Teaching
AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES 591: Problems in Indigenous Studies
AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES 490: Advanced Topics in American Indian Studies
ENGLISH 460: Literature of American Minorities
Areas of Interest
American Indian and Pacific Literatures, Postcolonial Theory, Indigenous Critical Theory and Politics, Pop Culture and Representations of Indigenous Peoples
Publications
"(Post)Colonial Plainsongs: Toward Native Literary Worldings" in Unlearning the Language of Conquest edited by Don Trent Jacobs. University of Texas Press, 2006. "Living My Native Life Deadly: Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the Politics of Competing Genocides" forthcoming in American Indian Quarterly.
Work in Progress
Book project entitled, Colonial Cacophonies, Decolonial Worlds: Toward an Indigenous Postcolonial Theory that examines how settler colonialisms function in landscapes that bear multiple and competing experiences of arrival, slavery, removal, and resistance. Co-editing a 2007 volume of Alternatives that looks at the intersection between Indigenous Politics and Law. An article that examines the discursive strategies used in debates to frame and resist the incorporation of Native Hawaiian governance within U.S. federal Indian law. An article examining how race, colonialism, space, and indigeneity interact within postmodern literatures of horror.
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