Contributor Biographies
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Alice Azure’s writings have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies such as The Mi’kmaq Anthology, volume 2: In Celebration of the Life of Rita Joe; the Florida Review; and Yukhika-latuhse. Two books were launched in 2011: Along Came a Spider by Bowman Books (a memoir) and a chapbook of poems—Games of Transformation by Albatross Press, the latter selected as the poetry book of the year by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. She earned an MA degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Iowa and is recently retired after twenty-five years of service in the United Way movement. A Mi’kmaq Métis, her roots are in the Kespu’kwitk District (Yarmouth) of Nova Scotia. She lives on the Illinois side of the St. Louis metropolitan area and is a member of the St. Louis Poetry Center.
Margaret M. Bruchac (Abenaki) is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, and former coordinator of Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Connecticut. In 2011–2012, she was the recipient of both a Ford Fellowship and the Katrin H. Lamon Fellowship from the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe. She is the author of Dreaming Again: Algonkian Poetry from Bowman Books (2012), and is working on a book manuscript, titled “Consorting With Savages: Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists,” forthcoming from the University of Arizona Press.
Lorrayne Carroll is an associate professor of English and member of the Faculty of the Women and Gender Studies Program at the University of Southern Maine. She teaches courses and conducts research in American studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and literacy studies. Her current [End Page 142] book project is a coauthored study of the rhetorics of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and the economic consequences of those representations. She is also working on an article about the linguistic “haunting” of Joseph Nicolar’s Life and Traditions of the Red Man.
Christine M. Delucia is an assistant professor in the History Department at Mount Holyoke College. She completed her doctoral work in American studies at Yale University; her dissertation explores the meanings of King Philip’s War and colonial violence in the Northeast, in both tribal and settler communities. She comes from Manchester, New Hampshire, and has studied history, literature, and the environment at Harvard College and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. A fellowship from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale supported research in Joseph Bruchac’s papers.
Reginald Dyck is an English professor at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. He recently had articles on Greg Sarris’s fiction published in Western American Literature and American Indian Culture and Research Journal. He coedited the critical anthology Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West, which included his essay on Simon Ortiz’s Fight Back.
Michael Leblanc is a doctoral candidate at the University of New Hampshire. His dissertation examines relationships between Christianity and communitism in stories from contemporary indigenous New England. Both his teaching and research explore ways of implementing Native American literature, contemporary poetry, and innovative pedagogy to understand and expand literature’s roles in effecting social change. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Margo Lukens is associate professor in the University of Maine Department of English and serves as director of academic programs in the Bion and Dorain Foster Center for Student Innovation. She teaches both innovation and English courses: eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Anglo-American and Native American literature. Her research interests include Wabanaki literary and storytelling history, Native American and First Nations plays and playwrights, and innovation and antiracism work. Her work has included producing and directing Native American plays on campus and in the region, as well as mentoring Native students and community members interested in theater. Recently she edited the volume Grandchildren [End Page 143] of the Buffalo Soldiers and Other Untold Stories: Five Plays by William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. (UCLA).
Dale Potts graduated in 2007 with a doctoral degree in history from the University of Maine. In 2009–10 he was a research associate in the Science, Technology, and Society Department at...
