Contributor Biographies
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Rob Appleford is an associate professor in the English and Film Studies Department at the University of Alberta, Canada. He teaches and researches in the areas of Canadian Aboriginal/First Nations literatures and Native American literatures, with an emphasis on contemporary and emergent writing and critical theory. His published articles have appeared in the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Canadian Theatre Review, Modern Drama, Theatre Research in Canada/Récherches Théâtrales au Canada, Canadian Literature, and Social Text (forthcoming), as well as in the book collections Native America: Portrait of the Peoples, Siting the Other: Marginal Identities in Australian and Canadian Drama Crucible of Cultures: Anglophone Drama at the Dawn of a New Millennium, and Canadian Author Series: Drew Hayden Taylor and Daniel David Moses (forthcoming). He has edited a collection of essays on Canadian Aboriginal drama and theatre for Playwrights Canada Press (2005).
J. Edward Chamberlin was born in Vancouver and educated at the universities of British Columbia, Oxford, and Toronto. Since 1970, he has been on the faculty of the University of Toronto, where he is University Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature. His interest in stories and songs has taken him around the world, to the hunters of the Kalahari and the herders of Mongolia as well as the aboriginal peoples of North America and the England of Queen Victoria. He worked on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry and the Alaska Native Claims Commission, was senior research associate with the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, and has worked extensively on native land claims in Canada, the United States, Africa, and Australia. He was poetry editor of Saturday Night magazine, and he has lectured widely on literary, historical and cultural issues. His books [End Page 109] include The Harrowing of Eden: White Attitudes Towards Native Americans (1975), Ripe Was the Drowsy Hour: The Age of Oscar Wilde (1977), Come Back To Me My Language: Poetry and the West Indies (1993), If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? Finding Common Ground (2003), and Horse: How the Horse Has Shaped Civilizations (2006).
Jane Haladay is an assistant professor of American Indian studies at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. She holds a PhD in Native American studies with an emphasis in feminist theory and research from the University of California, Davis, and an MA from the University of Arizona's American Indian Studies Program. Dr. Haladay's scholarship and teaching focus on literary and pedagogical decolonization strategies, with emphases on violence against Native women, ecological literacy, social justice, and human rights.
Ernestine Hayes is a member of the Wolf House of the Kaagwaantaan clan of the Tlingit of southeast Alaska. She is the author of Blonde Indian, an Alaska Native Memoir, which won an American Book Award and an Honoring Alaska Indigenous Literature (HAIL) Award and which was a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize and PEN Nonfiction Award. Her published work also includes poetry and fiction. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Alaska Southeast and is the grandmother of four.
Jennifer K. Ladino is currently a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her research and teaching interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature, American Indian literatures, and green cultural studies. She is currently at work on a book project that traces a genealogy of nostalgia for nature in American literature and culture since 1890.
Patrick Russell Lebeau is professor of writing, rhetoric, and American cultures and former director of American Indian studies at Michigan State University. He has published three books: Stands Alone, Faces and Other Poems (1999), Rethinking Michigan Indian History (2005), and Term Paper Resource Guide to American Indian History (2009). He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota (his father's home). His mother is a member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Tribe of North Dakota. [End Page 110]
Tereza M. Szeghi is an assistant professor of comparative literature and social justice at the University of Dayton. Her teaching and research centers on American Indian, Latina/o, and environmental literatures.
Annette Van Dyke is a professor of interdisciplinary studies and English at the University...
