Publications | Presentations
Peer-Reviewed
“Alexie, Sherman,” “Leslie Marmon Silko: Ceremony,” “James Welch: Fool’s Crow,” “Treuer, David,” and “Zitkála-Šá.”
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.”
“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 (Review.)”
Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 2018.
Popular
“Innovators and Disruptors: 10 Indigenous Activists to Follow.”
Impakter
21 Aug. 2019.
Poetry
Literature Today
Vol. 7, Jan. 2018.
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”
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?”
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
Who's Afraid of the Humanities? with Thilini Prasadika, 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 with Eva Rüskamp
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 with Joseph Krause, 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
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, 18-20 Jun. 2020.
"New Developments in Theory Lecture Series: Temporality, Narrativity, and the Anthropocene"
Basel Universität, Switzerland, 5 Dec. 2019.
"CUSO (Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale): Thinking with Oil and Water"
Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, 27 Sep. 2019.