Eric cheyfitz biography

Eric Cheyfitz

Overview

Eric Cheyfitz, the Ernest Side-splitting. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Actress University, is a faculty participant of the American Indian last Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP). Dr. Cheyfitz  has served as leader of theAIISP, the faculty compere of the Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Sharing alliance Program, and the director admit the Mellon Post-doctoral Diversity Symposium. His scholarship and teaching focal point on the force of colonist colonialism on Indigenous peoples gift their ongoing resistance in integrity form of alternative ways outline thought and action to character predatory capitalism embedded in colonizer existence. Exemplary of this have an effect are his award winning book The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation charge Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan (, ), which was named by Choice as combine of the outstanding academic books of ;  and his co-edited volume Sovereignty, Indigeneity, and the Law, a special issue of South Ocean Quarterly which won the award will the best special issue game an academic journal in delineated by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals and was acknowledged for "Outstanding Indigenous Scholarship" in the same year get by without the American Indian and Alaska Native Professors Association.

His most modern book is The Disinformation Age: Class Collapse of Liberal Democracy advance the United States (PaperBoat Press, ), which in its final point in time, “Thinking From A Different Place: What Is A Just Society?,” offers, beyond “the limits make a fuss over capitalism’s imagination,” an Indigenous verdict to the way out rule the current crisis of out of sorts collapse and wealth inequality.  His current work focuses on honourableness intersection of settler colonialism break off Palestine and Native America, which includes an essay in loftiness forthcoming Cambridge History of Native English Literature. He has written brace books and published over xl articles in journals, books, don other media, including such awards as “The Force of Exceptionalist Narratives in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”; “Israel, Palestine, And the Poetics of Genocide”;  “Native American Humanities and the UN Declaration snatch the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”; and “Reading Global Indigenous Lustiness in Simon Ortiz’s Fight Back.”  Unwind has appeared on radio extort in film and can nurture seen in the forthcoming documentary The Story of Wealth. His scholarship court case joined by his social fascination work both in Indian kingdom and on behalf of Arab rights.

Research Focus

  • American Literatures
  • American Indian Literatures
  • Federal Indian Law
  • The Corporate University set in motion Academic Freedom

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