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Office: Kaplan 292
Email: moehahne@ucla.edu

Education:

PhD, University of Southern California, 2017
MA, University of Southern California, 2013
BA, University of Oklahoma, 2009

Interests:

Critical Indigenous studies; Indigenous literatures of North America, queer and trans Indigenous studies; decolonization; gender and sexuality studies; settler colonial studies; environmental humanities

I am a decolonial scholar of the Indigenous literatures and visual cultures of North America. My writing and teaching trace the intersections of queer and gender-expansive theory and aesthetics, Indigenous feminisms, and wonder in Indigenous expressive cultures and colonial cultural histories. My first book project considers how 20^th and 21^st century queer and trans Indigenous literatures map decolonial sexualities, genders, and ecologies in relation to settler colonial biopolitics in cities across Canada and the United States.

Select Publications:

“‘In-Between Kumeyaay and Brooklyn’: Mapping Queer Indigenous Memory, Affect, and Futurity in Tommy Pico’s IRL.” In The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West, edited by Susan Bernardin, Routledge, 2022.

“Radical Refusal and the Potential of Queer Indigenous Futures.” Amerikastudien / American Studies. 66.1 (2021): 253-57.

“Sampling the Land and the Trappings of Empire: Jaden Smith’s Moving-Image Settler Aesthetic.” Social Text Online, June 2018.

“Animating the Indigenous and ‘Going Native’ in the City: Kent Mackenzie’s The Exiles.” Western American Literature. 52.1 (Spring 2017): 75-94.

Select Reviews:

Review of Settler Ecologies: The Enduring Nature of Settler Colonialism in Kenya, by Charis Enns and Brock Bersaglio, 2024, University of Toronto Press. Conservation and Society AOP: 1-2, 2024.

Interest Areas
• Native American and Indigenous Studies
• Sexuality & Gender Studies
• Visual Culture / Media Studies / Digital Humanities
• Ecocriticism / Environmental Humanities / Biopolitics
• American Literature & Culture