American Indian Studies Program

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Program Affiliation

• Department of English
• American Indian Studies Program

Courses

• Contemporary American Indian Literature Since 1953
• Literature of the Native Southeast
• Identity & Experience in American Indian Literature
• Native Literature in the Era of Red Power, 1969-1979
• Studying in Native America
• Contemporary Native American Poetry

Biographical Sketch

Degrees and Institutions

B.A., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1990; M.A., San Francisco State University, 1994; M.A., Cornell University, 1999; Ph.D., Cornell University, 2002.

Research Interests

American Indian Literature, the Native novel, Nineteenth-Century American Indian nonfiction, Twentieth-Century American Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Cultural Studies

Selected Publications

"Teaching Disclosure: Overcoming the Invisibility of Whiteness in the American Indian Studies Classroom." Identity in Education . Eds. Susan Sanchez-Casal and Amie Macdonald. New York: Palgrave, 2009; "The Callout: Writing American Indian Politics." Reasoning Together: Native Critics in Dialogue . Ed. Craig Womack. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008; Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel , (Forthcoming, Duke University Press, 2008); “A Question of Relationship: Internationalism and Assimilation in Recent American Indian Studies,” Review Essay of Maureen Konkle, Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827-1863 , Arnold Krupat, Red Matters: Native American Studies , Lucy Maddox, Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, and Reform , Robert Dale Parker, The Invention of Native American Literature , Elvira Pulitano, Toward a Native American Critical Theory, American Literary History 18.1 (2006): 152-74 ; “Internationalism and the American Indian Scholar: Native Studies and the Challenge of Pan-Indigenism,” Identity Politics Reconsidered , Eds. Linda Martín Alcoff et al., (New York: Palgrave, 2006), 264-84; “Placing the Ancestors: Postmodernism, ‘Realism,' and American Indian Identity in James Welch's Winter in the Blood,” American Indian Quarterly 25.4 (2001): 626-50.

Current Projects

I'm at work on a second book on human rights and Native diplomacy entitled, Cities of Refuge: American Indian Literary Internationalism, a project that has received the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship and the Katrin H. Lamon Fellowship at the School of American Research.

Graduate Teaching

I'm currently teaching a graduate seminar, Early American Indian Writing, on Native human rights appeals and international diplomacy, in writing in English up to the 1887 Dawes Act, by such authors as Samson Occom, Joseph Johnson, Black Hawk, William Apess, George Copway, Peter Jones, Elias Boudinot, and Sarah Winnemucca.

Personal Statement

I'm committed to developing enabling ideas about literature and life both in research and in the classroom to promote the understanding of identity, experience, nationhood, imprisonment, and of our relationship to peoples, the past, and the land. To this purpose, I place great value in mentoring.

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