Publications
I am completing a book on Native American elegiac expression called "That the People Might Live": a Theory of Native American Elegy.
My publications include:
All that Remains: Native Studies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009
Red Matters: Native American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers, ed. (with Brian Swann). New York: Random House, 2000.
The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism and Culture. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.
Woodsmen, or Thoreau and the Indians, a novel. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994 [1979].
Native American Autobiography: An Anthology, ed., Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994. (Second edition, 1996.)
New Voices in Native American Literary Criticism, ed. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.
Ethnocriticism: Ethnography, History, Literature. Berkeley:University of California Press, 1992.
The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
Recovering the Word: Essays on Native American Literature, ed. (with Brian Swann). Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers. ed. (with Brian Swann). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. (Second edition, 2005.)
For Those Who Come After: a Study of Native American Autobiography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985; rpt., with a forward by Paul John Eakin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.