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Laura Tohe
Associate Professor
English Department

Office Address:
Department of English                               Office:  480/ 965-5553
PO Box 870302			        Department:  480/ 965-3535
Arizona State University		        Fax:  480/ 965-3451
Tempe, AZ   85287-0302

E-Mail: L.Tohe@asu.edu	Website:  http://www.public.asu.edu/~ltohe				

EDUCATION:	University of Nebraska, 1993. Ph.D. English
			University of Nebraska, 1985, M.A. English
			University of New Mexico, 1975, B.A. Psychology

DISSERTATION:	No Parole Today. A creative dissertation of poetry and short stories of the Indian School experience.

ACADEMIC 		Associate Professor, English Department, Arizona State University
EMPLOYMENT:	2000-present
	
		           Assistant Professor, English Department, Arizona State University
		           1994-2000

			Affiliated Faculty, Women’s Studies Department, Arizona State 					University, 1994-present

			Affiliated Faculty, American Indian Studies Program, Arizona State 				University, 2003

			Teaching Assistantship:  University of Nebraska, 1988-1992

			Reading Assistantship:  University of Nebraska, 1983-1984

			Editorial Assistant, Prairie Schooner, 1983

HONORS & AWARDS:
From No Parole Today, "Teaching Multicultural Literature: A Workshop for the Middle Grades." http://learner.org/channel/workshops/tml/index.html Children's & Educational Programming Thirteen/WNET New York PBS/Annenberg multicultural literature series. September 2005.
Who's Who in America, A.N. Marquis, pub. since 1899. November 2004.
Nominated, 2004, 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award, Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.	
Nominated Minnesota Book Award 2003, Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on 	Community.  
Nominated, 2003 Push Cart Award for Best Small Press book for No Parole Today.   
Faculty Fellow, Co-curricular Program, Arizona State University, 2000 – 2001
Faculty of the Year Award, ASU College of Extended Education, May 2000.
1999 Poetry of the Year for No Parole Today, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers & Storytellers, 	Tahlequah, OK, August 5, 2000.
 “Those Who Speak the World Into Place: An Honoring of Native Writers.”  Joy Harjo & the                                                                	Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund Award, Albuquerque, NM, April 23, 1999.
Certificate of Recognition, Student Affairs Office, ASU 1997.
Native Time-An Historical TimeLine of Native America, 1996.
Certificate of Recognition, Nebraska Humanities Council 1996-94.     	
Seventh Edition of the Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian, 1995.   
Native American Artist Resource Collection, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, 1995.	
Native American Women:  A Biographical Dictionary, 1997, 1993. 	
Distinguished Service Award, Goodrich Program, University of Nebraska-Omaha, 1993.
Certificate of Recognition, Wordcraft Circle of Native American Mentor & Apprentice Writers,
	1993.
Elected Secretary "Native American Literature" section Rocky Mountain Modern Language 
	Association, 1993.
Prize Winner for Dance Performance choreographed from Tohe's Making Friends With Water, 
	Institute of Creative Research and Sport Art Academy, 1992.
Poetry Prize winner in Blue Mesa Review, 1990.
University of Nebraska Minority Fellowship 1991-90.
University of Nebraska Regents Tuition Fellowship, Fall 1990, Summer 1983
Outstanding Young Women of America, 1980

BOOK PUBLICATIONS:		
(Forthcoming) Tseyi, Deep in the Rock.  University of Arizona Press.  Tucson, AZ. Nov. 1, 2005.
(In-progress)  Simon Ortiz and Laura Tohe, Editors.  Border Towns: Margin as Place.  Ms. of 	creative non-fiction essays.
Laura Tohe, Editor. Dancing in the Wind.  ArtsReach, Tucson, AZ. 2004.  
Heid Erdrich, and Laura Tohe, Editors.  Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on 	Community.  Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN.  2002.
No Parole Today.  Poetry & stories. West End Press, Albuquerque, NM. 1999. (3^rd Printing May 
	2002)
(Chapbook) Making Friends With Water.  Poetry.  Nosila Press, Omaha, NE 1986.

POETRY PUBLICATIONS:   
“Dinetah,”  Southern Griot.  Ed. Aries Hines.  Africana Studies Department University of 	Southern Florida.  Tampa, Florida.  2005. 
“Returning,” Ibid.
“Zuni Needle Point Earrings.”  Coyote Brings Fire.  New College of Interdisciplinary Arts & 	Sciences Arizona State University at the West Campus Student Media.  2005.
“Refugees in Our Own Land,” Ploughshares.  Ed. Joy Harjo.  Winter 2004-05.  Vol.30, No.4. 	154.  
 “A Woman Left Alone With a Blank Page;” Red Ink.  Ed. Sherwin Bitsui.  U of A Press.  
	Tucson, AZ  2004 Vol. 11.2.  39.  
“Details.”  Ibid.  14.  
 “Brand New Chidii-Mobile.”  New Letters.  Ed. Robert Stewart.  University of 
	Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO.  2004.  Vol. 70, No. 2.  32.  
 “On Nights Like This” Red Ink.  Ed. Sherwin Bitsui.  U of Arizona Press.  Tucson, 
	AZ.  Fall 2002 Vol. 11.1.  32.  
“Hawaii.”  Ibid. 40.
“The Sacred Tortilla.”  Cream City Review.  Department of English—Box 413, Milwaukee, 
	WI.  Spring 2003 Vol. 27, No. l.  163.
"In Dinetah.”Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community.  Minnesota 
	Historical Society Press.  St. Paul, Minneapolis, MN.  April 2002.  100.
"The Big Rec Tangle."  Ibid.  186. 
"Tsoodzil, Mountain to the South."  Ibid.  187.
"The Names" Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Experience.  Heard 
	Museum.  Phoenix, AZ  2000.
 “Roads from the Rez.”  Generations, Our People Say.  CA Depart. of Education.  2002.  
(Forthcoming) “The Names.” (A limited broadside edition) ASU Creative Writing Department. 
	1999.
(Commissioned) “Brand New Chidii-Mobile.” Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Poetry Artwalk 
	Performance, Jan. 21, 1999.
“Conversations in Passing.”  Communicating Prejudice.  Ed. Michael L. Hecht.  Sage 
	Publications.  1998.  251-53.
(refereed) “Our Tongues Slapped into Silence.”  Journal of Navajo Education.  Eds. Dan 	McLaughlin & Clay Slate.  1997.  59.
(refereed) “Dick and Jane Subdue the Navajos.”  Ibid. 59.
(refereed) “She Was Telling It This Way.”  Reinventing the Enemy’s Language.  Eds. Joy Harjo 
	& Gloria Bird.  W. W. Norton.  1997.  41-43.
(refereed) “My Brother Shakes the Bottle.” Fever Dreams.  Eds. Leilani Wright & James V. 
	Cervantes.  University of Arizona Press. 1997. 197. 
(refereed) “Early Spring Morning.” Ibid. 198.
(refereed)  “Gathering the Voices.” Ibid. 199-200.	
“Riding Home.”  Southwestern Women: New Voices.  Ed. Caitlin L. Gannon.  Javelina Press, 
	Tucson. 1997.  5-7.
“Salt River.” Ibid. 44.
(refereed) “Joe-Babes." Callaloo. Native American Literatures: A Special Issue. Vol. 17,  No. 1. 
	1994.  320-321.
(refereed) "Snake Lover.”  Ibid. 322-324.
(refereed) “Little Sister.”  Nebraska English Journal. 39.2. 1994. 101.
(refereed) “Oil.” Ibid. 102.
“Blue Horses Running.”  The Colour of Resistance: A Contemporary Collection of Writing by 	Aboriginal Women. Ed. Connie Fife. 	Sister Vision Press, Toronto, 1993. 100.	
Poem in Returning the Gift Calendar 1993.  1993.
(refereed) “The Sacrament.”  Platte Valley Review.  Ed. Vern Plambeck.  Vol. 19, No. 1.  Platte 
	Valley Review.  1991.  4.
(refereed) “Body Identified.”  Blue Mesa Review. Ed. Rudolfo A. Anaya.  University of New 	Mexico. 1990. 135.
(refereed) “Sometimes She Dreams.”  Laurus. Ed. Allison Stoner, Jim Cihlar and Margrethe 
	Ahischwede. University of Nebraska. Spring 1990.  66.
(refereed) “Why I Stay Here.”  Ibid. 67. 
(refereed) “Midnight.”  Ibid. 68.
“Covert Lover or How my ‘Na'ashshood’ Days Ended.”  Wanbli Ho.  Ed. Michael H. Benge.  	Sinte Gleska College. 1986.  91.
"Woolworths.”  Ibid. 93.
(refereed) "Easter Sunday.”  Calyx.  Bearing Witness Sobreviviendo: An Anthology of Writing 
	and Art by Native American /Latina Women. Ed. Kathleen M. Reyes. Vol. 8, No. 2. 
	Calyx. 1984.  84.
“Mennen Skin Bracer.”  The Daily Nebraskan.  University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, May 1, 
	1984.
“Cat or Stomp.”  Songs From This Earth on Turtle’s Back: Contemporary American Indian 
	Poetry.  Ed. Joseph Bruchac.  Greenfield Review Press. New York: 1983.  254.  
“Female Rain.”  Ibid. 255.
“Male Rain.”  Ibid. 255.
“At Mexican Springs.”  Ibid. 256. 
“No Parole Today.”  The Clouds Through This Light: Contemporary Native American Poetry. 
	Ed. Philip Foss. Santa Fe: 1983.  306.
“His Birth.”  Ibid. 307.
“Newspaper Deaths.”  Ibid. 308.
“To Shima Sani.”  Resiembra.  Northern Community College Press, Espanola, NM 1982. 4 - 5.
“The Shooting.”  Ibid. 5. 
(refereed) “A Gallup Ceremonial Poem.”  Quilt 1.  Eds. Al Young and Ishmael Reed.  Quilt. 	1981.  153.

Poetry Reprints:    
“The Names.”  Communicating Prejudice.   Ed. Michael L. Hecht.  Sage Publications.  1998.  
	246-47.
“Little Sister.”  Ibid.  254-55.
“She Was Telling It This Way.”  Navajo Hopi Observer.  Vol. 16, No. 17.  1998.  5.  
 (refereed) “Oil.”  Fever Dreams. Eds. Leilani Wright & James V. Cervantes.  University of 	Arizona Press. 1997.  200-201.
“To Shima Sani.” The New Skyline Edition. Ernst Klett Schulbuchverlag, Stuttgart, Germany. 
	1996.
“To Shima Sani.” (Audiotape) The New Skyline Edition. Ernst Klett Schulbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 
	Germany. 1996.
(refereed) “Cat or Stomp.”  Scott Foresman Reader.  Scott Foresman and Company, 
	Glenview, IL. 1996.
“Cat or Stomp.”  AZ Native Scene.  Phoenix, AZ.  February 29, 1996.
“Blue Horses Running.” Returning the Gift. Ed. Joe Bruchac.  University of Arizona Press, 	Tucson, AZ. 1994.  288.
(refereed) “La Fusillade." Estuaires Revue Culturelle.  Luxembourg. 1993.  45.
(refereed) "Pluie Femelle." Ibid. 46.
(refereed) "Pluie Male." Ibid. 46. 
(refereed) "Cat or Stomp." Braided Lives: An Anthology of Multicultural American Writing. 	Minnesota Humanities Commission. 1991. 74.  
"The Platte." Nebraska Humanities. Vol. 1, No. 2, 1991. 25.
"Mennen Skin Bracer." Daily Nebraskan. 18 Apr. 1991. 6.
(refereed) "Aux sources du Mexique." Les Cahiers: La Poesie Amerindienne. Ed. and Trans.
	Manuel Van Thienen. No. 25. Centre Regional de Documentation Pedagogique de 
	l'Academie de Lyon.  1989.  24.
“L’Attentat.”  Poetes Indiens D’Amerique.  Ed. Rene Rougerie.  Trans. Louis Olivier & Charles 
	Juliet.  No. 70/71.  Mortemart, France.  1989.  118-119.
“A Mexican Springs.”  Ibid.  120-121.
“The Platte.”  Wanbli Ho. Ed. Michael H. Benge.  Sinte Gleska College. 1986. 75.
“His Birth.”  Five for Dance.  UNO Fine Arts Press, Omaha, NE. 
(refereed) “No Parole Today.” Calyx. Bearing Witness Sobreviviendo: An Anthology of Writing 	and Art by Native American /Latina Women.  Ed. Kathleen M. Reyes. Vol. 8, No. 2. 	1984. 	88.	 
“His Birth.”  All My Grandmothers Could Sing: Poems by Nebraska Women.  Ed. Judith 
	Sornberger.  Free Rein Press.  Lincoln: 1984.  38.
“To Shima Sani.” Songs From This Earth on Turtle’s Back: Contemporary American Indian 
	Poetry. Ed. Joseph Bruchac.  Greenfield Review Press. New York: 1983.  253.
“The Shooting.” Ibid. 254.

PLAY:
The Story of Me.  Children's play Commissioned by Emmy Gifford Children's Theater, Omaha, 	NE, 1993.

STORIES:	
(Circulation) “The Legend of Sleepy Rock.”  Ed. Simon Ortiz.  Earth Power Coming II.  
“A Yellow Woman Story.”  Quirk.  Ed. Moumin Quazi.  College of the Incarnate Word. 
	San Antonio, TX.  December 2000.
“So I Blow Smoke in Her Face.” Blue Dawn, Red Earth.  Ed. Clifford Trafzer. Doubleday & Co. 
	1996.	
"A Day at the Ceremonial." Revista. Ed. Carlos Nicolas Flores. Vol. II, No. 1. Revista Rio 	Bravo.  1982. 9, 17-18. 
(refereed) "Willow Man's Children," Ceremony of Brotherhood.  Eds. Rudolfo A. Anaya and 	Simon J. Ortiz. Academia. 1981.  25.

ESSAYS:
(forthcoming) Introduction.  A History of North American Indians.  Marie-Claude Strigler.  Paris, 
	France, 2005.
(refereed)"’ It was that Indian’: Simon Ortiz, Activist Poet.” Ed. Susan Berry Brill 	de Ramirez. 
	Studies in American Indian Literature (SAIL).  16.4.  2005.
“See Real Indians.” Beyond the Reach of Time and Change: The Frank A. Rinehart Collection
	Revisited.  Ed. Simon Ortiz.  U of Arizona Press. Tucson, AZ.  2005.
(refereed) “There Is No Word for Feminism in the  Navajo Language.”  Wicazo Sa, 
	A Journal of Native American Studies.  Ed. Elizabeth Cook Lynn.  U of  Minnesota Press.    
	Vol. 15, No. 2.  2000.
(accepted)  “Roads from the Rez.”  Generations, Our People Say.  California State Curriculum 	Guide. 1999.  
(refereed & accepted) “Standing on the Earth’s Surface:  A Dine Perspective on Literature and
	      Writing.”  North Dakota Quarterly, Ed. Robert Lewis,  ND State U.  Grand Forks, ND. 
“A Contextual Statement Surrounding Three Poems of Prejudice.” 	Communicating Prejudice.  
	Ed. Michael L. Hecht.  Sage Publications. 1998.  246-56.
(refereed, Note: submitted as essay published as fiction) “My Mother’s Cornfield.”  Cimarron 
	Review.  Oklahoma State English Department, OK.  1997.  46-47.
"Restoring the Creative Voice Through Landscape." Nebraska Humanities.  Vol. 1, No. 2. 1991.
	25.
		
Essay Reprints:
“Restoring the Creative Voice Through Landscape.” The American Nature Writing Newsletter. 
	Ed. Scott Slovic. Vol. 6, No. 2, Fall 	1994. 9-10.
“There Is No Word for Feminism in My Language.” Generations, Our People Say.  California 	State Curriculum Guide. 2001.  

Photographs:
“Van Gogh at Rainbow Bridge I,” “Van Gogh at Rainbow Bridge II.”  Red Ink.  Ed. Sherwin 
	Bitsui.  U of  A Press.  Tucson, AZ  2004 Vol. 11.2.  14.  

INTERVIEWS:
“The White Stuff.”  BBC Radio 4.  http://bbc.co.uk.  May 17, 2004; Jan 7, 2005.
 “Survivor.”  http://www.reznetnews.org/culture/041110_prof/  2004.
“Revelations from Native Poets.”  Brenda Norrell.  Indian Country Today.  Jun 2004.
“Tohe writes of memories, brutal, beautiful.”  Betsey Bruner.  Arizona Daily Sun.  Flagstaff, AZ
	April 2004.
Poetic work cited in “Esther Belin and Laura Tohe: Urban and Traditional Dine (Navajo) 
	Poetry,"  P. Jane Hafen, Ph.D. Modern Language Association national meeting, San 
	Diego, CA  Dec. 27, 2003.
"American Indian Stress Importance and Legacy of Tribal Languages."  Tricia Masenthin.  U of 
	KS, July 24, 2003.
"Tohe's Poetry."  Gallup Independent.  Gallup, NM.  No. 82, Vol. 116.  April 7, 2003
"A Modern Day Poet."  Campus Voice.  U of NM, Gallup, NM.  No. 5. Vol. VIII.  April 2003.
“A Woman’s Place.”  Jessica McCann.  Research: Magazine of Scholarship and Creative
	Activity at Arizona State University.	Summer 2003.  42-45.  
“Two Worlds.”  Gallup Independent.  April 7, 2003.  
Poetry cited in “Navajo Poetry.”  Doctoral Dissertation, Anthony Webster, U of TX at Austin, 
	2003.
American Indian Literature class (Kirstin Squint instructor) via internet chatroom, Coconino 
	Community College, Flagstaff. Feb.  2003.  
Documentary.  Navajo Springtime.  Documentary on contemporary Navajo lives and cultural 
	life.  Directed by Jean-Louis Nizon.  Paris, France.  2002.  
Limelight shines on Navajos.”  Zarana Sanghani.  East Valley Tribune.  June 2002. 
“School as cultural prison.”  Peter Ortiz.  The Arizona Republic.  April 5, 2002.
“Visual storytelling and remembering our stories.”  Cochise Community College.   Feb.-March 
	2002.
“Poet tells of women’s strong role.”  Roberta Burnett.  The Arizona Republic.  January 11, 2002.
“An Interview with Laura Tohe” Interview by Professor Rhoda Carroll, Columbia Women’s 
	College.  Montpelier, Vermont.
“Education Opened Doors for Indian Writer, Teacher.”  Kathy Koury.  The Arizona Republic.  
	Oct. 1998.
Poetry cited in “The World View of Urban Dine Women and Its Role in Learning.”  Doctoral 
	Dissertation, Deborah J. Garza Chavez, Arizona State University, May 1998.
German Public Radio, Germany, June 1998.
Navajo-Hopi Observer, Flagstaff, AZ  April 1998.
KUAT Radio “Matriarchal Societies.”  Tucson, AZ, Dec. 12, 1997.
“Laura Tohe--Commitment to Heritage.”  Arizona Insight Newsletter of the Arizona Humanities 
	Council.  May 1997.
“Words, Stories, and Voices”--Professor Tohe,  A Navajo Tells Stories Through Her Books.”  
	Arizona Native Scene.  Oct. 21, 1996.
NETV (Nebraska Educational Television) “Distant Voices Thunder Words” videotape, 1990.

TRANSLATIONS:
Making Friends With Water, poems translated into modern dance and music performed by The 
	Moving Company, April 1991.
Videotape: "Willow Man's Children" story for the Omaha Public Schools, 1988.
"His Birth,” poem, translated into modern dance performed by The Moving Company, Omaha, 
	NE, March 1985.

BOOK REVIEWS:
Ocean Power by Ofelia Zepeda.  American Indian Research and Culture Journal.  Ed. Lola 
	Worthington.  Vol. 22, No. 2, Spring 1998.  

WORKS IN PROGRESS:
(In-progress) Simon Ortiz, Laura Tohe, Editors.  Border Towns: Margin as Place.  Creative non-	fiction
(In-progress) Talking Woman.  Poetry and stories.  
Crossing the Moonshell (tentative title), poetry, stories, and essays.  Invited book 	publication by 	Greg Kosmicki, Editor, Backwaters Press.  Omaha, NE. 
 
READINGS 2000-2005:  Numerous readings throughout the US in addition to:
Amerind, Dragoon, AZ 2005
University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX  2004, 2000, 1999
Northern Arizona Book Festival.  Flagstaff, AZ  2004, 2002
Diné College, Tsaile, AZ  2004
Women's History Month, Gateway Community College 2004
Chase Bank, Lunch 'n Learn. Tempe, AZ 2003.
R.C. Gorman Library Dedication, Diné College, Tsaile, AZ  2003.
22nd Annual Taos Poetry Circus, Taos, NM  2003
The Fourth Annual Women of Color Conference, 2004, 2003
"An Evening With Poets and Writers."  ASU West, 2003
University of New Mexico, Gallup Branch 2003
Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C. 2003
Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ  2003
Borders Bookstore, Tempe, AZ 2003
Fandango Writer’s Conference, Bluff, UT, 2003, 2002
Cochise Community College, Sierra Vista, AZ  2003, 2002
Arizona State University.  Tempe, AZ Women’s Studies. 2004, 2003, 2002
Phoenix College, Phoenix, AZ  2003
Fandango Writers Festival, Bluff, Utah.  2003, 2002
Native American Appreciation, Steele Park, Phoenix, AZ 2002
California State University.  Northridge, CA 2002
Indigenous Writer’s Festival.  Phoenix, AZ  2002
Native American Literature Conference.  Mystic Lake, MN  2002
	St. Paul, MN  2002
Duluth Public Library, Duluth, MN  2002
Maricopa Community College, Mesa, AZ  2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1996
Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe, AZ.  2002, 1997
Tempe Public Library, Tempe, AZ  2002
University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.  2001
Tucson Poetry Festival.  2001
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ  2001, 1996, 1993
University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE.  2001, 1999, 1996, 1992, 1988, 1984-86
Union Hall, Phoenix, AZ, 2001
Dine College, Tsaile, AZ, 2003, 2001
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV  2000
Oregon State U, Corvallis, OR.  2000, 1999

CONFERENCE PAPERS & PRESENTATION:
Speaker, Visiting Poets and Writers Reading Series, "In the Process of Becoming."  The U of AZ 
	Poetry Center, Tucson Public Library, Feb. 25, 2004
Speaker, 4th Annual Traditional Tobacco Storytelling, Native American Community, Inc.  "Oral 	Traditions."  Jan. 28, 2004.
Workshop Presenter, Creative Writing Celebration, Cochise College, Sierra Vista, Mar. 9, 2003.
Speaker, Colorado Woman 2003, "The Power of One." Denver, CO Feb. 8, 2003
Keynote Speaker, “Beneath the Plunging Stars and the Opal Moon.”  Integrating Native 	American Literature into the Curriculum.”  Dine College, Tsaile, AZ, April 25, 2001.
Invited Poetry Reading, “Recovering from Captivity: Speaking with Thunder Words & Dressed
	in the Language of Mountains.”  Iowa State U 30^th Annual Symposium of the American 	Indian, Ames, 	Iowa, April 5, 2001.		
Keynote Speaker, “Women in Charge of Themselves.”  Scottsdale Community College,
	Scottsdale, AZ March 28, 2001.
Keynote Speaker, “Women in Charge of Themselves: Southwestern Matrilineal Cultures.”  	Cochise Community College, Sierra Vista, AZ.  March 23, 1999.
Invited Paper, “Standing on the Earth’s Surface: A Dine Perspective on Literature and Writing.”  	Indigenous Intellectual Sovereignties: A Hemispheric Convocation.  University of Davis, 	Davis, CA. April 9, 1998.
Invited Paper, “In the Glittering World: Some Notes on Navajo Literature.”  Translating Native 	American Cultures, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Feb. 1998.
Invited Paper, “There Is No Word for Feminism in the Navajo Language.”  Returning the Gift 	IV Conference, Northeastern State U, Tahlequah, OK. Oct. 24, 1997.
Invited Paper, “Places Have History, Places Have Stories.”  Scottsdale Corral of Westerners, 	Tempe, AZ.  Oct. 22, 1997.			
Invited Presentation, “Among the Wordsmiths and Weavers:  Navajo Women Talking.”  ASU 	Women’s Studies, April 1997.
Paper, “Beyond Adobe Walls: Yellow Woman in the Pearlene Poems of Naranjo-Morse.”  
	Popular Culture Conference, San Antonio, TX, March 1997.
Brown Bag Presentation, “Native American Teachers in the Classroom.” Arizona State U, 
           English Department, Tempe, AZ, Feb. 1997.
Invited Presentation, “Trickster Stories of the Navajo.”  Seminar on Comparative Folklore, 	Arizona State U, Tempe, AZ.  Dec. 1996.
Invited Paper, “See Real Indians Making Jewelry:  Places Have Names in Western American 	Literature.”  Round-table discussion, Western Literature/Western American History 	Association, Lincoln, NE, Oct. 1996.
Paper, “There Is No Word for Feminism in the Navajo Language.”  Popular Culture Conference, 
	Las Vegas, NV, March 1996.
Paper, “Speaking for Ourselves:  Teaching Writing and a New Cultural Politics of Differences in 
	the 21st Century.”  Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Diego, 	CA, April 1993.
Panel Leader, “Native American Literature” Rocky Mountain MLA, Denver, CO. Oct. 1993.
Invited Paper, "Writing in the Voices of Our Grandmothers:  A Matriarchal Doorway."  South 	Dakota State U, Brookings, SD, March 1993.
Invited Paper, "The Creation of Hozho in One Navajo Woman's Autobiography."  MLA, New 	York, NY, Dec. 1992.
Invited Presentation, "Native Women in Contemporary Society."  U of NE-Omaha, Sept. 1992.
Paper, "Native American Literature."  Rocky Mountain MLA, ASU, Tempe, AZ, Oct. 1991.
Panel Member, Native American Film Festival," Lincoln, NE, Oct. 1987. 	
Paper, "Writings from the Margin."  MLA , New York, NY, Dec. 1986.
Invited Paper, "Native American Women's Literature."  Center for Great Plains Studies, Fall, 	Spring 1984-85.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Reviewer, U of A Press, Tucson, AZ.  May 2004, 2003.  
Writer in Residence, Rough Rock High School, Rough Rock, AZ.  Oct. 2004; Nov. 17-19; April 	28 – May 1, 2003.
Archive Donation, American Indian Literature and Poetry Archives.  ASU Hayden Library.  May 
	30, 2003.
Referee Report, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.  Sept. 25, 2003
Writer in Residence, Tuba City High School, Tuba City, AZ.   March 31-April 3, 2003.
Field Reader/Consultant, Alaska Program, Native Hawaii Program, Native Language, Dept. of 	Indian Ed. 2003 – 1992.
Speaker, National Endowment for the Humanities Institute.  Evergreen State College, Olympia, 
	WA.  July 14 – 15, 2003.
Speaker, ASU Extended Education, March 12, 2003.
Editorial Collective Reviewer, New Frontiers.  A journal of Women’s Studies.  Arizona State 
	University.  2003.
Consultant, American College Testing (ACT).  Reviewer, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002; 1998
Facilitator, The Indolent Boys.  Kerr Cultural Center, Scottsdale, AZ.  Sept. 2002
Speaker, Arizona Humanities Council 1994-present.  2003:  Casa Grande, Prescott, Page, ASU 
	East; 2001:  Glendale Foothills Library Feb. 12;  Phippen Museum, Prescott, AZ.
	February 18. 
Speaker, “A Thread in the Design: A Navajo Story of Emergence.”  Arizona Historical Society, 
	Tucson, AZ, March 7, 2001.
Book commentary for Lydia Whirlwind Soldier’s book of poetry.  1999.
Speaker, Rotary Club of Arizona, Chandler, AZ.  March 16, 1999.
Speaker, City of Scottsdale, Office of Diversity & Dialogue, “Bridges to the Future: 
	Cross-Cultural Communication.  Scottsdale, AZ.  March 4, 1999.
Fiction Contest Judge, Maricopa Community Colleges Creative Writing Competition, Jan. 1999
Workshop Presenter, “Family Writes” Arizona Humanities Council November 1996, April 1998.
Moderator, The 1998 Southwest Graduate Literature Symposium, ASU, March 1998.
Speaker, Young Native Women’s Leadership Conference, NAU, Flagstaff, AZ.  Nov. 1998.
Speaker, “Comparative Mythologies: Germanic & Native American.”  AZ Opera Production of
	Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelunger.  NAU, Flagstaff, AZ.  June 1998.
Field Reader, Administration for Native American Programs, 1997, 1995.
Co-Organizer/Moderator, 1997 Wassaja Speaker Series “Contemporary Native Voices & Images 
 	in Art & Literature.”  ASU, Nov. 12, 1997.  
Guest Panelist, KAET-TV/Channel 8 “Boundaries of Free Speech,” Arizona State University, 
	Sept. 23, 1997.
Guest Panelist, NPR National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation: Science Friday “Early People                                                                                                   
	of the Southwest” with Ira Flato, Phoenix,  AZ, Nov. 14, 1997.
Reviewer, Native American Literature:  A Brief Introduction and Anthology, ed. Gerald Vizenor.  	Addison-Wesley Longman, Jan. 1997.
Panelist, “Talk to Me,” KAET TV Channel 8, Tempe, AZ, Jan. 1997.
Resource Speaker, Nebraska Humanities Council, 1996-91.
Founder, Southwest Native Writers’ Festival, Chinle, AZ.  Oct. 1995.
Reviewer, Journal of American Indian Education, 1995-present. 				
Poetry 	Contest Judge, Maricopa Community College, 1994.
Special Volume Editor, Nebraska Humanities, 1994.			

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS:
The Academy of American Poets 2003-2005
Modern Language Association 2003 -2004
Faculty Advisor, American Indian Studies, Arizona State University 1998-present
Professional Service: Affirmative Action, Creative Writing, Awards, Research & Creative 	Activity, Curriculum, American Literature (ASU English Department), 1998-present.	
Advisory Board, Wicazo Sa Review:  A Journal of Native American Studies, 1996-present.
Advisory Board, Dine Teacher Education Program (DTEP), Dine College, Tsaile, AZ 1996-	present.
Popular Culture 1997, 1996
National Caucus Board Member, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, 1997-93.
Western American Literature Association, 1997-96.
Advisory Member, American Indian Academic Council, ASU, 1994-present.
Moderator, "Native American Lit." panels, Rocky Mountain MLA, Denver, CO, Oct. 1993.

GRANTS:
ASU Women’s Studies Summer Research Grant Summer 2005, 2001
CLAS College Grant Award Program to Advance the Quality of Undergraduate Education 2000-	2001; 1998-1999 to develop course on “Navajo Literature & Cultural Studies.”   
Wassaja Faculty Grant to attend Race & Gender Conference, Tulane U, New Orleans, LA 	June 1997.
Campus Environment Team (CET) Grant, Spring 1996.
Mini-Grant Award Women’s Studies ASU, Fall 1995.
Travel Grant ASU, Spring 1994.

LANGUAGE:
Native Diné (Navajo) speaker.  Summer courses taken in Navajo language and Navajo 	Philosophy at Diné College, 	Tsaile, AZ, 1999- 2002.