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Melanie R. Benson <Melanie.R.Benson@DARTMOUTH.EDU> Dartmouth College I am interested in facilitating discussion threads on the following topics: --American Indian and U.S. Southern Studies connections --Post-colonial/transnational Southern Studies --Economic/labor issues in the U.S. South (past and present) |
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Address: | 37 North Main Street Sherman House HB 6152 Hanover, New Hampshire 03577 United States |
Web Page: | https://www.dartmouth.edu/~nas/facstaff/benson.html |
List Affiliations: | List Editor for H-Southern-Lit |
Interests: | American History / Studies Archaeology Ethnic History / Studies Labor History / Studies Native American History / Studies Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
Bio: EDUCATION: Ph.D., Boston University (2005) M.A., Boston University (1999) B.A., Smith College (1998) PUBLICATIONS: Book Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 (University of Georgia Press, New Southern Studies Series, 2008) Articles “The Fetish of Surplus Value; or, What the Ledgers Say” in Global Faulkner (Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series), eds. Annette Trefzer and Ann Abadie (UP of Mississippi, 2008) “Indian Givers: Reterritorializing the South in Contemporary Native American Literature,” forthcoming Mississippi Quarterly 60:2 (Spring 2007) “Southern and Western Native Americans in Barry Hannah’s Fiction,” Perspectives on Barry Hannah, Ed. Martyn Bone, UP of Mississippi (December 2006) “ ‘Carrying Our People’s Bones’: Louis Owens, South by Southwest,” Pembroke Magazine no. 38 (2006) 43-54. “ ‘Disturbing the Calculation’: The Narcissistic Arithmetic of Three Southern Writers,” Mississippi Quarterly 56:4 (Fall 2003) 633-45. COURSES TAUGHT (at Dartmouth College, University of Hartford, Penn State Scranton, Regis College, and Boston University): --Native American Literature --Indian Killers: Murder and Mystery in Native Literature and Film --Postcolonial Literature --Modern American Novel --Southern Humor --American Comedy --Multiethnic American Literature --Short Stories of the Americas --Reading and Writing the Contact Zone RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: March 2007 “Plantation Math: Accounting for Empire in the Global South(s),” Plantation American panel, Northeastern Modern Language Association, Baltimore, MD Dec. 2006 “Middlebrow, Hard-Boiled, and Brunette: Anita Loos, Frances Newman, and the New Southern Woman.” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA July 2006 “The Fetish of Surplus Value; or What the Ledgers Say.” Plenary Paper. Global Faulkner: 33rd annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, Oxford, MS April 2006 “Indian Givers: Taking Back the Self in Wright, Porter, and Owens.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Birmingham, AL April 2006 “Cowboys or Indians?: Native American Hauntings of Barry Hannah’s South.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Birmingham, AL Nov. 2005 “Nativism.” Keywords in the New Southern Studies Roundtable. American Studies Association, Washington, D.C. Feb. 2005 “ ‘Carrying Our People’s Bones’: The Native American South via Spain, Mexico, and the U.S. Southwest in Louis Owens’ Bone Game.” Southern American Studies Association, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge, LA Dec. 2004 “Ledger Language: Re-Calculating Race and Class in the Native South.” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA March 2003 “Repopulating the Native South: Pre-postcolonial Pasts in Alice Walker and Marilou Awiakta.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Chapel Hill, NC |