Professor
Contact Information
304 Poucher Hall
[email protected]
Office hours
Tuesdays, 3:00-4:00, Wednesdays 3:00-4:00, and by appointment
Professor & Director of General Education
B.S.S. Cornell College of Iowa; Ph.D. SUNY Buffalo
Fulbright Research and Lecturer Award, University of Turku, Finland
Sasakawa Fellowship in Japan Studies, San Diego State University
NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, University of California, Irvine
Commonwealth Center for the Study of American Culture, The College of William and Mary
REPRESENTATIVE & RECENT PUBLICATIONS
"Continental Liberty, Natural Reason, Survivance: Gerald Vizenor's Sojourning in the Borderlands." Theorizing the Canada-U.S. Border. Eds. David Stirrup & Jeffrey Orr. Edinburgh University Press, 2023. (in press)
"Louise Erdrich's Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Writing, Being, Healing, Place." Enduring Critical Poses: the Legacy and Life of Anishinaabe Literature and
Letters. Eds. Gordon Henry Jr., Margaret Noodin, & David Stirrup. SUNY Press, 2021. 2-16.
"Addressing Matters of Concern in Native American Literatures: Place Matters." Indigenizing the Classroom: Engaging Native American/First Nations Literature and Culture in Non-Native Settings. Ed. Anna M. Brígido-Corachán. Publicacions de le Universitat de. València, 2021. 41-54.
"Louis Owens: Haunting California." Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy. Eds. A. Robert Lee & Joe Lockard. University of New Mexico Press, 2019. 81-96.
"‘I Don’t Know’: Linking Past and Present, the Personal and the Nation, and Movement in Sterlin Harjo’s This May be the Last Time." Conflict and Controversy in Small Cinemas. Eds. Janina Falkowska & Krzysztof Loska. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2019. 235-244.
“Did you hear the one about . . .? Humor in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest and Brazil-Maru." Karen Tei Yamashita: Fictions of Magic and Memory. Ed. A. Robert Lee. University of Hawai’i Press 2018. 59-72.
“Jiibayag Ashegiiwe: Revenants, Gerald Vizenor, Odazhe-giiwenigon.” Native North American Survivance and Memory: Celebrating Gerald Vizenor. Eds. Birgit Dawes & Alexandra Hauke. New York: Routledge 2017. 47-62.
“Cryptic Portrayals: the Grave Games of Stephen Graham Jones’ Fiction.” Stephen Graham Jones Critical Companion. Ed. Billy Stratton. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016. 218-237.
“Clear-cut: The Importance of Mixedblood Identities and the Promise of Native Cosmopolitanism to Native American Literatures.” Routledge Companion to Native American Literature. Ed. Deborah Madsen. New York: Routledge, 2016. 52-63.
“’We can tell our own history, we can tell our own future’: Quese IMC, Culture Shock Camp, and an Indigenous Hip-Hop Movement.” Mediating Indianness. Ed.
Cathy Covell Waegner. East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, 2015. 107-125.