Home

CV

Current Courses

Teaching Philosophy and Materials

Publications

Research

About

Contact

Links

Current Book Projects

"Political Visions and Landscapes of Change: The Activist Writings of Zitkala-Sa, Charles Alexander Eastman, and Carlos Montezuma." Click here for abstract as PDF.

“Place, Not Race: Sites of American Literary Neonativism, 1899-1933.” Click here for abstract as PDF.


Recent 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"
Click here for abstract.

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"
Click here
for abstract.


Recent Presentations

"The Bursum Bill and the Re-Placing of Pueblo Indians: D. H. Lawrence, John Collier, and Mabel Dodge Luhan in Taos." American Literature Association (ALA) Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. May 2008.

"'Inner life of people little understood': Gertrude Bonnin, William F. Hanson, and The Sun Dance Opera." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Southwest Regional Conference Albuquerque, NM. February 2007.
Click here for abstract.

"Connecting Students to Zitkala-Sa: From Her 'School Days' to Theirs." MLA Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. December 2006.
Click here for abstract.