My research focuses on building spaces in higher education that welcome and validate the linguistic, cultural, and knowledge-making practices of traditionally marginalized and underrepresented students.
My field is cinema and media studies, and my work is dedicated to the rigorous exploration of our understanding of the environment, natural resources, energy, and the politics enmeshed in their mediations.
In 1999, the Anishinaabe writer and critic Gerald Vizenor put forth the concept of survivance, which has been incredibly influential for the understanding of the lives, histories and creative literatures of Native American peoples.
My dissertation tells the story of Scottish national cinema through Scotland’s short fiction films from 1930 to the present.
My dissertation argues that Indigenous American literatures are acts of worldmaking with radical possibilities for achieving a just society.
As a graduate student in Rhetoric and Composition, I study multimodal writing—how people compose with words, images, sounds, videos, textures, gestures, etc.
My work explores the ways in which women with chronic illnesses discuss their diseases, bodies, and minds.
The Basovizza Monument in northeast Italy was inaugurated as a national memorial in 2007.
I am currently writing a novel (entitled Man of God) that explores the early settlement of the uppermost of the upper-midwestern United States and the clash of the Ojibway, Lakota, and European-American cultures
We usually arrange American literature in historical categories from realism to modernism to postmodernism and beyond.