James Ruppert, Ph.D Bluebird Ave. Fairbanks, AK

James Ruppert, Ph.D. 3266 Bluebird Ave. Fairbanks, AK 99709 907-479-3132 [email protected] CURRICULUM VITAE: 1949 1970 1972 1981 Born Buffalo, N.Y...
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James Ruppert, Ph.D. 3266 Bluebird Ave. Fairbanks, AK 99709 907-479-3132 [email protected] CURRICULUM VITAE: 1949 1970 1972 1981

Born Buffalo, N.Y. S.U.N.Y. Buffalo, B.A. English Purdue University, M.A. English U. of New Mexico, Ph.D. English

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS Our Voices: Native Stories of Alaska and the Yukon. With John Bernet. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. Nothing But the Truth: An Anthology of Native American Literatures. With John Purdy. New York: Prentice Hall, 2000. Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995). Racconti Dal Grande Nord, Trans. Emanuela Martinelli (Milan: Edizioni Dell' Arco, 1993. Guide to American Poetry Explication: Volume 1, Colonial and Nineteenth-Century (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989). D'Arcy McNickle, Western Writers Series (Boise, Idaho: Boise State University, 1988). PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES “Alaska Native Literature: An Updated Introduction,” in The Alaska Native Reader: History, Culture, Politics, ed. Maria Williams. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009: 333-336 “Survivance in the Works of Velma Wallis,” in Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence, ed. Gerald Vizenor. (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska Press, 2008): 285-95. “Identity Indexes in Love Medicine and ‘Jacklight’.” Essays on Louise Erdrich, eds Connie Jacobs and Greg Sarris. (New York: MLA, 2004): 170-74. “The Urban Postmodern in Contemporary Native American Fiction.” in Cultural Encounters in the New World, eds. Harald Zapf & Klaus Losch. (Tubingen, Germany: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004): 300-11.

“The Urban Reservation: Narrative, Identity, and the Postmodern City in Contemporary Native American Literature.” in Tradition, Modernity and the Market in Contemporary Native American Literature, ed. Helmbrecht Breinig (Tubingen, Germany: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2003): 47-62. “No Boundaries, Only Transitions,” reprinted from Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction, in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony: A Casebook, ed. Alan Chavkin (London: Oxford UP, 2002): 175-199. “Celebrating Culture: Love Medicine,” reprinted from Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction in Casebook on Louise Erdrich, ed. Hertha Wong (London: Oxford UP, 2000). "Imagination is the only reality. All the rest is bad television": Harold of Orange and Indexical Representation“ in Loosening the Seams: Interpretations of Gerald Vizenor, ed. A. Robert Lee (Bowling Green: Popular Press, 2000): 225-232. “The Old Wisdom: Introducing Native American Materials,” in Teaching the Literatures of Early America, ed. Carla Mulford (New York: MLA, 1999): 11-26. "Toward a New Flagstaff," SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures, 9.3 (Fall 1997): 3740. "Ortiz's 'The Story of How a Wall Stands'" The Explicator, 55.2 (Winter 1997): 117-19. "Theory, Discourse, and the Native American Literature Class," Modern Language Studies, 26.4 (Fall 1996): 109-118. "Two Humanities: Mediational Discourse in Wind From an Enemy Sky," The Legacy of D'Arcy McNickle: Writer, Historian, Activist, Ed. John Purdy (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996): 188-206. "A Bright Light Ahead of Us: Belle Deacon's Stories in English and Deg Hit'an," When Our Words Return: Hearing, Writing, and Representing Oral Traditions of Alaska and the Yukon, Eds. Phyllis Morrow and William Schneider (Logan: Utah State University Press, 1995): 123-35. "'Listen for Sounds': An Introduction to Alaska Native Poets Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Fred Bigjim, and Robert Davis," Northern Review, No. 10 (Summer 1993): 86-90. "Dialogism and Mediation in Leslie Silko's Ceremony," The Explicator, 51:2 (Winter 1993): 129-34. "Mediation in Contemporary Native American Writing," Genre, 25.4 (Winter 1992): 321-37.

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"Difficult Meat: Dialogism and Identity in Three Native American Narratives of First Contact," Desert, Garden, Margin, Range: Discourses on the American Frontier, ed. Eric Heyne (New York: Twayne, 1992): 143-55. "Mediation and Multiple Narrative in Love Medicine," North Dakota Quarterly, 59 (Fall 1991): 229-42. "Henry Rowe Schoolcraft: The Indian Expert and American Literature," The Platte Valley Review, 19 (Winter 1991): 99-128. "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians are Dead: Myth and Historical Consciousness in Two Contact Narratives." Studies in American Indian Literatures, 2.1 (1990): 1-10. Rpt. E.R.I.C. "The Quest for Harmony: Ethno-Historical Perspectives in D'Arcy McNickle's Fiction, Native American Literatures, ed. Laura Coltelli (Pisa: University of Pisa, 1989) 123-32. "Textual Perspectives and the Reader in The Surrounded," Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures, ed. Gerald Vizenor (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989) 91-100. Rpt. Critical Perspectives on Native American Fiction, ed. Richard Fleck. "Culture and Politics in the Fiction of D'Arcy McNickle," Rocky Mountain Review of Language & Literature, 49.4 (1988): 185-95. rpt. Native North American Writers, ed. Harold Bloom (Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1998). With Michael Gilbertson, "CD-I, IV-D: The Challenge for Technical Manuals," International Professional Communication Conference 1988 Record (New York: IEEE, 1988) 21-24. "The Reader's Lessons in Leslie Silko's Ceremony," Arizona Quarterly, 44 (Spring 1988): 8-85. Rpt. Author Biographies and Literary Criticism CD-ROM. "Mediation and Multiple Narrative in Contemporary Native American Fiction," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 28.2 (1986): 209-25. "The Poetic Languages of Ray Young Bear," Coyote Was Going There, ed. Bo Scholer (Aarhus, Denmark: Seklos, 1984) 124-33. rpt. Coyote War Heir (Germany). "Mary Austin's Concept of the Landscape Line in Native American Literature," Southwest Review, 68 (1983): 376-90. "Closing the Distance between Personal and Mythic Space: The Poetry of Paula Allen and Joy Harjo," American Indian Quarterly, 7.1 (1983): 27-40.

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"Discovering America: Mary Austin and Imagism," Studies in American Indian Literature, ed. Paula Allen (New York: Modern Language Association, 1983) 243-58. "Literature on the Reservation: Sources for the Future of Native American Literature," MultiEthnic Literatures of the United States, 8.2 (1981): 86-88. "Story Telling: The Fiction of Leslie Silko," Journal of Ethnic Studies, 9.1 (1981): 53-58. rpt. Contemporary Literary Criticism. "The Uses of Oral Tradition in Six Contemporary Native American Poets," American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 4.4 (1980): 87-110. rpt. in Native North American Writers. PUBLICATIONS: POETRY Books: Red Bluffs (New York: Contact II Press, forthcoming). Natural Formations (Marvin, S.D.: Blue Cloud Quarterly, 1981). Periodicals: Blue Mesa Review, Spectrum, Rocky Mountain Review, M.M.O.E., River Styx, New Mexico Humanities Review, New Mexico Independent, Contact II, Greenfield Review, Trestle Creek Review, La Confluencia, The Mouth. Anthologies: Sandscript: An Anthology of New Mexico Poetry, Southwest: A Contemporary Anthology. PUBLICATIONS: INTRODUCTIONS, EDITORIALS, HEADNOTES, ENTRIES “Foreward to the Second Edition.” The Longest Story Ever Told: Qayaq, the Magical Man by Ticasuk (Emily Ivanoff Brown). Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2008. “Introduction.” Studies In American Indian Literatures. 17.2. Guest Editor, 2005. “Fiction: 1968 to Present.” The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, ed. Joy Porter and Ken Roemer. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2005): 173-88. “Native American Short Fiction” and “Simon Ortiz,” in The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth Century American Short Story ed. Blanche Gelfant (New York: Columbia UP, 2001.) "Thomas King," Native American Writers of the United States (Columbia, S.C.: Buccoli, Clark, Layman, 1997): 143-47. "Mary Tyone: An Appreciation," Ttheek'adu Ut'iin Yaaniida' Qqhign: Old-Time Stories of the Scottie Creek People by Mary Tyone (Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center, 1996).

"Leslie Silko," "Ceremony," Reference Guide to American Literature (Detroit: St. James Press, 1994). "D'Arcy McNickle," "Mary Tall Mountain," Notable Native Americans (Detroit: Gale, 1994). "Indians in Anglo-American Literature, 1492 to 1990," "Maurice Kenny," "Anna Walters," "Elizabeth Cook-Lynn," and "Paula Allen," The Dictionary of American Indian Literatures, ed. Andrew Wiget (New York: Garland, 1994). "Introduction," Raven Tells Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Alaska Native Writing, ed. Joseph Bruchac (Greenfield Center: Greenfield Review Press, 1991). "Traditional Native-American Literary Expression," American Literature: A Prentice Hall Anthology, ed. Emory Elliott (New York: Prentice Hall, 1991). "Foreword," K'etataalkkanee, The One Who Paddled Among the People and Animals by Catherine Attla (Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center: 1990) vi-vii. "Commentary," Guest Editor. The Wicazo Sa Review, 5.1 (1989): 34-35. PUBLICATIONS: REVIEWS Choice, Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Studies in American Indian Literatures, New Mexico Humanities Review, Puerto del Sol, Contact II, Journal of Ethnic Studies, The Indian Trader, San Marcos Review, Greenfield Review, American Indian Quarterly, Akwesasne Notes, The Wicazo Sa Review, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Explorations in Sights and Sounds: A Journal of the International Ethnic Studies Association, Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States, American Book Review, The World & I, Ethnohistory, Alaska History, South Atlantic Review, World Literature Today, Modern Literature Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Great Plains Quarterly. PAPERS DELIVERED: “Oral Epistemology,” Native American Literature Symposium, 2009. “Postindian Survivance in The Heartsong of Charging Elk,” NALS, 2008 “Survivance in the Works of Velma Wallis,” NAL Symposium, 2007 “Why We Should Teach the Works of Velma Wallis.” MLA 2005 “Mediation, Dialogics and Indexical Representation in Contemporary Native American Discourse.” Keynote Address, Idaho Summer Teacher’s Seminar. 2005 “Rush of Dangerous Bright Junk: Remythologizing the Postmodern City in Leslie Silko’s Almanac of the Dead and Louise Erdrich’s The Antelope Wife. NAL Symposium, 2005. “The Second Tragedy: Alaska Native Poets Dauenhauer and Bigjim. AAAS conference, 2004. “Film and Literature” Braunschweig, Germany, 2002 “Native American Literature” Dresden, Rostock, Pisa, Milan, Basel, Munich, 2002 5

“Indexical Identity and Discourse in Native American Studies,” Pacific Rim Conference, Anchorage; M.E.L.U.S. conference, Nashville. 1999. "Creating Syllabi for Native American Literature Classes," MLA 1997. "Indexical Identity," U of Oregon Native American Literature Conference, 1997. "Teaching Native American Oral Literature," MLA 1994. "Harold of Orange and Indexical Representation," MLA 1993. "Mediation in Contemporary Native American Literature," Universities of Milan, Stuttgart, Jena, Bamberg, and Munich, 1993. "The Poetry of Joy Harjo," University of Pisa, 1993. "Interpretation Theory and Alaska Native Oral Narratives" Bilingual Multi-cultural Education Equity Conference, 1993. "Mediational Discourse in Vizenor's Bearheart" American Studies Association conference, 1992. "Dialog and Discourse in McNickle's Wind From an Enemy Sky" American Literature Association, 1992; U. of Perugia, 1993. "Belle Deacon's Stories in English & Deg Hitan," Alaska Anthropological Association Conference, 1992; "Traditional Cultures and Their Environments," Moscow, 1993. "Dialogism and Mediation in Leslie Silko's Ceremony" American Literature Assoc. Conference, 1991; Twentieth-Century Literature Conference 1992. "Alaska Native Elders: UAF Tape Collection" Bilingual Multi-cultural Education Equity Conference, 1991. "Dialogism and Identity in Two Native American Contact Narratives" Modern Language Assoc. 1990. "Myth and History in Two Native American Contact Narratives," and "Three Alaska Native Poets," MLA, 1989. "Mediation and Multiple Narrative in Erdrich's Love Medicine," RMMLA, 1989 "Electronic Information Systems and the Teaching of Technical Communication," RMMLA, 1988. "Teaching American Indian Literature in Germany," MLA, 1986. "Politics and Culture in the Fiction of D'Arcy McNickle,"American Indian Literature session, MLA, 1985. "Mediation as a Contemporary American Indian Narrative Strategy," American Indian Literature session, RMMLA, 1983. "Contemporary American Indian Literature," Universities of Stuttgart, Innsbruck, Mannheim, Hildesheim, and Heidelberg, 1983. "Sex Role Stereotypes in Contemporary American Cinema," New Mexico Highlands U., 1982; University of Innsbruck, 1983. "Literature on the Reservation," Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States session, MLA, 1980. "General Education Requirements and Community Colleges," Association of Departments of English Seminar, 1980. "Using Native American Oral Material in the Creative Writing Classroom," N.M. National Education Assoc., 1979. "Competency-based Writing at Navajo Community College," Bi-lingual, Bi-cultural conference, N.C.C., 1978. 6

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Senior Fulbright Lectureship, University of Erlangen - Nurnberg, Germany, 2002 & 1993. Professor, English and Alaska Native Studies, University of Alaska-Fairbanks 1996 to present; Chair, Alaska Native Studies 1997-98, 2001- present; Co-Chair,1998 to 2000; Assoc. Prof. 199196; Asst. Prof. 1988-91. Assistant Professor, Humanities Dept. New Mexico Tech. 1987-88. Chairperson and Assistant Professor in General Studies Dept. U. of New Mexico-Valencia, 1985-87. Technical Editor, The BDM Corporation, Albuquerque, N.M. part-time 1984-87. Technical editing and publications. Fulbright Lecturer, Amerika-Institut der Universitat Munchen 1982-83. Chairperson and Instructor (non-academic rank system) at U. of New Mexico - Gallup, 198085. Instructor, (non-rank system) Navajo Community College, 1977-1980. Chairperson, 19781980. COURSES TAUGHT: American Literature, Native American Literature, Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States, Native American Oral Tradition and Poetry, Indian in American Novels and Indian Novels, The Analysis of American Films, Contemporary American Poetry, Alaska Natives in Film, Regionalism and Realism in Western Writers, Introduction to Southwest Literature, Speech, Karate, Humanities courses -- Man and the Arts, Man in the Southwest, Composition, Introduction to Mass Communication, Technical Writing, Creative Writing, Formal Research, Introduction to Film Study, Introduction to Theater, Northern Studies. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Member, Executive Committee MLA Ethnic Studies Division 1999-2004. Humanist, Communities of Memory Project, 1996. Administrative Director, "Earth and the Great Weather," grants from Rockefeller and Lila Wallace Foundations 1992-93. Director, "Alaska Native Elders' Tape Archive Project" Alaska Humanities Forum grant, 199092. second Alaska Humanities Forum grant for this project, 1994. President (1989) and Treasurer (1982) for Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures 7

N.M. Endowment for the Humanities, review panel member Chair of sections at MLA, RMMLA, and ALA conventions Member of Executive Committee MLA discussion group on American Indian Literatures. Humanities programming for campus radio Lecturer for America Houses in Germany Director of UNM poetry readings series 1972-77 Treasurer and Board Member of Rio Grande Writers Association Participant in MLA Seminar for Curriculum Development in Native American Studies, 1977. Humanities Film Lecturer for American Short Story Film Series Contributing Editor for Contact II (NYC) Humanities Scholar lecturer for N.M. Humanities Council Lecturer for American Embassy in Germany, Falkenstein seminar. AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS: CLA Outstanding Teacher Award, 2006-2007 UA President’s Professorship, 2003 Senior Fulbright Lectureship, Germany 2002. Elected to MLA Delegate Assembly as Ethnic Studies Representative, 1998 Senior Fulbright Lectureship, Germany 1993 Guide to American Poetry Explication: Volume 1, Colonial and Nineteenth-Century selected as "Outstanding Library Resource" for 1990 by the American Library Association. UAF Faculty Research grant, 1990 President's Special Projects Grant, U. of Alaska, 1990. Alaska Humanities Forum grant, Elders oral literature project, 1989, renewed 1994. Mellon Travel grant, U. of Alaska, 1988, 1990, and 1992. N.E.H. review panel for Summer Seminar Grants, 1987. N.E.H. Travel to Collections grant, 1986-87. Newberry Library Fellowship, 1986-87. N.E.H Summer Seminar Fellowship, Yale Univ. 1986. U.N.M. Outstanding Teacher designation 1985 Fulbright Junior Lectureship to West Germany 1982-83 Honorable Mention: Virginia Commonwealth U. writing contest, 1977 and U.N.M. American Academy of Poets contest, 1976. Accepted for Directory of American Poets 1977 Reader, Huntington Library 1975 and 1990. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: Modern Language Association, Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States Association, Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures, Friends of the Humanities, Alaska Humanities Forum.

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