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Departmental Areas of Study have been established to allow a visitor to quickly find members of our faculty who share a particular area of study. Click on any of the links below to find other faculty members who have noted their interest in the same areas or click on the link above to browse all faculty by area of study.

Native American and global indigenous studies, colonial discourse, posthumanism and animal studies

critical theory, rhetoric and composition, travel writing

Select recent publications:

"Actually Existing Indian Nations: Modernity, Diversity, and the Future of Native American Studies," American Indian Quarterly 35.3 (Summer 2011): 294-312.  

X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

"'Indians' Constructed and Speaking," A Companion to American Literature and Culture. Ed. Paul Lauter. Malden, MA, and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 206-220.

"There's No Translation for It: The Rhetorical Sovereignty of Indigenous Languages," Cross-Language Relations in Composition. Eds. Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu, and Paul Kei Matsuda. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010. 127-141.

"The Science of the Indian," A New Literary History of America. Eds. Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2009. 317-321.

"The Fine Art of Fencing: Nationalism, Hybridity, and the Search for a Native American Writing Pedagogy," JAC 29.1-2 (2009): 77-105.