PUBLICATIONS

OXFORD HANDBOOKS

Preston, VK. 2017 (digital edition 2018). “Baroque Relations: Performing Silver and Gold in Daniel

Rabel’s Ballets of the Americas.” In The Oxford Handbook of Reenactment. Ed., Mark Franko. New York: Oxford

University Press, 285-310.

Preston, VK. 2015. “How do I touch this text?: Or, the Interdisciplines Between: Dance and Theatre in

Early Modern Archives.” In The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater. Ed., Nadine George-Graves. New

York: Oxford University Press, 56-89. The volume received the Sally Banes Publication Prize honorable

mention at ASTR 2018.

ARTICLES

Preston, VK. “Sitting on a Man’s Head by Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born.” Special section: Covid-19

pandemic and theatre closures. Ed. by Benjamin Gillespie. Performing Arts Journal (PAJ) 129 (2021) 43.3, 39-42.

Kuppers, Petra, Pamela Block, Kristy Johnson, and VK Preston. “Public Intimacies: Water Work in Play.”

Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 8.1, special issue: Cripping the Arts in Canada (2019): 32-57.

Preston, VK. 2018. “Reproducing Witchcraft: Thou Shalt Not Perform a Witch to Live,” TDR / The Drama Review (62)1 (T237).

Editors Rebecca Schneider and Beth Capper, special issue: “On Reproduction.” 143-159.

Preston, VK. 2016. “A Dictionary in the Archives: Translating and Transcribing Silenced Histories in

French and Wendat,” Performance Research 21(5), Trans/Performance, special issue, ed. Amelia Jones, 85-88.

Petra Kuppers, Stephanie Heit, April Sizemore Barber, and VK Preston. 2016. “Mad Methodologies and

Community Arts: The Asylum Project,” Theatre Topics, Devised/Collective Performance, special issue, 221-237.

Preston, VK. 2015. “Curating Performance: Artist as Curator, Curation as Act.” Introduction to “Views

and Reviews,” on the Montreal International Symposium on Curating the Performing Arts. Canadian

Theatre Review 162: 76-77.

Thain, Alanna and VK Preston. 2013. “Tendering the Flesh: The ABCs of Dave St-Pierre’s Contemporary

Utopias.” TDR/The Drama Review, 57 (4), 28-51. Winner of the CATR Richard Plant award for best essay

of 2013.

Preston, Virginia. 2009. “Imag/ing Theater: Wajdi Mouawad’s Seuls,” Theatreforum 35: 17-25.

BOOK CHAPTERS

(Forthcoming; Mellon Dance Studies in/and the Humanities project) Preston, VK. “Convening Muses and

Turning Tables: Reimagining a Danced Politics of Time in Jordan Bennett and Marc Lescarbot.” In The

Futures of Dance Studies. Ed., Susan Manning, Janice Ross, and Rebecca Schneider. Expected publication

2018.

(Accepted: updated and revised 2009 text in review) Preston, VK. “Revisiting Polyphonic Dramaturgy in

Wajdi Mouawad.” For Voices from Within: Literature, Cinema and Arts of Arab Canadians. Edited by May

Telmissany & Walid El Khachab. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.

Preston, VK. 2015. “Un/becoming Nomad: Marc Lescarbot, Movement and Metamorphosis in Les Muses

de la Nouvelle France [1609].” In History, Memory, Performance. Eds., David Dean, Yana Meerzon, and Kathryn

Price, 68-82. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

TRANSLATION

Co-translation with Daniel Ruppel, Marc Lescarbot, Theatre of Neptune (1606), Canadian  Performance Documents

and Debates: A Sourcebook, edited by Allana C. Lindgren, Glen Nichols and Tony Vickery (Calgary: University

of Alberta Press, 2022): 8-16.

NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Theoretical-Performative Commissions

Preston, VK. 2017. “Trans-scriptive Things,” “The Last Wor(l)d,” and a gloss on Petra Kuppers’

submission in Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage. Ed., Daniel Sack. New York/London:

Routledge.