Selected Publications and Papers « Cathy Covell Waegner

Social Change and Intergenerational Solidarity through Solo Performance: Native American One-Woman Shows by Delanna Studi and Mary Kathryn Nagle. In: Baena, Diana, ed. Contemporary Women Playwrights and the Stakes of Social Change. Forthcoming.
Performing Chiapas: On the Move with Reciprocity and Trans-Indigeneity. Paper for MESEA conference in Joensuu/Finland, May 2024. Conference theme: “Moving Cultures, Moving Ethnicities”; double panel theme: “On the Move in the Americas: Trans-Indigenous Activism and Literature”; co-chaired by Cathy Waegner and Geoffroy de Laforcade.
“Scenes of Mockery”: Puppetry in Mohammed ben Abdallah’s The Trial of Mallam Ilya and Gerald Vizenor’s Waiting for Wovoka. 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. In: Rice, Alan, et al, eds. Writing Borders and Other Barriers in the Era of Climate Crisis: Communities of Engagement. Bloomsbury Publishing, forthcoming.
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. ISBN 978-3-8471-1633-2
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.