Contributor Biographies
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Elizabeth Archuleta is an assistant professor in the School of Social Transformation and Women's and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. Her research examines Indigenous women's representation and Indigenous feminist theory. She has publications in New Mexico Historical Review; Studies in American Indian Literatures; American Indian Quarterly; UCLA School of Law's Indigenous Peoples' Journal of Law, Culture & Resistance; Wicazo Sa Review; and a chapter in the edited volume The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations.
Qwo-Li Driskill (noncitizen Cherokee) is the author of Walking with Ghosts: Poems and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of English at Texas A&M University.
Katherine Young Evans is an assistant professor of English at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her dissertation "Staged Encounters: Native American Performance between 1880 and 1920" explores Native-authored oratory, pageantry, performance poetry, and opera as important vehicles for maintaining, communicating, and adapting tribally specific cultural and political traditions at the turn of the twentieth century. Her work appears in American Indian Performing Arts: Critical Directions (2010) and the forthcoming Indigenous Women and Feminism: Culture, Activism, Politics.
Summer Harrison is currently finishing her dissertation on contemporary ethnic women writers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her scholarly and teaching interests include contemporary ethnic American literatures, narrative theory, women's studies, and environmental justice. Her recent interview with Linda Hogan is forthcoming in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. [End Page 141]
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 a HAIL (Honoring Alaska Indigenous Literature) 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.
Carolyn Sorisio is an associate professor of English at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Her book Fleshing Out America: Race, Gender, and the Politics of the Body in American Literature, 1833-1879 was published in 2002 by the University of Georgia Press. She has published articles on slave narrative and reform writing in African American Review, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, and Modern Language Studies. She guest edited the 2006 special issue of ESQ, "Native Americans: Writing and Written." She is currently working on collecting and analyzing the newspaper articles by and about Sarah Winnemucca.
Thomas Ward is professor of Spanish and director of Latin American and Latino studies at Loyola University Maryland. His latest book, Buscando la nación peruana, looks at the impact literature and culture have on understanding the Peruvian nation. Due out shortly in Lima is a volume of critical studies he has edited on the noted Indigenist poet and essayist Manuel González Prada. Ward is presently engaged in a long-term research project attempting to isolate sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Indigenous notions of ethnicity and gender as they assemble and reinforce the nation in various hemispheric cultural groups in a comparative context. The article on Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl in this issue of SAIL comes from that body of research.
Deborah Weagel is currently an independent scholar living in New Mexico. She is the author of Women and Contemporary World Literature: Power, Fragmentation, and Metaphor and has published articles in a variety of scholarly journals. [End Page 142]
