Stephanie Gordon, received her Ph.D. in American
Literature and Creative Writing from the University of
Georgia. She specializes in Native American and African
American theory and literature; in creative writing, she
specializes in creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.
She is currently revising the manuscript Strange Fires: A Memoir for publication. In addition, her essay ““Self-Made Ex-Slaves: Bass Reeves, Nat Love, and the Cultures of the American Frontier” has been accepted for inclusion in Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: Rethinking African American Literature and Culture, 1880-1914. Eds. Barbara McCaskill and Caroline Gebhard. (Under review at NYU Press).
Representative Publications:
“Nationalist, Assimilationist, Christian: The Uneasy Ideologies of Elias
Boudinot.” Humanities in the South. (Forthcoming 2003).
“The Palace of Winds” (creative non-fiction). GSU Review. Spring 2002. 126-164.
“’The 7-11 of my dreams’: Pop Culture in Sherman Alexie’s
Short Fiction.” Studies in
American Culture: (October 2001): 29-36.
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