Books
Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Winner of the 2019 George Freedley Memorial Award (Theatre Library Association)
America After Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment. Edited with Catrin Gersdorf. Heidelberg: Winter, 2016.
Journal Articles
“Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage.” J19: Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 12:1 (2024): 565-586. DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2024.a939672
“Re-Visiting the Creole Myth: Race and Ethnicity on the New Orleans Stage.” Quebec Studies 71.1 (2021): 41-60. DOI: 10.3828/qs.2021.5
“Bioprospecting Breadfruit: Imperial Botany, Transoceanic Relations, and the Politics of Translation.” Early American Literature (EAL) 54.3 (2019): 643-71. DOI: 10.1353/eal.2019.0062
“‘Strange Beasts of the Sea:’ Captain Cook’s Last Voyage and the Creation of a Transoceanic American Empire.” Atlantic Studies 15.2 (2018): 238-55. DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2017.1387462
“The Drama of History in Francophone New Orleans.” Early American Literature 50.3 (2015): 763-95. DOI: 10.1353/eal.2015.0078
Chapters in Edited Collections
“Theater of War: Reconstructing (Trans)National Affiliation and Performance Residue in a Divided City.” American Cultures as Transnational Performance: Commons, Skills, Traces. Edited by Katrin Horn, Leopold Lippert, Ilka Saal, and Pia Wiegmink. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022. 161-174.
“The Poetics of Education in Antebellum New Orleans.” African American Literature in Transition, 1830-1850. Edited by Benjamin Fagan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 63-90.
“‘Strange Beasts of the Sea:’ Captain Cook, the Sea Otter, and the Creation of a Transoceanic American Empire.” Across Currents: Connections between Atlantic and (Trans)Pacific Studies. London: Routledge, 2019. 90-107.
“Democracy after Nature: National Legacies, Global Futures.” With Catrin Gersdorf, in America After Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment. Edited with Catrin Gersdorf. Heidelberg: Winter, 2016. 13-26.
“On the Verge of Fame: The Free People of Color and the French Theatre in Antebellum New Orleans.” Liminale Anthropologien. Eds. Jochen Achilles, Roland Borgards, and Brigitte Burrichter. Würzburg: Koenigshausen & Neumann, 2012. 161-81.
Book Reviews
Review Essay. “Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater.” Early American Literature 59.3 (2024): 667-681. DOI: 10.1353/eal.2024.a940228
Review. Nineteenth Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History by Juliana Chow. American Literary History 35.4 (2023): 1934-1936. https://doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad177
Review. Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana, by Camille Lebrun. Translated with an introduction and annotations by E. Joe Johnson and Robin Anita White. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 41.2 (2022): 350-352.
Review. New Orleans: A Literary History, edited by T. R. Johnson. Anglia: Journal of English Philology 128.3 (2020): 554-557.
Review. Performing America Abroad: Transnational Cultural Politics in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism by Leopold Lippert. Kritikon Litterarum 46. 3-4 (2019): 311-13.
Review. New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849 by Elizabeth Maddock Dillon and Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760-1850 by Jenna M. Gibbs. William and Mary Quarterly 72.3 (2015): 513-16.
Review. Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760-1850 by Jenna M. Gibbs. Amerikastudien/ American Studies 60.2+3 (2015).
Media Interviews, Blog Posts, and Newspaper Articles
“Virginie Gireaudeau: Performer of Color in Southeast Louisiana.” Interview with Bob Pavlovich for Louisiana Considered, Radio Show on 89.9 WWNO, April 1, 2024.
“Boston Men, Linguists, and the Early American Sea Otter Skin Trade.” The Beehive. Blog curated by the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA. May 23, 2023.
“Breadfruit.” Climate Cuisine Podcast. Interview with Clarissa Wei. September 27, 2021.
“Creole Drama.” Louisiana Anthology Podcast. Interview with Bruce R. Magee and Stephen Payne. September 6, 2020.
“54.3 The New Natural History.” Interview with Michael Boyden, Juliane Braun, and Paul Lindholdt. Early American Literature Podcast. October 15, 2019.
“The Limits of Book Learning.” History of Knowledge: Research, Resources, and Perspectives. Blog curated by the German Historical Institute, Washington D.C., July 11, 2018.
“Transoceanic American Studies.” Interview with Juliane Braun and Benjamin Fagan. Emerging Topics, TRAFO Blog for Transregional Research, Max-Weber-Foundation. May 11, 2018.
“5in10 with Juliane Braun,” TRAFO Blog for Transregional Research, Max-Weber-Foundation. Nov. 28, 2017.
“Reiseberichte großer Entdecker: Kulturelle Einflüsse und Auswirkungen.” Neugier Genügt. WDR 5. July 17, 2017.
“Den Entdeckern auf der Spur.” General-Anzeiger Bonn. Feb. 23, 2016.
“Geschönte Welt von Pazifikreisebereichten im 18. Jahrhundert.” Aus Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften. Deutschlandfunk. Jan. 14, 2016.