PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Critical Theory: A Reader for Literary and Cultural Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Now available from Oxford or Amazon.

• How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies, 2nd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Available from Oxford or Amazon.

• Changing Is Not Vanishing: A Collection of American Indian Poetry to 1930. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Available from Penn Press or Amazon. Based on extensive archival research uncovering poems from 1678 to 1930, with a long introduction and extensive annotation.

• How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. First edition. Six printings.

• The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. See the web site that goes with the book. Available from Penn Press or Amazon.

• The Invention of Native American Literature. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. Chapter 1, "Tradition, Invention, and Aesthetics in Native American Literature and Literary Criticism," reprinted in Literary Theory: An Anthology, 2nd ed. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. London: Blackwell, 2004, 1051-67. Available from Cornell or Amazon.

• "Absalom, Absalom!": The Questioning of Fictions. Boston: Twayne, 1991.

• The Unbeliever: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

• Faulkner and the Novelistic Imagination. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985.

Articles (selected)

• "American Indian Poetry at the Dawn of Modernism." The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. Ed. Cary Nelson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 71-95.

• "American Indian Poetry in the Nineteenth Century." The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry. Ed. Kerry Larson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 36-53.

• "Another Indian Looking Back: A Review Essay on Recent American Indian Poetry." Studies in American Indian Literature 22.2 (Summer 2010). (This link works only if you have access to Project Muse.)

• "Contemporary Anticolonialist Reading and the Collaborative Writing of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft." Before Yesterday: The Long History of Native American Writing. Ed. Simone Pellerin. Bordeaux, France: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2009. 47-52. pdf

• "The Hum of Routine: Issues for the Study of Early American Indian Print Culture: A Response to Phillip H. Round." American Literary History 19.2 (2007): 290-96. (This link works only if you have access to Project Muse.)

• "Reply to Marjorie Perloff's 'Janus-Faced Blockbuster.'" symploke 9.1-2 (2001). (This link works only if you have access to Project Muse.)

• "Red Slippers and Cottonmouth Moccasins: White Anxieties in Faulkner's Indian Stories." Faulkner Journal 18.1-2 (2002-2003), pp. 81-100. Revised and reprinted from Etudes Faulkneriennes II. Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2000, pp. 71-82. (If your library provides access to the EBSCO database, you can reach this article through your library's web site.)

• "'Where you want to go now ': Recharting the Scene Shifts in the First Section of The Sound and the Fury." The Faulkner Journal 14.2 (1999): 3-20. pdf

• "Who Shot the Sheriff: Storytelling, Indian Identity, and the Marketplace of Masculinity in D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded." Modern Fiction Studies 43 (1997): 898-932. (This link works only if you have access to Project Muse.)

• "Text, Lines, and Videotape: The Ideology of Genre and the Transcription of Traditional Native American Oral Narrative as Poetry." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 53 (1997): 141-69.

• "Sanctuary and Bad Taste." Etudes Faulkneriennes I. Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 1996, pp. 63-69. pdf

• "Sex and Gender, Feminine and Masculine: Faulkner and the Polymorphous Exchange of Cultural Binaries." Faulkner and Gender: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1994, ed. Ann J. Abadie and Donald M. Kartiganer. University, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1996, pp. 73-96.

• "The Other Coldfields: Gender, Commerce, and the Exchange of Bodies in Absalom, Absalom!" Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The Sutpen Family.  Ed. Arthur F. Kinney. New York: G. K. Hall, 1996, pp. 239-48.

• "'Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces': Teaching the First Section of The Sound and the Fury." Approaches to Teaching Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury."  Ed. Stephen Hahn and Arthur F. Kinney. New York: Modern Language Association, 1996, pp. 27-37.

• "To Be There, No Authority to Anything: Ontological Desire and Cultural and Poetic Authority in the Poetry of Ray A. Young Bear." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 50 (1994): 89-115.  Reprinted in Native-American Writers. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1998, pp. 175-94. (Unauthorized reprint without the footnotes.)

• "Material Choices: American Fictions, the Classroom, and the Post-Canon."  American Literary History 5 (1993): 89-110. (This link works only if you have access to JSTOR.)

• "Poetry and Pedagogy: A Memory of Michael Harper Teaching."  Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters 12 (1990): 810-12. (This link works only if you have access to JSTOR.)

• "The Chronology and Genealogy of Absalom, Absalom!: The Authority of Fiction and the Fiction of Authority." Studies in American Fiction 14 (1986): 191-98.  Reprinted in Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The Sutpen Family.  Ed. Arthur F. Kinney. New York: G. K. Hall, 1996, pp. 252-58.

TEACHING

American literature, critical theory, and Modern literature. Particular interests in fiction and poetry, recent critical theory, and Native American literatures.

Courses.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., English, Yale University
A.B., English and History, Brown University

Contact

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(217) 333-2391, department
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