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Margaret
Noori
Director, LSA Comprehensive Studies Program, and Lecturer I (in the Program in American Culture)
U of M Affiliation(s)
Comprehensive Studies Program
Program in American Culture: Native American Studies (NAS)
Department of English Language and Literature
B.A. (English, Summa Cum Laude) & B.S. (Education), University of Minnesota, 1987.
M.A. (Creative Writing), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1990.
Ph.D. (English), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2001.
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Contact Information:
Program in American Culture, Ojibwe Language & Literature:
3732 Haven Hall, 505 S. State Street, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045
Phone: 734.615.8904
Fax: 734.936.1967
Comprehensive Studies Program: 1159 Angell Hall, 435 S. State Street, Ann Arbor MI 48109
Phone: (734)763-4266
Email:
mnoori@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Anishinaabe literature, poetry and drama; literature depicting Native American women, children and two-spirit characters; pre- and post-colonial American literature; Native American linguistics, teaching Ojibwe as a second language, transcription and translation of Ojibwe stories, socio-linguistics, and computational linguistics as applied to language preservation.
About Margaret Noori:
link to Comprehensive Studies Program
Personal Website
http://www.umich.edu/~mnoori
Ojibwe Program
http://www.umich.edu/~ojibwe/
Grants
Dreamseekers and WisdomKeepers – A Project to Unite Urban Youth and College Students, Investing in College Futures Grant Program through Michigan Campus Compact, September 2007.
The Anishinaabemowin Preservation and Proficiency Project, Gilbert Whitaker Fund for the Improvement of Teaching, April, 2007. The project includes creation of new elementary Ojibwe curriculum and creation of the website: www.ojibwe.net
Publications:
- “Anishinaabemowin Dopwin, Bazgem” (dual language poem) published as part of the chapter, “Wooden Heart, Dopwin, Language Table” by Heid Erdrich in Sovereign Bones: New Native American Writing edited by Eric Gansworth. Nation Books, 2007.
- “Nengatch Gwa,” poem published in Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art & Thought, Winter, 2007, p. 60.
- Review of The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft Jane Johnston Schoolcraft edited by Robert Dale Parker for The Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter, 2007.
- Review of The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft Jane Johnston Schoolcraft edited by Robert Dale Parker for the Women’s Review of Books, November, 2007.
- Noori, M. (Sept. 2006), Introduction to Blood Run by Allison Hedge Coke. SALT Publishing, London.
- Noori, M. (Jan. 2006), A New Season of Strength: Philanthropy in Minnesota Indian Country, The Giving Forum: A Minnesota Council of Foundations Publication, Vol. 29, No. 1.
- Noori, M. (Sept. 2005) Review of The Mother’s Tongue by Heid Erdrich for The Circle News.
- Noori, M. (Sept. 2005) Review of The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich for The Circle News.
- Noori, M. (June, 2005) Review of Lost from the Ottawa: The Story of the Journey Back by Pun Plamondon for The Circle News.
- Noori, M. (May, 2005), Biindigen Woyabii. Interviews conducted at the Second Annual Minnesota Indigenous Language Symposium for The Circle News.
- Noori, M. (Jan. 2005), Ancestral Issues. Indian Land Tenure Foundation News.
- Noori, M. (Feb. 2003) Review of Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow Wow by Tara Browner for The Circle News.
- Noori, M. (Dec. 2002) Review of Exploding Chippewas by Mark Turcotte for The Circle News.
- Noori, M. (Dec. 2002) Review of Nitaawichige: Selected Poetry and Prose by Four Anishinaabe Writers for The Circle News.
- Aerol, M. (1993), Introduction to Walking The Rez Road by Jim Northrup. Voyageur Press.
- Aerol, M. (1993), “One Language, One Culture” in Do You Know Me Now? An Anthology of Minnesota Multicultural Writings edited by Elisabeth Rosenberg.
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