VOLUMES
Contested Selves, Life Writing and German Culture, co-edited volume with Elisabeth Krimmer, Camden House, 2021.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Herges, Katja. "The Intimate Palliative Sphere: Affect, Gender and the Good Death in Relational End-of-Life Narratives." Literature and Medicine 42, 1, 2024: 88-111, doi.org/10.1353/lm.2024.a935835
Herges, Katja. "The Education of Desire: Unsettling the Gender, Sexual and Racial Politics in German Medical Romance." Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 59, 3, 2023: 282-300, doi.org/10.3138/seminar.59.3.4
Herges, Katja. “Becoming-Amazons: Femininity, Embodiment and Sexuality in a Photographic and Digital Breast Cancer Project.” Literature and Medicine 41, 1, 2023: 93-122, doi.org/10.1353/lm.2023.a911446
Herges, Katja. “Writing Autohistoria-Teoría: Agency and Illness in German Life Narratives by Evelyne Leandro and Mely Kiyak.” Medical Humanities, 46:e1, 2020, doi:10.1136/medhum-2019-011746.
Herges, Katja. “From Becoming-Woman to Becoming-Imperceptible: Self-Styled Death and Virtual Female Corpse in Digital Portraits of Cancer.” Women, Gender & Research, 3-4, 2019: 86-106, doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v28i2-3.116311.
Herges, Katja. “Body Fluids and Fluid Bodies: Trans-Corporeal Connections in Contemporary Narratives of Illness.” Humanities 8, 55, 2019, doi:10.3390/h8010055.
Herges Katja, Brigit De Jong, Ilan Kolkowitz, Caitlin Dunn, Gil Mandelbaum, Rose M Ko, Alexander Maini, May H Han, Joep Killestein, Chris Polman, Alexandra L Goodyear, Jeffrey Dunn, Laurence Steinman, and Robert Axtell. “Protective Effect of Neutrophil Elastase Inhibitor in a new Model of Neuromyelitis Optica.” Multiple Sclerosis 18, 4, 2012: 398-408, doi.org/10.1177/1352458512440060.
Grant Jaqueline, Eliver Goshn, Robert Axtell, Katja Herges, Hedwig Kuipers, Nathan Woodling, Katrin Andreasson, Leonard Herzenberg, Leonore Herzenberg, Lawrence Steinman. Reversal of paralysis and reduced inflammation from peripheral administration of β-amyloid in TH1 and TH17 versions of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Science Translational Medicine 4, 145, 2012: 145ra105, 10.1126/scitranslmed.3004145.
Herges, Katja, Jason Millward, Nicole Hentschel, Carmen Infante-Duarte, Orhan Aktas, Frauke Zipp. “Neuroprotective Effect of Combination Therapy of Glatiramer Acetate and Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate in Neuroinflammation.” PLoS One 6, 10: e25456, 2011, 10.1371/journal.pone.0025456.
Castern Urbanek, Nicholetta Weinges-Evers, Judith Bellmann-Strobl, Markus Bock, Jan Doerr, Eric Hahn, Andres Neuhaus, Carolin Opgen-Rhein, Thi Minh Tam Ta, Katja Herges et al. "Attention Network Test reveals alerting Network Dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis,” Multiple Sclerosis 16, 1, 2010: 93-9, doi: 10.1177/1352458509350308.
Bock Markus, Alexander U. Brandt, Jan Doerr, Helga Kraft, Nicholetta Weinges-Evers, Gunnar Gaede, Caspar Pfueller, Katja Herges, Helena Radbruch, Sabine Ohlraun et al. “Patterns of Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Loss in Multiple Sclerosis, Optic Neuritis and Glaucoma Patients.” Clinical Neurology Neurosurgery 112, 8, 2010: 647-52, doi: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2010.04.014.
PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS
Herges, Katja. "Landscapes of Trauma: Relational Aesthetics and Politics in Contemporary Transnational Graphic Narratives." Trauma and Comics. Edited by Elisabeth Krimmer and Maureen Burdock, Camden House, 2025.
Herges, Katja. "Disability and Embodiment in Contemporary German Comics." The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Health Humanities in German Studies. Edited by Stephanie M. Hilder, Bloomsbury, 2024, 99-112.
Herges, Katja and Elisabeth Krimmer. “Introduction” Contested Selves: Life Writing and German Culture. Edited by Katja Herges and Elisabeth Krimmer, Camden House, 2021, 1-29.