Teaching Philosophy and Materials
“Place, Not Race: Sites of American Literary Neonativism, 1899-1933.” Click here for abstract as PDF. Currently under review.
"From Professional Presence to Political Power: The Activist Writings of Gertrude Bonnin, Charles Alexander Eastman, and Carlos Montezuma." Click here for abstract as PDF.
2009 and 2010 Publications
"An Introduction to Neonativist Collectives: Place, Not Race, in Cather's The Professor's House and Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent." Arizona Quarterly. 66.2 (Summer 2010): 89-120.
"Sensing Re-Placement in New Mexico: D. H. Lawrence, John Collier, and (Post)Colonial Textual Geographies." "Terra Incognita": D. H. Lawrence at the Frontiers.
Madison and Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010. 157-183.
Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong by Paul Chaat Smith. Studies in American Indian Literatures (SAIL). 21.4 (2009): 93-96.
Upcoming and Recent Presentations
Roundtable member: "Value Added: The Shape of the E-Journal." MLA Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. December 2009.
"Why Gertrude Bonnin was not a Pagan: Contexts for Understanding Bonnin’s Spiritual Evolution." Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) Annual Meeting. Tucson, AZ. May 2010.
Competitive Research Awards
Charles Redd Center for Western History at Brigham Young University, 2009
Charles Redd Visiting Scholar Fellowship Award (period in residence: February-May 2009)
Tentative title of book manuscript (in progress): "Political Visions and Landscapes of Change: The Activist Writings of Zitkala-Sa, Charles Alexander Eastman, and Carlos Montezuma"
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The Newberry Library/South Central Modern Language Association Fellowship, 2006
Article (in progress): "Neonativism and the Society of American Indians: Responses to Nativism in the Letters and Papers of Carlos Montezuma and Charles and Elaine Eastman"
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