Education 

	Ph.D. in English: Michigan State University, 1989
	M.A. in English: Michigan State University, 1985
	B.S. in Ed.: Central Michigan University, 1983

Dissertation "Articulated Selves: The Attainment of Identity and Personal Voice through Language and Story-Telling in Works by Twentieth Century American Authors"

Areas of Interest 

	Native American Literature
	Ethnic American Literature
	Contemporary American Literature

Fall 2017 COURSES

ENGL 389/HONR 311 Topics in Native American Literature: Native American Lit & Art

RECENT COURSES and Sample syllabi 

	ENGL 370 Latina/o Literature
	ENGL 371 Topics in Latina/o Literature: Contemporary Fiction
	ENGL 384 Native American Literature
	ENGL 385 Ethnic Literature in America
	ENGL 389/HONR 311 Topics in Native American Literature: Native American Lit & Art
	ENGL 389 Topics in Native American Literature: Louise Erdrich & Sherman Alexie
	ENGL 389 Topics in Native American Literature: New & Emerging Writers
	ENGL 4/588 Contemporary Trends in American Literature
	ENGL 510 Seminar in Literature: Native American Literature

RECENT Conference Papers 

	"Ignatia Thunder's Last Story in Louise Erdrich's LaRose"
	"Letting 'em in: Planets Don't Collide When Lewis Opens the Door in Gansworth's If I Ever Get Out of Here"
	"The Dark Humor and Satire of Thomas King's Short Fiction"
	"'The Truth' about Truth & Bright Water: Thomas King's Restoration of Indians into the Contemporary Landscape"
	"Native American Literature in the Multi-Ethnic Literature Course: A Defense"
	“How Useful and User-Friendly Is Treuer’s ‘User Manual’?”
	“So Say the Sisters: New Voices in Sister Nations“
	“Relocation and Dislocation in David Treuer’s Novel The Hiawatha”
	“Home Improvement and Power Tools: The Surrounded and The Things to Make Life Easy”
	“Sherman Alexie’s Unsolved Mystery in Indian Killers : Whodunit? Who Didn’t?"
	”Silko, Hogan, and the Loss of the Landscape"
	"Counting Coup: James Welch and American Myths"