Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature LeAnne Howe presents scholar and author Chadwick Allen for her annual American Indian Returnings (AIR) Talk. This year's AIR Talk, "Across and Through These Lands: Earthworks, Indigenous Identity, and Return," will take place on the autumnal equinox in the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium of the Georgia Museum. This event is free and open to the public.
Allen is the Russell F. Stark University Professor in the Department of English at the University of Washington. His 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 coeditor, 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 2013–14 president of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA).
