Faculty: Chris Schedler

Christopher Schedler was born and raised in California, with a quick detour east to pursue his B.A. in English and Religion at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. He returned to the west coast to earn his M.A. and Ph.D. in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He joined the English Department at CWU in Fall 2003. His teaching and research interests include American Literature after 1865, Multicultural Literatures (particularly American Indian and Chicano/a), Modernism, and Border Theory. He has published one book, Border Modernism: Intercultural Readings in American Literary Modernism (Routledge 2002) , as well as articles on Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, Américo Paredes, and John Joseph Mathews. He has recently completed articles on windigo cannibalism in Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart and schizo violence in Alejandro Morales' The Brick People . He is an avid user of online technologies (such as Blackboard) in his classes and has worked on a number of web projects, including an American Indian Literature Blog , Transcriptions: Literature and the Culture of Information , Weaving Webs: Native American Literature, Oral Tradition, and Internet , and Voice of the Shuttle: Web Site for Humanities Research . He was honored with the Excellence in Teaching Award for 2005-2006 given by the Alumni Association of CWU.