Academic History

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Greensboro
M.A., Virginia Polytechnic and State University
B.A., M.Ed., The Pennsylvania State University at University Park
At St. Thomas since 2008

Expertise/Specialties

Native American and Indigenous Literatures
American Literature before 1900
Women's Literatures

Selected Publications

Wilkinson, Elizabeth. “Ann Rinaldi’s My Heart Is on the Ground as Literary Colonization of Zitkala-Ša’s American Indian Stories.” Indigenous Nations Studies Journal 3.1 (2002): 47-62.

Selected Presentations

“Feminist, Indian-Feminist, and Anti-US Indian Policy Sentiments in Texts by Zitkala-Sa, Sarah Winnemucca, and Joy Harjo.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference (NAIS), Athens, Georgia, 2008.

“‘We Are Your Mothers’:  Cherokee Women’s Voices for Land Preservation.” American Literature Association Conference (ALA), Boston, 2007.

“Declaiming and Demarcating: Gertrude Bonnin’s Sentimental Campaign for Native Land.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference (SSAWW), Philadelphia, 2006.

“Sarah Winnemucca: ‘Postindian Warrior’ Writing for the Land.” Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States Conference (MELUS),     Boca Raton, 2006.

“Created ‘White’-ness and Hopi Prophecy in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead.” New Directions in American Indian Research: A Gathering of Emerging Scholars, Chapel Hill, 2004.

“(Re)Narrative Resistance: The Political Writings of Zitkala-Sa.” International American Women Writers of Color Conference (AWWOC), Baltimore, 2004.

Membership in Professional Organizations

Native American and Indigenous Studies
Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States
American Literature Association
Modern Language Association