Selected Publications and Papers

  • “Scenes of Mockery”: Puppetry in Mohammed ben Abdallah’s The Trial of Mallam Ilya and Gerald Vizenor’s Waiting for Wovoka. Accepted for European Journal of American Studies, special issue on “Placing Ghanian and Native American/First Nations literatures in conversation” (2025).
  • Walls of Water and Snow in Vanishing Point and Lying with Badgers: Community Survivance in Indigenous Plays by FastHorse and Grasl. Accepted for MESEA 2022 conference volume.
  • Transnational Ethnofiction: Gerald Vizenor and Heirs of the Fur Trade. In: Suchacka, Weronika, and Hartmut Lutz, eds. Land Deep in Time: Canadian Historiographic Ethnofiction. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht unipress, 2023: 269-291.
  • Performing Justice in Recent Native American Women’s Theater: Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Sovereignty and Manahatta. Studies in American Indian Literatures (SAIL), 34: 3-4 (2022): 124-152.
  • Staging (during) Crisis: Indigenous Zoomlets in the Pandemic. American, British and Canadian Studies 39 (December 2022): 7-30. Special Issue on Staging Crisis in Contemporary North American Theatre and Performance.
  • Aliens Without and Within: Abjection from Tetter to Tumor in Toni Morrison’s Novels. In: De Laforcade, Geoffroy, Daniel Stein, and Cathy C. Waegner, eds. The Aliens Within: Danger, Disease, and Displacement in Representations of the Racialized Poor. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, August 2022: 209-231.
  • The Aliens Within: Danger, Disease, and Displacement in Representations of the Racialized Poor. De Laforcade, Geoffroy, Daniel Stein, and Cathy C. Waegner, eds. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, August 2022; tribute to Page R. Laws. ISBN 978-3-11-078974-4
  • “It’s a revolutionary act to put Native women on stage sharing their own stories”: Contesting (Male) Colonized Spaces in Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Plays Manahatta and Sovereignty. Paper for MESEA conference on Cyprus, May 2022. Conference theme: “Communities of Engagement: Contesting Borders, Barriers, and Walls in the Era of Climate Crisis”; virtual panel theme: “No (wo)man’s land and Indigenous Community: Contesting Walls and Uninhabitable Spaces”; chaired by Cathy Waegner.
  • Cultural Palimpsests on the Ethnic Shore: Refunctionalizing Seaside Forts. In: Kalogeras, Yiorgos D., Johanna C. Kardux, Monika Mueller, and Jopi Nyman, eds. Palimpsests in Ethnic and Postcolonial Literatue and Culture: Surfacing Histories. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021: 57-78. ISBN 978-3-030-64585-4
  • “Somehow we need Indians”: Postcolonial Humor and Transnational Commemoration in Larissa Fasthorse’s The Thanksgiving Play (2018). Paper for online conference organized by Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands, August 2020. Conference theme: “Four Nations Commemoration, 1620-2020: the Pilgrims and the Politics of Memory.
  • Migration, Diaspora, Exile: Narratives of Affiliation and Escape. Stein, Daniel, Cathy C. Waegner, Geoffroy de Laforcade, Page R. Laws, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, May 2020. ISBN 978-1-7936-1700-2 (hbk); 978-1-7936-1701-9 (ebk). Includes Cathy C. Waegner, “Generational Doubling as Eth(n)ic Narrative Strategy: Annie Proulx’s Barkskins and Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing,” 43-57.
  • Ethnic Resonances in Performance, Literature, and Identity. (“Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature” series). Kalogeras, Yiorgos, and Cathy C. Waegner, eds.  London and New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, December 2019. ISBN 978-0-367-85991-6 (hbk); 978-1-003-01627-4 (ebk)
  • Performing Justice in Recent Native American Women’s Theater: Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Sovereignty and Manahatta. Paper for Postcolonial Studies Association convention in Manchester, September 2019. Conference theme: “Justice.”
  • “The Indian Who Bombed Berlin”: German Encounters in Ralph Salisbury’s Work – Modulating Modern Precariousness. In: Lee, A. Robert, and James Mackay, eds. Ralph Salisbury: Cherokee Modern. Special “Ralph Salisbury” edition of the online journal Transmotion, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2020): 97-130.
  • Nightland – No Country for Old Men?: Owens and McCarthy at Postmodern High Noon. In: Lockard, Joe, and A. Robert Lee, eds. Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019: 221-45. ISBN-10: 082636098X; ISBN-13: 978-0826360984
  • Speculative Liberty “with a Slant”: Decolonizing Sovereignty through Irony in Vizenor’s Treaty Shirts. Postcolonial Studies Association Newsletter, 21 (June 2018): 25-29; newsletter theme: “Decolonising Speculative Fiction,” eds. Isabelle Hesse and Edward Powell.  (Online publication)
  • Performing Street Art: CityLeaks, Affiliation, and Transcultural Diaspora. In: Ilott, Sarah, Ana Cristina Mendes, and Lucinda Newns, eds. New Directions in Diaspora Studies: Cultural and Literary Approaches. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2018: 19-38. ISBN HB 978-1-78660-516-0
  • Generational Doubling as Eth(n)ic Narrative Strategy: Annie Proulx’s Barkskins and Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing. Paper for MESEA conference in Graz, May/June 2018. Conference theme: “Ethnicity and Kinship: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Family, Community, and Difference”; panel theme: “Mother(s) of Exile,” co-chaired by Page R. Laws and Cathy C. Waegner.
  • Consuming, Incarcerating, and “Transmoting” Misery: Border Practice in Gerald Vizenor’s Bearheart and Stephen Graham Jones’s The Fast Red Road. Transmotion 3.2 (Fall 2017): 1-29.
  • Gerald Vizenor’s Shimmering Birds in Dialog: (De-)Framing, Memory, and the Totemic in Favor of Crows and Blue Ravens. In: Däwes, Birgit, and Alexandra Haucke, eds. Native American Survivance, Memory, and Futurity: The Gerald Vizenor Continuum. New York: Routledge, 2017: 102-116. ISBN 978-1-138-21175-9
  • Ghosting Globalization: Speculative Sovereignty and Asylum-Seeking in Gerald Vizenor’s Treaty Shirts. Paper for Postcolonial Studies Association conference in London, September 2017. Conference theme: “Globalisation.” Published in condensed form in Postcolonial Studies Association Newsletter 21, June 2018.
  • Fort Marion Prisoner Heads from CircumCaribbean to Museum. Paper for Southern American Studies Association (SASA) conference in Williamsburg/Virginia, March 2017. Conference theme: “Migrations and Circulations.”
  • Cultural Palimpsests on the Ethnic Shore: Refunctionalizing Seaside Forts. Presentation for Colloquium Series, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, 12 January 2017.
  • Rampaging Red Demons and Lumpy Indian Burial Grounds: (Native) Gothic-Postmodernism in Stephen Graham Jones’s All the Beautiful Sinners and Growing Up Dead in Texas. In: Stratton, Billy J., ed. The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones: A Critical Companion. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016: 194-217. ISBN 978-0-8263-5768-7
  • “Digging a hole in the water”: Refunctionalizing Seaside Forts on the Ethnic Shore.  Paper for MESEA (Multi-Ethnic Society: Europe and the Americas) conference in Warsaw/Poland, June 2016. Conference theme: “Cultural Palimpsests: Ethnic Watermarks, Surfacing Histories”; panel theme (chair Cathy C. Waegner): “Littoral Loopholes: Palimpsestic Trajectories on the Ethnic Shore, Parts 1 and 2.”
  • CityLeaks Cologne: Diasporic Figures of Color in Urban Spaces. Postcolonial Studies Association Newsletter, Summer 2016. (Online publication)
  • Consuming, Incarcerating, and “Transmoting” Misery: Border Practice in Gerald Vizenor’s Bearheart and Stephen Graham Jones’s The Fast Red Road. Paper for American Studies Association conference in Toronto/Canada, October 2015. Conference theme: “The (Re)production of Misery and the Ways of Resistance”; panel theme: “In/cisions and De/cisions: Oppression and Resistance in Native and Latino American Border Narratives.” Published in Transmotion (see above).
  • Performing Street Art: CityLeaks, Affiliation, and Transcultural Diaspora.  Paper for Postcolonial Studies Association conference in Leicester/UK, September 2015. Conference theme: “Diasporas”; panel theme (chair Cathy C. Waegner): “Performing New Transcultural Diasporas.”
  • Mediating Indianness. Waegner, Cathy Covell, ed. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2015; American Indian Studies series, general editor: Gordon Henry Jr. ISBN 978-1-61186-151-8
  • “Buffalo Bill Takes a Scalp”: Mediated Transculturality on Both Sides of the Atlantic with William F. Cody’s Wild West, from Show to Hollywood and YouTube. In: Waegner, Cathy Covell, ed. Mediating Indianness. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2015: 45-72. ISBN 978-1-61186-151-8
  • Review of Joanna Hearne’s Smoke Signals: Native Cinema Rising. In: Kritikon Litterarum 2015: 42 (3-4): 292-299.
  • Ambassador Patricia R. Harris: Paving the Way for Barack Obama. In: Pultar, Mustafa, ed. Kültürötesi Bir Gezgin: Gönül Pultar’a Armağan Kitabı – A Transcultural Wanderer: A Festschrift for Gönül Pultar. İstanbul: Tetragon Yayınları, 2014: 303-326. ISBN 978-605-87262-1-5 (This volume is also available under the English title only.)
  • Blackface Minstrelsy and Ethnic Identity as Globalized Market Commodities. In: Pultar, Gönül, ed. Imagined Identities: Identity Formation in the Age of Globalization. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2014: 124-138. ISBN  978-0-8156-3342-6
  • Transculturality and Perceptions of the Immigrant Other: “From-Heres” and “Come-Heres” in Virginia and North Rhine-Westphalia. Waegner, Cathy Covell, Page R. Laws, and Geoffroy de Laforcade, eds. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4438-2695-2
  • Bildung(sroman): Ethnic Transformations at School in North Rhine-Westphalia, Virginia, Pécs, and Autobiographical Novels. In: Waegner, Cathy Covell, Page R. Laws, and Geoffroy de Laforcade, eds. Transculturality and Perceptions of the Immigrant Other: “From-Heres” and “Come-Heres” in Virginia and North Rhine-Westphalia. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011: 106-133. ISBN 978-1-4438-2695-2
  • Bodies and Hybrid Tropes: Border Crossings in Recent Films. In: Davis, Rocio G., et al., eds. Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art: Performing Migration. New York: Routledge, 2010: 48-65. ISBN 978-0-415-88290-3
  • Ruthless Epic Footsteps: Shoes, Migrants, and the Settlement of the Americas in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy. In: Nyman, Jopi, ed. Post-National Enquiries: Essays on Ethnic and Racial Border Crossings. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009: 91-112. ISBN 10-1443905939, ISBN 13-978-1443805933
  • Voicing Virginia’s “Naturals”?: Alterity and the Old-World Reception of Malick’s The New World. In: Alexander, W.H., et al., eds.Voices from within the Veil: African Americans and the Experience of Democracy. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008: 23-45. ISBN 10-1847186254; ISBN 13-978-1847186256
  • Migration Matters, Even 400 Years Later: Ethnicity in the 1607-2007 Jamestown Jubilee. In: Alexander, W.H., et al., eds. Voices from within the Veil: African Americans and the Experience of Democracy. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, 349-361.  ISBN 10-1847186254; ISBN 13-978-1847186256
  • Performing Postmodernist Passing: Nikki S. Lee, Tuff, and Ghost Dog in Yellowface/Blackface. In: Raphael-Hernandez, Heike; Steen, Shannon, eds. AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics. New York: New York University Press, 2006: 223-244. ISBN 0-814-7775-810
  • Rap, Rebounds, and Rocawear: The “Darkening” of German Youth Culture. In: Raphael-Hernandez, Heike, ed. Blackening Europe: The African American Presence. New York: Routledge, 2004: 171-185. ISBN 0-415-94399-X
  • Liberating Metaphorical Sites: Morrison, Winfrey, and the Popularizing of the “All-Black” Oklahoma Settlements. In: Phillips, Kimberley L.; Pinson, Hermine D.; Thomas, Lorenzo; Wallinger, Hanna, eds. Critical Voicings of Black Liberation. Münster: LIT, 2003: 11-25. ISBN 3-8258-6739-0
  •  Literature on the Move: Comparing Diasporic Ethnicities in Europe and the Americas. Marcais, Dominique; Niemeyer, Mark; Vincent, Bernard; Waegner, Cathy, eds. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2002. ISBN 3-8253-1405-7
  • “Utopia” and Holocaust, Recovery and Desecration: African American and German Jewish Cemeteries as Cultural Texts. In: Marcais, Dominique; Niemeyer, Mark; Vincent, Bernard; Waegner, Cathy, eds. Literature on the Move: Comparing Diasporic Ethnicities in Europe and the Americas. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 2002: 121-130. ISBN 3-8253-1405-7
  • Company brochures in German and English, or Why native speakers are still needed for high-profile translation: Interactive Exercise. In: Forner, Werner, ed. Fachsprachliche Kontraste oder: Die unmögliche Kunst des Übersetzens. Frankfurt: Lang, 2000: 83-93. ISBN 3-631-36033-9
  • Toni Morrison and the ‘Other’-Reader: Oprah Winfrey and Marcel Reich-Ranicki as Mediators? In: Fischer-Hornung, Dorothea; Raphael-Hernandez, Heike, eds. Holding Their Own: Perspectives on the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 2000: 169-179. ISBN 3-86057-739-5
  • From Faulkner to Morrison: “Jazzing Up” the American Nobel Prize Heritage. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik. 27.107: Nobelpreis. September 1997: 68-91.

See also:

Mediating Toni Morrison in Germany