Dr Rebecca Tillett
| Job Title | Contact | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Lecturer |
R dot Tillett at uea dot ac dot uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 59 2292 |
Arts Building 1.49 |
Biography
My research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century multiethnic American literature and film, with particular emphases upon contemporary Native American writers and film makers, and upon race and Postcolonial theory. I am particularly interested in the interdisciplinary ways in which Native writers and directors use literature and film as a means by which to engage in otherwise unrealisable political dialogues with national, local, and corporate bodies, in order to express many pressing contemporary tribal socio-political and economic realities. For example, tribal sovereignty; environmental racism; land claims; water rights; anthropology and the 'repatriation' of remains and artefacts; the role and presence of the dead; concepts of community; and the imaginative erasure of Native peoples in favour of the presence of simulated (and more palatable) ‘indians'. An Introduction to Contemporary Native American Literature for the British Association for American Studies series with Edinburgh University Press was published in November 2007.
I welcome research students with an interest in contemporary multiethnic American literature and film, in the intersections of Postcolonial Studies and Native American Studies, and in the relationships between literature, place and the environment.
Key Research Interests
Current research examines the literature and film of the United States-Mexico border region, and the ways in which these texts illustrate the multiple relationships between the
Past Research Projects and Grants
| Project Title | Start Date | End Date | Funding Body |
|---|---|---|---|
| What's Next for Native American and Indigenous Studies? | 3/5/2007 | 5/5/2007 | British Academy |
Article
Tillett, Rebecca (2008) The Price of 'Free' Trade: NAFTA and the Economics of Border Crossing in George Rabasa's Floating Kingdom and Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead. Comparative American Studies, 6 (4). pp. 147-70.
Tillett, Rebecca (2007) The Indian Wars Have Never Ended in the Americas: the Politics of Memory and History in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead. Feminist Review, 85 (1). pp. 21-39.
Tillett, Rebecca (2006) Seeing with a "New and Different Eye": Interactions of Culture and Nature in Contemporary Native American Literatures. European Review of Native American Studies, 20 (1). pp. 17-22.
Tillett, Rebecca (2005) Resting in Peace, Not in Pieces: the Concerns of the Living Dead in Anna Lee Walter's Ghost Singer. Studies in American Indian Literatures, 17 (3). pp. 85-114.
Tillett, Rebecca (2005) Reality Consumed By Realty: the Ecological Costs of ‘Development’ in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead. European Journal of American Culture, 24 (2). pp. 153-169.
Tillett, Rebecca (2002) Your Story Reminds Me of Something: Spectacle and Speculation in Aaron Carr's Eye Killers. ARIEL - A Review of International English Lit., 33 (1). pp. 149-173.
Book Section
Tillett, Rebecca (2013) "Sixty Million Souls Howl for Justice in the Americas!": Almanac of the Dead as politial dialogue as social activism. In: Howling For Justice: Critical Perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead. Arizona University Press, Arizona. (In Press)
Tillett, Rebecca (2012) On the Cutting Edge: Leslie Marmon Silko. In: Native American Renaissance: Re-Interpretations. Oxford University Press, Oxford. (In Press)
Tillett, Rebecca (2011) Resting in Peace, Not in Pieces: the Concerns of the Living Dead in Anna Lee Walter's Ghost Singer (Reprinted). In: Native American Writing. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415588959
Tillett, Rebecca (2009) Native American Literary Modernism: the novels of Mourning Dove, John Joseph Mathews, and D’arcy McNickle. In: American Modernisms, Cultural Transactions. Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 117-142. ISBN 9781443813570
Tillett, Rebecca (2008) Cultural Pluralisms. In: American Thought and Culture in the Twenty-First Century. EUP, pp. 227-244. ISBN 9780748626021
Tillett, Rebecca (2008) Anamnesiac Mappings: National Histories and Transnational Healing in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead. In: Transatlantic Voices: Interpretations of Native American Indigenous Literatures. University of Nebraska Press, pp. 150-168. ISBN 9780803260344
Tillett, Rebecca (2002) Leslie Marmon Silko. In: Contemporary American Women Poets: An A-to-Z Guide. Greenwood Press, pp. 346-351. ISBN 0313317836
Book
Tillett, Rebecca, ed. (2013) Howling for Justice: Critical Perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead. Arizona University Press, Arizona. (In Press)
Tillett, Rebecca and Fear-Segal, Jacqueline, eds. (2013) Indigenous Bodies: Reviewing, Relocating, Reclaiming. State University of New York. (In Press)
Tillett, Rebecca (2007) Contemporary Native American Literature (British Association for American Studies (BAAS). Edinburgh University Press, p. 172. ISBN 0748621490
Administrative Posts/Responsibilities
- Director of Teaching and Learning
