Native American Studies

Field Of Study:

 Native American literature, women in Native America

Description:

Service: Ford Fellowship Contact

Board of Directors – American Graduate Center

Board of Directors – National Public Radio

Research Interests:

Native American literature, women in Native America

Education:

Ph.D. English Literature and Language, emphasis in Native American Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

M.A. English Literature and Language, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

B.A. English, Moorehead State University

Teaching Experience:

Past Appointments:

• Cornell University 1992-1999
• University of Washington  1985-1992

Selected Publications:

Books

"Only An Indian": Reading James Welch (critical work, forthcoming 2004, University of Oklahoma Press).

Publications:

Edited Volumes

Boundaries and Sovereignties: Native American Literature.  Special Edition of Paradoxa, Journal of World Literary Genres, 2001.

Contributions to Books

"Native American Literature" Encylopedia of American Studies, 2001.

"Native American Literature" and "James Welch," The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. 2001. 

"Native American Literature." Native America: Portraits of the Peoples.  Ed. Duane Champagne.  Detroit:  Gale Research Publishers. l994. (Reprint and revision 2001)

 “The Indian American Loves to Love and Read.” (Reprint) and “Afterword.” In Native American Representations.. Ed. Gretchen Bataille. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2001

"Blood Ties and Blasphemy: American Indian Women and the Problem of History." Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice.  New York: New York University Press. 2000

"American Indian Discourses and 'The Politics of Recognition.'” Race, Ethnicity and Nationality in the Twenty-first Century. Ed. Paul Wong. Westview Press,1998.

"Writing Indian: American Indian Literature and the Future of Native American Studies." In Studying Native America: Problems and Prospects of Native American Studies. Ed. Russell Thornton. University of Wisconsin Press (1998).

"Linda Hogan." Dictionary of Literary Biography.  Edited by Kenneth Roemer.  Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., 1997.

"The Lived Experience: American Indian Literature After Alcatraz." Akwe:kon Journal & the National Museum of the American Indian. 11:3 & 4 (1994) 119-27.

"Native American Literature." Native America: Portraits of the Peoples.  Ed. Duane Champagne.  Detroit:  Gale Research Publishers. l994.

"James Welch." Dictionary of Native American Literature. Ed. Andrew Wiget.  New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. 1994.

Biographical entries for Beth Brant, Lois Steele, Indian Emily, Dorian Woman.  In Native American Women: A Biographical Diction­ary. Gretchen Bataille, ed.  New York: Garland Publishing, 1993; (revised edition forthcoming in 1998, essay on Jane Mt. Pleasant).

Introductions for Louise Erdrich, Leslie Silko, and James Welch. Before Columbus Fiction Anthology.  New York: Norton, 1991.

"Time and Time-Again: Notes Toward an Understanding of Radical Elements in American Indian Fiction."  In Transforming the Curriculum: Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies. Eds. Johnnella Butler and John Walter.  SUNY Press, 1990.

"The Indian as Purveyor of the Land: Avoiding Nostalgic Readings of the Way to Rainy Mountain."  In Teaching N. Scott Momaday's Way to Rainy Mountain. Ed. Kenneth Roemer.  New York: Modern Language Association, l988:132-137.

"Making Faces: Defiance and Humor in the Writings of Maria Campbell and James Welch."  In The Native in American and Canadian Literature. Ed. Thomas King. Toronto: ECR Press, l988.

"The Devil's Domain: Leslie Silko's 'Storyteller.'" In Coyote Was Here: Essays on Contemporary Native American Literary and Political Mobilization. Ed. Bo Scholer. Aarhus, Denmark: Seklos Press, l984: 116-123.  Reprinted in Leslie Marmon Silko: A Study of the Short Fiction. Ed. Helen Jaskoski. Boston:  Twayne Publishers, 1998.

Contributions to Journals

“Lady Luck or Mother Earth: The Concept of Luck in Plains Indian Cultures.” Wicazo Sa Review (2000).

“Talking to the Animals and Taking Out the Trash: The Functions of American Indian Literature.” Wicazo Sa Review, Special Issue edited by Jace Weaver and Robert Warrior, 1999.

"The Indian America Loves to Love and Read." American Indian Quarterly Special Issue, (1997). 675-702. 

Jointly with Shelli Fowler, Tiffany Ana Lopez, Caroline Chung Simpson, and Traise Yamamoto, "Negotiating Textual Terrain: A Conversation on Critical and Pedagogical Interventions in the Teaching of Ethnic Autobiography." Frontiers 17:2 (Fall 1996) 4-49.

"Meeting Grounds or 'Frontiers'?" in "Frontiers Reconsidered," Frontiers 17:3 (Winter 1996), 38-42.