Contributor Biographies
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Rebecca Bales Rebecca Bales received her PhD in history from Arizona State University. Her work focuses on Native American history, women’s history, and race relations in the United States. She is currently an assistant professor of social, behavioral and global studies at California State University Monterey Bay.
Gabriel S. Estrada is an assistant professor in American Indian studies at California State University, Long Beach. He is author of “Victor Montejo’s El Q’anil: Man of Lightning and Maya Cultural Movements” in Latin American Indian Literatures Journal; “Two-Spirit History in Southwestern and Mesoamerican Literatures” in Gender and Native Societies in North America, 1400–1840; and “Two-Spirit Film Criticism: Fancydancing with Imitates Dog, Desjarlais and Alexie” in Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities. He teaches American Indian gender and sexuality, American Indian literature, and ethnic studies. Dr. Estrada’s ancestry is Caxcan, Rarámuri, and Chicano.
David Martínez (Gila River Pima) is an assistant professor of American Indian studies at Arizona State University, Tempe Campus. He is the author of Dakota Philosopher: Charles Eastman and American Indian Thought (2009) and the editor of The American Indian Intellectual Tradition: An Anthology of Writings from 1772 to 1972 (2011).
Rick Mott is an associate professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University, where he teaches Native American literature, visual rhetoric, and critical theory. His research interests include emerging networks of information, the expanding capabilities of producing and consuming digital media, and the fundamental changes taking place in computer-human interfaces. [End Page 108]
Margaret Noori (Giiwedinoodin; Anishinaabe heritage, waabzheshiinh doodem) received an MFA in creative writing and a PhD in English and linguistics from the University of Minnesota. She is director of the Comprehensive Studies Program and teaches American Indian literature at the University of Michigan. Her work focuses on the recovery and maintenance of Anishinaabe language and literature. Current research includes language proficiency and assessment, and the study of Indigenous literary aesthetics. To see and hear current projects visit www.ojibwe.net, where she and her colleague Howard Kimewon have created a space for language shared by academics and the Native community.
Nancy Strow Sheley received an MA in English from the University of Illinois and a PhD in American studies from the University of Kansas. She is currently an associate professor in the English Department at California State University, Long Beach. Interested in global education, she has received two Fulbright honors, one to study Rwanda post-genocide and the other a six-month award to teach American Studies on the island of Cyprus. Sheley’s areas of expertise are American art, culture, and literature from 1850 to 1930, especially the works of women writers and US ethnic literatures.
Carol Zitzer-Comfort is an associate professor of English at California State University, Long Beach. Her publications include Through the Eye of the Deer, an anthology of American Indian women’s writing coedited with Carolyn Dunn; and Breaking Boundaries, a textbook for developmental English. Comfort’s current research and interests include US ethnic literatures, disability studies, and composition and rhetoric. She is currently under contract with Pearson for a freshman composition textbook, which she is writing with her colleague Cora Foerstner. [End Page 109]
