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Education:

• B.A., Wesleyan University, 1987
• Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1995

Scholarly/Professional Achievements:

• Debut novel published, fall 2014
• Multiple scholarly books, articles, short stories and creative nonfiction essays published
• Courses created in film, environmental literature, fiction writing and Native American literature
• Co-director, ºÚÁÏÌìÌà Sustainable Interdisciplinary Studies Program
• Founding member, ºÚÁÏÌìÌà Eco-Council
• Founder, ºÚÁÏÌìÌà National Novel Writing Month Club
• Director, ºÚÁÏÌìÌà Honors Institute, 2008-2011

Books Published:

	Survival Colony Nine (New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2014) []
	Medicine Bundle: Indian Sacred Performance and American Literature, 1824-1932. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. []
	Framing Monsters: Fantasy Film and Social  Alienation (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005) []
	The Demon of the Continent: Indians and the Shaping of American Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. []

Current Projects:

• Writing novels
• Preparing essay for scholarly collection celebrating Henry David Thoreau’s 200th birthday in 2017
• Developing Study Abroad+Study USA trips to Holocaust sites and to the Navajo Nation

Awards and Recognitions:

• Council of Independent Colleges Summer Seminar on the Slave Narrative
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Aldo Leopold and Environmental Ethics
• Brother Gregory Nugent Award for Teacher Excellence, ºÚÁÏÌìÌÃ, 2008
• Faculty Scholarship Grant, ºÚÁÏÌìÌÃ, 2006-2007
• Herbert Ross Brown Prize in New England Literary History, New England Quarterly, 2005
• Outstanding Faculty Service Award, ºÚÁÏÌìÌÃ, 2001

Joined ºÚÁÏÌìÌÃ:

1999

Hometown:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania