Speakers
The 2007-2008 American Indian Speakers Series
Fall Quarter 2007 Lectures
Wednesday, October 24- Lucy Murphy
American Indian Women, Mixed Families, and Colonization in
Nineteenth-Century Wisconsin
40 Jennings Hall
1735 Neil Avenue
7 - 8: 30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 14- Janet McAdams
Contemporary American Indian Literature
40 Jennings Hall
1735 Neil Avenue
7 - 8: 30 p.m.
All lectures are free and open to the public with refreshments following.
Speaker Bios
Janet McAdams joined the Kenyon faculty as the first Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Poetry, after having taught at the University of Oklahoma. Her courses at Kenyon are grounded in cross-cultural poetics and include American Indian literature and poetry writing. Her poetry collection, The Island of Lost Luggage, won a 2001 American Book Award. More recent poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Salt, The Poets Grimm, and TriQuarterly. She is working on a book-length poem, "The Hunter Gatherers," and a novel, Red Weather. With Geary Hobson and Kathryn Walkiewicz (Kenyon '03), she is co-editing an anthology, The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing after the Removal. In 2002, she was named "Mentor of the Year" by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. Her presentation will explore Contemporary American Indian Literature including the current issues that are being examined. She will also present pieces of her current works.
Lucy Murphy is an Associate Professor in the History Department at OSU-Newark--she was awarded a research fellowship last year from the CIC American Indian Studies at the Newberry Library. Her talk incorporates her past published books and her new research. Before the War of 1812, hundreds of families were formed when American Indian women married French, British, and Canadian fur traders, and settled in new communities around the Great Lakes. After the war, the U.S. colonized this region, and thousands of immigrants from the eastern United States flooded in, bringing a different government, and new cultural and economic practices. Native wives and mothers mediated among many cultural groups and took active economic and social roles, even as they and their families lost land and legal rights, and were shut out of the newly formalized political and judicial systems.
