OU Gibbs College is pleased to announce that Chadwick Allen is invited to give a public lecture in the upcoming fall semester, co-sponsored by OU Departments of English, Film & Media Studies, Geography and Native American Studies. Chadwick Allen serves as the Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement at the University of Washington Seattle (UW), where he is also a Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of American Indian Studies. He has published numerous books and has conducted interdisciplinary work on Indigenous earthworks – a study of cultural and political revitalization through the built environment.
For his lecture, Professor Allen will give a brief overview of his book, Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) and discuss examples of how Indigenous nations in Oklahoma are re-engaging and reimagining ancient traditions of building large-scale earthworks. Allen will explore how these new mounds occupy space, organize relations and create meaning for local tribal citizens and the descendants of mound-building peoples in the post-removal era. The lecture will take place on Monday, November 13 from 4 – 5 p.m. in Nielsen Hall, room 170.
Allen is also a former editor of the journal Studies in American Indian Literatures and a past president of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). His books include Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts and Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies.
For more information, contact Joanna Hearne (jhearne@ou.edu) or Chris Morrey (chris.morrey@ou.edu).
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