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Deborah
Miranda
Associate Professor
Department
of English
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
(540) 458-8755
Payne
Hall 23
email: mirandad@wlu.edu
Education
PhD. in English, University of Washington
(2001)
M.A. in English, University of Washington
(spring 2001)
B.S., Teaching Moderate Special Needs
Children, Wheelock College (1983)
Teaching
English 105—Composition and
Literature
English 204—Introduction to Creative
Writing: Poetry
English 230—Poetry
English 262—Race, Ethnicity, and Literature
English 307—Advanced Poetry Writing
Seminar and Capstone Topics
English 413—The Art of the Word—a whole-body
experience
Native American Women's Literature
English 299—Introduction to Native American Literature
English 380—Women of Color and Feminism in Literature
Writing and
Research Interests
Poetry; Native
American women's literature; literatures
of U.S. populations whose work has been
traditionally overlooked; indigenous
erotics. Professor Miranda's sabbatical research is supported by the Institute of American Cultures (IAC) Visiting Scholars Award at the University of California - Los Angeles. |
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Books Indian Cartography:
poems. Greenfield Review P (1999).
Winner of 1997 Diane Decorah Memorial
First Book (poetry) from the Native
Writer's Circle of the Americas.
The Zen of La Llorona. Salt P
(2005).
Selected
Publications
Poems in
Association for Studies in American
Indian Literature (ASAIL), Bellingham
Review, Bellowing Ark, Bricolage,
Callaloo, Calyx, The
Cimarron Review, News from Native
California, Poets On, Raven
Chronicles, Snake Nation Review,
Southern Claifornia Quarterly, Studies
in American Indian Literatures, Weber
Studies: An Interdisciplinary Humanities
Journal, West Wind Review, Woman's
Journal, Wilderness.
Poems
anthologized in The Red Issue: Love
and Erotica (Nov. 2003); A Fierce
Brightness: Twenty-five Years of Women's
Poetry in Calyx, ed. Bevery McFarland
(Fall 2002); The Dirt is Red Here:
Contemporary Native California Poetry and
Art, ed. Malcolm Margolin (Hey Day
Books, 2002); Bearing Witness, Reading
Lives: Imagination, Creativity, & Cultural Change, ed. Gloria Anzaldua
and AnaLouise Keating (forthcoming); Through
the Eye of the Deer: Contemporary Animal
Poems and Stories by Ameriacn Indian
Women, ed. Carolyn Dunn and carol
Comfort (Aunt Lute Books, 2000); Durable
Breath, ed. John Smelcer and D. L.
Birchfield (Salmon Run P, 1996).
Essay. "What's Wrong with a Little
Fantasy? Storytellingfrom the (still)
Ivory Tower." This Bridge We Call
Home: Radical Visions for Transformation.
Ed. Gloria Anzaldua and AnaLouise Keating
(Routledge, 2002).
Essay. "Footnoting Heresy," with AnaLouise Keating. This Bridge We
Call Home: Radical Visions for
Transformation. Ed. Gloria Anzaldua
and AnaLouise Keating (Routledge, 2002).
Essay. "Dildos, Hummingbirds and Driving
Her Crazy: Searching for American Indian
Women's Love Poetry and Erotics." Frontiers
23.2 (2003): 135-48. To be reprinted in Towards
a Native American Women's Studies:
Critrical/Creative Representations.
Ed. Ines Herandez-Avila (forthcoming).
Essay. "A String of Textbooks:
Artifacts of Composition Pedagogy in
Indian Boarding Schools." The
Journal of Teaching Writing. 16.2
(Fall 2000).
Interview. "I Don't Speak the
Language that has the Sentences: An
Interview with Paula Gunn Allen." Sojourner:
The Women's Forum 24. 2 (Feb. 1999).
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