Contributor Biographies
Rent from DeepDyveMaria Depriest received her PhD at the University of Oregon and now teaches in the English Department and the Native American Studies Program at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. Her scholarship focuses on contemporary women writers whose works embrace beauty and politics and suggest ways of seeing that rely on interdependence, chance, and humor. Her article "'Once Upon a Time, Today': Hearing Fleur's Voice in Tracks" has been accepted by the Journal of Narrative Theory. Currently she is doing research for a paper about Native American and Palestinian American women writers who crisscross into each other's literal and literary lands.
Lynn Domina has published a collection of poetry, Corporal Works, as well as two reference books. She has written on N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Zora Neale Hurston, Elizabeth Keckley, and several other literary figures. She currently teaches at SUNY–Delhi in the western Catskill region of New York.
Jordana Finnegan grew up near Santa Cruz, California, and received her PhD in English from the University of Oregon in 2005. Her scholarly interests include Native American literature and history, ethnic autobiography, and Western American literature. Her dissertation, Race, Gender, and Landscape in New Western Narrative, will be published as a book in 2008. She is a faculty member in English at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California, and in her spare time she enjoys reading, hiking, and spending time with family.
Cynthia Fowler received her PhD in art history from the University of Delaware in 2002. Currently, she is an assistant professor at Wentworth [End Page 133] Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts. Her research has consistently focused on the artist production of twentieth-century women artists. Her publications on American Indian artists include "Gender Representation in the Art of Jaune Quick-To-See Smith" in Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art (2005) and "Strategies for Self-Determination in American Indian Art" in Social Justice (2007).
Ruthe Blalock Jones received her BFA from the University of Tulsa and her MA from Northeastern Oklahoma State University. She paints in traditional two-dimensional flat style, contemporary acrylic and oils on canvas and Masonite. Her work portrays the pleasures and experiences of a lifetime of attending and participating in traditional Indian ceremonial and social events.
Kimberli Lee is currently teaching in the Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures department at Michigan State University as a visiting assistant professor. She has relatives among the Lakotas, Omahas, and Southern Cheyennes. Her book examining Mari Sandoz's political activism on behalf of the Plains tribes is forthcoming from Texas Tech University Press.
Terre Ryan is a lecturer at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she recently completed her PhD in English. Ryan's work focuses on American literature and culture. Current research interests include American multiethnic literature, landscape aesthetics, prose of place, environmental literature, representations of war, and the discourse of patriotism. Her work has appeared in a variety of literary journals.
Linda Young is an educator and free-lance photographer of Lakota heritage. She holds BS and MS degrees in education from Indiana University. Currently the director of student teaching, Young has earned merit status as a member of the associate faculty at Indiana University South Bend. Prior to her work at Indiana University, she was an elementary classroom teacher. Young's research interests include American Indian culture and history, technology, education, and issues of culture and equity in education as related to American Indian and gay and lesbian students.
