Turning the spectacle: Imagining Indigenous Futures, Killing Colonial Pasts

Dr. Mishauna Goeman

February 13, 2019

Mishuana Goeman, Tonawanda Band of Seneca, is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies Department at the University of California, Los Angeles and Chair of American Indian Studies as well as Associate Director of American Indian Studies Research Center. She has published in several peer review journals and has book chapters in  Theorizing Native Studies, eds. Audra Simpson and Andrea Smith, (Duke University Press, 2014), Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies (Routledge 2016), Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender: Sources, Perspectives, and Methodologies (2016) and Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (ed. Joanne Barker, Duke University Press, 2017).  Her monograph Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations was published by University of Minnesota Press in 2013 with a forthcoming monograph The Spectacle of Originary Moments: Terrance Malick’s the New World as part of the Indigenous Film Studies Series. She is also a Co-PI on a community based digital project, Mapping Indigenous L.A.(www.mila.ss.ucla.edu).