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Beetles

CURRENT PROJECT:
Insects and Material Culture

Sibyl Bucheli, Audrey Murfin, Victoria Pettersen Lantz

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CURRENT PROJECT:
How the western American frontier appears in the Disney parks

BOOKS                         Victoria Pettersen Lantz, co-editor with Audrey Murfin and Sibyl Bucheli. Pin Ups: Colonialism, Collection, and Femininity in Material                                                  Culture. Palgrave. (forthcoming; under contract with Palgrave)

         

                                     Angela Sweigart-Gallagher and Victoria Pettersen Lantz, editors. Youth and Nationalism in Theatre and Performance. Routledge.

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PEER REVIEWED       “‘The Spirit of Aloha:’ A History of How Disney Theming Performs Hawaiian and Polynesian Cultures,” The Journal of American Culture      ARTICLES                    7.2 (Disney at 100 Special Topic) 2024: 115-123

 

                                     “‘See Ya Real Soon’: Destaging Fantasy in COVID-Era Disney World,” Popular Culture Review 33.2 (COVID Special Topics), 2022: 157-197

                                     

                                     “Staging American Girlhood the Pleasant Way: Centering Girls in History and Performance with the American Girl Theatre Kits.” With                                           Angela Sweigart-Gallagher. Youth Theatre Journal 34.1, 2020: 3-15

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                                     “Reimagineering Tourism: Hyper-Style and the Power of the Tourist-Performer at Walt Disney World,” The Journal of Popular Culture                                               52.6 (2020): 1334-1354

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                                     “Black Fridays: Transatlantic Entertainments and the Racial Construction of Robinson Crusoe’s Man Friday,” Popular Entertainment                                                 Studies 5.2 (2014): 48-64 

 

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BOOK                         “Some of Our Closest, Unnamed Friends: First Nation Culture and Indexical Absence at Walt Disney World.” Performance and the Disney    CHAPTERS                  Theme Park Experience: The Tourist as Actor. Second Ed. Ed. Tom Robson and Jennifer Kokai. Palgrave (Second edition forthcoming, 2025)

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                                     “Friends Just Around the Riverbend: Performing Intimacy and Authenticity in Disney Park Character Meets.” Fan Phenomena: Disney. Ed.                                       Sabrina Mittermeier. Intellect (2023). 122-133

 

                                     “What’s Missing in FrontierLand?: American Indian Culture and Indexical Absence at Walt Disney World.” Performance and the Disney                                            Theme Park Experience: The Tourist as Actor. Ed. Tom Robson and Jennifer Kokai. Palgrave (2019). 43-64

   
                                     “‘Your Generation Curse’: Kwame Kwei-Armah’s Staging of West Indian Fatherhood in Britain.” ‘Experienc’d Age knows what for Youth is                                           fit’?: Generational and Familial Conflict in British and Irish Drama and Theatre. Ed. Katarzyna Bronk. Peter Lang: Oxford (2019). 311-334

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                                     “Introduction: Temporality, Youth, and Nation” and “Making Contact: Trinidadian and Thai Identities in Movement at CTW2012.” Youth                                          and Nationalism in Theatre and Performance, eds. Lantz and Sweigart-Gallagher. 1-18, 223-240

                                     

                                     “What Comes ‘After Chekhov’?: Mustapha Matura and West Indian Reiterations of Three Sisters.” Adapting Chekhov: The Text and its                                                Mutations. Eds. Douglas Clayton and Yana Meerzon. York: Routledge (2012). 161-179

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                                     “Using the ‘Modder’ Tongue: As Time Goes By and the Stage and Language of New Britain.” Border-Crossings: Narrative and Demarcation                                      in Postcolonial Literatures and Media. Eds. J. K. S. Makokha, Jennifer Wawrzinek and Russell West-Pavlov. Heidelberg (2012).

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Meet and Greet images referenced in "Friends Just Around the Riverbend: Performing Intimacy and Authenticity in Disney Park Character Meets" and ​“What’s Missing in FrontierLand?: American Indian Culture and Indexical Absence at Walt Disney World"

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