Assistant Professor, English and American Indian
Studies.
608-263-3448
steuton@wisc.edu
PhD, Cornell University, 2002
MA, Cornell University, 1999
MA, San Francisco State University, 1994
BA, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1990
American Indian Literature, the Native novel, Nineteenth-Century American Indian nonfiction, Twentieth-Century American Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Cultural Studies
"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.
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 from the School of American Research.
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.
English 173, Cultural Interaction in the Literature of Native America
American Indian Studies 450, Literature of the Native Southeast
English 172, Introduction to the Literature of Native America
American Indian Studies 650, Contemporary American Indian Literature Since 1953
English 275, American Indian Oral Literatures
English 591, Tradition and Change in American Indian Literatures
American Indian Studies 450, Identity and Experience in American Indian Literature
American Indian Studies 450, Native Literature in the Era of Red Power, 1969-1979
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.