Mo’e’hahne, Ho’esta
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 and art; 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 20th and early 21st-century Indigenous writers respond to settler biopolitics, colonial ecologies, and anti-Indigenous violence in urbanized spaces.
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Interest Areas
• Native American and Indigenous Studies
• Sexuality & Gender Studies
• Visual Culture / Media Studies / Digital Humanities
• Ecocriticism / Environmental Humanities / Biopolitics
• American Literature & Culture