Participants

Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran, Michigan State University

Bodhrán was born in the South Bronx, received his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College, and is a Dean's Recruitment Fellow at Michigan State University, where he is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies. His poetry and nonfiction appear in ninety periodicals and anthologies in the Américas, Pacific, and Europe, and his critical work is forthcoming in various scholarly collections. He is completing Yerbabuena/Mala yerba, All My Roots Need Rain: mixed blood poetry & prose, and a scholarly monograph, Heart of the Nation: Indigenous Womanisms, Queer People of Color, and Native Sovereignties.

Ana Patricia Martínez Huchim, Universidad de Oriente UNP, Valladolid, Yucatan, México

Licenciada en Ciencias Antropológicas en la especialidad de Lingüística y Literatura, por la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY). Investigadora y recopiladora de tradición oral en maaya t'aan y escritora bilingue maya-castellano. Actualmente es profesora-investigadora en la Universidad de Oriente, en Valladolid, Yucatán, México; y forma parte del equipo que está traduciendo la Constitución Mexicana al maaya t'aan.

Antonio López Marín, Universidad Intercultural del Estado de Mexico

Antonio López Marín, Maestro en Lingüística Indoamericana por el CIESAS actualmente docente investigador de la División de Lengua y Cultura de la Universidad Intercultural del Estado de México, impartiendo la asignatura de Expresión y Comunicación en Lengua originaria (jñatjo).

Ha publicado el diccionario mazahua-español, editado por el Colegio de Lenguas y Literatura Indígenas, ha sido coautor del libro de texto para cuarto grado de educación primaria indígena denominado In xiskuama jñatjo, lengua mazahua Estado de México y Michoacán, ha hecho traducciones de poesías y cuento en lengua jñatjo (mazahua), a elaborado material didáctico para la enseñanza de la lengua mazahua en el nivel superior y participado como ponente en los Coloquio Nacional e internacional sobre estudios Otopames en sus diferentes sedes

Armando Muyolema (Kichwa), Ecuador

Armando Muyolema es un linguista, educador y crítico cultural kichwa. Es nativo de la provincia del Cañar, Ecuador. Ha trabajado en distintos niveles del sistema de educación bilingüe intercultural asi como también en diferentes instancias de la Confederación de Nacionalidades Indigenas del Ecuador. Ha realizado estudios en educación, linguítica, antropología y literatura en distintas univeridades ecuatorianas. Realizó estudios doctorales en la Universidad de Pittsburgh y actualmente es profesor de Lengua y Cultura Kichwa en la Universidad de Wisconsin-Madison.

Beth Piatote (Nez Perce/Ni:mi:pu:), University of California, Berkeley

Beth Piatote is assistant professor of Native American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include Native American literature, history, law and culture; Native American/Aboriginal literature and federal Indian law in the United States and Canada; American literature and cultural studies; Ni:mi:pu: (Nez Perce) language and literature. In addition to her scholarly work, she has published short fiction and journalism.

Bill Wright (Patwin)

Bill Wright is an elder of the Patwin people, a traditional sweat doctor, and a captain at Cortina Indian Rancheria. He has worked in counseling Native American people in the prison system and he travels throughout the state to offer counseling and guidance to Indian Health Service programs. He is widely sought out for his doctoring abilities.

Cecilia Tolley, University of California, Davis

Cecilia Tolley is an Associate Instructor of Native American Literature at UC Davis, where she is also working towards her doctorate in Native American Studies. She holds the Master of Divinity and Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies from Vanderbilt University. She was instrumental in founding The Tennessee Ancient Sites Conservancy and Magdalene (a Nashville based prostitute recovery program). She is a grief counselor and has taught English at Wat Chedi Luang, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Carolyn Dunn (Cherokee, Muscogee Creek, Seminole), University of Southern California

Carolyn Dunn is an American Indian artist of Cherokee, Muskogee Creek, and Seminole descent on her father's side, and is Cajun, French Creole, and Tunica-Biloxi on her mother's. Primarily a poet and a playwright, Carolyn began telling and writing stories at a very young age, being exposed to storytelling traditions from all aspects of her very Southern and very Western background. Her work has been recognized by the Wordcraft Circle of Storytellers and Writers as Book of the Year for poetry (Outfoxing Coyote, 2002) as well as the Year's Best in 1999 for her short story "Salmon Creek Road Kill", Native American Music Awards (for the Mankillers cd Comin to Getcha) and the Humboldt Area Foundation. She has two forthcoming books, Echo Location, a book of poetry in 2008 and Coyote Speaks, native stories for young adult readers, coauthored with Ari Berk (Abrams, 2008). As an academic, Carolyn's work has primarily focused on landscape in American Indian women's literature (poetry, prose, and drama), and urban American Indian identity formation and southeastern American Indian diasporic literary traditions in California. Currently, she is a James Irvine Foundation Fellow at the Center for American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, where she is pursuing a doctorate. www.carolyndunn.com/

Craig Santos Pérez, University of California, Berkeley

Craig Santos Pérez, a native Chamorro from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam), has lived in California since 1995. He received his MFA in poetry from the Unversity of San Francisco and is currently a PhD candidate in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. He is the co-founder of Achiote Press and his first book of poems, from unincorporated territory, is forthcoming from Tinfish Press in 2008. His poetry, essays, and reviews have been published internationally.

Dina Fachin, Native American Studies, UC Davis

Dina Fachin is a Ph.D candidate in Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is currently working on her dissertation on self-representation of indigenous people from Oaxaca, Mexico in literature and videomaking. Her areas of interest include creative writing, visual media, language, and diasporas. She is also interested in poetry and she recently co-published a translation in the Italian journal Smerilliana, semestrale di civilta’ poetiche of a poem by Nuyorican writer Tato Laviera.

Felipe Molina (Yoeme), Tucson

Felipe Molina is a Yoeme (Yaqui) from Arizona, currently Diabetes Project Coordinator for Native American Communities at Native Seeds/SEARCH, a Tucson, Arizona-based nonprofit devoted to the preservation of native plant resources. He has a background in native education and literacy, and between 1974-91 carried out teaching in Yaqui community schools and colleges. Since 1984 he has been member of the Yaqui Language Commission of the Pascua Pueblo. In 1978-80, Molina was Governor of the Yoem Pueblo, Marana, AZ, and in 1981-82 Representative of the Yoem Pueblo on the Pascua Yaqui Tribal Council. He has worked extensively on documenting and promoting traditional Yoeme language and culture, oral traditions, music, dance, and song, especially the deer songs and dances, on which he has been a consultant for various institutions including the Smithsonian Institution, as well as project codirector at University of Arizona. In 1993-95 he was Principal Investigator on Yoeme ethnobotany with the US National Park Service for Historic Preservation. He has coauthored or coedited several books and articles on the Yoeme language and worldview and Yaqui coyote and deer songs, including "Yaqui Deer Songs/Maso Bwikam" (University of Arizona Press, 1987; with L. Evers), and the forthcoming "Comprehensive Yoeme and English Dictionary" (Tucson Unified School District; with D. L. Shaul)

Frank LaPena (Wintu), California

Frank LaPena is an internationally exhibited painter and a published poet. As a young man he became interested in the song, dance, and ceremonial traditions of his tribe, the Nomtipom Wintu and the Nomlaki Wintu of north-central California, as well as those of neighboring tribes. With the Maidu Dancers and Traditionalists, he has been active in the revival and prservation of these native arts. His artwork has been exhibited since 1960 in numerous one-man and group exhibits across the United States, from the de Young Museum in San Francisco to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York.

Fredy Romeiro Campo Chicangana (Yanacona), Colombia

Fredy Amilcar Roncalla, Chirapaq Centro de Culturas Indígenas, Perú

Fredy Amilcar Roncalla is a trilingual Quechua-Spanish-English andean intelectual and writer. He is the author of “Canto de Pájaro o invocación a la palabra” Buffon Press, NY 1984 and “Escritos Mitimaes: Hacia una poética andina postmoderna” Barro Editorial Press, NY 1988. He has done field work and quechua oral narrative and has been a translator between Quechua, Spanish and English. His areas of research interest are orality, critique of colonialism and racism, critique on periferial modernity, postmodern andean aestetics, trasnational andean archipielago, critique of sacrifice and violence, etc. He has worked estensively on undertanding the life and times of Waman Poma de Ayala. And recentely he is interested in developoing a critical approach of peruvian indian and popular music that requieres moving beyond the confines of folklorism.

Gabriel Estrada (Nahuatl), California State University, Long Beach

Gabriel Estrada is Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies at California State University Long Beach. He writes about indigenous Latin America and Aztlan in terms of history, gender, media, literature and contemporary political movements. Dr. Estrada is Caxcan and Xicano, and teaches his Nahuatl language and culture at CSULB. While his articles “Classic, Modern and Transnational Nahuatl Literatures,” “Xochipilli: Chicanas/os, Homosexuality and Indigenous American Histories,” and “Victor Montejo’s El Q´anil: Man of Lightening and Maya Cultural Movements” are in review, he is working on his book manuscript “Indian Tongues, Macho Borders: Transnational Indigenous Studies.”

Gaspar González (Q’anjob’al Maya), Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte, Guatemala

Gaspar Pedro Gonzáles es Maya q'anjob'al de Guatemala. Cuenta con una Maestría en Políticas Públicas e Interculturalidad, una Licenciatura en Planeamiento Educativo. Es docente universitario, miembro de la Academia de Lenguas Mayas, pintor, y activista del movimiento maya en Guatemala.

Gerald Patrick McKinley, University of Western Ontario, Canada

Gerald’s research interests include difference and representation and how they come together in Indigenous literature. Currently, Gerald is working on an examination of the representation of Indigenous people in modernity via literature and ethnographic work comparing it to self-representation in contemporary literature. Gerald holds a BA in Native Studies from Trent University and is currently completing his Masters at the University of Western Ontario. He will be beginning his PhD in the fall of 2008.

Glenda Dillingham, Indigenous Nations Child & Family Agency, US

Gloria Chacón, University of California, Davis

Gloria Chacón received her PhD in Literature from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2006. She is currently a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Native American Studies Department at the University of California Davis. Chacón’s research includes indigenous literatures of the hemisphere, Central American poetics, indigenous women, as well as literary and cultural theories. Her book project focuses on politics, literature, and indigenous intellectuals in Mesoamerica.

Graciela Huinao (Mapuche), Chile

Guillermo Delgado, University of California, Santa Cruz

Guillermo Delgado is an Andean anthropologist. He teaches in the Latin American & Latino Studies Department at UC-Santa Cruz. His recent contributions are: "The Making of a Transnational Movement," in V. Prashad and T. Ballvé, Dispatches from Latin America (2006), "Essays" at www.Ciberayllu.org/Ensayos/; other contributions are in: Women, Ethnicity and Nationalisms in Latin America (N. Gutierrez ed, 2008) and (with S. Varese and R. Meyer) in The Companion to Latin American Anthropology (D. Poole 2008).

Hanay Geiogamah (Kiowa, Delaware), University of California, Los Angeles

A member of the Kiowa-Delaware Tribes from Oklahoma, Hanay Geiogamah is a professor of theater in the School of Theater, Film and Television at the University of California at Los Angeles. Mr. Geiogamah is also the director of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center and for the past ten years has served as principal investigator for Project HOOP, the national initiative to promote development of Native American theater and performing arts. With an extensive background in the theater as a director, playwright and producer, he is actively involved in American Indian studies and research and serves as the founding artistic director of the internationally-acclaimed American Indian Dance Theater.

Inés Hernández-Avila (Nez Perce/Nimipu), University of California, Davis

Inés Hernández-Avila is Director of the Chicana/Latina Research Center and Professor of Native American Studies at UC Davis. She is a poet and cultural worker as well as a scholar. Dr. Hernandez-Avila's research/publication areas are Native American women's literature (particularly poetry and performance), contemporary indigenous literature of Mexico, Native American religious traditions, Native American and Chicana cultural studies, Native American and Chicana feminisms, early 20th century Texas-Mexican women’s literature. She is a member of the Latina Feminist Group who produced Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios, which won the Gustav Meyers Center Award as one of the ten outstanding books of 2002 focusing on issues of human rights and bigotry. http://clrc.ucdavis.edu/director.htm

Isabel Juárez Espinoza (Tzeltal Maya), Mexico

Isabel Juarez Espinosa, is one of the founders of Fomma, Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya (Mayan Women's Strength, or Fortress), a theater troupe and community center that has attracted worldwide attention. FOMMA is based in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, and Juarez Espinosa is one of Mexico’s first female Indian playwrights. The experiences and the theatrical movement she and her colleagues in FOMMA have created are grounded in highlands of Chiapas. FOMMA has performed to international audiences in several countries in Europe, as well as Canada, Guatemala, and the United States.

Jace Weaver (Cherokee), University of Georgia

Jace Weaver is Director of the Institute of Native American Studies and Professor of Native American Studies, Religion, and Law at the University of Georgia. Prior to assuming his current position in 2002, he was associate professor of American Studies, religious Studies, and Law at Yale University. He is the author or editor of nine books and many articles in Native American and Indigenous Studies. He is a founding member of the steering committee of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.

Javier Castellanos (Bene’xhon), CONACULTA, Oaxaca, Mexico

Javier Castellanos, novelista, poeta e intellectual zapoteco de la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca, México (comunidad de Yojovi). Autor de las novellas bilingües Cantares de los vientos primerizos y Relación de hazañas del hijo del relámpago (Oaxaca, 2002) y de los poemarios Palabras del Corazón y Mi pueblo y su palabra. En 2002 recibió el Premio Nezahualcóyotl de Literatura en Lenguas Indígenas que otorga el Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes de México.

Jazmin Yamile Noh Montero, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, México

Jazmin Noh Montero es estudiante de la Facultad De Antropología de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. Actualmente se encuentra estudiando el octavo cuatrimestre de la Lic. En Literatura Latinoamericana, además de ser coordinadora de una sala de lectura infantil por el Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA).

Jorge Cocom Pech (Maya), Mexico

Jorge Cocom Pech escribe narrativa, poesía y ensayo en su lengua materna: el maya peninsular. Es originario de Calkiní, Campeche, México. Es Profesor normalista con especialidades en comunicación educativa, pedagogía y sociología rural; esta última, en la Universidad Autónoma Chapingo. http://jorgecocompech.com

Joy Harjo (Muscogee), Albuquerque, New Mexico

Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is a member of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation. Her seven books of award-winning poetry include She Had Some Horses, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, and How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems. She has released three award-winning CD's of original music and performances: Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century, Native Joy for Real, and She Had Some Horses and the just completed Winding Through the Milky Way which will be released in fall of 2008. She performs internationally solo and with her band Joy Harjo and the Arrow Dynamics Band (for which she sings and plays saxophone), and premiered a preview of her one-woman show, Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light at the Public Theater in NYC in December 07. She writes a column “Comings and Goings” for her tribal newspaper, the Muscogee Nation News. She lives in Honolulu, Hawai’I where she paddles with the Hui Nalu Canoe Club. www.joyharjo.com/

Juan Avila Hernández (Yoeme), St. Mary’s University

Juan Avila Hernández is a lecturer in the Department of History at Saint Mary's College of California and is a Ph.D. candidate in History at UCDavis. His dissertation, "Tui voo'ote hahane: walking the good road. Twentieth Century Yoeme History through the Maso Koba Massacre of 1900," examines the critical role of one tribal group, the kauhomem or mountain dwellers, in the tribe's history, culture, community formation and diaspora. He was a staff reporter at the Center For Investigative Reporting in San Francisco for seven years where has also worked as an Associate Producer on documentaries for PBS/Frontline. He continues to free lance for national native publications such as the Tribal College Journal.

Juan Gregorio Regino (Mazateco), Mexico

Juan Gregorio Regino is a Mazatec writer born in Nuevo Paso Nazareno (Chichicazapa), San Miguel Soyaltepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. Regino is the past President and one of the founders of ELIAC, Escritores en Lenguas Indígenas, AC, a national indigenous writers association that has promoted the revitalization of indigenous languages through literature. Regino is currently the deputy director for Development of Indigenous Cultures of the General Directorate of Popular and Indigenous Cultures of CONACULTA (the national commission for culture and the arts).

Julio Cesar Hoil Gutiérrez (Maya), Yucatán, Mexico

Originario de la comunidad maya de X-Calakoop. Ingresa a la Facultad de Antropología de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán en 1996 para estudiar la carrera de arqueología y egresa de la misma en el año 2000. Obtiene el título de Licenciado en Ciencias Antropológicas en la especialidad de arqueología con la tesis “La cerámica de Chichén Itzá desde una reflexión etnoarqueológica”, presentada en octubre de 2007. Ha ganado dos veces el primer lugar en el concurso estatal de cuento corto en lengua maya categoría “B” para jóvenes de 22 a 29 años. Entre sus obras destacan “los Itzáes” y “el niño vendedor de morcía”. Ha participado en los proyectos arqueológicos llevados a cabo en el sitio arqueológico de Chichén Itzá en los años 2006 al 2008. Ha participado en el Encuentro Anual número 73 de la Society for American Archaeology realizado en Vancouver BC, Canadá del 26 al 30 de marzo de 2008, en donde presentó la ponencia “El lak: continuidad cultural e identidad entre los mayas yucatecos” en el simposio “Identidades y cultura material en Mesoamérica”. En junio de 2008 participará en el proyecto “Culturally-specific of landscape, collective memory, land tenure, and heritage work in the Maya community of X-Calakdzonot” financiado por el Smith College y dirijido por el Dr. Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, professor de antropología de la misma institución. Es candidato en este año 2008 para ingresar al posgrado en Historia en el Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), el posgrado es maestría articulada al doctorado.

Luz María Lepe, Facultad de Psicología, UMSNH, Mexico.

Luz María Lepe es profesora-investigadora de la Facultad de Psicología, UMSNH. Fue doctorada en Teoría de la literatura y literatura comparada por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, y ha sido miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores desde 2005. Ganó el premio Andrés Bello de Memoria y Pensamiento Iberoamericano en 2004 en la modalidad de Memoria Oral con la investigación "Cantos de Mujeres en el Amazonas". Fue coordinadora del libro Comunicación desde la periferia: tradiciones orales frente a la globalización publicado por Anthropos, en 2006.

Malea Powell (Indiana Miami, Eastern Shawnee), Michigan State University

Malea Powell is a mixed-blood of Indiana Miami, Eastern Shawnee, and Euroamerican ancestry. She is the Director of Graduate Studies in Rhetoric & Writing and an Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric and American Culture at Michigan State University. As a faculty member of both the Writing & Rhetoric and American Indian Studies programs, she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in writing, rhetoric, critical theory, cultural rhetorics, and American Indian rhetorics. Her research focuses on examining the rhetorics of survivance used by 19th century American Indian intellectuals, and has published essays in CCCC, Paradoxa, Race, Rhetoric & Composition, AltDis, and other essay collections. She also has several book-length projects in progress, including Of Color: Native American Literatures (Prentice-Hall, forthcoming 2007). She is currently editor of SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures, a quarterly journal devoted to the study of American Indian writing, and co-editor of the NCTE-LEA Research Series in Composition & Literacy. In her spare time, she works on appliqué and brick stitch beadwork projects and hopes to someday focus on Woodland beadwork traditions in her scholarship. http://www.msu.edu/~powell37

María Chavarría, University of Saint Thomas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Marcie Rendon (White Earth Anishinabe Nation), US

Marcie Rendon She is an enrolled member of the White Earth Anishinabe Nation. She is a mother, grandmother, writer, and sometimes performance artist. She is a playwright, poet, and freelance writer. A former recipient of the Loft’s Inroads Writers of Color Award for Native Americans she studied poetry under Anishinabe author Jim Northrup. She was a l998/99 recipient of the St. Paul Company’s LIN (Leadership In Neighborhoods) Grant to "create a viable Native presence in the Twin Cities theater community". With the support of this grant she was able to collaborate with other native artists to create the infamous FREE Frybread script. She received a 1996-’97 Jerome Fellowship from the Minneapolis Playwright Center. Her first children’s book, Pow Wow Summer was published by CarolRhoda Publications in 1996. Her second children's book, The Farmer’s Market/Families Working Together, was released in the spring of 2001. In addition to her creative writing, she is a freelance writer for newspapers, magazines and grants writer. http://hometown.aol.com/MRendon703

Michael Lujan Bevacqua, University of California, San Diego

Michael Lujan Bevacqua is PhD student in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego, the editor of the Chamorro zine, Minagåhet, and a co-founder of the Chamorro activist organization, Famoksaiyan.

Miguel Rocha Vivas, Programa de Interacciones Multiculturales Universidad Externado de Colombia

Profesional en Estudios Literarios, Universidad Javeriana, de donde se graduó con una tesis meritoria que luego publicarían la Universidad de los Andes y el Convenio Andrés Bello: El Héroe de Nuestra Imagen (2004). En el 2006 recibió una beca nacional de investigación en literatura, con su proyecto de Antología de las literaturas indígenas de los Andes y la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Ministerio de Cultura e Instituto Caro y Cuervo. Es el fundador del curso Literaturas Indígenas de América del Departamento de Literatura de la Universidad Javeriana. Magíster en Antropología e Historia del Centro Bartolomé de las Casas del Cusco. Es autor de varios artículos académicos, y en el 2007 publicó Siete Mejores Cuentos Peruanos con Editorial Norma. Actualmente es el Coordinador del Programa de Interacciones Multiculturales de la Universidad Externado de Colombia, en donde trabaja con autoridades y estudiantes de doce comunidades indígenas de toda Colombia.

Norma Klahn, University of California, Santa Cruz

Renya Ramirez (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska), University of California, Santa Cruz

Renya Ramirez is an enrolled member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. Her book, Native Hubs: Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond (Duke UP, 2007), works to support communication between U.S. and Mexican Indigenous peoples, the federally acknowledged and nonacknowledged, mixed and full bloods, and Indigenous youth and adults. Her interests include Native feminisms, violence against Native women, diaspora, transnationalism, and gender and cultural citizenship.

Roberta Hill (Oneida Nation), University of Wisconsin, Madison

Roberta Hill, formerly Hill Whiteman, is an enrolled member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and a poet, fiction writer and scholar. She grew up in Oneida and Green Bay, Wisconsin, and earned a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana and a PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. Her two collections of poetry are Star Quilt (Holy Cow! Press, [1984] 2001) and Philadelphia Flowers (Holy Cow! Press, 1996). Recent poetry has appeared in The Cold Mountain Review, The American Indian Culture and Research Journal, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Luna and Prairie Schooner. Her poems are part of the St. Paul Poetry Garden and the Midwest Express Convention Center in Milwaukee; a journal entry is included in the Wall of Discovery at the University of Minnesota. Recent fiction includes “Heartbreak,” which appeared in Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Durham: Duke, 2006) and “Start Getting Up” in The Deadly Writer’s Patrol Magazine, #5 (2007). Her biography of Dr. Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill will be published by the University of Nebraska Press. She is a Professor of English and American Indian Studies and affiliated with the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches courses in Native American and Multi-cultural Literatures, American Indian Studies and Environmental Literature.

Roberto Viereck, Queen’s University, Canada

Licenciatura en Lengua y Literatura hispánica (1992) y Comunicación Social y Periodismo (1996), ambos grados obtenidos en la Universidad de Chile. Diplomado en Estudios Amerindios (Casa de América, Madrid, 2000) y Doctor en Filología Hispánica por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid con la tesis: La Traducción como Instrumento y estética en la Literatura Hispanoamericana del Siglo XVI (2003). Ha desempeñado la docencia universitaria y/o la investigación en Chile, España y Canadá. Actualmente reside en este último país, trabajando como Assistant Professor en el Departamento de Español e Italiano de Queen’s University. A partir de julio de este año se integrará a Concordia University, en Montreal.

Rosenda Pérez, Guatemala

Es nativa de a la comunidad de Q’anjob’al, Guatemala, en la cual trabaja como linguista y maestra de educación primaria y media. Ha trabajado en distintos niveles de la educación. Es ex-presidenta de la Academia de Lenguas Mayas de la Comunidad Linguistia de Q’anjob’al. Trabaja con diferentes organizaciones de niños, jóvenes y especialmente con grupos de mujeres sobre derechos de la mujer. Actualmente es miembro de la junta directiva de la Defensoría de la mujer indígena a nivel nacional.

Roxana Miranda Rupailaf, Universidad Austral, Chile

Roxana Miranda Rupailaf es profesora de Lengua Castellana y Comunicación de la U. de Los Lagos, Osorno. El año 2006 obtuvo la Beca para escritores del Consejo Nacional del Libro y la Lectura. Mantiene inédito el libro “La seducción de los venenos”

Ha publicado el libro “Las Tentaciones de Eva” (editado por el Gobierno regional de la Décima Región de Chile, 2003), volumen con cual obtuvo el primer lugar en la categoría príncipe del concurso de poesía Luis Oyarzún. Sus poemas han sido incluidos en las antologías Epu mari ülkantufe ta fachantü/20 poetas mapuches contemporáneos, Canto a un prisionero. Antología de poetas americanos, homenaje a los presos políticos en Turquía (Ottawa, 2005), Hilando en la memoria (Cuarto Propio, 2006), La Memoria Iluminada: poesía Mapuche Contemporánea y en la Antología Mapuche Trilingüe, versiones en mapuchezungun, inglés y español (editorial Five Islands Press, Australia, 2007).

Stefano Varese, University of California, Davis

Stefano Varese, antropólogo peruano, professor titular de Native American Studies de la University of California, Davis. Es autor La Sal de los Cerros (Lima 1968, 1973, en inglés en 2002 y 2006), Proyectos étnicos y proyectos nacionales (Mexico 1984), Agua, mundo y montaña (Coordinador, México 1987), Pueblos Indios, soberanía y globalismo (Coordinador,Quito 1996) La ruta mixteca (Coordinador Mexico 2004), Witness to Sovereignty (Copenhagen, 2006)

Sylvia Escárcega, De Paul University, Chicago

Sylvia Escárcega is co-editor in the book La Ruta Mixteca: el impacto etnopolítico de la migración transnacional en los pueblos indígenas de México (2004). Her research currently focuses on indigenous migrant’s and indigenous women’s empowerment in the context of the global indigenous movement. At present, she is assistant professor at DePaul University (Chicago) and will be joining CIESAS Pacífico in Oaxaca as this July.

Ulises Zevallos-Aguilar, Ohio State University

His current research concerns on the practice of literature as a tool of empowerment of Quechua agency. His latest books are Indigenismo y nación. Desafios a la representación de la subalternidad quechua y aymara (2002) and MK (1982-1984) Cultura urbana juvenil de la postmodernidad periférica peruana (2002). He coedited with Luis Millones and Takahiro Kato Ensayos de cultura virreinal latinoamericana (2006). He is the US. Executive secretary of both Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana (JALLA) and the International Association of Peruvianist (IAP). He holds a position in Latin American Indigenous Literatures and Cultures at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, at Ohio State University.

Victoria Bomberry (Muscogee), University of California, Riverside

Victor Montejo (Jakaltek Maya), University of California, Davis