He is the author of two books, The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers and the Lessons of Anti-Communism (Harvard, 2009): and In History’s Grip: Philip Roth’s Newark Trilogy (Stanford University Press, 2012). He is also the translator of Wolfgang Koeppen’s travelogue, Amerikafahrt, published in Germany in 1959, which is forthcoming with Berghahn Books in the summer of 2012 under the title Journey through America. In 2004-2005, he held a German Chancellor Scholarship from the Humboldt Foundation, and from 1995 to 1997 he was a British Marshall Scholar. Jan-Werner Müller