Recent unpublished
papers:
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Place and Pronouns in Gerald Vizenor's Non-Fiction Prose
Paper presented at NAISA conference, University of Minnesota, May 2009. This is
an abbreviated version of the essay, "Writing in the Fourth Person: A
Lacanian Reading of Vizenor's Pronouns," in Gerald Vizenor: Texts and
Contexts, ed. Deborah L.
Madsen & A. Robert Lee (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press,), in
press.
á
Un-American Exceptionalism in the Disciplinary
Field: From Unmeltable Ethnics
to Flexible Citizens A very much shortened
version of this essay will appear in Re-Routing the Postcolonial: New
Directions for the New Millenium, ed. Janet Wilson, Cris Sandru &
Sarah Lawson Welsh (London: Routledge).
á
The "Un-American": Rhetorical
Genealogies Lecture presented at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge,
February 2009.
á
The West and Manifest Destiny An edited version
of this essay is forthcoming in BlackwellÕs Companion to American Studies, ed. John Carlos Rowe (Oxford: Blackwell).
á Native Lessons for
Western Theory: Trauma and the Case of Paula Gunn AllenÕs The Woman Who
Owned the Shadows British Association for American Studies, April 2006
á Performing Community Through the Feminine Body: The
Beauty Pageant in Transnational Contexts Network Swiss Graduate Programme in Gender Studies, University of Zurich, October 2005
á Artefact, Commodity,
Fetish: The Aesthetic Turn in Chinese American Literary Study Fudan
University, Shanghai, May 2005
á From Boutique to
Mall: Multiculturalism and the Consumption of Ethnicity San Antonio
College, Texas, April 2005
á Exceptionalist America
and the Discourses of Frontier Violence: Larry McMurtryÕs Lonesome Dove Quartet John F. Kennedy Institute for
North American Studies, Free University, Berlin, May 2003
á Allegory in America: From Puritanism to Post-Colonialism
University of Bristol, June 1999