My research and teaching focus on Southwest
and Western American literatures and cultures with particular
attention to folklore, Native American literatures, ethnic
literatures, and cross-cultural representation. My most current
research examines and demonstrates critical approaches to collaborative
Native American autobiography. The result of the research,
Telling A Good One: The Process of a Native American Collaborative
Biography was released from the University of Nebraska
Press in 2000. In 1993, I published Charreria Mexicana:
An Equestrian Folk Tradition,a semiotic study of the history
and performance of a riding and roping tradition as a central
expression of Mexican and Mexican American ethnicity. Previous
books include five edited and authored critical studies of
Native American literatures and culture, among them, American
Indian Women Telling Their Lives. I have also published
numerous articles on both contemporary and traditional Native
American literatures and on the folk performance and the language
of cowboy cultures in the United States.
My research and teaching focus on Southwest
and Western American literatures and cultures with particular
attention to folklore, Native American literatures, ethnic
literatures, and cross-cultural representation. My most current
research examines and demonstrates critical approaches to collaborative
Native American autobiography. The result of the research,
Telling A Good One: The Process of a Native American Collaborative
Biography was released from the University of Nebraska
Press in 2000. In 1993, I published Charreria Mexicana:
An Equestrian Folk Tradition,a semiotic study of the history
and performance of a riding and roping tradition as a central
expression of Mexican and Mexican American ethnicity. Previous
books include five edited and authored critical studies of
Native American literatures and culture, among them, American
Indian Women Telling Their Lives. I have also published
numerous articles on both contemporary and traditional Native
American literatures and on the folk performance and the language
of cowboy cultures in the United States.