The Poetry and Poetics of Gerald Vizenor

Contributors

242 CONTRIB UTOR S Susan Bernardin is an associate professor in the Department of English and chair of women’s studies at the State University of New York at Oneonta. She has published articles and book essays on foundational and contemporary Native writers, including Gertrude Bonnin, Mourning Dove, and Louis Owens. She is a coauthor of Trading Gazes: Euro-American Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880–1940 (2003) and is currently working on a new edition of In the Land of the Grasshopper Song, in collaboration with Karuk tribal members and non-Native scholars in northwestern California. She is a two-time recipient of the Western American Literature Association’s Don D. Walker Award for best published essay in western American literary studies. Kimberly M. Blaeser (Anishinaabe) is an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is the author of the first booklength study of Gerald Vizenor’s work, Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition (1996). Her publications include three books of poetry—Trailing You: Poems (1994), Absentee Indians (2002), and Apprenticed to Justice (2007)— as well as the anthologies Stories Migrating Home: A Collection of Anishinaabe Prose (1999) and Traces in Blood, Bone, & Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry (2006), and more than sixty appearances in anthologies and journals. She is a past vice president of Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers and currently serves on two American Indian literature series boards for university presses. She recently received an Artists Fellowship in Poetry from the Wisconsin Arts Board and is at work on a creative collage, Family Tree. Christina Hein is a doctoral student in the American Studies Department at Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her dissertation project is titled “Gazing Back at Whiteness: Concepts of Gendered, Classed, and Sexualized Whitenesses in Selected Works by Sherman Alexie, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, and Craig Womack.” Linda Lizut Helstern is a member of the English faculty at North Dakota State University. The recipient of a 2007 North Dakota Humanities Council contributors 243 Remele Fellowship for research and public humanities, she publishes frequently on Native writers, notably Gerald Vizenor and Louis Owens. She recently served as guest editor for a special issue of Southwestern American Literature on the atomic Southwest. Trained in museum studies, she has also designed museum exhibits. Arnold Krupat is a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the recipient of Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Guggenheim Foundation (2005–2006) fellowships, and a recipient of the Sarah Lawrence Excellence in Teaching Award (2007). He has a special interest in cultural studies and Native American literatures. He is the author of For Those Who Come After: A Study of Native American Autobiography (1989), The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon (1989), Ethnocriticism: Ethnography, History, Literature (1992), The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism and Culture (1998), Red Matters: Native American Studies (2002), All that Remains: Native Studies (2009), That the People Might Live: A Theory of Native American Elegy (2012), and two novels, Woodsmen or Thoreau & the Indians (1994) and What to Do? (2012), and he is the editor for Native American literatures for the Norton Anthology of American Literature and of a number of other anthologies, including Native American Autobiography: An Anthology and New Voices in Native American Literary Criticism (1993). With Brian Swann, he edited Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers, which won the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Award for best book of nonfiction prose in 2001. Chris LaLonde is the author of a book on the early fiction of William Faulkner, William Faulkner & Rites of Passage (1996); a book on the novels of Choctaw-Cherokee-Irish writer and scholar Louis Owens, Grave Concerns, Trickster Turns (2002); and numerous essays on Native American literatures and, more generally, twentieth-century American literature. He has published work on telephony and information and communication technologies in Vizenor’s work and on the “ceded landscape” of his fiction. He is a professor of English and director of American studies at the State University of New York at Oswego. Deborah L. Madsen is a professor of American literature and culture at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her publications include American contributors 244 Exceptionalism (1998), Post-Colonial Literatures: Expanding the Canon (ed., 1999), Beyond the Borders: American Literature and Post-Colonial Theory (ed., 2003), Native Authenticity: Transatlantic Approaches to Native American Literature (ed., 2009...