Publications | Presentations
Peer-Reviewed
“Alexie, Sherman,” “Leslie Marmon Silko: Ceremony,” “James Welch: Fool’s Crow,” “Treuer, David,” and “Zitkála-Šá.” In Twentieth Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context, DeRoche, Linda (ed.) ABC-CLIO.
With Wolfgang Hochbruck: “Les Pompiers de Notre-Dame.” heroes. heroes. hero. E-Journal on Cultures of Heroic, Vol. 7, Iss.1, 2019, February 2020.
“‘Something Tells Me This Protest Is Far From Over:’ The Power Of Indigenous Visual Art In The #NoDAPL Protests.” In ExRe(y): Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North American Literature and Visual Culture, Kimak, Isabella & Julia Nikiel (eds.) New Americanists in Poland, Peter Lang, 2019.
“Birth, Death, Healing: Cycles and Repetitions in Tomson Highway's Kiss of The Fur Queen.”
University of Bucharest Review, Vol. 7, Iss. 1: Birth, Death, and Rebirth: Regeneration as Text, 2018.
“Insatiable Hunger for Indigenous Flesh, Cultures, and Lands: Colonialism as a Ravenous Monster in Monkey Beach and Kiss of the Fur Queen.” Parlour: A Journal of Literary Criticism and Analysis, Iss. 3: Haunting, Horrible Hunger: Food for Fright, Spring 2018.
Reviews
With Eva Rüskamp: “Anthropocene Reading: Literary Theory in Geologic Times.” Thomas Hardy Society Journal / Golygydd, Thomas Hardy Journal: A Hardy Society Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2, Summer 2020, pp. 60-64.
“Sara Sue Hoklotubbe's Sadie Walela Mystery Series.” Transmotion, Vol. 4, No. 2, Dec. 2018.
“Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North American Literature and Visual Culture.” U.S. Studies Online, 4 Jul. 2018.
“The Artist and ‘Indian Buff’: Frederick Weygold, Artist and Ethnographer of American Indians.” Transmotion, Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 2018.
“Our Fires Still Burn: The Native American Experience, dir. by Audrey Geyer.” The Middle West Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 2018.
Popular
“Innovators and Disruptors: 10 Indigenous Activists to Follow.” Impakter, 21 Aug. 2019.
Poetry
“Reconciliation.” Literature Today, Vol. 7, Jan. 2018.
“Hunger.” the quint: an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north, Vol. 10, No. 1, Dec. 2017.
UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS
“The Commodification of The Windigo, a Traditional Algonquian Monster, In The Television Series Supernatural” in Monsters with a Thousand Faces: Adaptations of Literary Horrors. Darowski, Joseph J. & John Darowski (eds.) University of Michigan Press.
“Do You Have a Little Native American in Your Story?” in I'm Already Dead: Essays on The CW’s iZombie and Vertigo’s iZOMBIE, Szanter, Ashley and Jessica K. Richards (eds.) McFarland Publishing.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“‘The Only Color the Spirits Can See:’ Red in Artistic Installations Memorializing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.” Colors and Cultures - Couleurs et cultures, Université de Haute-Alsace, France, 13-15 Apr. 2021.
“Creating and Maintaining Support for Students’ Mental Health during Online Teaching.” Roundtable: “Reluctantly Remote or All in Online: COVID-19 Changed the Way I Teach for Good,“ with Mary Ann Tobin (Pennsylvania State University), 52nd NeMLA Convention, Philadelphia, USA, 11-14 Mar. 2021.
“‘I have just been dealing with so much’: Creating and Maintaining Support for Students’ Mental Health during Online Teaching.” The GAAS in 2030: Imagining Future Practices of Critical Diversity in American Studies, Diversity Roundtable Workshop, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 12 Oct. 2020.
“'Finding Direction:' Strategies for Healing and Survivance in Contemporary Indigenous Wonderworks.“ #ECRvcon: First Early Career Researchers' Virtual Conference, What Are YOU Going to Do With THAT? podcast, Minerva Center for the Rule of Law Under Extreme Conditions, University of Haifa, Israel, 24 Sep. 2020.
“Better Alternatives On How To Be In The World: Healing in Métis Wonderworks.” Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American Literatures, University of Klagenfurt, Austria, 17-19 Sep. 2020. Postponed due to COVID-19 safety measures.
“Strategies for Healing in Métis Dystopia Shadows Cast by Stars and The Marrow Thieves.” Imagining Alternatives - Speculative Fiction and the Political, Universität Augsburg, Germany, 10-12 Sep. 2020. Postponed due to COVID-19 safety measures.
“’Finding Direction:’ The Physicality of Trauma and Healing in Métis Wonderwork The Marrow Thieves.” EUCOR Tri-national Ph.D. & M.A. Conference, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, 14 Aug. 2020.
“Local, Global, and International Protests for Indigenous Rights and Protection of the Environment.” Bridging Research, Policy and Activism for Environmental Justice in Times of Crises, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, 27-29 May 2020. Postponed due to COVID-19 safety measures.
“‘The Only Color the Spirits Can See:’ Red in Artistic Installations Memorializing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.” Colors and Cultures - Couleurs et cultures Université de Haute-Alsace, France, 14-16 Apr. 2020. Postponed due to COVID-19 safety measures.
“The Power of Indigenous Visual Art in the #NoDAPL Protests.” Sosiologipäivät 2020/Sociology Days 2020, Lapinyliopisto/University of Lapland, Finland, 26-27 Mar. 2020. Postponed due to COVID-19 safety measures.
“’Finding Direction:’ Strategies for Healing in Indigenous Dystopian Wonderworks.” EUCOR Tri-national Ph.D. & M.A. Conference, Université de Strasbourg, 3-4 Apr. 2020. Postponed due to COVID-19 safety measures.
“‘Remember, Resist, Redraw:’ The Power of Indigenous Visual Art in Pipeline Protests.” Narratives of (Un)sustainability: Assessing U.S. Oil Culture, Université de Lausanne, 27-28 Sep. 2019.
“Reversing the Tropes in Drew Hayden Taylor’s Night Wanderer: Colonial Vampirism and Land as Redemption.” 2019 Popular Culture Association (PCA) National Conference, Washington D.C., USA, 17-20 Apr. 2019.
“‘Myth vs. Evidence: Your Choice,’ or Intergenerational Trauma as Propaganda.” 50th Anniversary Northeastern MLA Convention, Washington D.C., USA, 21-24 Mar. 2019.
“We Don’t Cross the Border, It’s the Border That Crosses Us.” Negotiating, Subverting, Reconfiguring Borders in the English-Speaking World, Université de Strasbourg, France, 5-6 Oct. 2018.
“‘Something Tells Me This Protest is Far From Over:’ The Power of Indigenous Visual Art in the #NoDAPL Protests.” Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland, 10 May 2018.
“Culturally Responsive Language Teaching for Indigenous Students in Canada.” International Day for Teaching and Learning, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, 9 Apr. 2018.
“Local, Global, and International Protests for Indigenous Rights and Protection of the Environment.” 32nd European Association for American Studies (EAAS) and 63rd British Association for American Studies (BAAS) Conference, King's College London, England, 4-7 Apr. 2018.
“‘Something Tells Me This Protest is Far From Over:’ The Power of Indigenous Visual Art in the #NoDAPL Protests.” Precarious Representations, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, 12 Jan. 2018.
“Healing and Reconciliation in Contemporary Gothic Indigenous Literatures from North America.” 9th Annual Freiburg-Queen Mary Doctoral Colloquium, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, 24 Nov. 2017.
“Birth, Death, Healing: Cycles and Repetitions in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen.”
19th Annual International Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest, Romania, 10 Jun. 2017.
“The Algonquian Windigo As an Allegory of On-Going Colonial Violence in Recent Indigenous Gothic Fiction.” Transnational Monstrosity in Popular Culture, York St John University, England, 3 Jun. 2017.
“Healing and Reconciliation in Contemporary Gothic Indigenous Literatures from North America.” EUCOR Tri-national Ph.D. & M.A. Conference, University of Basel, Switzerland, 7 Apr. 2017.
GUEST LECTURES
“'it was never going to be okay:' Reflections on translating decolonial poetry from one settler language to another.“ FRIT Research Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 22 Feb. 2023.
“Grandir en Lorraine, Vivre en Alsace.“ UW French Club, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 06 Mar. 2023.
“Outside in the Academy: Building Interdisciplinary Peer Support and Carrying the Burden of the Academia.“ Who's Afraid of the Humanities?, Episode 6, 19 Sep. 2020.
“Warriors Then and Now: Native American Women in American Politics.“ Running in 2020: Women Rising & the American Politics of Change, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, 30 Jun. 2020.
“Doing Research In and With First Nation Communities.“ Trends and Methodology of North American Research, University of Helsinki, Finland, 27 Mar. 2020. Postponed due to COVID-19 safety measures.
“Cinema as a Strategy for Healing in Recent Short Films by Students at the IAIA (Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe.)“ Indigenous Arts Circle: Moving Image, University of Helsinki, Finland, 25 Mar. 2020. Postponed due to COVID-19 safety measures.
“Eighteenth-Century Views of Native Americans.“ Ideologies and Religions: Thomas Jefferson and the Enlightenment's Concept of Nature, Political Ideology, and Progress, University of Helsinki, Finland, 24 Mar. 2020. Postponed due to COVID-19 safety measures
“Studying Around the World.” The Ph.D. Life, Episode 004, 11 Feb. 2019.
“Windigos, Wingigog and Windikouk.“ Myth Reading Group, Centre for Myth Studies, University of Essex, England, 31 Oct. 2018.
CONFERENCE PANELS
Organized
“Nachwuchsforum/Emerging Scholars’ Network/Réseau des jeunes chercheurs,” with Michelle Thompson and Franz Krause, and with Alisa Preusser, Paula von Gleich, Friederike Alm, and Miriam Tekath. 41st Annual Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries, Grainau, Germany, 14-16 Feb. 2020.
“Performance and Activism: Environmental and Cultural Action, From Local Narratives to Global Contexts,” with Judith Eckenhoff and Julia Ruff. 32nd European Association for American Studies (EAAS) and 63rd British Association for American Studies (BAAS) Conference, King's College London, England, 4-7 Apr. 2018.
Chaired
“Mapping Colonial Alterity” with Carole Martin, Rosa Nowak, and Aleksandra Szczodrowski.
Fantastic Beasts, Monstrous Cyborgs, Aliens and Other Spectres: Exploring Alterity in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, 19-20 Oct. 2018.
“People, Places, and Predators of (Dubious) Acclaim: Environmental Celebrity, Status, and Speech in Human and Non-Human North American History,” with Nicholas Blower, Colin Elder, and Karen Jones. 32nd European Association for American Studies (EAAS) and 63rd British Association for American Studies (BAAS) Conference, King's College London, England, 4-7 Apr. 2018.
“Red Power Rising: The Long 1968 in Native America,” with Reetta Humalajoki, Lucie Kýrová, and György Tóth. 32nd European Association for American Studies (EAAS) and 63rd British Association for American Studies (BAAS) Conference, King's College London, England, 4-7 Apr. 2018.
PUBLIC READINGS
A Day With Yayah by Nicola Campbell. Kids' Story Time, Carl-Schurz-Haus Freiburg, Germany, 20 Jun. 2020.
What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses? by Richard Van Camp. Kids' Story Time, Carl-Schurz-Haus Freiburg, Germany, 19 Oct. 2019.
Sweetest Kulu by Celina Kalluk. Kids' Story Time, Carl-Schurz-Haus Freiburg, Germany, 20 Jul. 2019.
SkySisters by Jan Bourdeau Waboose. Kids' Story Time, Carl-Schurz-Haus Freiburg, Germany, 16 Feb. 2019.
Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith. Kids' Story Time, Carl-Schurz-Haus Freiburg, Germany, 17 Nov. 2018.
RESEARCH WORKSHOPS
“National Gathering on Indigenous Education.“ Indspire: Indigenous Education, Canada’s Future, Six Nations of the Grand River, Ohsweken, Canada, 26-27 Nov. 2020.
“Indigenous Peoples’ Day Virtual Teach-In: Food and Water Justice.“ Teaching for Change: Building Social Justice Starting in the Classroom, National Museum of the American Indian, USA, 12 Sep. 2020.
“Dynamics of Collective Narration: A workshop on contemporary factual narratives in their social contexts.“ Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, 18-20 Jun. 2020.
“Temporality, Narrativity, and the Anthropocene.“ New Developments in Theory Lecture Series, Basel Universität, Switzerland, 5 Dec. 2019.
“Thinking with Oil and Water.“ Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, 27 Sep. 2019.