Departments and Programs

• Native American Studies

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Contact Information

Email: melanie.r.benson@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-3530
Office: 6152 Sherman House

Education

B.A. Smith College; M.A. Boston University; Ph.D. Boston University

Areas of Expertise

Native American literature; U.S. Southern literature; postcolonial theory; economics and identity; women and gender studies; cultural studies

Selected Works

• Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002, (2008).
• "The Fetish of Surplus Value; or, What the Ledgers Say," Global Faulkner (Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series), A Trefzer and A Abadie (eds.), (2008).
• "Indian Givers: Reterritorializing the South in Contemporary Native American Literature," Mississippi Quarterly, 60:1 (2007).
• "Southern and Western Native Americans in Barry Hannah's Fiction," Perspectives on Barry Hannah, M Bone (ed.), (2006).
• "'Carrying Our People's Bones': Louis Owens, South by Southwest," Pembroke Magazine, 38 (2006) 43-54.

Current Projects