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Professor of History, Literature, and the Arts
Faculty Suite J, Room 116
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Janet Dean writes and teaches about American literature, Native American literature, and literature of social and political protest. She is the author of Unconventional Politics: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and U.S. Indian Policy (2016), as well as essays, chapters, and reviews in a number of journals and collections.
Ph D, Columbia University
M Phil, Columbia University
MA, Columbia University
BA, Colby College
Dean, J., Unconventional Politics: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Protesting United States Indian Policy, University of Massachusetts Press, 2016.
Dean, J., "Getting on with Things: Ojibwe Ontology and Relationality in Louise Erdrich鈥檚 The Painted Drum", Studies in American Indian Literature, 2020.
Dean, J., 鈥溾楨xil鈥檇 murmurings鈥: 鈥楾he American Hemans鈥 and the Politics of Displacement", University of Massachusetts Press, 2018.
Dean, J., Review of Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi, A Call for Reform: The Southern California Indian Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson , ALH On-Line Review/American Literary History, 2017.
Dean, J., "Reading Lessons: Sentimental Literacy and Assimilation in Stiya: A Carlisle Indian Girl at Home and Wynema: A Child of the Forest.鈥, Layman Poupard Publishing, 2015.
Dean, J., Review essay on Christopher Hager, Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing; Barbara Hochman, Uncle Tom鈥檚 Cabin and the Reading Revolution; Michael Millner, Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere; Gillian Silverman, Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America, American Literature, 2014.
Dean, J., Review of Kimberly A. Williams, Imagining Russia: Making Feminist Sense of American Nationalism in U.S.-Russian Relations, Russian Journal of Communication, 2013.
Dean, J., Review of Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush, eds., Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays. , Western American Literature, 2012.
Dean, J., 鈥淩eading Lessons: Sentimental Literacy and Assimilation in Stiya: A Carlisle Indian Girl at Home and Wynema: A Child of the Forest.鈥, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 2011.
Dean, J., Review of Victoria I. Zhuravleva and Ivan I. Kurilla, eds., Russia and the United States: Mutual Representations in Textbooks, Russian Journal of Communication , 2011.
Coughlin, M.,Hasseler, T.,Dalessio, W.,Martinetti, A.,Rex, N.,Janice, O.,Walden, E.,Dean, J., 鈥淩oundtable on Teaching 鈥榃ork鈥 as an Interdisciplinary First-Year College Seminar", Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 2010.
Dean, J., 鈥淭he Violence of Collection: Indian Killer鈥檚 Archives.鈥, Studies in American Indian Literature , 2008.
Dean, J., 鈥淧ersephone Goes West", Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.
Dean, J., "Nameless Outrages: Narrative Authority, Rape Rhetoric, and the Dakota Conflict of 1862", American Literature, 2005.
Dean, J., 鈥淪topping Traffic: Spectacles of Romance and Race in The Last of the Mohicans", University of Mississippi Press, 2003.
Dean, J., 鈥淕ender Calamities in a Dime Western", Greenwood Press, 2002.
Dean, J., 鈥淪earching for the New Western Literary Criticism鈥 , Modern Fiction Studies, 2000.
Dean, J., 鈥淭he Marriage Plot and National Myth in The Pioneers.鈥, Arizona Quarterly, 1997.
Dean, J., 鈥淲omen on the Masthead.鈥 Review of Sharon M. Harris, ed., Blue Pencils & Hidden Hands. H-Net Reviews, Humanities and Social Sciences Net On-Line,, H-Net Reviews, Humanities and Social Sciences Net On-Line, 2006.
Dean, J., 鈥淐ombating the Culture of Plagiarism", Bryant Faculty Network, 2002.
Dean, J., "Noble Savage", Encyclopedia Entry, 2001.
Dean, J., Review of Gretchen Cassel Eick, They Met at Wounded Knee: The Eastmans' Story, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers.
Dean, J., Review of Indigenuity: Native Craftwork and the Art of American Literature, Material Culture.
Dean, J., Review essay on Amanda J. Zink, Fictions of Western American Domesticity: Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850-1950; James J. Donahue, Failed Frontiersmen: White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance (Univ. of Virginia Press, 2015), and Kevin Brtiz, Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City: Re-creating the Frontier West, American Literature, 2020.
麻豆影音 Summer Stipend Award, 2024
麻豆影音 Faculty Merit Award, 2023
麻豆影音 Distinguished Faculty Award, 2022
麻豆影音 Faculty Merit Award, 2018
麻豆影音 Summer Stipend, 2018
麻豆影音 Faculty Innovation Grant, 2017
麻豆影音 Faculty Merit Award, 2014
麻豆影音 Faculty Merit Award, 2012
麻豆影音 Summer Stipend, 2012
Tomaquag Board Member of the Year, 2010
麻豆影音 Learn & Serve Grant, 2009
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, 2008
麻豆影音 Faculty Merit Award, 2007
Don D. Walker Essay Prize in Western American Literature, 2006
麻豆影音 Faculty Merit Award, 2005
Bryant Women's Herstory Month Faculty Award, 2004
麻豆影音 Faculty Merit Award, 2003
麻豆影音 Summer Stipend, 2002
Kathleen Gregory Klein Award Nominee, 1999
University of South Dakota Research Enhancement Award, 1999
Bancroft Dissertation Award Nominee, 1996
American Studies Association
Modern Literature Association
New England American Studies Association
Women's Studies Association
Association for the Study of American Indian Literature
Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Research Society for American Periodicals
Humanities Education Research Association
Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
Professor of History, Literature, and the Arts
Faculty Suite J, Room 116