Dr. Chadwick Allen

Biography

Chadwick Allen is a Professor at the University of Washington, where he also serves as the Associate Vice Provost in the Office of Academic Personnel Faculty. He holds a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.F.A. from Washington University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. Professor Allen's scholarly interests include Trans-Indigenous literary studies, with a focus on Native American, Maori, and Oceanic literatures and cultures, as well as postcolonial literatures and frontier studies. His published works include 'Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary Activist Texts' (Duke University Press, 2002), 'Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies' (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), and 'Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts' (University of Minnesota Press, 2022). He has also co-edited a special issue on American Indian literatures with Beth Piatote for the Society of American Indians Legacies. Allen has been actively involved in promoting diversity and equity in academia and has previously served as the editor for the journal 'Studies in American Indian Literatures' and as President of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). He was a founding co-director of the Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies (CAIIS) at the University of Washington.

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