Katz Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities: Chadwick Allen - Fall 2019

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"Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Art and Literature"

In this lecture, Chadwick Allen will discuss how Native writers and artists engage ancient earthworks in contemporary productions. The lecture, to be held on Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 7:00 pm in Kane Hall 210, is free and open to all. Read a brief description of the Lecture.

This research guide includes resources published by Chadwick Allen and related research. All resources are available through the UW Libraries. Everyone is welcome to visit a UW Library in person to access these resources. UW students, faculty, and staff may access online resources from off campus using their UW Net ID.

Chad's Recommended Readings

The following readings have been recommended by Chadwick Allen for those who would like to learn more about the subject of his lecture.

Performing Serpent Mound: A Trans-Indigenous Meditation
by Chadwick Allen
Theatre Journal, 2015, v.67 n.3, p.391-411
Available online through UW Libraries databases
Re-scripting Indigenous America: Earthworks in Native Art, Literature, Community
by Chadwick Allen
Book chapter in "Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Indigenous Studies: Native North America in (Trans)Motion." Edited by Birgit Daewes, Karsten Fitz, and Sabine N. Meyer. New York and London: Routledge, 2015.
Suzzallo and Allen Libraries Circulation Desk PS153.I52 T84 2015
Serpentine figures, sinuous relations: thematic geometry in Allison Hedge Coke's 'Blood Run.'
by Chadwick Allen
American Literature, Dec, 2010, Vol.82(4), p.807-834
Available online in UW Libraries databases

Additional resources available from the UW Libraries

Encyclopedia of Native American Artists by Deborah Everett; Elayne Zorn
Call Number: E-book available online
ISBN: 9780313080616
Publication Date: 2008-09-30
The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art by Joan Marter (Editor)
Call Number: Art Library Reference N6505 .G76 2011
ISBN: 9780195335798
Publication Date: 2011-01-20
The Routledge International Handbook of Intercultural Arts Research by Pamela Burnard (Editor); Elizabeth Mackinlay (Editor); Kimberly Powell (Editor)
Call Number: Art Library Stacks NX170 .R685 2016
ISBN: 9780815353683
Publication Date: 2018-01-03

The UW Libraries offers Research Guides to help you to get started with research. These research guides will include library resources relevant to research related to Chadwick Allen's lecture. You are encouraged to contact the librarians for Art and American Indian Studies for help with your research.

Chad Allen

More by Chadwick Allen

Trans-Indigenous by Chadwick Allen
Call Number: E-book available online and print book in Suzzallo & Allen Libraries Stacks PS153.I52 A457 2012
ISBN: 9780816678181
Publication Date: 2012-10-03
What might be gained from reading Native literatures from global rather than exclusively local perspectives of Indigenous struggle? In Trans-Indigenous, Chadwick Allen proposes methodologies for a global Native literary studies based on focused comparisons of diverse texts, contexts, and traditions in order to foreground the richness of Indigenous self-representation and the complexity of Indigenous agency.
Blood Narrative by Chadwick Allen; Donald E. Pease (Series edited by)
Call Number: E-book available online and print book available at UWB and Suzzallo & Allen Libraries Stacks at call number PS153.I52 A45 2002
ISBN: 9780822383826
Publication Date: 2002-08-06
Blood Narrative is a comparative literary and cultural study of post-World War II literary and activist texts by New Zealand Maori and American Indians--groups who share much in their responses to European settler colonialism. Chadwick Allen reveals the complex narrative tactics employed by writers and activists in these societies that enabled them to realize unprecedented practical power in making both their voices and their own sense of indigeneity heard.

The Society of American Indians and Its Legacies
Edited by Chadwick Allen and Beth H. Piatote
Special combined issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures vol.25 n.2 and American Indian Quarterly vol.37 n.3 (Summer 2013).
Available online in UW Libraries databases