David Treuer
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2000
110L Lind Hall
(612) 626-7119
treue003@umn.edu
Department Affiliations
English
Areas of Expertise
Native American fiction; fiction writing; modernisms; narration theory
Selected Publications
The Translation of Dr. Apelles. Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 2006.
Native American Fiction: A User's Manual. Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 2006.
The Hiawatha: A Novel. New York: Picador, USA, 1999. Paperback edition 2000.
Little: A Novel. Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 1995. First paperback edition, New York: Picador, USA, 1996.
Native American Languages and Literature, Politics and Identity. Special issue of American Indian Quarterly, guest editor, 30.1, 2 (Winter/Spring 2006).
“Red Cloud’s War,” review of Joseph Marshall’s Hundred in the Hand, for the Washington Post Book World, Sunday, November 25, 2007.
“Ancestor Tales,” review of James Houston’s Birds of Another Heaven for the Washington Post Book World, Sunday, April 15, 2007.
“The Trouble with Diversity,” review of Walter Benn Michael’s The Trouble with Diversity for The Washington Post, December 20, 2006.
“The Clouds Overhead.” European Review of Native American Studies 20.1 2006.
“Smartberries, Interpreting Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 29.1 (May 2005).
Graduate Courses
The Layering of Modern Narrative: Nabokov’s Pale Fire
Creative Writing Fiction Seminar: Long Fiction
Undergraduate Courses
Textual Interpretation, Investigation and Analysis—“Magical Realism” in Morrison, Marquez, and Saramago
Intermediate Fiction Seminar
Contemporary Native American Fiction:
Silko, Alexie, Erdrich, Power, Welch
The Literature of Minority
Cultures
Transatlantic Authors: Joyce, Proust, Mann
The Modern Native American Novel
American Literature Survey II from 1860—Present
The English Language Works of Vladimir Nabokov (Junior/Senior Seminar)