Contributor Biographies

Chadwick Allen is an associate professor of English at Ohio State University. He is the author of Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts (Duke UP, 2002).

Louise Barnett is a professor of English and American studies at Rutgers University, where she teaches Native American literature. She coedited a collection of essays with Jim Thorson, The Art of Leslie Marmon Silko (UNM Press, 1999) and has published widely on American literature and culture.

Gretchen M. Bataille is the senior vice president for academic affairs for the sixteen-campus University of North Carolina system. She is the author or editor of eleven books. Her most recent scholarly book is Native American Representations: First Encounters, Distorted Images, and Literary Appropriations (U of Nebraska P, 2001). She is also a professor of English and American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kimberly Blaeser is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she teaches creative writing and Native American literature. An enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Blaeser is the author of Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition (U of Oklahoma P, 1996) and two collections of poetry. She lives with her husband and two young children in the woods and wetlands of rural Lyons township, Wisconsin.

Joanna Brooks teaches American literature at the University of Texas at Austin. She is presently completing an edition of the collected writings of Samson Occom.

Cari M. Carpenter is an assistant professor of English at West Virginia University, where she is also affiliated with the Native American Studies Program and the Center for Women's Studies.

Susan Rose Dominguez is revising her dissertation, "The Gertrude Bonnin Story: From Yankton Destiny into American History." An affiliate scholar in history at Oberlin College, Dominguez is a recent graduate fellow at the Newberry Library and holds a PhD in American studies from Michigan State University.

P. Jane Hafen (Taos Pueblo) is an associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is author of Reading Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine (Boise State University, 2003) and editor of Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems, and The Sun Dance Opera, by Zitkala-Ša (U of Nebraska P, 2003), and, with Diane Quantic, A Great Plains Reader (U of Nebrasa P, 2003).

Geary Hobson serves as project historian of the University of Oklahoma's Native Writers Circle of the Americas. He has published both poetry and academic writings on Native Americans. His latest book is The Last of the Ofos (U of Arizona P, 2000). He is Cherokee, Quapaw, and Chickasaw.

Patrice Hollrah is the director of the Writing Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and teaches for the Department of English. She is the author of "The Old Lady Trill, the Victory Yell": The Power of Women in Native American Literature (Routledge, 2003).

Helen Jaskoski coedited volumes 1–4 of the second series of SAIL. Her publications include Early Native American Writing: New Critical Essays (Cambridge, 1996) and Leslie Marmon Silko: A Study of the Short Fiction (Twayne, 1998). She is currently reviewing books for the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights and working on behalf of victims of slavery and trafficking.

Arnold Krupat's most recent books are Red Matters: Native American Studies (U of Pennsylvania P, 2002) and The Turn to the Native: Essays in Criticism and Culture (U of Nebraska P, 1996). He has published a novel, Woodsmen, or Thoreau and the Indians (U of Oklahoma P, 1994), and has just received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship to work on All That Remains: Native American Studies. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

Lydia Kualapai is an assistant professor of English at Schreiner University, where she teaches courses in U.S. literatures and critical theory. She is currently preparing a scholarly edition of Queen Lili'uokalani's Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen (1898).

David L. Moore is an associate professor of English...