Profile:

Billy J. Stratton’s scholarly work is situated at the intersection of postcolonial and critical race theory. Areas of specialization and research interest include: Native American literature and oral tradition, Indian captivity and African-American slave narratives, frontier literature and the revisionist Western, transatlantic representations of the Other, indigenous film studies, eco-criticism and environmental justice, postmodernism, and the literature of trauma. Publications include: “The Peoplehood Matrix: A New Theory of American Indian Literature,” with Frances Washburn, Wicazo Sa Review, 2008; and, “The Poetics of Decolonization: Linguistic Subversion in the Work of Laura Tohe,” Red Ink, 2008. His latest work, “Alone on the Colorado: Glen Canyon, Edward Abbey, and the Birth of Radical Environmentalism,” is forthcoming from Weber: The Contemporary West.  He is currently preparing his dissertation for publication, entitled (Re)inscribing King Philip’s War: Mary Rowlandson and the Advent of the Indian Captivity Narrative. In addition, he is also working on an interdisciplinary study of historical trauma in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian concerning efforts by the American and Mexican governments to exterminate the Apache during the nineteenth century.

Education:

Ph.D. American Indian Studies, University of Arizona M.A. American Indian Studies, University of Arizona B.A. English, Philosophy, Miami University

Classes:

ETHN 1010: Introduction to Ethnic Studies
ETHN 1600: Introduction to Native American Studies
ETHN 2300: Native Americans in Film
ETHN 2600: Contemporary Issues in Native America
ETHN/ENGL 4800: Contemporary Native American Fiction