Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Laura J. Beard is Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures at Texas Tech University. Her research and teaching interests include women writers of the Americas, Indigenous literatures and cultures, autobiographical genres, and critical theories. She is currently working on a book about the autobiographical narratives about the Indian residential school experience in the United States and Canada.
David William Foster is Regents’ Professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. His research focuses on Latin American urban culture, with specific emphasis on gender studies and Jewish disapora culture.
Laura M. Furlan (Apache/Osage/Cherokee) is an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where she is also affiliated with the Native American Indian Studies Certificate Program. Her work has appeared in Studies in American Indian Literatures and Yellow Medicine Review. She is currently working on a book manuscript that focuses on urban Indian writing.
Brian Joseph Gilley is the author of Becoming Two-Spirit (University of Nebraska Press) and the co-editor of “Critical Queer Interventions” (forthcoming,University of Arizona Press).
Gail K. Hart is professor and chair of German at the University of California, Irvine, where she also directs the campuswide honors program. She holds a doctorate from the University of Virginia and has also taught at Yale University and Reed College. She has written books on Gottfried Keller, bourgeois tragedy, and Friedrich Schiller's poetics of punishment.
Deborah A. Miranda is an enrolledmember of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of the GreaterMonterey Bay Area. She teaches Native American Literature, American Ethnic Literature, Women's Literature and Creative Writing (Poetry and Memoir) at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.
Deena Rymhs is Assistant Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at University of British Columbia. Her book, From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Literature (2008), examines the prison’s role in post-contact indigenous history. Her recent essays have appeared in English Studies in Canada, Canadian Literature, Biography, and Life Writing. [End Page 146]
Kathryn Shanley teaches in Native American Studies at the University ofMontana and serves as Special Assistant to the Provost for Native American and Indigenous Education. An enrolled member of the Assiniboine (Nakoda) Tribe, she grew up on the Ft. Peck reservation. She has published widely on James Welch, other major Native American writers, and many critical issues regarding Native women, sovereignty, and Native American Studies. [End Page 147]
