Cathy Covell Waegner taught in the English Department of the University of Siegen in Germany until her retirement in July 2015. She obtained degrees from the College of William & Mary (BA) and the University of Virginia (MA, PhD). In addition to her work on William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, she has published on Native American themes, transculturality in the ethnic bildungsroman, minstrelsy, AfroAsian “postmodernist passing,” 400 years after Jamestown, “hybrid tropes” in film, new diasporas, palimpsestic trajectories on the “ethnic shore,” and the interaction between American and European cultural phenomena. The Aliens Within: Danger, Disease, and Displacement in Representations of the Racialized Poor, edited by Geoffroy de Laforcade, Daniel Stein, and Cathy C. Waegner, was published in August 2022 (De Gruyter). Earlier (co-)edited volumes include Migration, Diaspora, Exile: Narratives of Affiliation and Escape, with Daniel Stein, Geoffroy de Laforcade, and Page R. Laws (Lexington Books, 2020); Ethnic Resonances in Performance, Literature, and Identity, with Yiorgos Kalogeras (“Routledge Indisciplinary Perspectives on Literature” series, 2019 ); in the American Indian Studies Series (Michigan State University Press, 2015) Mediating Indianness; a project volume with Norfolk State University scholars, Transculturality and Perceptions of the Immigrant Other: “From-Heres” and “Come-Heres” in Virginia and North Rhine-Westphalia (2011); with colleagues from Université d’Orléans, Literature on the Move: Comparing Diasporic Ethnicities in Europe and the Americas (2002). She served as MESEA (Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas) treasurer for four years and is a member of ASAIL (Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures). Her current research focuses on contemporary Native American literature and Indigenous women’s theater, specifically in connection with issues of justice, sovereignty, and environment. See “selected publications” for further titles.

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THE ALIENS WITHIN: DANGER, DISEASE, AND DISPLACEMENT IN REPRESENTIONS OF THE RACIALIZED POOR (click to view summary and access contents)

Edited by Geoffroy de Laforcade, Daniel Stein, and Cathy C. Waegner

De Gruyter, August 2022

ISBN: 978-3-11-078974-4; eBook 978-3-11-078984-3

MIGRATION, DIASPORA, EXILE: NARRATIVES OF AFFILIATION AND ESCAPE (click to view summary and access contents)

Edited by Daniel Stein, Cathy C. Waegner, Geoffroy de Laforcade, and Page R. Laws

Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, May 2020

ISBN: 978-1-7936-1700-2; eBook 978-1-7936-1701-9

ETHNIC RESONANCES IN PERFORMANCE, LITERATURE, AND IDENTITY (click to view summary and access contents)

Edited by Yiorgos Kalogeras and Cathy C. Waegner

Taylor & Francis; Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Series, December 2019

ISBN: 978-0-367-85991-6; eBook 978-1-003-01627-4

MEDIATING INDIANNESS (click to move to Mediating Indianness website)

Edited by Cathy Covell Waegner

Michigan State University Press, American Indian Studies Series, 2015

ISBN: 978-1-61186-151-8