Native American Studies

Field Of Study:

Film, Native American Film

Description:

Film Studies Committee

Advising Board for Center for Teaching Excellence

Committee Faculty Graduate Studies Conference

Student Filmmaking/ film appreciation (film society)

Research Interests:

Film/Native American Film

Pedagogy in teaching film (how to create/teach classes in flim)

Education:

Ph.D.  Philosophy in American Indian Studies, University of Arizona

M.A.  American Studies, University of Wyoming

B.A.   English, University of Wyoming

Teaching Experience:

Awards:

Charles Eastman Dissertation Fellowship, Dartmouth College

Past Appointments:

Dartmouth College (visiting instructor)

University of Arizona

University of Wyoming

Selected Publications:

2003 “Narrating for Hollywood, Narrating for Home: Native Sensibility in Sherman Alexie’s Smoke Signals.” Sherman Alexie: a Collection of Critical Essays. University of Utah Press. Forthcoming.

2002 Rev. Naturally Native, dir. Valerie Red Horse. Red Ink. 10:2. 83.

2001 Rev. Hollywood’s Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film, eds. Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor. Red Ink. 9:2/10:1. 151.

2001 Rev. On and Off the Res’ with Charlie Hill, dir. Sandra Osawa. Red Ink. 9:2/10:1. 153.

2001 Rev. Bambi in Arapaho, by Stephen Greymorning and the Arapaho Nation. Walt Disney Studios. 9:2/10:1. 154.

2000 “Alexie, Sherman.” Macmillan Profiles: American Indian Portraits. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2000.

2000 “Ortiz, Simon, J.” Macmillan Profiles: American Indian Portraits. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2000.

1999 “The Naming: A Response to ‘What Indians?’ by Simon Ortiz.” Red Ink. 7:2. 23-24

Publications:

Conference Papers

2005   Western Literature Association “Native American Filmmakers Contemporary Visions of the West:Reclaiming or Rejecting Space and Place” Los Angeles, California, October

2005   Native American Literature Symposium “Indigenous Consciousness in The Doe Boy” Prior Lake, Minnesota, April

2004   Native American Literature Symposium “Teaching Native American Film: Approaches and Contexts” Prior Lake, Minnesota, April

2002   Modern Language Association Annual Convention “Evidence of Indigenous Consciousness in a Colonizing Language: Resistance and Resilience in the Poetry of Ofelia Zepeda.” New York, New York, December

2002   Native American Literature Symposium “Mediation and the Role of Native Women in Smoke Signals.”Prior Lake, Minnesota, April

2000   American Literature Association conference “ Syncretism for the New Millennium: Indigenous Culture and Western Thought in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks.” Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, November

1997  Constructions of the Human Conference “Obsession, Power, and Identity in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks.” California State University, Stanislaus, California, October.

1997   Wyoming Conference on English “Gentle Weapons: Humor as Resistance in Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist fight in Heaven.” University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, June

1997   California American Studies Association Conference “Mediational Humor and Trickster Narration in Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” Berkeley, California, May

1997   Rocky Mountain McNair Research Symposium and Graduate Education Conference “Movement,Space and Gender in the Western and the Romance” Fort Collins, Colorado, April

1993   First Annual Wyoming McNair Scholars Research Conference “A Period of Transition: Defoe and Crusoe.” University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, August