Contributor Biographies
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Joseph Bauerkemper, a doctoral candidate in American studies at the University of Minnesota, is currently working on a dissertation that explores the varied critiques and narrations of nationhood in recent American Indian fiction.
Barbara J. Cook is Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Mount Aloysius College.
Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert (Hopi) is Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies and History at the University of California, Riverside.
Bernard “Bud” Hirsch was an award-winning teacher and much respected scholar of Native literature at the University of Kansas at the time of his passing. The field is better for his example of intellectual generosity and poorer for his untimely loss.
Sophie Mayer is the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Anglophone and Francophone Cinema at the University of Cambridge, where she teaches feminist, queer, experimental, and Indigenous cinema and new media. The Cinema of Sally Potter: The Poetics of Performance, the first major study of the director of Orlando, will be published by Wallflower in 2008. She has written about alternative poetics and film for LiP, Sight & Sound, Vertigo, roundtable review, Masthead, reconstruction, and University of Toronto Quarterly. [End Page 93]
Delilah G. Orr, a Diné who is a Blacksheep born for the Towering House People, spent summers herding sheep between Wide Ruins and Klagetoh, Arizona. An Associate Professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, she teaches nineteenth-century British literature, Native American literature, and women’s literature.
Michael Snyder is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oklahoma. His essays have been published in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction and Huxley Annual, and an essay on Gerald Vizenor and postmodern theory is forthcoming in a Broadview Press anthology, Contexts in Canadian Aboriginal and Native American Literatures. His reviews have appeared in American Indian Culture and Research Journal and Skyscraper.
Quentin Youngberg earned his PhD in comparative literature, with a focus on Native American literature, from the Pennsylvania State University. He is currently Assistant Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. [End Page 94]
