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Kelli Alvarez

Kelli Alvarez

Assistant Teaching Professor

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Education:
M.A., Native American Studies. University of Oklahoma, 2014
M.A., English. University of Oklahoma, 2017

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Background

Kelli primarily focuses on race and ethnicity in literature and film, while also exploring concepts of place and agency in Indigenous and other ethnic literatures. She is currently looking at ideas of resistance in film and television and exploring the ways resistance impacts the communities about whom they are created and the viewers of such films and shows.


Publications

“Native Americans and Television” Race in American Television: Voices and Visionsthat Shaped a Nation. ed. David Leonard, Stephanie Troutman, and Anne Thompson. California: ABC-CLIO. 2019. Print.


“Police, Detective, and Crime Dramas” Race in American Television: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation. ed. David Leonard, Stephanie Troutman, and Anne Thompson. California: ABC-CLIO.  2019. Print.


“A Review of Carolyn Dunn’s The Stains of Burden and Dumb Luck” Transmotion Fall 2018. 


Agate Songs on the Path of Red Cedarby Duane Niatum,” Raven’s Chronicle Vol. 20 Summer issue: 2015.