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Associate Professor of English
Research and teaching interests
Native American literature and film; tribal theory and indigenous knowledges; American literature; gender studies
Education
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2002
B.A., Manchester College, 1994
Publications
Books
Ed., Strawberries in Brooklyn: Maurice Kenny Considered. SUNY Press, forthcoming
Tribal Theory in Native American Literature: Dakota and Haudenosaunee Writing and Worldviews. Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2008
With Sabine Schoenbach, Dakota Language and Culture Workbook and Coloring Book: Book II of the Dakota Cultural Institute. Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center, 1996
Essays
"Condolence and Iroquois Visual Narrative: Tribal Theory in Shelley Niro and Anna Gronau's It Starts with a Whisper (1993)." Native American Film, Art, and Visuality. Ed. Denise K. Cummings. Michigan State Univ. Press, forthcoming
"Indigenous Theory and Service Learning: A Dakota Case Study." Literature Matters: Community-Based Learning and Literacy Studies. Ed. Susan Daniels and AnnMarie Fallon. Anker Press, 2006, 207-18
"Natives, Nation, Narrative: Reading Roanoke in the Renaissance." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 49.1-3 (2003): 49-60
"Narratives of the Boarding School Era from Victimry to Resistance." Atenea 23.2 (Winter 2003): 123-38
"A 'Real Indian' to the Boy Scouts: Charles Eastman's Role in American Indian Resistance Literature of the Early Twentieth Century." Western American Literature 38.1 (Spring 2003): 30-48
Selected honors and awards
Outstanding Faculty Award for Multicultural Teaching, Western Illinois University, 2009
Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning Award, Western Illinois University, 2006-2007
Current projects
Building the Longhouse: Essays on Haudenosaunee Tribal Theory, Film, and Literature (book)