Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies

Education:
BA, English, University of Redlands, 1985;
MA, Comparative Literature, New York University, 1991;
PhD, Comparative Literature, New York University, 1996

Research Interests:
Native American literature, ethnic studies, American studies

Selected Publications:
Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2009 (in press).

Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination Cornell University Press, 2001.

Topographies of Race and Gender: Mapping Cultural Representations
Edited with Patricia Penn Hilden and Timothy J. Reiss
Annals of Scholarship: Art Practices and the Human Sciences in a Global Culture Special issues (two issues, four volumes) 17.3-18.1, 18.2-3 (2007).

"American Indian Drama and the Politics of Performance"
Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States since 1945, ed. Eric Cheyfitz Columbia University Press, 2006, pp. 288-318.

"Literature and the Politics of Native American Studies," PMLA 120.5 (October 2005): 1618-27.

"Indigeneity, Colonialism, and Literary Studies: A 'Transdisciplinary, Oppositional Politics of Reading'" ESC English Studies in Canada 30.2 (June 2004): 29-38.

"Nanook and His Contemporaries: Imagining Eskimos in American Culture, 1897-1922": Critical Inquiry 27.1 (fall 2000): 122-148

"Cultural Cartographies: The Logic of Domination and Native Cultural Survival" (with Scott L. Pratt), Journal of Speculative Philosophy 14.4 (2000): 268-285.

"Performing 'Indian' in the National Museum of the American Indian" (with Patricia Penn Hilden), Social Identities 5.2 (1999): 161-183.

Works in Progress:
Indigenous Women and Feminism: Culture, Activism, Politics Edited with Cheryl Suzack, Jeanne Perreault, and Jean Barman (under revision for University of British Columbia Press)

Indigeneity and the Politics of Space: The Gendered Geographies of Native Women's Culture (in progress)