Authored Books

(2010) The Conquest inside out. Identity and Otherness in contemporary novels, films and theatre (original title: La Conquista desbaratada. Identidad y alteridad en la novela, el cine y el teatro hispánicos contemporáneos). Madrid: Iberoamericana
(2005) Conquered Conquerors. Images of the Spanish Conquest in the Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Novel (original title: Eroberte Eroberer. Darstellungen der Konquista im neueren spanischen und lateinamerikanischen Roman). Frankfurt/Main: Vervuert/Iberoamericana
(2005) with Reinhard Tenberg: BBC-German Grammar. 2nd revised edition. London: BBC
(1996) Narrating Against the Tide. A Contribution to Historical Reflections in the Novel of the Mexican Revolution (original title: Erzählen gegen den Strich. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichtsreflektion im mexikanischen Revolutionsroman). Frankfurt: Lang (Trierer Studien zur Literatur 30/PhD-thesis)
(1996) with Reinhard Tenberg: BBC-German Grammar. London: BBC

Edited Books/Volumes/Special Issues

(2012) Cine Chicano (special issue of iMex I, 2), pp. 4-115.
(2010) with Christopher Hall (eds.): Cultural Encounters in Contemporary German Cinema (special issue of GFL 11), pp. 1-150.
(2009) The other side of migration: Images of Latin American migrants in contemporary Spanish cinema (original title: La otra cara de la migración: Imágenes del inmigrante latinoamericano en el cine español contemporáneo). Madrid: Iberoamericana (special issue of Iberoamericana 34), pp. 71-148.
(2009) La otra cara de la migración: Imágenes del inmigrante latinoamericano en el cine español contemporáneo. Madrid: Iberoamericana (special issue of Iberoamericana 2, forthcoming)
(2008) with Anne Ife (eds.): Neo-colonial mentalities in contemporary Europe. Language and discourse in the construction of identities. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
(2007) with Frank Leinen (eds): Worlds of images - worlds of texts - worlds of comics. Romance Encounters with the Ninth Art (original title: Bilderwelten - Textwelten - Comicwelten. Romanistische Begegnungen mit der Neunten Kunst). Munich: Meidenbauer
(2003) with Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas (eds): European Cinema: Inside Out. Images of the Self and the Other in Postcolonial European Film. Heidelberg: Winter

Articles
(2013) 'From Goya's "Disasters of War" to Rossellini's "Paisà". Patriotic, patriarchal and dark romantic continuities' (original title: 'Von Goyas "Desastres de la Guerra" bis Rossellini's "Paisà". Patriotische, patriarchalische und schauerromantische Kontinuitäten'), in: Ursula Hennigfeld (ed.): Goya im Dialog der Medien, Kulturen und Disziplinen. Freiburg: Rombach (forthcoming).
(2013) 'The other Mexico. Comments on the "revolucioncita" by Rius' (original title: 'Das andere Mexiko. Anmerkungen zur "revolucioncita" bei Rius'), in: Susanne Schütz (ed.): Tiras y Tirajes. Berlin: Lang (forthcoming).
(2012) 'Possibilities and limits of transculturality in Gregory Nava's "My family"' (original title: 'Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Transkulturalität in Gregory Navas "My family"'), in: Frank Leinen (ed.): México 2010. Düsseldorf: DUP, pp. 269-288.
(2011) 'Robinson Crusoe today: Continuities and discontinuities from Daniel Defoe's literary work to Robert Zemeckis's "Cast Away"', in: Anglistik 22/2, pp.119-136.
(2011) 'Questions of identity: Cultural encounters in Gurinder Chadha's "Bend it like Beckham"', in: Journal of Popular Film and Television 39/3, pp. 114-123.
(2011) 'The West - A Transcultural Home for the Rest? Images of British-Indian Diaspora in Gurinder Chadha's "Bend it like Beckham"', in: Anglistik 22/1, pp. 167-186.
(2010) 'Madrid: Neo-colonial spacing in contemporary Spanish cinema?' in: Godela Weiss-Sussex, Katia Pizzi (eds.): Cultural Identities of European Cities, London: Lang, pp. 205-229.
(2009) 'Never ending conquest, never ending resistance? Female body memory in Gioconda Belli's 'The inhabited woman'' (original title: 'Unendliche Eroberung, unendlicher Widerstand? Das weibliche Körpergedächtnis in Gioconda Bellis 'La mujer habitada''), in: GRM, pp. 517-532.
(2009) 'Limits of understanding and the willingness to understand: the conquered culture in Matilde Asensi's El origen perdido' (original title: 'Grenzen des Verstehens und Verstehen Wollens: Die eroberte Kultur in Matilde Asensis El origen perdido'), in: Archiv 161/246, pp. 258-282.
(2009) 'Presentación', in: Guido Rings (ed.): La otra cara de la inmigración: imágenes del latinoamericano en el cine español contemporáneo. Madrid: Iberoamericana.
(2008) 'Blurring or shifting boundaries? Concepts of culture in Turkish-German Migrant Cinema', in: GFL 1 2008, pp. 6-39.
(2008) with Anne Ife: 'Introduction', in: Guido Rings/Anne Ife (eds.): Neo-colonial mentalities in contemporary Europe? Language and discourse in the construction of identities. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 2-18.
(2007) 'The "locura" of a Never Ending Conquest. Images of the Spanish Conquest in Armas Marcelo's "Las Naves Quemadas" ' (original title: 'Zur "locura" einer unendlichen Eroberung. Darstellungen der Konquista in Armas Marcelos "Las Naves Quemadas" '), in Archiv 159/244, pp. 67-86
(2007) 'Broken Romanticism - Töpffer's "Les amours de M. Vieux-Bois" as caricature of contemporary tendencies' (original title: 'Gebrochene Romantik - Töpffers "Les amours de M. Vieux-Bois" als Karikatur zeitgenössischer Tendenzen'), in Frank Leinen, Guido Rings (ed.): Bilderwelten - Textwelten - Comicwelten. Munich: Meidenbauer, pp. 207-228
(2006) 'Images of the Revolution. Ateneo perspectives in "El Águila y la Serpiente" and "Al Filo del Agua" ' (original title: 'Imágenes de la Revolución. Perspectivas ateneístas en "El Águila y la Serpiente" y "Al filo del agua"'), in Rafael Olea Franco (ed.): Agustín Yáñez: una vida literaria. México: El Colegio de México, pp. 197-226
(2006) 'Searching for new baroque forms: the contemporary Spanish and Latin American Cinema revisited' (original title: 'En busca de nuevas formas barrocas: el cine español y latinoamericano contemporáneo'), in: Iberoamericana 1/07, pp. 191-209
(2006) 'Broken Orientalism. Using literary texts for intercultural training,' in FLUL 35, pp. 136-149
(2005) 'Columbus - a Don Quixote-Style Pícaro from the Middle Ages? Intertextuality as a Principle of Form in Carpentier's "The Harp and the Shadow"' (original title: 'Kolumbus - ein quijotesker Schelm aus dem Mittelalter? Intertextualität als Formprinzip in Carpentiers "El arpa y la sombra"', in GRM 55/3, pp. 333-350
(2005) 'Emotion and cognition in Tom Tykwer's "Run Lola Run" and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Amelie"' (original title: 'Emotion und Kognition in Tom Tykwer's "Lola Rennt" und Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amélie Poulain"'), in Fabula 46, 3/4, pp. 197-216
(2004) with Susanne Kleymann: 'Not Guilty But Guilty? Questions of Guilt and Teaching Methodology deriving from Schlink's "The reader" in German as a Foreign Language teaching and learning' (original title: 'Unschuldig schuldig? Zur Schuldfrage und Vermittlung von Schlinks "Der Vorleser" im DaF-Unterricht'), in GFL 2/04, pp. 80-110
(2003) with Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas: 'Images of the Self and the Other in Postcolonial European Film,' in Rings/Morgan-Tamosunas (eds.): European Cinema: Inside Out. Heidelberg: Winter, pp. 11-26
(2003) with Welat Zeydanlioglu: 'Antagonistic Perspectives. Turkish and European Official Discourse on Kurds,' in Storia della Storiografia 43, pp. 98-124
(2002) 'An Unnoticed Fictional Retrospective on 500 Years of Conquest. Interview by Guido Rings with the Argentinian writer Lidio Mosca-Bustamante' (original title: 'Una retroperspectiva ficcional desapercibida acerca de 500 años de conquista. Entrevista de Guido Rings con el escritor argentino Lidio Mosca-Bustamante'), in Revista Literaria Baquiana 19/20, pp. 1-7
(2002) 'The Emancipatory Potential of Two Outsiders: Meursault, Duarte and the Destabilisation of Dominant Discourses' (original title: 'Zum emanzipatorischen Potential zweier Fremder: Meursault, Duarte und die Destabilisierung herrschender Diskurse'), in Frank Leinen (ed.): Literarische Begegnungen. Romanische Studien zur kulturellen Identität, Differenz und Alterität. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, pp. 130-152
(2002) 'Amidst Destiny, Free Will and Instinctive Behaviour. Aspects of Hybridity and Approaches for Teaching them in Tom Tykwer's "Run Lola Run"' (original title: 'Zwischen "Schicksal," freiem Willen und instinktivem Verhalten. Hybriditätsaspekte und Ansatzpunkte zu deren Vermittlung in Tom Tykwers "Lola Rennt"'), in GFL 1/02, pp. 2-29
(2001) 'The Conquest of the Other. Images of the Spanish Conquest from Colonial to Modern Historiographical Discourse' (original title: 'Die Eroberung des Anderen. Darstellungsmuster der spanischen Konquista vom kolonialen zum modernen historiographischen Diskurs'), in Storia della Storiografia 3, pp. 87-114
(2000) 'The Conditioned Other. Comments on the Self and the Other in Camus' "L'Étranger"' (original title: 'Der konditionierte Fremde. Anmerkungen zu Selbst- und Fremdbetrachtungen in Camus' "L'Étranger"'), in Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 4, pp. 479-500
(2000) 'Multimedia in the Context of Current Teaching and Learning Objectives' (original title: 'Multimedia im Spiegel aktueller Lehr- und Lernziele'), in Funk, Hermann / Michael König / Erwin Tschirner (eds.): Schnittstellen: Lehrwerke zwischen alten und neuen Medien. Berlin: Cornelsen, pp. 94-109
(2000) 'Considerations of the Self and the Other in Fassbinder' (original title: 'Selbst- und Fremdbetrachtungen bei Fassbinder'), in Martin Brady/Helen Hughes (eds.): Deutschland im Spiegel seiner Filme. London: CILT, pp. 52-80
(1998) 'The Persian Dinner. A Classroom Experiment on the Understanding of the Self and the Other' (original title: 'Das persische Abendessen. Ein Unterrichtsversuch zu Selbst- und Fremdverstehen'), in IDE 22/2, pp. 96-107 and in Deutsch Unterricht 51/4, 199-206
(1997) 'The German Revolution of 1848/1849: Social Protagonists and Social Objectives From a Modern Historiographical Perspective' (original title: 'Die deutsche Revolution von 1848/49: Soziale Träger und Ziele im Blickwinkel moderner Historiographie'), in Geschichte-Erziehung-Politik 97/6, pp. 334-338
(1997) 'The Second Punic War: Comments on the Historiography of the Outbreak and Development of the War' (original title: 'Der zweite punische Krieg: Anmerkungen zur Historiographie von Kriegsausbruch und Kriegsverlauf'), in Militärgeschichtliche Mitteilungen 56/2, pp. 157-162
(1997) 'An Argument That Does Not Want to End: Structural Features of National Socialism in Modern Historiography' (original title: 'Ein Streit, der nicht enden will: Strukturelle Grundzüge des Nationalsozialismus in der modernen Historiographie'), in Geschichte- Erziehung-Politik 3, pp. 183-186
(1997) 'Dionysius I: A Tyrant Caught Between the Greek Polis and the Hellenic Monarchy. Historiographical Reflections on Dionysius I of Syracuse' (original title: 'Dionysios I.: Tyrann zwischen griechischer Polis und hellenistischer Monarchie. Zur historiographischen Reflektion Dionysios I. von Syrakus'), in Die alte Stadt 2, pp. 172-174
(1995) 'Comics as Anti-Discourse. Images of the Revolution in the Mexican "Anti-Comic"' (original title: 'Comics als Gegendiskurs. Ein Beitrag zum Revolutions-bild im mexikanischen "Anti-Comic"'), in Iberoamericana 55/56, pp. 37-67
(1992) 'Agustín Yáñez. "Al Filo del Agua",' in Volker Roloff/ Christian Wentzlaff-Eggebert (eds.): Der hispanoamerikanische Roman, I: Von den Anfängen bis Carpentier. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, pp. 214-222