Jodi A. Byrd (Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma)
Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies and English - Office: American Indian Studies, Room 2004
Phone: 217-265-9870
Email: jabyrd@illinois.edu
Education
PhD English, University of Iowa, 2002
Teaching Interests
Indigenous studies, indigenous and postcolonial literatures, cultural studies, film, theory
Courses
ENGL 265: Intro to American Indian Literature; ENGL 285: Postcolonial Literature; ENGL 301: Critical Approaches to Literature; ENGL 460: Literatures of Indigenous Peoples; ENGL 581: Indigenous Critical Theory; AIS 101: Introduction to American Indian Studies; AIS 199: American Indians in Film; AIS 430: Indigenous Governance; AIS 591: Problems in Indigenous Studies
Research Interests
Indigenous studies and governance, indigenous and postcolonial literatures, cultural studies, film, theory
Books
- The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011)
Selected Book Contributions
- Jacobs, Don T. "(Post)Colonial Plainsongs: Toward Native Literary Worldings." Unlearning the Language of Conquest. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. 82-92.
Selected Journal Articles
- Byrd, Jodi A. "'In the City of Blinding Lights:' Cultural Studies, Indigeneity, and the Affect of Colonialist Nostalgia." Cultural Studies Review 15.2 (2009): 13-28.
- Byrd, Jodi A., and Katarina Heyer. "Introduction: International Discourses of Indigenous Rights and Responsibilities." Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 33.1 (2008): 1-5.
- Byrd, Jodi A. "'Living My Native Life Deadly:' Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the Discourses of Competing Genocides." American Indian Quarterly 31.2 (2007): 310-332.
Reviews
- Byrd, Jodi A. "Beautiful Betrayals and Affective Resistances: A Review of Recent Scholarship Towards Global Liberation." Rev. of Affective Communities; Aloha Betrayed; Bush in Babylon; Contesting Empire, Globalizing Dissent; Empire, The National and Postcolonial 1890-1920, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 13.1 (2006): 86-95.
Works in Progress
- "'Been to the Nation, But I Couldn't Stay There:' American Indian Sovereignty, Cherokee Freedmen, and the Incommensurability of the Internal" (journal article)