Jodi Byrd Explained

Thesis Title:Colonialism's Cacophony: Natives and Arrivants at the Limits of Postcolonial Theory
Thesis Year:2002
Doctoral Advisor:Mary Lou Emery

Jodi Ann Byrd is an American indigenous academic. They are an associate professor of Literatures in English at Cornell University, where they also hold an affiliation with the American Studies Program. Their research applies critical theory to indigenous studies and governance, science and technology studies, game studies, indigenous feminism and indigenous sexualities. They also possess research interests in American Indian Studies, Post-Colonial Studies, Digital Media, Theory & Criticism.

Personal

Byrd is the child of physician John Byron Byrd (1944–2008)[1] and a great-grandniece of William L. Byrd, who served as governor of the Chickasaw Nation from 1888 to 1890 and 1890 to 1892.[2] [3] They are a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation.[4] [5]

Education, career, and service

Byrd holds a master's degree and Ph.D. (2002) in English literature from the University of Iowa. Their dissertation was Colonialism's Cacophony: Natives and Arrivants at the Limits of Postcolonial Theory.[6] Before teaching at Cornell, they taught at the University of Illinois, and before that they were an assistant professor of indigenous politics in the department of political science of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.[7]

They were formerly associated with the American Indian Studies Program at Illinois. In the wake of the Illinois administration's failure to hire Steven Salaita into the program, whom they had championed as acting director of the program, they considered offers to move to three other universities. However, the University of Illinois persuaded them to stay and provided them an alternative position in the English and Gender and Women's Studies departments.[8] [9]

They are the co-editor of the Critical Insurgencies series for Northwestern University Press.[10] They were president of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures for 2011–2012.[11] In 2012, they were adopted as a Clan Sister (one of the central organizing members) of the Native American Literature Symposium, which they have stated has been an inspiring community for them since their first days as a graduate student.[12] Byrd has also served as an editorial board member for the journal Critical Ethnic Studies.[13]

Awards and recognition

Byrd's 2011 book The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism won the 2011 Best First Book of the Year award from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association,[14] and the 2012 Wordcraft Circle Award for Academic Work of the Year.[15] Earlier, Byrd won the 2008 Beatrice Medicine Award for Scholarship in American Indian Studies of the Native American Literature Symposium for their paper "Living my native life deadly: Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the discourses of competing genocides" (American Indian Quarterly, 2007).[16]

Selected works

Books

Journal articles

2018
2016
2015
2014
2009
2007

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: John B. Byrd MD. Levander Funeral Homes. 3 January 2019.
  2. Book: Riding Out the Storm: 19th Century Chickasaw Governors, Their Lives and Intellectual Legacy. Morgan. Phillip C.. 2013. Chickasaw Press. 978-1-935684-10-7. Ada. 4 February 2019.
  3. Web site: William Byrd Elected as governor. Chickasaw.TV. 4 February 2019.
  4. Web site: Faculty profile Dept. of English . Jodi A. Byrd.
  5. Web site: Who Gets to Decide Who I Am? On Native Identity, Tribal Enrollment, and Federal Recognition. Bullard. Laura. 2018-12-21. Jezebel. 2019-01-04. According to Jodi Byrd, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation whose research focuses on Critical Indigenous studies and governance, base rolls 'transformed community identity into an individualistic self—traced through a paper trail.'.
  6. 10.1353/aiq.2004.0004. 4. American Indian Quarterly. 659–662. Recent Dissertations. 26. 2002.
  7. Web site: Native Women's Resurgence at UIUC. March 2007. Brenda. Farnell. Brenda Farnell. The Public i.
  8. News: Post-Salaita: UI program's future unclear. Julie. Wirth. 29 August 2016. The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana).
  9. News: How the Salaita Incident Imperiled the Program That Tried to Hire Him. Lee. Gardner. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 1 September 2016.
  10. Web site: Critical Insurgencies . . 10 October 2018.
  11. Web site: Officers. Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures. 3 January 2019.
  12. Howe. LeAnne. LeAnne Howe. April 2017. 10.1080/02690055.2017.1293887. 2. Wasafiri. 54–56. Four Things You Likely Didn't Know About NALS. 32. 164433238.
  13. Web site: Critical Ethnic Studies (Journal). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. en. 2019-10-14.
  14. Web site: Previous publication prize winners. Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.
  15. Web site: Honors and Awards 2012. Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. https://archive.today/20130705183627/http://www.wordcraftcircle.org/honors-and-awards/. 5 July 2013. 4 January 2019. dead.
  16. Web site: Awards. 27 September 2016. Native American Literature Symposium. 4 January 2019.
  17. Reviews of The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism:
    • Najita. Susan. January 2011. none. Amerasia Journal. UCLA American Indian Studies Center. 37. 3. 165–168. 10.17953/amer.37.3.3065542km2w11q84. 146649394.
    • Fawaz. Ramzi. Ramzi Fawaz. Winter 2012. Settling Scores: Claiming Ground for Native and Indigenous Critique in the Americas. Anthropological Quarterly. 85. 1. 257–272. 10.1353/anq.2012.0000. 41427095. 144844887.
    • Rifkin. Mark. Winter 2012. none. Studies in American Indian Literatures. 24. 4. 138–142. 10.5250/studamerindilite.24.4.0099. 10.5250/studamerindilite.24.4.0099.
      • King. Lisa. Winter–Spring 2013. none. American Indian Quarterly. 37. 1–2. 275–278. 10.5250/amerindiquar.37.1-2.0258. 10.5250/amerindiquar.37.1-2.0258.
    • Smith. Lindsey Claire. February 2013. none. The American Historical Review. 118. 1. 149. 10.1093/ahr/118.1.149. 23425468.
    • Vigil. Kiara M.. Spring 2013. none. Western Historical Quarterly. 44. 1. 78. 10.2307/westhistquar.44.1.0078.
    • Couture-Grondin . Élise . Rivalité et solidarité dans la résistance . Canadian Journal of Women and the Law . 2014 . 26 . 1 . 160–165 . .
    • Coulombe. Joseph. 2014. none. Western American Literature. 49. 1. 113–120. 10.1353/wal.2014.0010. 161296270.
    • Kelderman. F.. January 2014. none. American Literature. 86. 3. 611–614. 10.1215/00029831-2717425.
    • Barker. Adam J.. May 2014. none. Settler Colonial Studies. 5. 2. 186–189. 10.1080/2201473x.2014.920191. 161687006.
    • Suzack. Cheryl. Summer 2015. none. Signs. 40. 4. 987–996. 10.1086/680331. 10.1086/680331.
    • Krian. Lena. January 2016. none. Kritikon Litterarum. 43. 3–4. 10.1515/kl-2016-0054. 164354984.
  18. Byrd. Jodi A.. Goldstein. Alyosha. Melamed. Jodi. Reddy. Chandan. 2018-06-01. Predatory ValueEconomies of Dispossession and Disturbed Relationalities. Social Text. en. 36. 2 (135). 1–18. 10.1215/01642472-4362325. 149630637. 0164-2472.
  19. Byrd. Jodi A.. 2018-06-01. "Variations under Domestication"Indigeneity and the Subject of Dispossession. Social Text. en. 36. 2 (135). 123–141. 10.1215/01642472-4362397. 149460630. 0164-2472.
  20. Byrd. Jodi A.. 2016-10-01. 'Do they not have rational souls?': consolidation and sovereignty in digital new worlds. Settler Colonial Studies. 6. 4. 423–437. 10.1080/2201473X.2015.1090635. 146519111. 2201-473X.
  21. Byrd. Jodi A.. 2014-01-30. Arriving on a Different Shore: US Empire at Its Horizons. College Literature. en. 41. 1. 174–181. 10.1353/lit.2014.0007. 144827894 . 1542-4286.
  22. Byrd. Jodi A.. 2014-04-03. Follow the typical signs: settler sovereignty and its discontents. Settler Colonial Studies. 4. 2. 151–154. 10.1080/2201473X.2013.846388. 144231984. 2201-473X.
  23. Byrd. Jodi A.. 2014-04-03. Introduction. J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. en. 2. 1. 131–136. 10.1353/jnc.2014.0018. 246279156. 2166-7438.
  24. Byrd. Jodi A.. 2009. 'In the City of Blinding Lights': Indigeneity, Cultural Studies and the Errants of Colonial Nostalgia. Cultural Studies Review. en. 15. 2. 13–28–13–28. 10.5130/csr.v15i2.2035. 1837-8692. free.
  25. Byrd. Jodi A.. 2007-05-10. "Living My Native Life Deadly": Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the Discourses of Competing Genocides. The American Indian Quarterly. en. 31. 2. 310–332. 10.1353/aiq.2007.0018. 161516062. 1534-1828.

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