CURRICULUM VITAE Lydia R. Cooper Creighton University Department of English Email

CURRICULUM VITAE

Lydia R. Cooper Creighton University Department of English Email: [email protected]

Degrees earned:

Ph.D. in Literature at Baylor University, August 2008 M.A. in Literature at Baylor University, August 2005 B.A. in English at The University of Akron, Spring 2001

Certifications:

Graduate certificate in Ignatian Spirituality at Creighton University, 2018

Professional Employment:

Fall, 2011-present: Creighton University Rank and job field: Tenured Associate Professor of 20th and 21st-century American and Native American literature 2008-2011: Monmouth College Rank and job field: Visiting Assistant Professor of 20th and 21st-century American and Native American literature

Administrative Leadership Positions:

Fall, 2017-present: Timms Endowed Professor, Director of the Magis Core Curriculum Fall, 2016: Interim Director of the Honors Program

Publications: (a) Scholarly Books

Cormac McCarthy: A Complexity Theory of Literature. Contemporary American and Canadian Writers Series, edited by Nahem Yousaf and Sharon Monteith. Manchester University Press, forthcoming. Masculinities in Literature of the American West. Global Masculinities Series. Eds. Michael Kimmel and Judith Kegan Gardiner. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. No More Heroes: Narrative Perspective and Morality in Cormac McCarthy. Southern Literary Studies Series. Ed. Fred Hobson. Louisiana State University Press, May 3, 2011.

(b) Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

“The Problem of Trans-Figuration: Gender, the Jesuits and the Ojibwe in Louise Erdrich’s The Cooper / Curriculum Vitae 2

Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Forthcoming. “Cormac McCarthy’s The Road as Apocalyptic Grail Narrative.” Special Issue, Studies in the Novel, 50th anniversary edition, vol. 51, iss. 1, Spring 2019. Orig. published in Studies in the Novel 43.2 (Summer 2011): 218-236. “Straight Talk: Two Spirit Erasure as the Price of Sovereignty in James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk.” Studies in American Indian Literature, vol. 30, iss. 3, fall, 2018, pp. 96-117. “Diamonds, Drugs, and the Digital Age: Global Capitalism in Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 38, iss. 2, Jan., 2018, pp. 1- 14. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2017.1412937 “Eating at the Empire Table: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and the Anglo-Irish Gothic.” Modern Fiction Studies vol. 63, iss. 3, September, 2017, pp. 547-570. “Barracuda: Cars and Trucks in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction.” Southwestern American Literature 41.2 (Spring, 2016): 7-18. “Beyond 9/11: Trauma and the Limits of Empathy in Sherman Alexie’s Flight.” Studies in American Fiction. 42.1 (2015): 123-144. “‘The Sterility of their art’: Masculinity and the Western in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony.” Western American Literature 49.3 (Nov., 2014): 267-292. “The Gospels of Frank: Theatrical Salvation in Brian Friel’s Faith Healer.” The Explicator 71.4 (Winter, 2013): 240-43. “‘No One here is torn’: Religious Symbolism in David Treuer’s Little and The Hiawatha.” The Canadian Journal of Native Studies 32.1 (2012): 101-118. “‘A Howling void’: Beckett’s Influence in Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited.” The Cormac McCarthy Review 10.1 (Spring, 2012). 1-15. “‘Woman Chasing Her God’: Ritual, Renewal, and Violence in Linda Hogan’s Power.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 18.1 (Winter, 2011): 143-159. “The Critique of Violent Atonement in David Treuer’s The Hiawatha and Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer.” Studies in American Indian Literature 22.4 (Winter, 2010): 32-57. “Bone, Flesh, Feather, Fire: Symbol as Freedom in Helena Maria Viramontes’ Under the Feet of Jesus.” Critique 51.4 (Summer, 2010). 366-377. “Human Voices: Language and Conscience in Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.” Canadian Review of American Studies 39.1 (2009): 65-84. “‘He’s a psychopathic killer but so what?’: Folklore and Morality in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men.” Papers on Language and Literature 45.1 (Feb., 2009): 37-59. “‘Do You See This?’: Meaning and Relationship in the Judeo-Christian Imagery of McCarthy’s Cities of the Plain.” Special Issue on Cormac McCarthy. Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas 36 (2004): 13-28.

“‘A Strange equality’: Approaches to Teaching Gender in Cormac McCarthy.” Approaches to Teaching the Works of Cormac McCarthy. Eds. Stacey Peebles and Ben West. MLA. Forthcoming. “The Southwest.” Cormac McCarthy in Context. Ed. Steven Frye. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2018. Pp. Forthcoming. Cooper / Curriculum Vitae 3

“Inside ‘La Periquera’: Prisons and Power in All the Pretty Horses.” Beyond Borders: Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses. Ed. Rick Wallach. Casebook Studies in Cormac McCarthy, Vol.3. The Cormac McCarthy Society, 2014. 251-263. “Cormac McCarthy, Tennessee, and the Southern Gothic.” The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy. Ed. Steven Frye. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013. 41-53. “‘The Sculptor’s art’: Mystery and the Material Body in Suttree.” You Would Not Believe What Watches: Suttree and Cormac McCarthy’s Knoxville. Ed. Rick Wallach. Casebook Studies in Cormac McCarthy, Vol.1. The Cormac McCarthy Society, 2012. 190-197. “Novelistic Practice and Ethical Philosophy in Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go.” Kazuo Ishiguro: New Critical Visions of the Novels. Eds. Sebastian Groes and Barry Lewis. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 106-117.

(d) Book Reviews and Scholarly Reviews

“Lee Clark Mitchell’s Late Westerns: The Persistence of a Genre.” American Literary History Online Review. Oxford University P. June 7, 2019. https://static.primary.prod.gcms.the- infra.com/static/site/alh/document/Alh_Online_Review_Series_19/19Lydia_R._Cooper.pdf?node=08be241 441a5bf4cf669&version=9144:54440f05e77874714147 “Stacey Peebles, Cormac McCarthy and Performance: Page, Stage, Screen, and Michael Lynn Crews, Books are Made out of Books: A Guide to Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Influences.” Modern Fiction Studies, forthcoming. “Brief Review: Drugs, Diamonds, and the Digital Age: Global Capitalism in Cormac McCarthy’s The Counselor.” The Journal of Drug Abuse, vol. 4, no. 1:7, 2018, pp. 1-2. DOI: 10.21767/2471-853X.100074 “Review of Companion to James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk, edited by Arnold Krupat.” American Indian Quarterly, 41.2 (Spring 2017): 182-3. “Review. The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American West. Ed. Steven Frye. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2016.” Cercles: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone. 2016. http://www.cercles.com/review/r79/Frye.html “Review. The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature. Ed. Deborah L. Madsen. London and NY: Routledge, 2016.” Studies in American Indian Literature 28.3 (2016): 113-116. “Jones, Karen R. Epiphany in the Wilderness: Hunting, Nature, and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century American West.” Western American Literature 51.3 (2016): 363-365. “Leslie Harper Worthington. Cormac McCarthy and the Ghost of Huck Finn.” The Cormac McCarthy Journal 10.1 (Spring, 2013): 97-99.

(e) Fellowships and Grants:

2019 George F. Haddix President’s Faculty Research Fund ($4,025) Co-authored with Dr. Matthew Reznicek 2018 William J. Hill Visiting Researcher Travel Grant ($1,200) 2015 CCAS Summer Faculty Research Fellowship ($10,000) 2012 CCAS Summer Faculty Research Fellowship ($4,300)

(f) Artistic/creative publications

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i. Fiction, book My Second Death. Tyrus Books, 2013.

ii. Fiction, short story “My Brother, the Snakes, and Me.” Fiction Prize Issue. Storyglossia 36 (Fall, 2007).

iii. Poetry “The Flame” and “A Bird Fell Out of Its Nest.” The 2RiverView 11.4 (Summer, 2007): 6-7. “December in Akron, Ohio.” The Innisfree Poetry Review (Fall, 2007).

iv. Poetry, award “Repentance.” Winner, Poetry in the Arts Award. Judged by Rosanna Warren. Baylor University, 2008.

v. Popular scholarly work

Reflection on Shusaku Endo’s Silence. Reflecting Silence: Perspectives on Shusaku Endo’s Masterpiece. The Clapham Group. Picador Modern Classics. 2017. 7. http://us.macmillan.com/static/picador/silence/silence-reflections.pdf

Scholarship—Professional Conference Presentations:

----, Maya Khanna, and Sarah Ball. “Moving Towards Excellence: Designing and Implementing a Faculty Driven, Experiential Learning-Oriented Core Curriculum.” Panel presentation. Association of General and Liberal Studies. Orlando, Florida. Sept. 20-22, 2019. Type of conference: National “Nomadism and the Making and Unmaking of the World in The Crossing.” The Cormac McCarthy Conference. Austin, TX. Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 2019. Type of conference: National “Queer Digital Nationalisms in Joshua Whitehead’s full-metal indigiqueer.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference. Hamilton, New Zealand. June 26-29, 2019. Type of conference: International “Queer Digital Nationalisms in Joshua Whitehead’s Jonny Appleseed and full-metal indigiqueer.” You are Here: A Conference on Place, Space, and Embodiment. Sponsored by the Department of English and the Kingfisher Institute. Creighton University. March 15-16, 2019. Type of conference: Regional “Teaching Gender in Cormac McCarthy’s Works.” American Literature Association. San Francisco. May 24-27, 2018. Type of conference: National “Bloody Diamonds: Anti-Semitism and Global Capitalism in The Counselor.” American Literature Association. May 25-27, 2017. Type of conference: National. “Straight Talk: Two-Spirit Erasure as the Price of Sovereignty in James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk.” Listening to Trauma: Second Washington Conference on Trauma. Washington, D.C. Oct. 21-23, 2016. Cooper / Curriculum Vitae 5

Type of conference: International “The Road and the Ango-Irish Gothic Tradition.” Crossroads and Transgressions: Cormac McCarthy Between Worlds. Annual International Cormac McCarthy Symposium. July 7- 9, 2016. Type of conference: International “Barracuda: Cars and Trucks in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction.” American Literature Association Symposium. San Antonio TX. Feb. 25-27, 2016. Type of conference: National “Savages and Citizens: Revisions of the Indian Captivity Narrative in James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk.” American Comparative Literature Association. Seattle, WA. March 27-29, 2015. Type of conference: National ---- and Jeff Hause. “Empathy and Religious Transformations in Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited and Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus.” American Academy of Religion—Rocky Mountains- Great Plains Region. Creighton University, Omaha, NE. March 20-21, 2015. Type of conference: Regional Type of presentation: co-authored, co-presented “The Death of a Cross-Dressing Bear: Gender, Sex, and Violence on the Western Frontier in Blood Meridian.” Cormac McCarthy: Borders and Landscapes. University of Western Sydney. Sydney, Australia. July 23-25, 2014. Type of conference: International “Inside La Periquera: Prisons and Power in All the Pretty Horses.” Cormac McCarthy Society 20th Anniversary Conference. Berea, KY. Mar. 5-8, 2013. Type of conference: National “The Un-Punishing of Anton Chigurh: Failures of Justice in McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men.” “Ernest Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, and Their Traditions.” American Literature Association Symposium. New Orleans, LA. Oct. 4-6, 2012. Type of conference: Special meeting of the national ALA “Rethinking the National Catastrophe Narrative: Betrayal and Reconciliation in Alexie’s Flight.” Presentation at the Northeast Modern Language Association. Rochester, NY. March 15 18, 2012. Type of conference: Regional/National (National NeMLA) “Sadistic Love: The Critique of Redemptive Violence in David Treuer’s The Hiawatha.” Presented at the College English Association Conference. San Antonio, TX. March 25 27, 2010. Type of conference: National “‘Woman Chasing Her God’: Ritual, Renewal, and Violence in Linda Hogan’s Power.” Presented at the Southern American Studies Association Conference. George Mason University. Feb. 12-15, 2009. Type of conference: National “A Strange Beauty”: Heroism and Prophetic Narrative in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.” Presented at “In Search of the Peaceable Kingdom: Studies in the Literature of Conflict, Struggle and Hope.” The South Central Conference on Christianity and Literature. LeTourneau University. Feb. 21-22, 2008. Type of conference: Regional “The Evolution of the Trickster and Native Identity in Louise Erdrich’s Novels.” Presented at Cooper / Curriculum Vitae 6

“The 7th Native American Symposium,” Southeastern Oklahoma State University. Nov. 1-3, 2007. Type of conference: Annual symposium “Revealing Souls: Ethical Philosophy in Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go.” Presented at “Ishiguro and the International Novel” at Liverpool Hope University, U.K. June 1-2, 2007. Type of conference: Special international symposium “Blood Redemption: A Linguistic Analysis of Subjectivity in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses.” Presented at The Poetics and Linguistics Association Conference. New York University. July 25-28, 2004. Type of conference: International “Tricksters: Native Identity in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks.” Presented at the Conference of Community of College Teachers of English. University of Houston. March 6-8, 2004. Type of conference: National

Scholarship—Other

Invited Talks, Keynotes, and Panels Chaired:

Co-panelist with Dr. Matthew Reznicek, “Literature and Economics.” Humanomics: What it Means to be Human. Sponsored by the Institute for Economic Inquiry, Creighton University. April 13, 2019. Chair, “Articulating Identity” and “When Conflict Crosses the Hearth” panels at You are Here: A Conference on Place, Space, and Embodiment. Sponsored by the Department of English and the Kingfisher Institute. Creighton University. March 15-16, 2019. Type of conference: Regional Introduction for keynote speaker, Mishuana Goeman. You are Here: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Place, Space, and Embodiment. Creighton University. Omaha, NE. Mar. 23-25, 2018. Type of conference: Regional “Reading Native American Religions.” Scholar Roundtable. Creighton University Law School. Aug. 31, 2017. “The Faces of Christ and the Silence of God in Shusaku Endo’s Silence.” “Silence” Panel: A Discussion of Scorcese’s Film. Sponsored by the Honors Program and the Kripke Center. Feb. 13, 2017. Chair, “Aesthetic Crossroads.” Panel. Crossroads and Transgressions: Cormac McCarthy Between Worlds. Annual International Cormac McCarthy Symposium. July 7- 9, 2016. Type of conference: International Keynote Address. “Outlaw Geography: Place and Masculinity in Ron Hansen’s Westerns.” You are Here: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Place, Space, and Embodiment. Creighton University. Omaha, NE. Mar. 12, 2016. Type of conference: Regional, graduate. Chair, “Geographic Stories from Washington to the Great Plains.” Panel. You are Here: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Place, Space, and Embodiment. Creighton University. Omaha, NE. Mar. 12, 2016. Type of conference: Regional, graduate. Cooper / Curriculum Vitae 7

Chair, “Speaking Bodies.” Panel. You are Here: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Place, Space, and Embodiment. Creighton University. Omaha, NE. Mar. 12, 2016. Type of conference: Regional, graduate. Chair, “Native American Experiences.” Panel. American Literature Association Symposium. San Antonio, TX. Feb. 25-27, 2016. Type of conference: National

Professional Development Conferences:

Association for General and Liberal Studies Conference, Sept. 20-22. 2019 American Writers and Poets Association Conference. Portland, OR. March 29-31, 2019. American Writers and Poets Association. Writer to Writer Mentorship Program. Fall, 2017. Association for General and Liberal Studies Conference. Memphis, TN. Sept. 22-23, 2017. Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference. Washington, D.C. March 10 12, 2017.

Interviews and Public Talks:

Apr. 12, 2018. Interview for Omaha Channel 6 News. “Organizers Say ‘Take Back the Night’ Rally Significant During MeToo Movement.” Channel 6 News, Omaha, NE. http://www.wowt.com/content/news/Organizers-say-Take-Back-the-Night-rally- significant-during-MeToo-movement-479596573.html?ref=573 Apr. 12, 2018 Invited keynote at “Take Back the Night,” St. John’s Cathedral steps, Creighton University Oct. 26, 2017 Invited keynote at “Two-Minute Talks: LGBTQ Life at Creighton University,” hosted by the Creighton Student Union Interview with Jim Engster. The Jim Engster Show. WRKF 89.3. Baton Rouge NPR. 6 June 2011.

Teaching Awards:

Spring, 2018 Winner, IGGY Award for Advising Sept. 20, 2016 Pi Beta Phi Sorority nomination as “influential faculty member”

Other teaching contributions a. Research Mentor and Directed Independent Studies

Spring, 2019 Directed undergraduate independent study with Caroline Craig, “Cormac McCarthy: American Authors” Spring, 2019 Directed graduate independent study with Lorna Hummel, “Health, Caregiving, and Tribal Sovereignty in Native American Literature” Spring, 2018 Directed Independent Study with Sujana Maddapati, “Gender and Women’s Narratives from the 19th to the 21st Century” Fall, 2017 Directed Independent Study with Taylor Bickel, “Cross-Cultural Comparison of Coming-Out Narratives” Spring, 2017 Directed Independent Study with Lauren Sullivan and Kate Albrecht, “Native Cooper / Curriculum Vitae 8

American Literature” Fall, 2015 Internship Credit with Olivia C. Scott: “Processes of Trade Publication” Directed Independent Study with Lorna Hummel: “Native American Literature” Directed Independent Study with Olivia C. Scott: “Sincerely, G: A Novel” Summer 2015 Faculty mentor for Hailey Austin, winner of the Klutznick Chair Holocaust and Genocide Undergraduate Research Award. Project title: “Time Flies: Representation of Intergenerational Trauma in Spiegleman’s Maus I and II.” Summer 2015 Directed Independent Study with Olivia C. Scott: “Sincerely, G: A Novel” Spring, 2015 Directed Independent Study with Kayla Spiel: “Crafting the Novel” Spring, 2014 Directed Independent Study with Victor Chalfant and Joseph Burgess: “Border Identities: Material and Metaphysical Borders in Cormac McCarthy and Gloria Anzaldua” Fall, 2013 Directed Independent Study with Christina Laubenthal: “Linguistics, Poetics, and Wilfred Owen’s First World War Poetry” Fall, 2012 Graduate Directed Independent Readings with Anne Dimond and Charles Polk: “Contemporary Irish Literature” Spring, 2012 Directed Independent Study with Mary Kate Gliedt: “Contemporary Irish Literature”

b. Graduate Teaching Practicums

Fall, 2017 Graduate Teaching Practicum advisor for Claire Martin Spring, 2015 Graduate Teaching Practicum advisor for Charlotte Spires Fall, 2014 Graduate Teaching Practicum advisor for Bryan Benson Summer, 2013 Graduate Teaching Practicum advisor for Catherine Walsh

Graduate and Senior Theses:

Fall, 2019 Senior project advisor for Danielle Marshall, “Talking about Rape in Classical Literature” Spring, 2019 Thesis advisor for Lorna Hummel, “Embodied Experiences of Caregiving: Literature as a Lens for the Health Humanities.” Spring, 2019 Thesis reader for Steven Stendebach and for Lauren Rzezsutko Spring, 2019 Senior project advisor for Alyssa Hostert, “Beyond the Body: Exploring the Othered Experiences of Queer and Trans People in Healthcare.” Fall, 2018 Senior project advisor for Jaxson Schneider Sum., 2018 Thesis reader for Molly Hammond Engdahl Spring, 2018 Thesis advisor for Claire Martin Spring, 2018 Thesis reader for Chuks Mueme Fall, 2017 Senior project advisor for Tyler Nelson and Kate Albrecht Summer, 2017 Thesis reader for Josie Whelan, M.A. Spring, 2017 Thesis advisor for Tierney Scott Powell, M.A. Spring, 2017 Thesis reader for Rachel Nozicka, M.A. Spring, 2017 Senior project advisor for Samantha Lauber Spring, 2016 Senior project advisor for Lorna Hummel Fall, 2015 Senior project advisor for Hailey Austin, Claire Martin, and Geoff Brodie Cooper / Curriculum Vitae 9

Spring, 2015 Senior project advisor for Olivia C. Scott and Luke Hautzinger Fall, 2014 Thesis committee member for Megan Piernicky Fall, 2014 Senior project advisor for Kayla Spiel, Emily Dowdle, and Lynnea Davis Spring, 2014 Senior project advisor for Victor Chalfant Spring, 2013 Senior project advisor for Melinda Clavell Spring 2012 Senior project advisor for Casey Jergensen and Carl Elsik Fall, 2011 Thesis advisor for Eric Loy, M.A.

Leadership:

(A) Departmental leadership

Spr 2019 Chair, Marketing the Major Task Force Spr 2019 Chair, Program Assessment Design Task Force Fall, 2018 Chair, Committee on M.A. program revision Feb. 20, 2018 Panel chair, Unlimited Opportunities (English major) 2017-2018 Chair, Committee on English Core Curriculum Revision Spr, 2016 Chair, Assessment Task Force Author of department’s report to the Office of Academic Excellence and Assessment Fall, 2015 Created curriculum assessment for Department of English in conversation with Mary Ann Danielson (unassigned task) 2014-2015 Chair, Assessment Committee, Dept. of English 2013-2014 Convener, Assessment Committee, Department of English

(B) Leadership in Creighton College of Arts and Sciences

2017-present Honors Faculty Advisory Board 2017-present Member, Faculty Senate 2017-2018 Chair, Task Force on CCAS Magis Core Curriculum Committee review 2017-2018 RSP Preceptor, Honors Program Fall, 2016 Member, Faculty Senate 2014-present Member, Native American Studies faculty board 2014-present Member, American Studies faculty board

2019-2020 Historian, Phi Beta Kappa, Beta of Nebraska Chapter 2019 Chair, task force on syllabus notices for university president Fall, 2018-present Member, Inclusive Excellence Leadership Academy Work Group 2016-2019 Member, Faculty and Academic Council 2017-2020 Member, University Assessment Sub-Committee on Program Review 2017-2020 Member, University Assessment Committee 2017-2018 Ex officio, University Core Curriculum Committee 2017-2018 Member, program review sub-committee of UAC Cooper / Curriculum Vitae 10

Spring, 2017 Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Beta of Nebraska Chapter, Members-in-Course Committee Spring, 2017 Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Beta of Nebraska Chapter, ceremony planner with Pam Yenko and New Student Orientation co-director with Faith Kurtyka 2016-2017 Member, President’s Strategic Planning Steering Committee Spr-Sum. 2017 Goal Group Liaison, Strategic Planning Committee 2013-Spr, 2016 Assistant Director of the Honors Program Spring, 2016 Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Beta of Nebraska Chapter, Members-in-Course Committee Spring, 2016 Phi Beta Kappa, Event Planner, with Pam Yenko Spring, 2015 Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Beta of Nebraska Chapter, Members-in-Course Committee Spring, 2015 Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Events Planning Committee 2012-2014 Vice-secretary for Phi Beta Kappa 2012-2014 Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Members-in-Course Committee

Service in Omaha and local community

April 25, 2018 Moderator for “Catholic Social Teaching and TP-USA: Continuing the Conversation” event. Aug. 22, 2016 Invited lecture—“Lief Enger’s Peace Like a River.” For Summer Book Club, Marian High School April 1, 2016 Project Homeless Connect, Volunteer March 22, 2013 Project Homeless Connect, Volunteer October 14-17, 2012 Volunteer tutor for the Millennium Gates Scholarship Program at Red Cloud High School, Pine Ridge Reservation March 24, 2012 Project Homeless Connect, Volunteer

Membership in professional organizations: 2001 Phi Beta Kappa, National Honor Society (lifetime membership) 2019-present Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, member 2012-present Cormac McCarthy Society, member 2012-present American Literature Association, member 2016-19 Modern Languages Association, member 2016-17 American Studies Association, member