Undergraduate Advisor and Associate Chair
Office: Curtin Hall 495
Phone: 414-229-4839
e-mail: michael@uwm.edu
Web Site: http://www.uwm.edu/~michael
Ph.D., M.A., Cornell University
B. A. Oklahoma State University
American Indigenous Literatures
Images of Indigenous Peoples
Postcolonialism and Indigenous Literatures
Oral Traditions and Contemporary Indigenous Fiction
"'A Communion of Unmerged Souls': Dialogism in Toni Morrison's Sula" in The Midwestern Miscellany (forthcoming)
"Speaking of Home: The Idea of the Center in Some Contemproary American Indian Writing" in Wicazo Sa Review (1997)
"Writing a Friendship Dance: Orality in Mourning Dove's Cogewea" in The American Indian Culture and Research Journal (1996)