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David Treuer

David Treuer

612-626-7119
English 110L LindH

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • Native American fiction
  • fiction writing
  • modernisms
  • narration theory

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2000.

Publications

  • “Red Cloud’s War,” review of Joseph Marshall’s Hundred in the Hand: Treuer, David Robert, Washington Post Book World, 2007.
  • “Ancestor Tales,” review of James Houston’s Birds of Another Heaven. Treuer, David Robert, Author, 2007.
  • Native American Fiction: A User's Manual. Treuer, David Robert, Graywolf Press, Author, 2006.
  • “The Trouble with Diversity,” review of Walter Benn Michael’s The Trouble with Diversity. Treuer, David Robert, Author, 2006.
  • “The Clouds Overhead.” : Treuer, David Robert, Review of Native American Studies, 20.1 , 2006.
  • The Translation of Dr. Apelles. Treuer, David Robert, Graywolf Press, Author, 2006. Link
  • Native American Languages and Literature, Politics and Identity. Special issue of American Indian Quarterly, guest editor, 30.1, 2 (Winter/Spring 2006).
  • “Smartberries, Interpreting Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine: Treuer, David Robert, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 29.1 , 2005.
  • The Hiawatha: A Novel. Treuer, David Robert, Picador, Author, 1999.
  • Little: A Novel. Treuer, David Robert, Graywolf Press; First paperback edition, New York: Picador, Author, 1995; 1996.

Awards

  • Guggenheim Fellowship, 2007 - 2008
  • McKnight Land Grant Professorship, 2002
  • University of Minnesota Writer of Distinction, 1999
  • Fulbright Fellow, Canada, 1996 - 1997
  • QPB New Voices / New Visions Award, 1996
  • Minnesota Book Award, 1996
  • Pushcart Prize, 1996
  • Rhodes Scholarship Finalist, 1992
  • Mellon / Ford Summer Research Fellow, Cornell University, 1991

Courses Taught

  • The Layering of Modern Narrative: Nabokov’s Pale Fire
  • Creative Writing Fiction Seminar: Long Fiction
  • Textual Interpretation, Investigation and Analysis—“Magical Realism” in Morrison, Marquez, and Saramago
  • Intermediate Fiction Seminar
  • Contemporary Native American Fiction: Silko, Alexie, Erdrich, Power, Welch
  • The Literature of Minority Cultures
  • Transatlantic Authors: Joyce, Proust, Mann
  • The Modern Native American Novel
  • American Literature Survey II from 1860—Present
  • EngL 3960W - Junior-Senior Seminar: Nabokov
Alternative Output Formats Alternative Output Formats
  • Book Cover: Best New American Voices
  • Book Cover: The Feast of Love
  • Book Cover: onsideration of the Guitar