Contributor Biographies
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Melody Graulich is professor of English and American studies at Utah State University and the editor of the scholarly journal Western American Literature. Among many other publications, she co-authored Trading Gazes: Euro-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans and edited Leslie Marmon Silko’s Yellow Woman: Texts and Contexts.
Margo Lukens is an associate professor of English at the University of Maine; her research interests include Native American and mixed-blood writers; Wabanaki literary and storytelling history; Native American and First Nations plays and playwrights; innovation and antiracism work. Her work has included producing and directing Native American plays on campus and in the region, as well as mentoring Native students and community members interested in theater. Recently she edited the new UCLA volume Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers and Other Untold Stories: Five Plays by William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.
Margaret Noori received an MFA in creative writing and a PhD in English and linguistics from the University of Minnesota. She is currently director of the Comprehensive Studies Program and teaches the Anishinaabe language and American Indian literature at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her work primarily focuses on the recovery and maintenance of Anishinaabe language and literature. Her current research interests include language proficiency and assessment and the study of Indigenous literary aesthetics and rhetoric. For more information or to view current projects, visit www.ojibwe.net, where she and her colleague, Howard Kimewon, have created space for language that is shared by academics and the Native community. [End Page 100]
Kirsti Paltto is from the Finnish side of Sámiland and is among the first contemporary Sámi writers. She is also the first Sámi female writer. Since the early 1970s, she has written twenty books, of which seventeen have been published thus far. Her repertoire includes poetry, short stories, children’s books, and novels. She has also written several plays and has been in charge of a local Sámi theatre in Rávgos.
Robert Dale Parker is the author of The Invention of Native American Literature and How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies as well as books on William Faulkner and Elizabeth Bishop. He is also the editor of The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and Changing Is Not Vanishing: A Collection of American Indian Poetry to 1930, to appear in late 2010.
Steven Salaita is associate professor of English at Virginia Tech and the author of four books, most recently of The Uncultured Wars: Arabs, Muslims, and the Poverty of Liberal Thought.
Jonathan D. Steigman is currently assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages at the United States Military Academy. He has been in his current position since August 2007. Prior to arriving at West Point, he was assistant professor of Spanish at Mississippi State University. He published his first book, La Florida del Inca and the Struggle for Social Equality in Colonial Spanish America, through the University of Alabama Press in September 2005. He received a PhD in romance languages from the University of Alabama in August of 2003.
David Yost is a former Peace Corps volunteer and a current PhD student in creative writing at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. His essays have also appeared in MELUS and War, Literature, and the Arts, while his fiction has appeared in Witness, Pleiades, Mid-American Review, and other publications. [End Page 101]
