Education: BA, Arizona State University
MFA, Poetry, Arizona State University
PhD, Vanderbilt University

Interests: Očhéti Šakówiŋ Language and Literature; Native American and Indigenous Literatures; Native American and Indigenous Studies; Global Anglophone Indigenous Literatures; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Critical Indigenous Theory

Selected Works:                                                                                                                                                                Monograph: Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2019).                                     

Selected Articles and Essays:  “Bringing the Language Together”: Ochéti Šakówiŋ Pasts and Futures in the Iapi Oaye,” in Indigenous Media Ecologies, Jill Doerfler et al., eds. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming); “Očhéti Šakówiŋ Artists Exhibition: Oscar Howe, Francis Yellow, Avis Charley, and Holly Young,” in Dreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and Očhéti Šakówiŋ Painters of the Upper Midwest (Minneapolis: Katherine E. Nash Gallery, forthcoming); “Sovereign Flows and the Obligation of Repayment.” American Literary History , vol. 35, no. 1, 2022 ; “Futurity Foreclosed: Jonestown, Trauma, and the Ending of Time in Fred D’Aguiar’s Bill of Rights.” MELUS 43.1 (Feb 2018): 2-20; “Citizen Kin: Charles Eastman’s Reworking of U.S. Citizenship.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 29.3 (Fall 2017): 1-28; “More Than Talking Animals: Charles Alexander Eastman’s Animal Peoples and Their Kinship Critiques of U.S. Empire.” PMLA 131.3 (May 2016): 652-67; “Transgressive Adoptions: Dakota Prisoners’ Resistances to Confinements Following the 1862 U.S.- Dakota War.” Wicazo Sa Review 30.1 (Spring 2015): 29-56