ProfessorAssociate Vice Provost for Faculty AdvancementRussell F. Stark University Professor206-543-6616callen3@uw.eduGRB 340Office Hours: By ApptFields of Interest American Indian/Native American Culture Indigenous Literature Oceanic Postcolonial Frontier StudiesUS Western LiteratureMaori Literature and CultureBackground and ExperienceSummaryB.A., Harvard University, 1987M.F.A., Washington University, 1990Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1997Areas of Specialization Trans-Indigenous literary studies; Native American, Maori, and Oceanic literatures and cultures; postcolonial literatures and theory; frontier studies and US western literature Activities and Interests Professor Allen’s work centers around studies of contemporary Native American and global Indigenous literatures, other expressive arts, and activism. Author of the books Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts (Duke UP, 2002) and Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies (U of Minnesota P, 2012), he is co-editor, with Beth Piatote, of The Society of American Indians and Its Legacies (a special combined issue of the journals Studies in American Indian Literatures and American Indian Quarterly, 2013). He served as editor for the journal SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures between 2012 and 2017, and he served as the 2013-2014 President of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). In addition to his primary work on Indigenous self-representation, Professor Allen has a strong secondary interest in US frontier literature and the popular western, and he has written extensively on the Lone Ranger and Tonto. Research Publications, Essays and Articles Chadwick Allen. “Performing Serpent Mound: A Trans-Indigenous Meditation.” Theatre Journal 67.3 (October 2015). Chadwick Allen. “Tonto as Taxidermy.” Native American and Indigenous Studies 1.1 (Spring 2014). Chadwick Allen. “A Transnational Native American Studies? Why Not Studies that are Trans-Indigenous?.” Journal of Transnational American Studies 4.1 (2012). Chadwick Allen. “Serpentine Figures, Sinuous Relations: Thematic Geometry in Allison Hedge Coke’s Blood Run.” American Literature 82.4 (December 2010). Chadwick Allen. “Tonto on Vacation, or How to Be an Indian Lawyer.” Canadian Review of American Studies 39.2 (2009). Publications, Book Chapters Chadwick Allen. “Re-scripting Indigenous America: Earthworks in Native Art, Literature, Community.” Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Indigenous Studies: Native North America in (Trans)Motion. Ed. Birgit Daewes, Karsten Fitz, and Sabine N. Meyer. New York and London: Routledge. 2015. Chadwick Allen. “Decolonizing Comparison: Toward a Trans-Indigenous Literary Studies.” The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature. Ed. James H. Cox and Daniel Heath Justice. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2014. Chadwick Allen. “Introduction: Locating the Society of American Indians.” The Society of American Indians and Its Legacies. Ed. Chadwick Allen and Beth H. Piatote. Special combined issue, Studies in American Indian Literatures (25.2) and American Indian Quarterly 37.3. (Summer 2013). Chadwick Allen. “Omnimedia Marketing: The Case of The Lone Ranger.” A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West. Ed. Nicolas S. Witschi. Oxford, UK and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. 2011. Chadwick Allen. “Productive Tensions: Trans/national, Trans-/Indigenous.” The World, the Text, and the Indian: Global Dimensions of Native American Literature. Ed. Richard Scott Lyons. Albany: SUNY Press, 2017. (Completed/published) Courses Taught Winter 2019 ENGL 537 A: Topics in American Studies: Indigenous Long-form Poetry Winter 2017 ENGL 544 A: World Literature In English: Literatures of Oceania (w/Engl 498) Share: Print PDF
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