James MacKay Author & Editor

James Mackay is a lecturer in Comparative Literature at the European University Cyprus. His research interests are in Native American literature, the impact of new technologies on literary study, and the interface between evolutionary science and the humanities. He has previously published articles on Gerald Vizenor, E. Pauline Johnson, and the implications of evolutionary psychology for literary theory. Crystal Alberts is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Dakota. Her latest publications include a co-edited collection of critical essays on William Gaddis (forthcoming), “Valuable Dregs: William Gaddis the Life of an Artist” and “Three Early Stories by William Gaddis.” Chadwick Allen is Associate Professor of English at the Ohio State University and, in 2007–2008, was the Moore Distinguished Visiting Professor in the department of English at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts (Duke UP, 2002) and articles on comparative Indigenous literary studies, postcolonial theory, and popular representations of US frontiers. Birgit Däwes is Assistant Professor in American Studies at the University of Würzburg. She is the author of Native North American Theater in a Global Age: Sites of Identity Construction and Transdifference (2007), and has written extensively on the works of Drew Hayden Taylor, among other playwrights. She is currently editing a volume of essays on the subject of Native American performance. Helen May Dennis is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, where she specializes in American Literature. She has published on Elizabeth Bishop, Willa Cather, H.D., Ezra Pound, Adrienne Rich, troubadour poetry, gender in American literature and culture, and Native American literature. Her book A New Approach to the Poetry of Ezra Pound: Through the Medieval Provençal Aspect was published in 1996, and her Native American Literature: Towards a Spatialized Reading was published in 2006. Her poetry has been published in a number of small press publications, most recently in Bluebeard’s Wives (2007). Karsten Fitz is Professor of American Studies at the University of Passau, Germany. He has also taught at the Universities of Regensburg and Bayreuth. His publications include Negotiating History and Culture: Transculturation in Contemporary Native American Fiction (2001) and The American Revolution Remembered, 1830s to 1850s: Competing Images and Conflicting Narratives (upcoming). He has also published articles on Native American Literature, American popular visual culture, cultural memory, and the teaching of American Studies in the EFL-classroom in various journals and conference volumes. Fitz is currently editing an anthology with the title Visual Representations of Native Americans: Transnational Contexts and Perspectives. Jerry Harp grew up in Mt. Vernon, Indiana (U.S.A.). He has degrees from Saint Meinrad College (B.A.), Saint Louis University (M.A.), the University of Florida (M.F.A.), and the University of Iowa (2002). His books of poetry include Creature (Salt Publishing, 2003) and Gatherings (Ashland Poetry Press, 2004). He co-edited, with Jan Weissmiller, A Poetry Criticism Reader (University of Iowa Press, 2006). His reviews appear regularly in Pleiades. He teaches at Lewis & Clark College. A. Robert Lee is Professor of American Literature at Nihon University, Tokyo, having previously taught at the University of Kent, UK. His publications include Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America (1998); Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions (2003), which won the American Book Award for 2004. His writings on Native authorship include Gerald Vizenor, Carter Revard, Louis Owens, Sherman Alexie, Diane Glancy, Betty Bell and Simon Ortiz. Polina Mackay is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Nicosia. She is the co-editor of Authorship in Context (2007), of Kathy Acker and Transnationalism (2009), and of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to H.D. She has also published articles on the Beat Generation, most recently on William S. Burroughs, and is now writing a book on Beat women writers. Molly McGlennen was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is of Anishinaabe and European descent. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Native American Studies at Vassar College. McGlennen’s poetry and scholarship is widely anthologized. Simon Ortiz calls Fried Fish and Flour Biscuits “food for our struggle and food for our victory as Indigenous people.”