Contributor Biographies
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Joseph Bauerkemper is an assistant professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth where his scholarship, outreach, and teaching emphasize politics, literature, and law. Before joining the umd faculty, he earned his PhD in American studies from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, enjoyed one year at the University of Illinois as a chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow in American Indian studies, and enjoyed two years at ucla as an Andrew W. Mellon visiting assistant professor in the Department of English and in the Cultures in Transnational Perspective Program.
Jodi A. Byrd is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma and associate professor of American Indian studies and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana– Champaign. Her articles have appeared in American Indian Quarterly, Cultural Studies Review, Interventions, j19, and College Literature, and she is the author of The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism (U of Minnesota P, 2011).
Jill Doerfler (White Earth Anishinaabe) is an associate professor of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She coauthored The White Earth Nation: Ratification of a Native Democratic Constitution (U of Nebraska P, 2012) with Gerald Vizenor and coedited Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World through Stories (Michigan State UP, 2013) with Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark.
Brendan Hokowhitu is of Ngāti Pukenga descent, an iwi (people) from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Presently he is dean and professor of the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. He has published across a number of disciplines such as Indigenous critical theory, masculinity, [End Page 111] media and sport, including as lead editor of two collections, Fourth Eye: Māori Media in Aotearoa/New Zealand (U of Minnesota P, 2013) and Indigenous Identity and Resistance: Researching the Diversity of Knowledge (U of Otago P, 2010).
Patrice Hollrah is the director of the Writing Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and teaches for the Department of English. She is the author of “The Old Lady Trill, the Victory Yell”: The Power of Women in Native American Literature (Routledge, 2004) and various other critical essays on American Indian literatures. She is one of the Clan Mothers for the Native American Literature Symposium.
LeAnne Howe has won multiple national and international awards including the 2012 United States Artist Ford Fellowship and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas, among others. She is the author of novels, plays, essays, creative non-fiction, screenplays, and poetry. Her latest book, Choctalking on Other Realities (Aunt Lute Books, 2013), is a memoir. She is the John Olin Eidson Professor in English at the University of Georgia.
Anne Jansen is an assistant professor in the Department of Literature and Language at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Her current research focuses on literary portrayals of social movements and activism in twentieth- and twenty-first-century US ethnic literature, the relationship between form and politics, and moments in which texts break from the “real” and engage with what many scholars refer to as “magical realism.”
Deborah L. Madsen is professor of American literature and culture at the University of Geneva. Her publications on the work of Gerald Vizenor include Understanding Gerald Vizenor (U of South Carolina P, 2009), the coedited (with A. Robert Lee) book Gerald Vizenor: Texts and Contexts (U of New Mexico P, 2010), and, most recently, the edited collection The Poetry and Poetics of Gerald Vizenor (U of New Mexico P, 2012). [End Page 112]
Carter Meland lives, writes, and teaches in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His critical and fictional work has appeared in such journals and books as Yellow Medicine Review, Lake: A Journal of Arts and Environment, Thomas King: Works and Impact (Camden House, 2012), and Fiction Weekly.
Channette Romero is associate professor of English and Native American studies at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color (U of Virginia P, 2012) and she has published essays on literature, film, and activism in American Indian Quarterly, Studies in American Indian Literatures, the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Indigenous...
