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  • Contributor Biographies

Eve Darian-Smith is a professor in the Global & International Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published numerous books and essays, including Laws of the Postcolonial; New Capitalists: Law, Politics and Identity Surrounding Casino Gaming on Native American Land; Religion, Race, Rights: Landmarks in the History of Anglo-American Law and, most recently, Laws and Societies in Global Contexts: Contemporary Approaches. She is on numerous editorial boards and is a former associate editor of American Ethnologist and Law & Society Review.

Lincoln Faller recently retired from the University of Michigan, where he specialized in eighteenth-century English literature but occasionally taught courses on the twentieth-century Native American novel. He now divides his time between Taos and Ann Arbor. Having abandoned England and the English, he is currently working on the collaboration of George Bent (1843– 1918), a Southern Cheyenne, with George Bird Grinnell and George Hyde, who at the beginning of the twentieth century produced the foundational texts of Cheyenne history and ethnography.

Mascha N. Gemein received her doctorate degree in American Indian studies at the University of Arizona in 2013. Her ecocritical research in cosmopolitics examines the multispecies perspective of tribal paradigms and the call for transnational environmental justice engagement in contemporary Native American fiction. [End Page 132]

Joanna Hearne is an associate professor of English and film studies at the University of Missouri. She is the author of Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western (suny P, 2012) and Smoke Signals: Native Cinema Rising (U of Nebraska P, 2012).

Lynette Wise Leidner is a graduate student in the creative writing program at the University of Oklahoma, with a secondary interest in Native American literature. Her nonfiction work has been published by Houghton Mifflin in The College Writer: A Guide to Thinking, Writing, and Researching; her creative work has been published in Yellow Medicine Review. She has also written pieces for World Literature Today. Her creative and academic works focus on multigenre narratives intersecting regionalism, poverty, and mixed-blood identity in Oklahoma. She is currently working on her first novel while teaching composition at the University of Oklahoma. She also works as a reading instructor for the Institute of Reading Development.

Sophie McCall is associate professor in the English department at Simon Fraser University, where she teaches contemporary Canadian and Indigenous literatures. Her book First Person Plural: Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship (U of British Columbia P, 2011), was a finalist for the Gabrielle Roy Prize and the Canada Prize. She is the coeditor, with Christine Kim and Melina Baum Singer, of a collection of essays, Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012) and, with David Chariandy, of a special issue of West Coast Line entitled Citizenship and Cultural Belonging (2008). She has published articles and book chapters in numerous journals and edited collections.

David D. Oberhelman is a professor in the Humanities–Social Sciences Division of the Oklahoma State University Library. He holds a doctorate in English from the University of California, Irvine, and has published and presented on the Victorian novel, J. R. R. Tolkien, and contemporary fantasy literature, especially fantasy and multiculturalism. He is coeditor of The Intersection of Fantasy and Native America (Mythopoeic P, 2009). [End Page 133]

Christina Roberts is an associate professor in the English Department at Seattle University, where she teaches courses in American literature. She is an enrolled member of the Fort Belknap Indian Community, and her passion for stories and storytelling comes from her connectedness to family, history, and a place-centered approach to life. An alumna of the University of Washington (ba in English and ba in comparative history of ideas) and the University of Arizona (ma and PhD in English literature), she brings her dedication to social and environmental justice to her work at Seattle University, while also allowing time to explore the Pacific Northwest and to play disc golf with her husband, Danny.

Leah Sneider, PhD, graduated from the University of New Mexico in 2010 and is currently an adjunct for Central New Mexico Community College and Empire State College/suny, where she teaches college composition and ethnic American history, respectively...

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