Education

Moorhead State University, English Major/Philosophy Minor, BA

University of Texas, English Literature: Ethnic and Third World Concentration/Philosophy Sub-emphasis, Ph.D.

Courses Taught

LIT 300 Introduction to Literary Theory

LIT 400 Cultural Studies

LIT 522 Petromodernity

Field of Study

Ethnic and Third World Literature and Culture.  Energy Humanities.  Colonial and Postcolonial Literature and Cutlure.  Critical Theory.  Theories of Globalization.  Irish and Native American History and Culture. 

Selected Publications

“‘Will Come Forth in Tongues and Fury’: Relocating Irish Cultural Studies.”  Cultural Studies, Volume, 15:1 (January, 2001), 98-123.  Republished in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 208 (CLC-208), September, 2005.

“Sinn Fein and the Educative Process: An Interview with Daisy Mules.”  Jovert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 4.1 (Fall, 1999) http://152.1.96.5/jouvert/.  (Co-authored with Karen Steele and Bret Benjamin).

“Nits Make Lice: Drogheda, Sand Creek and the Poetics of Colonial Extermination.”  Cultural Critique 42 (Spring, 1999).  81-103. 

 “Desire and Learning: The Perversity of Pedagogy.” Situating College English: Lessons From an American University.  Eds. Evan Carton and Alan Friedman.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.  159-164.

Publications

Book MS

The Deep North: Indigeneity, Big Oil, and Resistance

Publications

Book

Lavil: Life, Love, and Death in Port au Prince.  Voice of Witness.  New York, Verso, 2017. Arts and Culture Editor.   

Articles

“Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Resistance in the Age of Big Oil: Corwin Clairmont’s Two Headed Arrow/Tar Sands Project.” American Indian Quarterly, Volume 45, Number 2, Spring 2021, 152-195.

“‘Will Come Forth in Tongues and Fury’: Relocating Irish Cultural Studies.”  Cultural Studies, Volume, 15:1 (January, 2001), 98-123.  Republished in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 208 (CLC-208), September, 2005.

“Sinn Fein and the Educative Process: An Interview with Daisy Mules.”  Jovert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 4.1 (Fall, 1999) http://152.1.96.5/jouvert/.  (Co-authored with Karen Steele and Bret Benjamin).

“Nits Make Lice: Drogheda, Sand Creek and the Poetics of Colonial Extermination.”  Cultural Critique 42 (Spring, 1999).  81-103.

“Desire and Learning: The Perversity of Pedagogy.” Situating College English: Lessons From an American University.  Eds. Evan Carton and Alan Friedman.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.  159-164.

Solicited Non-Peer Reviewed Articles

“Art, Indigenous Resistance, and Big Oil,” in Two-Headed Arrow The Tar Sands Project: ed. Corwin Clairmont. Missoula; Missoula Art Museum, 2020, 92-93.  

Short Stories

“The Empire Builder,” Twelve Winters Journal, vol II, 2022, https://twelvewinters.com/journal/

---. Republished in Cirque: A Literary Journal for Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, vol 12, #2, 65-71. 

“Road Kill,” Salvage #6 November 2018, 213-219.

“PayDay Loans,” Black Warrior Review Fall/Winter 2010: Issue 37.1, 146-158.  (Reviewed in The Review Review at http://www.thereviewreview.net/reviews/six-degrees-degeneration?page=0%2C1)

Creative Non-Fiction/Autotheory

“Caddy,” Fence Fall-Winter 2021-2022. https://fenceportal.org/caddy-2/

Affiliations

Modern Languages Association: Delegate Assemblyperson, 2006-2009.

American Conference for Irish Studies

American Studies Association

Montana Gaelic Cutlural Society

Specialized Skills

Irish 100 Education, 2009, Irish Voice and The Irish American Magazine. 

Humanities Montana Grant Award, 2008-2009

Council of Irish Culture, Irish Government: Research Award, 2008

NEH Summer Institute “Anglo-Irish Identities, 1600-1800” Notre Dame, 2007

The Inaugural Outstanding Faculty Mentoring Award, 2006-2007

The Winston and Helen Cox Teaching Award, University of Montana, 2003

Rocky Mountain Center for the Study of the West Faculty Research Fellowship in Regional or Western Studies, 2002

Honors / Awards

Awards

Pushcart Prize Nomination, Fall 2022

MESA Refuge Writer in Residence, Spring 2021: April 2-15.

Whitely Harbor Laboratories, Writer in Residence Award, San Juan Island, WA Aug, 2020

Sabbatical Award, 2020-2021.

UM Humanities Institute Nomination for a Summer NEH Grant, 2020.

Mortar Board Last Lecture, Fall, 2017

Faculty Research Grant, Spring-Summer Semesters, 2014

Biography Research Seminar Grant, August 29-September 1, 2012. 

Palestinian American Fellowship in Palestine, May-June, 2012.

Mesa Refuge Writers Grant, October 1-14, 2010.

Irish 100 Education, 2009, Irish Voice and The Irish American Magazine. 

Humanities Montana Grant Award, 2008-2009

Council of Irish Culture, Irish Government: Research Award, 2008

NEH Summer Institute “Anglo-Irish Identities, 1600-1800” Notre Dame, 2007

The Inaugural Outstanding Faculty Mentoring Award, 2007-2008

The Winston and Helen Cox Teaching Award, University of Montana, 2003