Nicole Perry

Nicole Perry is a Senior Lecturer in German and Comparative Literature at the University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau, New Zealand| Aotearoa. Her research focuses on the German image of Indigenous North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and how contemporary Indigenous artists reclaim and reappropriate these Euro-American tropes, which primarily situate Indigenous culture and people in the past. She also has an interest in European travel literature in the South Pacific in the early 20th century.

The project

Performing Europeanness, Reclaiming Indigeneity: Indigenous Intersections.

Indigenous Studies, Media and Visual Culture, representations of Indigenous North America in Euro-American discourses, travel writing, literature and theatre of the South Pacific.

Selective bibliography

with Susan Ingram, “Comparative Collisions, Canadian-Style: George Elliot Clarke and Kent Monkman.” Collisions of Cultures. Frictions and Reshapings. Lily Rose Tope, Wolfgang Zach, ed. Stauffenburg Press, 2022: 145-160.

“Translating the “Dead Indian”: Kent Monkman, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, and the Painting of the American West.” Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 2021. https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE.VT.11.3.4

“Appropriations, Creative Subversions, and Conversations. The Indianer in Contemporary Germany and the Double Entendre of Re-enactment.” Indigenous and German Studies special issue of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 55 (4) November 2019: 379-397.

“Verwoben in Indianthusiasm. A Uniquely German Entanglement.” The Entangled Gaze: Indigenous and European Views of Each Other, special issue of ab-Original: Journal of Indigneous Studies and First Nations and First People's Cultures, 2 (2), 2018: 227-245.