. (2022): “Being the Alien: The Space Pierrots and Circus Spaces of David Bowie, Klaus Nomi and Michael Jackson”, Southern Space Studies: Outer Space and Popular Culture 2, ed. by Annette Froehlich, Cham: Springer, 1-18.

Hee, Matthew, Jürgens, A.-S., Fiadotava, A., Judd, K. and Hannah Feldman (2022). “Communicating Urgency Through Humor: School Strike 4 Climate Protest Placards.” Journal of Science Communication. https://jcom.sissa.it/archive/21/05/JCOM_2105_2022_A02.

Jürgens, A.-S., David C Tscharke and Jochen Brocks (2021): “From Caligari to Joker: The Clown Prince of Crime’s Psychopathic Science”, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2021.1989005

Jürgens, A.-S., Anastasiya Fiadotava, David C Tscharke and John Noel Viaña (2021): “Spreading Fun: Comic Zombies, Joker Viruses and COVID-19 Jokes”, Journal of Science & Popular Culture 4/1, 39-57.

Jürgens, A.-S. (in press): “Intermedia Genealogy and Interrelation of Icons: Clowns, Robots and Clown Robots”, Cultural Icons, ed. by Paula Wojcik. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Jürgens, A.-S. and Mirjam Hildbrand (2022): “Arts for all senses: Circus and the avant-gardes – introduction”, in Circus and the Avant-Gardes: History, Imaginary, Innovation, ed. Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Mirjam Hildbrand, London: Routledge, 1-16.

Jürgens, A.-S. and Le Pustra (2022): “Glam Clowning: From Dada to Gaga – a conversation with Le Pustra”, in Circus and the Avant-Gardes: History, Imaginary, Innovation, ed. Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Mirjam Hildbrand, London: Routledge, 173-195.

Hildbrand, Mirjam, Jürgens, A.-S. and Aiden Essery (2022): “‘Today for the last time?’: On the cultural meanings of circus and the avant-gardes – some final provocations”, in Circus and the Avant-Gardes: History, Imaginary, Innovation, ed. Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Mirjam Hildbrand, London: Routledge, 247-257.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2021): “Lady Clowns: Clown-Ballerinas, Dancing ‘Clownesses’ and Female Clowns on the Popular Stage around 1900”, in Touring Performance and Global Exchange 1850-1960: Making Tracks, eds.  Gilli Bush-Bailey and Kate Flaherty, London: Routledge.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2021): “Through the Looking Glass: Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Circus Studies”, Cambridge Companion to the Circus, ed. Gillian Arrighi and Jim Davis, Cambridge University Press, 244-256.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2020): “The Pathology of Joker’s Dance: On the Origins of Arthur Fleck’s Body Aesthetics in Todd Phillips’s 2019 Joker Film”, Dance Chronicle 43/3, 321-337.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2020): “Batman and the World of Tomorrow: Yesterday’s Technological Future in the Animated Film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm“, Animation 15/3, 246–259.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2020): “Flights of Fancy: Mannerist Aesthetics in Paul Auster’s Mr Vertigo and Contemporary CCircus Contexts”, Manegenkünste – Zirkus als ästhetisches Modell, eds. Margarete Fuchs, Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Jörg Schuster, Bielefeld: transcript, 43-60.

Jürgens, A.-S. and Margarete Fuchs, Jörg Schuster (2020): “Circus as an Aesthetic Model: Research on Circus Arts and Circus Studies in Germany – Introduction”, Manegenkünste – Zirkus als ästhetisches Modell, eds. Margarete Fuchs, Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Jörg Schuster, Bielefeld: transcript, 25-40.

Fuchs, Margarete, Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Jörg Schuster (2020): “Manegenkünste: Circus als ästhetisches Modell – Einleitung”, Manegenkünste – Zirkus als ästhetisches Modell, eds. Margarete Fuchs, Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Jörg Schuster, Bielefeld: transcript, 9-24.

Jürgens, A.-S., and Stephen Chiodo (2020): “‘Greatest Klown on Earth’ – and the Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Stephen Chiodo in conversation with Anna-Sophie Jürgens”, Comedy Studies 11/1, 133-141.

Jürgens, A.-S., and Will Elliott (2020): “Humorectomy: Engineering Comic Clown Violence. Will Elliott in conversation with Anna-Sophie Jürgens”, Comedy Studies 11/1, 155-161.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2020): “Violence in the Clownlight. Ira Seidenstein on the inner world of the clown, slapstick and dynamite. A conversation with Anna-Sophie Jürgens”, Comedy Studies 11/1, 142-154.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2020): “Side-Splitting Amusement: On comic scientists – the sciency type of violent clowns?” Comedy Studies 11/1, 121-132.

Jürgens, A.-S., Jarno Hietalahti, Lena Straßburger and Susanne Ylönen (2020): “Schlock horror and pillow punches: Introduction to the dialectics of the violent clown”, Comedy Studies 11/1 (Introduction to a special themed journal issue on Violent Clowns), 1-11.

Jürgens, A.-S., and Alexander G. Maier (2020): “The Parasite as Performer”, Journal of Science & Popular Culture 3/1, 39-56.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2020): “Science on show: Exploring science, performance and spectacle”, Journal of Science & Popular Culture 3/1 (2020), 3-6.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2020): “Fun-de-siècle: Dance, popular spectacles and the circus“, Tanz & Archiv 8, 172-188.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2020): “Clowns in Space: An Introduction to Circus Aliens and Spaced-out Comic Peformers”, Southern Space Studies: “Outer Space and Popular Culture: Influences and Interaction”, ed. by Annette Froehlich, Springer: Cham, 71-89.

Jürgens, A.-S. and R.C. Williamson (2020): “Engineering Circus Enchantment: Automagic Technology and Electrifying Performances in Fiction”, Circus, Science and Technology: Dramatising Innovation, ed. by Anna-Sophie Jürgens, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2020): “Circus Matters: Engineering, Imagineering and Popular Stages of Technology – Introduction”, Circus, Science and Technology: Dramatising Innovation, ed. by Anna-Sophie Jürgens, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2019): “The Matter of Fact: Science and Identity in Contemporary Australian Fiction”, Australian Humanities Review 65, 107-122.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2019): “Costumes of Beloning: ‘Fitting in’ circus fabrics in the novels The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey and The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliott, and the costume-cum-body art of Leigh Bowery”, in: Social Beings, Future Belongings: Reimagining the Social, ed. by David Bissell, Miranda Bruce, Helen Keane, Anna Tsalapatanis, London: Routledge, 98-104.

 Jürgens, A.-S. (2018): “Comic in Suspenders: Jim Sharman’s circus worlds in The Rocky Horror (Picture) Show”, Journal of Australian Studies 42/4, 507-523.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2018): “A funny Taste: Clowns and Cannibals”, Comedy Studies 9/2, 171-182.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2018): “So called experts? Knowledge Credibility in Fiction”, in Our Changing World in the South Pacific, ed. by Trevor R. Finlayson ISBN 9780958814928 (Australian Association of von Humboldt Fellows), Chapter 6.

Jürgens, A.-S. (accepted for publication 17/04/2018): “S/Laughter: On the interplay of clowning and cannibalism in popular culture”, in: Komik und Kolonialismus, ed. by Anne Peiter, Bochum: Projektverlag.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2017): “Le Roman de cirque, le Roman Circus mundi et le Roman circassien” (Circus novels and circus texts), in: Le Comparatisme comme approche critique/Comparative literature as a critical approach: Affronter l’Ancien/Facing the Past, Tome 1, ed. by Anne Tomiche, Paris: Classiques Garnier, 483-494.

Schuster, S., Jürgens, A.-S. (2017): “Being in a mess – Kollaborationen in der Un|Ordnung des philologischen Märchens“ Cosmos-Collaborator (On Collaborations in the philological Fairy-Tale Cosmos-Collaborator), in: Pat­terns of Dis|Order, ed. by A.-S. Jürgens a. Markus Wierschem, Münster: LIT Verlag, 371–386.  

Jürgens, A.-S., Wierschem, M. (2017): “Muster der Un|Ordnung” (Introduction), in: Pat­terns of Dis|Order, ed. by A.-S. Jürgens a. Markus Wierschem, Münster: LIT Verlag, 13–39.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2016): “Circus as Idée fixe and Hunger: Circomania in Fiction”, in: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 18/3; 7 pages.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2016): “Clowneske Zirkuskunstfiguren – Zu Wandel und Werken des Zirkus­clowns in der Literatur” (Clownesque Circus Creatures – The Evolution of Clowns), in: Über den Clown – Künstlerische und theoretische Perspektiven (On Clowns – Artistic and Theoretical Perspectives), ed. by Richard Weihe, Bielefeld: transcript, 165–181.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2015): “Zirkuskunstwerke: Zur urheberrechtlichen Schutzfähigkeit der Ma­negenkunst” (Circus Creations – Copyright and the Arts of the Ring), in: Neue Rundschau 4, 153–157.

Jürgens, A.-S., Wierschem, M. (2015): “The Poetics of Anamorphosis and the Art of Entropy”, in: LaborARTorium, ed. by Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Tassilo Tesche, Bielefeld: transcript, 279–297.

Jürgens, A.-S., Tesche, T. (2015): “LaborARTorium – Begegnungen im Denkraum” (LaborART­ory – A Thinking Space (Introduction)), in: LaborARTorium, ed. by Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Tassilo Tesche, Bielefeld: transcript, 9–22.  

Jürgens, A.-S., Tesche, T. (2015): “Kunst als Forschung – Ein Rückblick: Florian Dombois im Inter­view mit Anna-Sophie Jürgens und Tassilo Tesche” (Art as Research – A retrospection: Florian Dombois in­terviewed by ASJ and TT), in: LaborARTorium, ed. by Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Tassilo Tesche, Biele­feld: transcript, 33–41.  

Jürgens, A.-S. (2015): “Das versehrte Lachen – Neomoderne Gewaltclowns in der Literatur” (The Dam­aged Smile – Neomodern violent Clowns in Fiction), in: “Fröhliche Wissenschaft” – Zur Gene­alogie des Lachens (“The Gay Science” – A Genealogy of Laughter), ed. by Kevin Liggieri, Freiburg: Karl Alber, 298–320. 

Jürgens, A.-S. (2015): “Singultus – Ein grotesker Reflex” (Singultus – A Grotesque Reflex), in: Kroener – Time Codes – Die Macht der Bilder (The Power of Pictures), ed. by Maren Martell and Kathrin Höhne, Mittelrhein Museum Koblenz; 6 pages.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2014): “The Joker, a neo-modern clown of violence”, in: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 5/4, 441–454.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2012): “Pygmalion im Zirkus: Zum Virtuos-Statuenhaften & Guy de Cars La Dame du Cirque”(Pygmalion in the Circus Ring – Virtuosity and the Statuesque in Guy de Cars’ La Dame du Cirque), in: Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Ver­gleichende Literturwis­sen­schaft, 137–150.

Jürgens, A.-S. (2011): “Hermetische Liebesakrobatik: Joris-Karl Huysmans’ Des Esseintes und Thomas Manns Felix Krull im Zirkus” (Hermetic Love Acrobatics – Joris-Karl Huysmans’ Des Esseintes and Thomas Mann’s Felix Krull in the Circus), in: SprachKunst – Beiträge zur Litera­tur­wissenschaft Jahrgang XLII/2, 271–300.