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 recently completed a new book manuscript with the working title Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Art, Literature, and Performance (forthcoming 2022). He served as editor for the journal 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). At the UW, he currently serves as Co-director for the Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies (CAIIS). 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 2021 ENGL 541 A: Contemporary Literature: Introduction to Graduate Study in American Indian and Indigenous Literatures Winter 2020 ENGL 359 A: Contemporary American Indian Literature Winter 2017 ENGL 544 A: World Literature In English: Literatures of Oceania (w/Engl 498) News Related News Staged Reading: Savage Conversations Jan 10, 2020 Faculty and Staff Notes Jan 6, 2020 Faculty Notes May 15, 2019 Graduate Student Awards and Achievements Nov 30, 2018 Share: Print PDF