Contributor Biographies

Joseph Bauerkemper is an assistant professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD), where his scholarship and courses emphasize politics, literature, and law. He has published in Studies in American Indian Literatures, American Studies, Journal of Transnational American Studies, and the edited collections Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art and Seeing Red—Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins: American Indians and Film. Before joining the UMD faculty, Joseph earned his PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, enjoyed one year at the University of Illinois as a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in American Indian Studies, and savored two years at UCLA as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the program for the study of Cultures in Transnational Perspective.

Kristina Fagan Bidwell is a member of NunatuKavut. She is the associate dean of Aboriginal Affairs in the College of Arts and Science as well as a professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the co-editor of Orality and Literacy: Reflections Across Disciplines and Call Me Hank: A Stó:lō Man’s Reflections on Living, Logging and Growing Old.

Lisa Brooks is associate professor of English and American Studies at Amherst College. Her first book, The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast (University of Minnesota Press 2008) reframes the historical and literary landscape of the American northeast. She served on the inaugural Council of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association and currently serves on the editorial board of Studies in American Indian Literatures. In addition to her scholarly work, Brooks serves on the Advisory Board of Gedakina, a nonprofit organization focused on Indigenous cultural revitalization, educational outreach, and community wellness in New England.

Jodi A. Byrd is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma and associate professor of American Indian Studies and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her articles have appeared in American Indian Quarterly, Cultural Studies Review, and Interventions. She is the author of The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism (University of Minnesota Press, 2011), which was named Wordcraft Circle’s 2012 Academic Book of the Year.

Warren Cariou was born in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan into a family of Métis and European heritage. He has published works of fiction, criticism, and memoir about Aboriginal cultures in western Canada and has co-directed two films about Aboriginal communities in the oil sands region. He teaches at the University of Manitoba, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Narrative, Community, and Indigenous Cultures and directs the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture.

Adam W. Coon is a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin. His current project is entitled Iahqui Estados Onidos: The Articulation of Nahua Identities in Migration in Contemporary Nahua Literature, 1985–2012. He specializes in contemporary Nahua literature and explores how these texts disarticulate the narrative frame of vanquished Indians as exemplified in Mexican national discourse and its championing of “modernity.” He has published in the Utah Foreign Language Review and A Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America.

James H. Cox is an associate professor of English and co-founder of Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Muting White Noise: Native American and European American Novel Traditions (2006) and The Red Land to the South: American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico (2012) and the former co-editor of Studies in American Indian Literatures.

Denise K. Cummings is associate professor of Critical Media and Cultural Studies at Rollins College. Her teaching and research focus on film history, theory, and criticism; American, American Indian, and global Indigenous film and media, literature, and culture; and media and cultural studies. Her edited volume Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art (Michigan State University Press 2011) undertakes Indigenous self-representation in film, photography, painting, and other visual media, emphasizing the complex responses of contemporary visual artists to the pervasive image of the vanishing Indian. Seeing Red: Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins, co-edited with LeAnne Howe and Harvey Markowitz, offers critical reviews that reexamine the ways American Indians have traditionally been portrayed in classical Hollywood film (Michigan State University Press 2013). Bridging her teaching and research activities, Dr. Cummings curates numerous film programs and serves on selection committees and juries for several film festivals including the Florida Film Festival (Maitland, FL) and the Global Peace Film Festival (New York, NY and Orlando, FL). As a leader in Rollins immersion and experiential learning, she and her students regularly collaborate with several nonprofit and advocacy organizations in Central Florida.

Emilio del Valle Escalante (K’iche’ Maya) is originally from Guatemala. He teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interest focus is on contemporary Latin American literatures and cultural studies with particular emphasis on indigenous literatures and social movements, Central American literatures and cultures, and postcolonial and subaltern studies theory in the Latin American context. His broader cultural and theoretical interests cluster around areas involving themes of colonialism as these relate to issues of nationhood, national identity, race/ethnicity, and gender. He is the author of Maya Nationalisms and Postcolonial Challenges in Guatemala: Coloniality, Modernity and Identity Politics (SAR, 2009; Spanish version by FLACSO, 2008), the editor of “Indigenous Literatures and Social Movements in Latin America” (a special issue of Latin American Indian Literatures Journal [Spring 2008]) and U’k’ux kaj, u’k’ux ulew: Antologia de poesia Maya guatemalteca contemporanea (IILI, 2010).

Renate Eigenbrod (2 December 1944–8 May 2014) was a beloved professor in the Department of Native Studies at the University of Manitoba. She began teaching Aboriginal literatures in Canada in 1986, in the Department of English at Lakehead University, at Acadia University and, from 2002 until her unexpected passing, in Native Studies at the University of Manitoba, where she also served as department head. She was the author of Travelling Knowledges: Positioning the Im/Migrant Reader of Aboriginal Literatures in Canada (2005) and the co-editor of several volumes of scholarship on Aboriginal literature: Aboriginal Oral Traditions: Theory, Practice, Ethics (2008), a special literature issue of The Canadian Journal of Native Studies (Vol. 29.1–2, 2009), and Across Cultures/Across Borders: Canadian Aboriginal and Native American Literatures (2010). In journal articles, book chapters, and conference presentations, she addressed diverse aspects of the field of Indigenous literatures including ecology, trauma and diaspora theories, the role of Indigenous literature in redress, social justice and decolonization, residential school literature with special emphasis on the artistic creations by intergenerational survivors, international Indigenous literature, and relationships between Indigenous peoples and new immigrants.

Margery Fee is professor of English at the University of British Columbia, where she currently teaches feminist science fiction, science and technology studies, and Indigenous literatures. She is completing a book on literature/orature and land claims and is also an associate editor for A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, 2nd ed. Her next project examines how a variety of biological discoveries, including blood types, hormones, and genes, were turned to the task of racializing Indigenous people. She edits the journal Canadian Literature, which is currently putting together an open access resource for teaching and learning about Canadian literature, canlitguides.ca.

Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard is professor of English at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, where she teaches Oceanic and Comparative Ethnic Literatures and Film, and Creative Writing. A poet and critic, her creative work includes two collections of poetry, Alchemies of Distance (Tinfish, Subpress, & Institute of Pacific Studies, 2002), Mohawk/Samoa; Transmigrations (with James Thomas Stevens; Subpress, 2005); and Side Effects: A Pilgrimage (forthcoming, Ala Press). She also is co-editor (with J. Kēhaulani Kauanui) of a special issue for Pacific Studies: Women Writing Oceania (30:2007). Work in progress includes Nuclear Medicine, a collection of essays and poetry, and a book-length monograph on ritual clowning in Samoan culture. Sinavaiana has given poetry readings and lectures in Honolulu, Apia, Pago Pago, Nuku’alofa, Auckland, New York City, Los Angeles, Bridgetown (Barbados), Beijing, Bellagio (Italy), and Delhi. She is co-founder of the first environmental nongovernmental organization (NGO) in Samoa and worked in sustainable development and community-building projects throughout Samoa. Sinavaiana serves on the advisory board of Meridians; a Journal of Feminism, Race and Transnationalism, and also as regional liaison for the Ford Foundation Doctoral Fellows Program.

Sarah Henzi is a postdoctoral fellow affiliated with the First Nations Studies Program at the University of British Columbia, for which she received a Fellowship from the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC, 2012-2014). Her main fields of expertise are North American (US-Canada-Quebec) Indigenous Literatures and New Media, and Canadian Literature. She received her Ph.D. from the Département d’études anglaises, Université de Montréal (2012) and a Licence ès Lettres (M.A. equiv.) from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in English Studies and Philosophy (2003). She has articles published in Studies in Canadian Literature, The London Journal of Canadian Studies, and Australasian Canadian Studies, and currently has a book project under contract with University of Manitoba Press, entitled Inventing Interventions: Strategies of Reappropriation in North American Indigenous Literatures.

ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui is a Kanaka Maoli scholar, poet, and visual artist. She is currently an associate professor in English at the University of Hawai’i-Mānoa where she specializes in Indigenous Hawaiian and Pacific literatures and Indigenous literacy. She is a former Ford Foundation predoctoral and doctoral fellow and a Mellon Hawai‘i Fellow. She has published poetry and short fiction in many venues around the globe. She is also a founding and chief editor of ‘Ōiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal, featuring Native Hawaiian writers and artists. Her first book, Voices of Fire: Reweaving the Literary Lei of Pele and Hi‘iaka, was published in 2014 by the University of Minnesota Press.

LeAnne Howe is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. As a scholar and artist she has won multiple national and international awards including the 2012 United States Artists Ford Fellowship, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas, an American Book Award, and an Oklahoma Book Award. She is the author of novels, plays, short stories, essays, creative non-fiction, screenplays and poetry. Her latest books include, Choctalking on Other Realities, Aunt Lute Books, 2013, a memoir about her travels abroad; and, the co-edited anthology Seeing Red, Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins: American Indians and Film, Michigan State University Press, 2013. In 2010-2011, Howe was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Amman, Jordan. She is the John Olin Eidson Professor in English at the University of Georgia, Athens.

Shari M. Huhndorf (Yup’ik) received her PhD in comparative literature from New York University, and she is currently professor of Native American Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of two books, Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination (Cornell University Press, 2001) and Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture (Cornell University Press, 2009) and a co-editor of three volumes, including Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture (University of British Columbia Press, 2010), winner of the Canadian Women’s Studies Association prize for Outstanding Scholarship. Currently, she is working on a manuscript tentatively titled “Indigeneity and the Politics of Space: Gender, Geography, Culture.”

Born in Guyana, Shona N. Jackson is an associate professor of English at Texas A&M University where she teaches courses in Caribbean and Black Diaspora Studies and Postcolonial theory. She received her PhD from the interdisciplinary program in modern thought and literature at Stanford in 2005. She was founding co-editor of the book series in Caribbean Studies at University Press of Mississippi (2004–2013), a member of the editorial boards of Voces del Caribe, Praxis, and Wadabagei and an advisory and contributing editor for Callaloo. Her publications include an edited issue of Callaloo and essays in Small Axe and the collection Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture. Her book, Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in October 2012.

Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation) is Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture and associate professor of First Nations Studies and English at the University of British Columbia, which is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam people. In addition to numerous critical essays in Indigenous literary studies, his works include Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History, the Indigenous epic fantasy The Way of Thorn and Thunder: The Kynship Chronicles, and the award-winning co-edited anthologies Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature and Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collectives. His cultural history of badgers is forthcoming in the Animal Series from Reaktion Books in 2014. He is a former co-editor of Studies in American Indian Literatures.

Maureen Konkle is an associate professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her book Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827–1863 was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2004. She is currently at work on a biography of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and her family called “Our Indian Relations: The Johnston Family in Michigan, 1790–1890.”

Crystal M. Kurzen earned her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin in English with a concentration in Mexican-American and ethnic American literatures. She currently holds a postdoctoral teaching fellowship in the Department of English at Washington College in Chestertown, MD, where she is at work on her manuscript, Literary Nepantla: Genre and Method in Contemporary Chicana/o Life Narratives. Her project focuses on how contemporary Chicana/os relate self and community from the alter-Native spaces of nepantla through multigeneric storytelling techniques based primarily in strategies of reconceptualizing conventional autobiography. Her article on Pat Mora recently appeared in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. She teaches courses in composition as well as American, Chicana/o, and Latina/o literatures.

Keavy Martin teaches Indigenous literatures at the University of Alberta, located on the edge of the North Saskatchewan River valley in Treaty 6 territory. She has also worked for several years as an instructor with the University of Manitoba’s Pangnirtung Summer School in Nunavut. Her research and teaching interests include Inuit literature and performance; Indigenous research methodologies; Aboriginal rights, treaties, and land claims; and the concept and practice of reconciliation. Her book, Stories in a New Skin: Approaches to Inuit Literature, which explores the relationship of Inuit literary knowledge with southern academic practice, was published in 2012 by the University of Manitoba Press.

Sophie Mayer is author of the poetry collections Kiss Off (Oystercatcher), The Private Parts of Girls (Salt), and Her Various Scalpels (Shearsman). She has written on Indigenous poetry for SAIL, Masthead, and Horizon Review, and on poetry and film for the Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry. She is co-editor of the poethics anthologies, Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot (English PEN), Binders Full of Women, and, forthcoming, Fit to Work: Poets Against Atos.

Sam McKegney is a settler scholar of Indigenous literatures. He grew up in Anishinaabe territory on the Saugeen Peninsula along the shores of Lake Huron and currently resides with his partner and their two daughters in traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples where he is an associate professor of Indigenous and Canadian literatures at Queen’s University. He has written a book entitled Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community after Residential School and articles on such topics as environmental kinship, masculinity theory, prison writing, Indigenous governance, and Canadian hockey mythologies.

Tiya Miles is a professor of Afro-American and African Studies, American Culture, History, and Native American Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of two prize-winning books, Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (2005) and The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story (2010), as well as various articles on women’s history and black and Native interrelated experience. She is co-editor, with Sharon P. Holland, of Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (2006).

Joshua B. Nelson, a Cherokee citizen and native Oklahoman, is assistant professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, and an affiliate faculty member with Native American Studies and Film and Media Studies. He earned his BA in psychology from Yale and his PhD in English from Cornell. His book project Progressive Traditions: Cherokee Literary Anarchism deconstructs the pervasive traditional/assimilated dichotomy in American Indian scholarship and explores the potential of adaptive dispositions outside of statist structures. His chapter “Winking Like a One-Eyed Ford: American Indian Films on the Hilarity of Poverty” appears in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Film Comedy. His work has also appeared in American Indian Culture and Research Journal and Studies in American Indian Literatures.

Margaret Noodin received an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in English and Linguistics from the University of Minnesota. She is Assistant Professor in English and American Indian Studies and at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is also current President of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literature and one of the coordinators the Native American Literature Symposium. Her most recent books are Bwaajimowin: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature (2014) and Weweni: Poems in Anishinaabemowin and English (2015). With her daughters, Shannon and Fionna, she is a member of Miskwaasining Nagamojig (the Swamp Singers) a women’s hand drum group whose lyrics are all in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe). To see and hear current projects visit www.ojibwe.net online or the Facebook page Ojibwe.net where she and other students and speakers of Ojibwe have created a space for language to be shared by academics and the Native community.

Craig Santos Perez is a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guåhan/Guam. He is the co-founder of Ala Press, co-star of the poetry album Undercurrent (Hawai’i Dub Machine, 2011), and author of two collections of poetry: from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Tinfish Press, 2008) and from unincorporated territory [saina] (Omnidawn Publishing, 2010), a finalist for the LA Times 2010 Book Prize for Poetry and the winner of the 2011 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Poetry. He is an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa, where he teaches Pacific literature and creative writing.

Domino Renee Perez, a Tejana from Houston, Texas, is an associate professor of English and the director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of There Was a Woman: La Llorona From Folklore to Popular Culture (2008) and forthcoming articles on Chicana fashion and film.

Alexander Pettit, professor of English at the University of North Texas, has recently published on Eugene O’Neill, Luis Valdez, Tennessee Williams, and Bob Dylan. His critical edition of Samuel Richardson’s early works was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.

Malea Powell is a mixed-blood of Indiana Miami, Eastern Shawnee, and Euroamerican ancestry. She works at Michigan State University where she is an associate professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Culture; a faculty member in American Indian Studies; and former director of the Rhetoric and Writing graduate program. Powell is currently immediate past chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, editor emerita of SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures, and former associate national director of the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. Powell’s current scholarly work focuses on American Indian material rhetorics and the degree to which these “everyday” arts are related to written rhetorical traditions. She is currently working on a book manuscript, Rhetorical Powwows, that examines this continuum of Indigenous rhetorical production. In her spare time, Powell serves on the advisory board of the National Center for Great Lakes Native American Cultures, Inc. (Portland, IN), hangs out with crazy Native women artists and poets, does beadwork, and writes romance novels.

Dean Rader is a professor in and chair of the Department of English at the University of San Francisco (USF). He has published widely in the fields of poetry, literary studies, American Indian studies, and visual/popular culture. His newest book, Engaged Resistance: American Indian Art, Literature, and Film From Alcatraz to the NMAI (University of Texas Press, 2011), won the Beatrice Medicine Award for Excellence in American Indian Scholarship. Recent essays appear in Seeing Red: Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins and Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art. His debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize. He recently curated the blog 99 Poems for the 99 Percent, and his work appears in the 2012 Best American Poetry. He is the recipient of USF’s Distinguished Research Award for 2011.

Mark Rifkin is professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space; When Did Indians Become Straight?: Kinship, the History of Sexuality and Native Sovereignty, winner of the John Hope Franklin prize for best book in American Studies (2012); The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination; and Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance. He co-edited Sexuality, Nationality, Indigeneity (a special double-issue of GLQ), which was awarded the prize for best special issue from the Council of the Editors of Learned Journals (2010).

Channette Romero is an associate professor of English and Native American Studies at the University of Georgia. A specialist in Native and Chicano literatures, she is the author of Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color (University of Virginia Press, 2012). She is currently writing a book on how Native filmmakers appropriate and revise mainstream film genres to better represent Indigenous lives and cultures.

Phillip H. Round is professor of English and American Indian and Native Studies at the University of Iowa, where he coordinated the American Indian and Native Studies program for four years. In 2004, he received a CIC Faculty Fellowship in American Indian Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago and has twice been the recipient of J. William Fulbright Fellowships, in 1996 and 2008. He has published three books, By Nature and By Custom Cursed: Transatlantic Civil Discourse and New England Cultural Production, 1620–1660 (University Press of New England, 1999); The Impossible Land: Story and Place in California’s Imperial Valley (University of New Mexico Press, 2008); and Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663–1880 (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). Removable Type was awarded the James Russell Lowell Prize by the MLA in 2011.

Loriene Roy is professor in the School of Information, the University of Texas at Austin. She is Founder and Director of “If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything,” a national reading club for Native children. She has given more than five hundred formal presentations and has published widely. Her teaching areas are public librarianship, reference, library instruction, and reader’s advisory. She served as the 2007–2008 President of the American Library Association and the 1997–1998 President of the American Indian Library Association. She is Anishinabe, enrolled on the White Earth Reservation, a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe.

James Ruppert is a professor of English at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. A past president of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures (ASAIL), he is an editor of Nothing but the Truth: An Anthology of Native American Literature, and Our Voices: Native Stories from Alaska and the Yukon. He is the author of Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction, as well as many articles on Native American oral and written literature.

Noenoe K. Silva, Kanaka Hawai‘i, is from Kailua, O‘ahu. She has a bachelor’s degree in Hawaiian language and a PhD in Political Science, both from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She is the author of Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism. She currently serves as professor of Political Science, specializing in Hawaiian and Indigenous Politics, and also teaches in the Center for Hawaiian Languages at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

Christopher B. Teuton (Cherokee Nation) is associate professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he is Coordinator of American Indian and Indigenous Studies. A scholar of Indigenous Textual and Cultural Studies, Teuton is author of Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature (University of Nebraska Press, 2010), as well as co-editor and co-author of Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008). His most recent book is Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars’ Club (University of North Carolina Press, 2012), a collection of forty interwoven stories, conversations, and teachings about Western Cherokee life, beliefs, and the art of storytelling. In 2013 Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars’ Club received an American Book Award by the Before Columbus Foundation.

Sean Kicummah Teuton is a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center at Stanford University and an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel (Duke 2008), a co-author of Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective (Oklahoma 2008), and North American Indigenous Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, forthcoming). This year he is at work on a new book, entitled Cities of Refuge: Indigenous Cosmopolitan Writers and the International Imaginary. Teuton is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.

Kiara M. Vigil, assistant professor of American Studies at Amherst College, specializes in Native American Studies. She was recently the Gaius Charles Bolin fellow in American Studies at Williams College. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan in American Culture and holds master’s degrees from Dartmouth College and Columbia University’s Teachers College. Her current book, North American Indian Intellectuals and the American Imagination, 1880–1930 (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press), examines the cultural production of four Indian intellectuals: Charles Eastman, Carlos Montezuma, Gertrude Bonnin, and Luther Standing Bear within the shifting social and political milieu of the early twentieth century. She also has chapters in two forth-coming edited volumes: Why You Can’t Teach U.S. History without American Indians (University of North Carolina Press) and Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas (Yale University Press).

Thomas Ward is professor of Spanish and director of the Latin American and Latino Studies program at Loyola University in Maryland. His recent work has been comparative in nature, focusing on Spanish and Indigenous conceptions of Indigenous peoples. He has published three books: La anarquía inmanentista de Manuel González Prada (1998), La teoría literaria: romanticismo, krausismo y modernismo ante la ‘globalización’ industrial (2004), and La resistencia cultural: la nación en el ensayo de las Américas (2004) and is presently working on two more, one regarding Spanish and Indigenous notions of the nation during the sixteenth century and the other on the powerful influence that the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega had on modern Peruvian thought.

Robert Warrior (Osage), author of The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction, and other books, is professor of American Indian Studies, English, and History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Frances Washburn is an associate professor at the University of Arizona where she is also the director of Graduate Studies in the American Indian Studies Program. She is the author of three novels: Elsie’s Business (University of Nebraska Press, 2006), The Sacred White Turkey (University of Nebraska Press, 2010), and The Red Bird All-Indian Traveling Band (University of Arizona Press, forthcoming 2013), as well as a biography, Tracks on a Page: The Life and Work of Louise Erdrich (Praeger Press, 2013).

Jace Weaver is the Franklin Professor of Native American Studies and director of the Institute of Native American Studies at the University of Georgia. A leading figure in Native American studies, he is the author or editor of twelve books, including That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community and American Indian Literary Nationalism (with Craig Womack and Robert Warrior). His most recent is The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and Transoceanic Cultural Exchange, 1000–1927, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2014.

Craig Womack, author of Art as Performance, Story as Criticism, teaches in the English Department at Emory University.