Representing nature

postmedieval a journal of medieval cultural studies · 2026-03-30

“English Is Some Stockholm Sh!t”: An Indigenous Cultural History of Old English

Speculum · 2025-12-23

:<i>King Alfred the Great, His Hagiographers and His Cult: A Childhood Remembered</i>

Speculum · 2024-12-16

The Afterlives of Crisis: Harold and Custer on The Slipstream

Exemplaria · 2022-07-03 · 1 citations

My contribution to this cluster seeks to situate and understand the Vita Haroldi through slipstream — a genre of Indigenous Sci-Fi writing that enacts temporal sovereignty in the past, present, and future. The Vita Haroldi (BL Harley MS 3776), a story about King Harold II’s life living in the Welsh borderlands after the Battle of Hastings, can be understood as an alternate temporality constructed as a response to a crisis. Specifically, this essay will read Vita Haroldi alongside Gerald Vizenor’s short story “Custer on the Slipstream” which details the resurrections of General George Armstrong Custer, the infamous US soldier who graduated bottom of his class at West Point in 1861 and was killed by the Oceti Sakowin and their allies at the Battle of Greasy Grass in 1876. This essay will not “i/Indigenize” Harold or early English people more broadly, but instead open up the productions of early medieval settlers to the gaze of contemporary Indigenous scholars, and offer a temporally sovereign theoretical approach to early medieval narrative.

Gendered Exile in the Past and Present: An Indigenous Feminist Medievalist in Search of Serial Collectivity

The Yearbook of English Studies · 2022 · 3 citations

• Sociology
• Gender studies
• Sociology

This essay undertakes an Indigenous feminist reading of the Old English poem The Wife's Lament to uncover the transnational and transhistorical relationship between heteropatriarchy and settler colonialism. Relying on Cheryl Suzack's articulations of serial collectivity as a method of reading and understanding the testimonies of Indigenouswomen removed fromtheir communities because of the Indian Act (Canada, 1876), this essay compares the experience of these Indigenous women with the settler woman in the poem to illuminate the long temporal legacies of gendered exile in settler colonial societies.Thismethod of comparative reading creates a dialogic relationship between Indigenouswomen's testimonies and the Wife's affective lament, both of which narrate the physical and psychological impacts of exile unique to their gender. I argue that this shared transhistorical experience, then, produces an opportunity for serial collectivity in the present by virtue of our (Indigenous and settler women) mutual disenfranchisement by settler colonial structures which rely on heteropatriarchy to structure community membership and, by extension, determine nonmembership. Ultimately hopeful, this essay seeks to find points of coalition across Indigenous–settler binaries through a critique of transhistorical iterations of heteropatriarchy in settler societies.

From Dawes to Domesday: Recovering Genealogies of Settler Colonialism

2021-12-06

Indigenous Futures and Medieval Pasts

English Language Notes · 2020 · 26 citations

• Sociology
• History
• Ethnology

Indigenous Futures and Medieval Pasts

English Language Notes · 2020

• Sociology
• Political Science
• History

Abstract In this interview Bitterroot Salish medievalist Tarren Andrews and Tongva medievalist Wallace Cleaves discuss the past, present, and future of medieval studies. Their conversation focuses on what it means and has meant to be a Native American scholar in the field of medieval studies, their hope and concerns for the Indigenous turn, and what interested them in medieval studies to begin with. Most important, Andrews and Cleaves discuss how their Native communities impact their medieval scholarship.

Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption (Susan Devan Harness)

University of Kent · 2019-07-03

Jenny L.Davis. Talking Indian: Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance. Tucson, Arizona: The University of Arizona Press. 2018. xi + 170 pp. Hb (9780816537686) $50.00.

Journal of Sociolinguistics · 2018-08-19