Alina Dana Weber

Book

• Weber, A. Dana. Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes. Performing the Wild West in German Festivals. University of Wisconsin Press, 2019.

Edited Books

• Weber, A. Dana. FORMER NEIGHBORS, FUTURE ALLIES? German Studies and Ethnography in Dialogue. New York: Berghahn Books, 2023. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/WeberFormer
• Weber, A. Dana, Wright-Cleveland, Margaret (Eds). Performativity – Life, Stage Screen. Reflections on a Transdisciplinary Concept. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2018.

Articles

• “‘Velvet Eyes and Bowie Knives.’ Reading Karl May’s Tracks in Thomas Mann’s ‘Der Zauberberg,’” Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, September 2025 (38pp), https://doi.org/10.1007/s41245-025-00273-0
• “Vom Zerhacken der Bilder. Kulturelle Aneignung oder kultureller Transfer bei Karl-May-Festspielen?” In: Andreas Brenne, Florian Schleburg, Laura Thüring (Ed.), Wer hat Angst vor Winnetou? Karl May im Spannungsfeld postkolonialer Diskurse. Munich, Germany: kopaed, 2024. 143–174.
• “Reenacting Propaganda. Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and the Anti-Nazi War Film.” In: Stephan Ehrig, Benjamin Schaper, and Elizabeth Ward (Eds.). Entertaining German Culture. Contemporary Transnational Television and Film. New York: Berghahn Books, 2023. 66-96.
• “ʻI almost pulled her to my heart, but…’ Conceptions of Masculinity in Karl May’s Wild West Fictions and their Contemporary Theatrical Adaptations.” In: Lahti, Janne. German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2021. 229-152.
• “From Glorious Nibelungs to Inglourious Basterds: Quentin Tarantino’s Refractive Retelling of Fritz Lang’s Epic Film.” German Studies Review 42/3, October 2019. 537-560.
• “East German Gothic: Kurt Maetzig’s The Rabbit Is Me (1965).” In: Jeffers McDonald, Tamar and Frances Kamm. The Gothic Heroine on Screen. New York: Routledge, 2019. 157–170.
• “The Eternal Return of the Author in the Multiplicity of Festival Times. In A. Dana Weber, Margaret E. Wright-Cleveland (Eds.), Performativity - Life, Stage, Screen. Reflections on a Transdisciplinary Concept. Berlin, Germany: LIT Verlag, 2018. 105-127.
• “Im Schacht des Textes. Diskursive Schichten in E.T.A. Hoffmanns ‘Die Bergwerke zu Falun.’” Seminar 54:1, February 2018. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2-22.
• “Vivifying the Uncanny: Ethnographic Mannequins and Exotic Performers in Nineteenth-Century German Exhibition Culture.” In Lehleiter, Christine (Ed.), Fact and Fiction. Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. 298-331.