Contributor Biographies
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Esther Belin is a writer and two-dimensional artist who graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 2000 she won the American Book Award for her first book of poetry, From the Belly of My Beauty.
Susan Bernardin is associate professor of English at SUNY Oneonta. She is a coauthor of Trading Gazes: Euro-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880–1940 and the author of articles on contemporary and foundational Native writers, including Eric Gansworth, Louis Owens, Mourning Dove, and Gertrude Simmons Bonnin. She 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.
Keith L. Camacho is an assistant professor in the Asian American Studies Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. He researches issues concerning the sovereignty and survival of Indigenous peoples in the Pacific Islands.
Renate Eigenbrod has been teaching Canadian Aboriginal literatures since 1986, for the last seven years in the Department of Native Studies at the University of Manitoba. She is the author of a monograph, Travelling Knowledges: Positioning the Im/Migrant Reader of Aboriginal Literatures in Canada, and the coeditor of several publications of literary criticism, most recently of a special literature issue of The Canadian Journal of Native Studies and of Across Cultures/Across Borders: Canadian Aboriginal and Native American Literatures, a comprehensive volume of scholarship, creative writing, and interviews. [End Page 135]
Blake M. Hausman is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation, "Yellow Bird's View from the Ridge: John Rollin Ridge, Joaquin Murrieta, and Future Nationalisms," explores Ridge's novel as a tricky origin point in the canons of both Native American literature and transnational Murrieta narratives. Hausman is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and his work has been published in SAIL and AIQ.
Patrice Hollrah is the director of the Writing Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and teaches for the Department of English. She is the author of "The Old Lady Trill, the Victory Yell": The Power of Women in Native American Literature and other essays on various authors in American Indian literatures.
David Martínez (Gila River Pima) is an assistant professor of American Indian studies at Arizona State University. He has published articles in Wicazo Sa Review, the Canadian Journal of Native Studies, and the American Indian Culture and Research Journal. He is also the author of Dakota Philosopher: Charles Eastman and American Indian Thought.
Mareike Neuhaus holds a PhD in English from Marburg University, Germany. She is currently an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute, where she is researching the cultural specificity of ancestral language influences in Indigenous literatures composed in English. Her research interests include Indigenous literatures, languages, and notions of peoplehood as well as Canadian literature, linguistics, and rhetoric.
Channette Romero is an assistant professor of English at the University of Georgia, where she teaches Native and ethnic American literatures.
Gregory Wright is an English instructor at Snow College and Utah Valley University. His essay "(Re)Writing the Captivity Narrative: Sarah Winnemucca's Life among the Piutes Records White Male Sexual Violence" was recently published in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. [End Page 136]
