Based on Collective Biographies of Women data, and part of a project on biography and space, this work in progress shares emerging studies of short narratives about Indigenous women in North America, particularly Pocahontas and E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake). Methods include maps, timelines, and a stand-aside XML schema outlining sample texts…[Read more]

As advocacy to increase tenure-track academic career opportunities for PhD recipients and reverse institutions’ abuse of an immiserated class of adjunct instructors has long deplored, the portion of the faculty with tenure or on the tenure track has declined to under a third of the academic workforce, while the segment with part-time appointments…[Read more]

This is the Introduction to my new book, _Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History_.