Faculty: Chris Schedler

SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY

Research Interests & Specialties

• Ethnography and Literature
• Comparative U.S. Ethnic Literatures and Cultures
• American Indian Literatures and Cultures
• Chicano/a Literature and Culture
• Border Modernism

Current Projects

• Research on book-length critical text tentatively titled: Native Informants: Ethnographic Literature and Literary Ethnography by American Minority Writers .
• Editing of book chapter: "Eating to Excess: Windigo Cannibalism in Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart " accepted for publication in Cannibalism and Eating the "Other": Stories of Human Cuisine . Eds. Kenneth Albala and Gary Allen.

Publications
Books

• Border Modernism: Intercultural Readings in American Literary Modernism . New York : Routledge, 2002.

Journal Articles

• "Bugs in the Capitalist Machine: The Schizo Violence of Alejandro Morales's The Brick People ." MELUS 32.1 (Spring 2007): Forthcoming.
• "Computer Technology in the Literature Classroom: A Constructivist Approach." Washington English Journal . 26.1 (2004): 6-10.
• "Inscribing Mexican-American Modernism in Américo Paredes's George Washington Gómez ." Texas Studies in Literature and Language . 42.2 (Summer 2000): 154-76.
• "The 'Tribal' Legacy of Hemingway's Nick Adams." The Hemingway Review 19.1 (Fall 1999): 64-78.
• "Formulating a Native American Modernism in John Joseph Mathews' Sundown ." Arizona Quarterly 55.1 (Spring 1999): 127-49.

Book Chapters

• "Writing Culture: Willa Cather's Southwest." Willa Cather and the American Southwest . Eds. John N. Swift and Joseph R. Urgo. Lincoln : U of Nebraska P, 2002. 108-23.
• "Inscribing Mexican-American Modernism in Américo Paredes's George Washington Gómez ." Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage . Vol. IV. Eds. José F. Aranda, Jr. and Silvio Torres-Saillant. Houston : Arte Público P, 2002. 246-69.

Conference Papers & Presentations

• "Consuming to Excess: Windigo Cannibalism in Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart ." American Literature Association Conference. San Francisco, May 2006.
• "Bridging Cultures: Using Online Communication Tools to Teach American Indian Literature." Pacific Northwest American Studies Association Conference. Spokane , April 2006.
• "Migratory Modernism: Mariano Azuela's Los de abajo (The Underdogs) ." Pacific Northwest American Studies Association Conference. Portland , April 2005.
• "D. H. Lawrence's Modern Myth of Return in The Plumed Serpent ." Modern Language Association Conference. Philadelphia , December 2004.
• "Visualizing Violence as Schizo Flow in Alejandro Morales's The Brick People ." American Studies Association Conference. Hartford , October, 2003.
• "Teaching Multiethnic Literature and Electronic Media: Syllabi and Instructional Aids." Modern Language Association Conference. New York , December 2002.
• "Centers and Edges: Localization and Deterritorialization in D. H. Lawrence and Mariano Azuela." California American Studies Association Conference. UC Santa Barbara , April 2000.
• "Writing Culture: Willa Cather's Southwest." Willa Cather on Mesa Verde Symposium. Mesa Verde National Park , October 1999.
• "Willa Cather & Américo Paredes: Historical Returns on the Borders of Modernity." California American Studies Association Conference. UC Santa Cruz, May 1999.
• "Inscribing Mexican-American Modernism in Américo Paredes's George Washington Gómez ." Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference. University of Houston , December 1998.
• "The Indian Ancestors of Hemingway's Nick Adams." Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville , February 1998.
• "American Modernism from Primitivism to Tribalism." California American Studies Association Conference. Berkeley , May 1997.
• "Native American Modernism and John Joseph Mathews's Sundown ." Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference. San Antonio , March 1997.

Grants Received

• Travel Grant, College of Arts and Humanities, CWU, 2003, 2004
• Dissertation Grant, Graduate Division, UC Santa Barbara , 1999
• Dissertation Grant, English, UC Santa Barbara , 1998
• Dissertation Grant, General Affiliates, UC Santa Barbara, 1997-98
• Travel Grant, Graduate Division, UC Santa Barbara , 1998

Honors & Awards

• Doctoral Candidacy Fellowship, Graduate Division, UC Santa Barbara, 1996-97
• First Year Graduate Student Fellowship, English, UC Santa Barbara, 1993-94
• Phi Beta Kappa, Wesleyan University , inducted 1989

Website Development
English Department, Central Washington University

• Creator, American Indian Literature Weblog http://websolutions.clt.cwu.edu/ailblog/

English Department, UC Santa Barbara

• Creator, Weaving Webs: Native American Lit, Oral Tradition, and Internet http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/topics/weaving-webs/home.html
• Research Assistant, Transcriptions: Literature and the Culture of Information http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/
• Editorial Assistant, Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research http://vos.ucsb.edu

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Membership in Professional Associations

• Modern Language Association
• American Studies Association
• Pacific Northwest American Studies Association
• American Literature Association
• Phi Beta Kappa