Contributor Biographies
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Chadwick Allen is associate professor of English and coordinator for the American Indian Studies program at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts (Duke UP, 2002) and Trans-Indigenous:Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies (U of Minnesota P, forthcoming 2012).
Jeff Berglund, associate professor of English at Northern Arizona University, is the editor of Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays (U of Utah P, 2010), as well as the author of Cannibal Fictions: American Explorations of Colonialism, Race, Gender, and Sexuality (U of Wisconsin P, 2006).
Kirby Brown, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, is a PhD candidate and ACLS Dissertation Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. His research examines the persistence of nationhood in early twentieth-century Cherokee writing and interrogates the politics of form in Native-authored texts from the period.
Lisa Brooks is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Her book The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast (U of Minnesota P, 2008) focuses on the role of writing as a tool of social reconstruction and land reclamation in the Native networks of the Northeast.
David J. Carlson is professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino, where he teaches American Indian and early American literatures. He is the author of Sovereign Selves: American Indian Autobiography [End Page 142] and the Law (U of Illinois P, 2006). He is currently working on a new book-length project tentatively titled "The Discourse of Sovereignty in American Indian Print Culture."
Matthew L. M. Fletcher is professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law and director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center. He is the chief justice of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians Supreme Court and also sits as an appellate judge for the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, the Hoopa Valley Tribe, and the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indians. He is a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, located in Peshawbestown, Michigan. In 2010 he was elected to the American Law Institute. He graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1997 and the University of Michigan in 1994. He recently published American Indian Tribal Law (Aspen, 2011) and Cases and Materials on Federal Indian Law (6th ed., Thomson/West, 2011) with David Getches, Charles Wilkinson, and Robert Williams.
A. Robert Lee retired as a professor at Nihon University, Tokyo, in 2011, having previously taught at the University of Kent, UK. He is currently a research fellow at the University of Murcia. His publications include Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America (Pluto P, 1998), Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions (UP of Mississippi, 2003), which won a 2004 American Book Award, Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction (Rodopi, 2009), and Modern American Counter Writing: Beats, Outriders, Ethnics (Routledge, 2010). His work on Gerald Vizenor includes the introduction to Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader (Wesleyan UP, 1994), Postindian Conversations (U of Nebraska P, 2000), and, with Deborah Madsen, Gerald Vizenor: Texts and Contexts (U of New Mexico P, 2010). His Native American Writing (Routledge, 4 vols.) was published in 2011.
James MacKay is lecturer in comparative literatures at European University Cyprus. He is currently working on a monograph on writers who adopt a spurious or exaggerated Native American authorial persona. He is the editor of the Salt Companion to Diane Glancy (Cambridge UP, 2010) and has previously published articles on the works of Jim Barnes, Diane Glancy, E. Pauline Johnson, and Gerald Vizenor, among others. He is also the author of the 2008 European Network Against Racism shadow report "Racism in Cyprus." [End Page 143]
Deborah L. Madsen is professor of American literature and culture at the University of Geneva. She has published extensively on manifest destiny, American exceptionalism, and such Native American Indian writers as Gerald Vizenor, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, Paula Gunn Allen, and Joy Harjo. She has published more than a dozen books, including Understanding...
