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Lindsey Claire Smith
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BA, Hendrix College
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- American Indian Literature
- African American Literature
- Multi-Ethnic Studies
- Modern and Contemporary American Literature
Recent Upper Division & Graduate Courses Taught
- ENGL 3183: Youth Culture in American Indian Literature (Honors)
- ENGL 3190: Ethnicity and the City
- ENGL 6250: Native American Literature and the Environment
- ENGL 3243: Literary Theory
- ENGL 3193: African American Literature
- ENGL 4220: Place in Twentieth Century American Literature
- ENGL 4310 American Modernism(s)
Selected Publications
Guest editor with Paul Lai. "Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies." Special Issue of American Quarterly. (Forthcoming in September 2010.)
"'With These Magic Weapons, Make a New World'; Indigenous Centered Urbanism in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen." Canadian Journal of Native Studies 29. 1&2 (forthcoming in October 2009).
Indians, Environment, and Identity on the Borders of American Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2008.
"Introduction." With Judith Villa and Penelope Kelsey. Studies in the Humanities 33.2 (2006):128-39.
"Cross Cultural Hybridity in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans." American Transcendental Quarterly 20.3 (2006): 527-52.
"Transcending the 'Tragic Mulatto': The Intersection of Black and Indian Heritages in Contemporary Literature." Ethnic Studies Review 26.1 (2003): 45-66.
Recent Grants & Research Trips
- College of Arts and Sciences Travel Award, 2007, 2009
- Dean's Incentive Grant, 2007, 2008
- Fae Rawdon Norris Endowment for the Humanities Grant, 2007
- Newberry Library, Chicago IL, 2007
- Sequoyah Fellowship for American Indian Studies, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005-2006.
Recent Conference Presentations
"Cosmopolitan Indigeneity: Los Angeles in Joy Harjo's Poetry and Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles," American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 2009
"Urban Oklahoma in Sterlin Harjo's Four Sheets to the Wind," Native American and Indegenous Studies Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, May 2009
"Global Indigeneity in Greg Sarris's Watermelon Nights," American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, October 2008
“The Indigenous Cityscape in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen,” Interdisciplinary Meeting in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Athens, GA, April 2008
"American Indian Literature and the City of Chicago." Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, December 2007.
"Images of the City in the Works of Sherman Alexie." Western Literature Association Annual Meeting, Tacoma, WA, October 2007.
“Place and Prophecy in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead,” “What’s Next for Native American and Indigenous Studies?”: An International Scholarly Meeting, Norman, OK, May 2007.
“Asian / American Indian Intersections in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, New York City, April 2007.
"Indigenous 'Rememory': American Indian Heritage and American Identity in the Novels of Toni Morrison." Toni Morrison Society Conference. Cincinnati, Ohio. July, 2005.
"Legacy of Doom: Indians' Adoption of a Plantation Economy and the Corruption of Faulkner's Landscape." Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. Oxford, MS. July, 2003.
Current Research & Projects
I am working on two projects that concern relationships between American Indians and the environment in literature. The first project investigates the importance of urban experiences to American Indian community building, activism, and creativity. The second project is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on global indigeneity that I am developing with Paul Lai of the University of St. Thomas.
The City in American Indian Literature. (in progress.)
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