Contributor Biographies
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Timothy Braatz is chair of the History Department at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California, and playwright-in-residence with the Chameleon Theatre Circle in the Twin Cities. His work includes Surviving Conquest: A History of the Yavapai Peoples.
Kirby Brown is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin. His dissertation research examines the intellectual and political output of four Cherokee public figures who were artistically and politically active throughout the first half of the twentieth century—a period many refer to as the "Dark Ages" of Cherokee history. His article "Indigenous Communities, Indigenous Nations: Interrogating Contemporary Indigenous Intellectualisms" is forthcoming in Sovereignty, Separatism, and Survivance: Ideological Encounters in the Literature of Native North America.
Alexander Hollenberg is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto, where he is currently writing a dissertation on minimalist narrative ethics in the works of Willa Cather and Ernest Hemingway.
J. James Iovannone is a PhD student in American studies at the University at Buffalo in New York. His research interests lie at the intersection of contemporary multiethnic American literature and history, queer studies, and performance studies.
Arnold Krupat is the editor for Native American literatures for the Norton Anthology of American Literature, and he teaches literature in the Global Studies Faculty Division of Sarah Lawrence College. His books include, [End Page 96] among others, The Turn to the Native: Studies in Culture and Criticism and Red Matters: Native American Studies. All that Remains: Varieties of Indigenous Expression has most recently appeared.
Stephanie Li is an assistant professor of English at the University of Rochester. She received her PhD in English language and literature in May 2005 and her MFA in fiction writing in 2003, both from Cornell University. Her book, "Something Akin to Freedom": The Choice of Bondage in Narratives by African American Women, was awarded the First Book Prize in African American Studies by SUNY Press and will be published later this year. It is both a historical study of black women in antebellum slavery and a literary analysis involving such authors as Harriet Jacobs, Hannah Crafts, William Faulkner, and Gayl Jones. She has published in such journals as Callaloo, American Literature, and Legacy.
Amanda Moulder is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and assistant director in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation research examines the literary and rhetorical traditions of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Cherokee women.
John Lloyd Purdy is professor of English at Western Washington University. His works include Word Ways: The Novels of D'Arcy McNickle and Nothing But the Truth: An Anthology of Native American Literature. His book Conversations in Indian Pubs: Reading Native American Fiction is under contract with the University of Nebraska Press. He currently edits The American Review of Canadian Studies.
Christina Ann Roberts is of Gros Ventre and Assiniboine ancestry and was raised in the Seattle area. She recently completed her doctorate at the University of Arizona and is an assistant professor at Seattle University, where she teaches American literature courses with a special focus on American Indian literatures. [End Page 97]
