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Kaplan 292
Tel: 310.825.4173 / Fax: 310.267.4339 / Email

Education:

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

Interests and Research:

Critical Indigenous studies; Indigenous literatures of North America, Queer Indigenous theory; Sexuality and Gender studies; Decolonial thought; Settler colonialism; Comparative studies of empire

My work examines the politics of Indigeneity, sexuality, settler empire and decolonization in the Indigenous literatures and visual cultures of North America. Working at these intersections, my first book project considers how 20^th and early 21^st-century Indigenous writers respond to settler biopolitics, colonial ecologies, and anti-Indigenous violence in urbanized spaces.

Select Publications:

“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.

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