Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art

Contributors

223 contributors Joseph Bauerkemper is an andrew W. mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the university of california–los angeles. Before joining the mellon program at ucla, he was a chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in american indian studies at the university of illinois. Joseph is currently completing a scholarly book on indigenous writers, political theory, and philosophy of history. 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 (2003) as well as articles on contemporary and foundational native writers, including eric Gansworth, louis Owens, Gerald Vizenor, mourning dove, and Gertrude 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. Denise K. Cummings is assistant professor in the department of critical media and cultural studies at rollins college, where her areas of teaching and research interest include film history, theory, and criticism; twentieth-century american and american indian literatures, cultures, and film; critical theory; cultural studies; and Florida studies. at rollins she co-coordinates the Film studies program, and annually leads student immersion courses and service learning experiences in the Global Peace Film Festival (Orlando, Fl) and the Florida Film Festival (maitland, Fl). she is currently at work with leanne Howe and Harvey markowitz on a new edited collection on american indians and the cinema. Cynthia Fowler is an art historian and associate professor of art at emmanuel college . in 2003 she participated in a six-week program sponsored by the national endowment for the Humanities titled “Working from community: american indian art and literature in a Historical and cultural context,” where she was inspired to begin doing research on contemporary american indian art. since then, she has published several essays on this topic, including “Gender representation in the art of Jaune Quick to see smith,” in Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art 6 224| Contributors (2005); and “Oklahoma: a View from the center,” coauthored with maria dePriest and ruthe Blalock Jones for Studies in American Indian Literatures. Joanna Hearne is assistant professor of english and Film studies at the university of missouri. she has published articles on native american film, video and animation and on documentary film genres in Screen, the Journal of Popular Film and Television, and Western Folklore, as well as the collections Global Indigenous Media (2008), and Hollywood’s West (2005). she is currently completing a book that traces images of indigenous familial separation and reunion in film from 1908 to 2001, and another that addresses the emergence of native american cinema. Penelope Myrtle Kelsey is associate professor of english and ethnic studies at the university of colorado at Boulder. she is of seneca descent (patrilineal) with familial roots in western new York and Pennsylvania. Her book Tribal Theory in Native American Literature was published at the university of nebraska Press in 2009. she has edited a collection on maurice Kenny’s poetry and fiction. she is also working on an examination of Haudenosaunee literature, visual culture, and intellectual history. Molly McGlennen (mixed-blood anishinaabe, French, irish) is assistant professor of english and native american studies at Vassar. Her scholarship and interests include native american literature, feminisms, art and contemporary experience, and creative writing. Rocío Quispe-Agnoli is associate professor of latin american colonial and Postcolonial studies in the department of spanish and director of Portuguese in the center for integrative studies in the arts and Humanities at michigan state university . Her areas of teaching and research include spanish american colonial literatures and cultures, literary theory applied to colonial and postcolonial texts, women’s studies, spanish american indigenous literatures and cultures, and latin american historical narratives. Her book La fe indígena en la escritura: Identidad y resistencia en la obra de Guamán Poma de Ayala was published in lima in 2006. she is currently working on a book-length manuscript about the textual agency of spanish and indean “encomenderas” (land-grant owners) of sixteenth-century Peru. Dean Rader is professor in the department of english at the university of san Francisco. His areas of teaching interest include twentieth-century american poetry, native american literature, writing, and film. He and coauthor Jonathan silverman are preparing a fourth edition of The World Is a Text, and his book of poems entitled Contributors| 225 Works & Days won...