Contributor Biographies
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Amy Gore currently teaches as an adjunct instructor at Montana State University-Bozeman, from which she earned her ma in Native American studies. She holds an additional MA in English literature from Middlebury College, participating in the Bread Loaf School of English program. Her most recent research interests include Indigenous representations within canonical American fiction and Indigenous fiction writing within the gothic genre. Her book, The Indigenous Gothic Novel: Tribal Twists, Native Monsters, and the Politics of Appropriation is under contract with Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Dustin Gray is a student of Native American literature at Emory University pursuing a PhD in English.
Zachary R. Hernández is currently a graduate student in the Mexican-American studies department at the University of Texas, Austin. His work examines the ways in which indigeneity works comparatively in Chicano and American Indian literatures.
Geary Hobson (Cherokee-Arkansas Quapaw) is a professor of English and Native American studies at the University of Oklahoma. His most recent books are an anthology, The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing after Removal (2010), and Plain of Jars and Other Stories (2011), a collection of short stories.
Brian K. Hudson, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, is a PhD candidate in the Literary and Cultural Studies program, Department of English, at the University of Oklahoma. He is currently working on his dissertation on the relationships between human and nonhuman animals in Native American literatures. [End Page 121]
Rachel C. Jackson (Cherokee/Scots/Welsh/German/French) is a PhD candidate in the Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy program, Department of English, at the University of Oklahoma. Her secondary area is Native literary studies. She is currently writing her dissertation on suppressed political/cultural resistance rhetorics in Oklahoma history. She organizes the Kiowa Clemente Course in the Humanities and works as Community Liaison for the University of Oklahoma Writing Center.
Jasmine Johnston is a student of literature at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver BC. Her primary field is Indigenous literatures with an emphasis on comparative poetics.
Jennifer K. Ladino is an assistant professor of English at the University of Idaho. Her research and teaching interests include twentieth- and twenty-f irst-century American literature, American Indian literatures, western literatures of the United States, animal studies, and green cultural studies. She has published articles on Sherman Alexie, Wallace Stegner, Don DeLillo, Ruth Ozeki, Zitkala-Ša, and Marianne Moore, as well as on the films Grizzly Man and March of the Penguins. Her recent book, Reclaiming Nostalgia: Longing for Nature in American Literature, examines nostalgia for nature in American literature and culture since the closing of the frontier in 1890.
James Mackay is assistant professor in American and British literatures at European University Cyprus. He has edited The Salt Companion to Diane Glancy (2010) and a special issue of sail (23:4) dedicated to tribal constitutions and literary criticism. With David Stirrup, he has coedited a collection of essays, Tribal Fantasies: Native Americans in the European Imaginary, 1900-2010, and a special issue of the European Journal of American Culture (31:3) looking at Native Americans in Europe in the twentieth century. He has published articles on writers including Gerald Vizenor, Diane Glancy, Ralph Salisbury, and Jim Barnes, and on topics ranging from Welsh poetry to hardcore pornography. He also writes regularly for the Guardian newspaper on Indigenous affairs.
Julianne Newmark, an associate professor of English at New Mexico Tech, teaches courses in American and Native American literature, writing, and visual rhetoric and serves as the editor of the ejournal Xchanges. [End Page 122] Her current research focuses on early twentieth-century Native textual activism and on the impacts of specific US legislative actions on Indigenous writing.
Richard Pearce retired in 2001 from Wheaton College in Massachusetts, where he had taught and published in the field of modernist fiction for almost forty years. After a visit to George Flett's studio on the Spokane Reservation, he began to study ledger art. In 2003 he curated a show of George Flett's work at Wheaton College and developed a website designed to preserve not only images of Flett's ledger drawings but also Flett's own words, which are used as...
