Kimberly Blaeser, Professor
Office: Curtin Hall 572
Phone: 414-229-5043
e-mail: kblaeser@uwm.edu
Degree(s):
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Teaching Interests:
Native American Literatures
Creative Writing
American Literature
Recent Publications:
Books:
Absentee Indians and Other Poems, Michigan State University Press, 2002.
Editor, Stories Migrating Home: A Collection of Anishinaabe Prose, Loonfeather Press, 1999.
Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition, Uuniversity of Oklahoma Press, 1996.
Trailing You, Greenfield Review Press, 1994.
Articles in Books:
"The Possibilities of a Native Poetics," Nothing But the Truth, Prentice Hall.
"'Like Reeds Through the Ribs of a Basket': Native Women Weaving Stories," Other Sisterhoods: Literary Theory and U.S. Women of Color, University of Illinois Press.
"The New 'Frontier' of Native American Literature: Dis-Arming History with Tribal Humor," Native-American Writers, Chelsea House.
"Writing Voices Speaking: Native Authors and an Oral Aesthetic," Talking on the Page: Editing Aboriginal Texts, University of Toronto Press.
Essays in Books:
"The Voices We Carry," After Confession: The Poet as Autobiographer, Graywolf Press.
"Rituals of Memory," Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers, Random House.
"The Birth of New Languages," This Giving Birth: Pregnancy and Childbirth in American Woman's Writing, Popular Press.
"On Mapping and Urban Shamans," As We Are Now: Essays by Urban Mixedbloods, University of California Press.
Short Fiction in Books:
"Like Some Old Story," Women on Hunting, ECCO Press.
"Growing Things," Blue Dawn, Red Earth, Doubleday.
"Brewing Trouble," Stories for a Winter's Night: Fiction by Native American Writers, White Pine Press.
"Fancy Dog Contest," Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing: American Indian, Inuit, First Nations, Aboriginal, Maori, Kegedonce P & Jukurrpa/IAD Press.
"A Matter of Proportion," Native American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology, HarperCollins.
"From Aboard the Night Train," Earth Song, Sky Spirit, Doubleday.
Poetry anthologized in numerous Books including:
Reinventing the Enemy's Language, (W.W. Norton).
Sister Visions (Minnesota Historical Society Press).
The Colour of Resistance: A Contemporary Collection by Aboriginal Women (Sister Vision Press).
Native American Songs and Poems (Dover Books)
Unsettling America: An Anthology of Multicultural Poetry (Penguin).