Contributor Biographies
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cari m. carpenter is associate professor of English at West Virginia University, where she is also a core member of the Native American Studies Program and an associate of the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. She is the author of Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2008) and the editor of Selected Writings of Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and Eugenics (2010). She and Carolyn Sorisio coedited The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins’s Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864–1891 (forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press).
kathryn zabelle derounian-stodola is an independent scholar. Her most recent books include A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity: Dispatches from the Dakota War, coedited with Carrie Reber Zeman (2012), and The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature (2009). An expert on captivity narratives, she has authored many essays on this topic and on early American women’s writings in such journals as Early American Literature, Prospects, American Transcendental Quarterly, and Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. From 2003 to 2005, she was president of the Society of Early Americanists.
brendan hokowhitu is of Ngāti Pukenga descent, an iwi (people) from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Presently Hokowhitu is dean and professor of the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. He has published across a number of disciplines such as Indigenous critical theory, masculinity, media, and sport, including as lead editor of two collections, Fourth Eye: Māori Media in Aotearoa/New Zealand (2013) and Indigenous Identity and Resistance: Researching the Diversity of Knowledge (2010). [End Page 101]
james mackay is assistant professor in American and British literatures at European University Cyprus. He has edited The Salt Companion to Diane Glancy (2010) and a special issue of sail (23:4) dedicated to tribal constitutions and literary criticism. With David Stirrup, he has coedited a collection of essays, Tribal Fantasies: Native Americans in the European Imaginary, 1900–2010, and a special issue of the European Journal of American Culture (31:3) looking at Native Americans in Europe in the twentieth century. He has published articles on writers including Gerald Vizenor, Diane Glancy, Ralph Salisbury, and Jim Barnes, and on topics ranging from Welsh poetry to Wikipedia.
sam mckegney is a settler scholar of Indigenous literatures. He grew up in Anishinaabe territory on the Saugeen Peninsula along the shores of Lake Huron and currently resides with his partner and their two daughters in traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples, where he is an associate professor at Queen’s University. He has published a collection of interviews entitled Masculindians: Conversations about Indigenous Manhood (2014), a monograph called Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community after Residential School (2007), and articles on such topics as environmental kinship, masculinity theory, prison writing, Indigenous governance, and Canadian hockey mythologies.
margaret noodin received an mfa in writing and a PhD in English and linguistics from the University of Minnesota. She is assistant professor in English and American Indian studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Her most recent book about Anishinaabe literature is Bwaajimo. Her poems can be heard at: www.ojibwe.net.
harald e. l. prins is a university distinguished professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University. Since 1981 his research has focused on Indigenous nations in the Northeast. Author of The Mi’kmaq: Resistance, Accommodation, and Cultural Survival and numerous other publications, he was lead expert witness in the US Senate, US District Court, and Canadian courts, assisting the Aroostook Band of Micmac in its struggle for tribal recognition, Newfoundland’s Miawpukek First Nation in land claims, and the Penobscot Indian Nation in reservation boundaries and fishing rights. He was a Smithsonian research associate [End Page 102] and Acadia National Park principal investigator and has also taught in the Netherlands and Sweden.
miriam brown spiers recently finished her PhD in English and Native American studies at the University of Georgia. She is currently a visiting assistant professor of English and women’s studies at Miami University at Middletown. Her work has appeared in Studies in Comics, and she is currently writing a book that explores the role of Indigenous knowledge...
