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  • Contributor Biographies

peter l. bayers is an English professor and director of American studies at Fairfield University in Fairfield ct. In addition to publishing scholarship on mountaineering (Imperial Ascent, UP of Colorado) and in Western American studies (wal, Rocky Mountain Review), he has published a number of articles in Native studies (sail and melus). When not teaching and writing he devotes time to his family, heads to the mountains to climb, and works with Simply Smiles, a service organization, in partnership with the community of La Plant on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation to help develop a bright future for Lakota families and their children.

colleen g. eils is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is interested in contemporary Native, Mexican American, and Asian American fiction.

susan gardner is faculty emerita at unc Charlotte, and continues to teach American Indian literature courses part-time in the English Department and the American Studies Program. This bio is 0% bs and 100% true.

michael greyeyes (Plains Cree) is a choreographer, director, and educator. Selected directing credits include A Soldier’s Tale, Nôhkom, from thine eyes (Signal Theatre), Pimooteewin (Soundstreams Canada), Almighty Voice and his Wife (Native Earth Performing Arts), The River (Nakai Theatre), Seven Seconds (2010 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival). In 2010 he founded Signal Theatre, an Indigenous theatre company engaging in practice-based research. Signal is interdisciplinary and intercultural and has presented at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre, the Banff Centre, and the National Arts Centre of Canada. He is an [End Page 99] associate professor at York University and current Graduate Program director of the MFA stream.

jenna hunnef is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation examines the ideological role of outlaws and extra-legal practices in the legal, aesthetic, and gendered production of domesticated spaces and bodies in the United States, particularly in late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Indian Territory/Oklahoma, through literary analyses of the True Grit novel and film franchise, the dramatic work of R. Lynn Riggs, and narratives of the lives of Belle Starr and Ned Christie.

drew lopenzina is professor of early American and Native American literature at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. His book Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period (suny Press 2012) offers a rethinking of Indigenous engagements with colonial literacy, detailing how Native communities drew from their own narrative and literary traditions as they forged interactions with Western print discourse. He has published in the journals American Literature, American Quarterly, American Indian Quarterly and others. Currently he is working on a cultural biography of the nineteenth-century Pequot activist and minister William Apess.

denise low is the author of online and journal articles about Cheyenne ledger art and is director of four Plains Indian Ledger Art (University of California, San Diego) ledgers by Northern Cheyenne men including Wild Hog and Porcupine during their 1878 incarceration in Dodge City. She has British Isles and Delaware ancestry. She is grateful to Jaune Quick To See Smith for her suggestions regarding Native art historians.

alicia robinet is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Writing at Western University and an instructor at King’s University College at Western University. Her research interests include Canadian war literature and postcolonial literature.

kenneth roemer is an adviser for the Native American Student Association at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he is a Piper Professor and Distinguished Teaching and Scholar Professor. He is a founding [End Page 100] member of asail, the coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, and editor of Approaches to Teaching Momaday’s The Way to Rainy Mountain and Native American Writers of the United States. His articles and essay reviews on Native literatures have appeared in American Literature, American Quarterly, American Literary History, and sail. He is the author or editor of four books on utopian literature and one personal narrative, A Sidewalker’s Japan.

carrie louise sheffield is a senior lecturer in the English Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is also a co-adviser to...

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