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Eric Gary Anderson
Associate Professor; Director Native American and Indigenous Studies minor
Eric Gary Anderson's areas of interest include American Indian literatures, Southern Studies, American fiction from the beginnings to the present, and multiethnic American literatures. He is the author of American Indian Literature and the Southwest: Contexts and Dispositions (U of Texas P, 1999) as well as chapters in a variety of books including Faulkner and the Ecology of the South, Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry, and South to a New Place. His article "Black Atlanta: An Eco-Social Approach to Atlanta Child Murder Narratives" appears in PMLA; other recent and forthcoming work includes articles on Life of Black Hawk (in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance) and Native/Southern Studies (in Mississippi Quarterly) and his next book, On Native Southern Ground. Born and raised in Middlesex Borough, New Jersey, he took his Ph.D. from Rutgers (The State University of New Jersey). At Mason, he coordinates the 200-level General Education literature curriculum and directs the new interdisciplinary minor in Native American and Indigenous Studies.Email:
Phone: 703.993.4418
Office: Robinson Hall A 405C
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Eric Gary Anderson
Southern American Studies Association