Christopher Pexa

Contact Me

cpexa@umn.edu

Affiliations

• English
• American Indian Studies

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Mellon Postdoctoral Associate: Cornell University.
• Ph.D.: English, Vanderbilt University.
• M.F.A.: Poetry, Arizona State University.
• B.A.: Religious Studies (with honors), Arizona State University.

Curriculum Vitae

Specialties

• Native American and Indigenous Literatures
• Native American and Indigenous Studies
• Global Anglophone Indigenous Literatures
• Futurity
• Sovereignty Studies
• Settler Colonial Studies
• Dakota Language and Literature
• Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature
• U.S. Federal Indian Law
• Critical Indigenous Theory

Courses Taught

• Native American Autobiography and Law
• Making and Re-making Homelands: American Indians, Place, and Memory
• Decolonizing Native Spaces/Places
• Indigeneity, Subjectivity, Legibility
• Global Anglophone Indigenous Futurisms
• Narrations of Native Nationhood
• Movement, Encounter, and Critique in Early American and Native American Travel Writing
• American Abjects: U.S. Literature’s Outsiders and Excesses
• Native American Authors in the Assimilation Era
• Race, Class, and Gender in Contemporary U.S. Literature
• Citizenship and Belonging in Nineteenth-Century America
• Who’s Afraid of Trickster Wolf?: Native American Origin Stories in Contemporary Political Contexts

Publications

• Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakota Oyate, 1862-1934, under contract with University of Minnesota Press
• “More Than Talking Animals: Charles Alexander Eastman’s Animal Peoples and Their Kinship Critiques of U.S. Empire,” forthcoming May 2017, PMLA
• “Futurity Foreclosed: Jonestown, Trauma, and the Ending of Time in Fred D’Aguiar’s Bill of Rights,” forthcoming, MELUS
• “Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s The White Possessive,” forthcoming, Native American and Indigenous Studies
• Review, “Glen Sean Coulthard’s Red Skin, White Masks,”American Studies Journal 54.2 (Summer 2015)
• “Transgressive Adoptions: Dakota Prisoners’ Resistances to Confinements Following the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War,”Wicazo Sa Review 30.1 (Spring 2015)
• “The Ministry of Inside Things,”The Collagist 61 (August 2014)
• “It Takes More Than a Robin to Make Winter Cold,”Coachella Review (Fall 2012)
• “There will be no translation,”MiPOesias 24.1 (January 2011)
• “The Boy,”“Homage to Cesar Vallejo,”“Two Poems for Delmore Schwartz,”Juked 7 (Fall 2010)
• “Conversion Blues,”42Opus (January 2010)

Awards

• Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society
• Mellon Diversity Dissertation Completion & Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cornell University
• Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
• Newberry Consortium for American Indian Studies (NCAIS) summer institute fellow
• Marshall Scholar
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Outstanding Graduate Barrett Honors College, Arizona State University