Invited Testimony, Articles, Essays, Workbooks
“Energy Cultures in German Studies,” German Quarterly, 2024. (invited and submitted October 2023)
“Critical Affordances after Critique,” Resilience, an Environmental Humanities Journal, 2023.
“Awash in Climate Change, Adrift on Emotions,” Current Anthropology, 2022.
My Climate Story: Recipes for Crafting, Telling, and Sharing Your Own. A climate literacy workbook. https://my-climate-story.org/resources/workbook/
“Testimony for Philadelphia City Council.” Philadelphia City Hall. November 2019. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y9gfgsrE0Mv8LuPqLE_3tfi01qKJuiWZADZnBtPpNEM/edit?usp=sharing
“Written Remarks for the Mayor’s Refinery Task Force.” https://www.phila.gov/media/20191111225508/Testimony-%E2%80%93-Wiggin.pdf
“Elegy with Rampikes.” Underwater New York. Issue 15 (Labor Issue). https://underwaternewyork.com/all-pieces/elegy-with-rampikes
“Crimes against Nature: Plainsight Is 20/20, Recycled Artist in Residency.” Monument Lab: A Public Art and History Project, ed. Paul M. Farber and Ken Lum. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2019.
“Why My Family Is Disrupting Routine.” Irony of A: Reflections on Teaching and Learning, blog of the Germantown Friends School. September 2019. https://medium.com/@ironyofa/why-my-family-is-disrupting-routine-for-climate-change-5b7852ae1343
“Environmental Inhumanities.” The Uses of Environmental Humanities, special series for blog of the Rachel Carson Center for Society and Environment. July 2019. https://seeingthewoods.org/2019/07/23/uses-of-environmental-humanities-bethany-wiggin/
“Forgotten Places and Radical Hope on an Industrial River.” River Life. 6. (2017). http://editions.lib.umn.edu/openrivers/article/forgotten-places-and-radical-hope-on-philadelphias-tidal-schuylkill-river/
“Invited Testimony on Web Archiving, Environmental Data Rescues, and Data Refuge” for the U.S. Congressional Transparency Caucus. Washington, D.C., February 2017.
Dramaturg, A Period of Animate Existence, an opera by Troy Herion (Composer), Mimi Lien (Design), and Dan Rothenberg (Director). Featured performance at Philadelphia Fringe Festival, 2017.
“Poor Christoph’s Almanac: Popular Media and Imperial Education in Colonial Pennsylvania.” German-American Educational History. Ed. Jürgen Overhoff. Verlag Julius Klinkhardt. 2016.
“Birds of Different Feathers: Germans, Americans, and the Monolingual Myth in Early American Studies.” Review Essay. Early American Literature. 50.1. (2015): 153-166.
“Slavery in Translation: German Baroque Figurations of African Enslavement in the Americas.” Opening Spaces: Constructions, Visions, and Depictions of Spaces and Boundaries in the Baroque. Ed. Karin Friedrich. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 2014. 723-740.
“Forecasting Loss: Christoph Saur’s Pennsylvania German Calender (1751-1757).” Enduring Loss in Early Modern Germany. Ed. Lynne Tatlock. Amsterdam: Brill, 2010. 397-414.
“Dating the Eighteenth Century in German Literary History.” Review Essay. Eighteenth-Century Studies 40.1 (2006): 126-132.
“The Politics of Coffee Consumption: Leipzig Coffee House Culture at 1700.” Wolfenbütteler Barock-Nachrichten 31 (2004): 25-36.