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Jodi Byrd
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Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisColonialism's Cacophony: Natives and Arrivants at the Limits of Postcolonial Theory(2002)
Doctoral advisorMary Lou Emery
Academic work
Institutions

Jodi Ann Byrdis anAmericanIndigenousacademic. They are an associate professor of Literatures in English atCornell University,where they also hold an affiliation with the American Studies Program. Their research appliescritical theorytoIndigenous studiesandgovernance,science and technology studies,game studies,indigenous feminismandindigenous sexualities.They also possess research interests in American Indian Studies, Post-Colonial Studies, Digital Media, Theory & Criticism.

Personal

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Byrd is the child of physician John Byron Byrd (1944–2008)[1]and a great-grandniece of William L. Byrd, who served as governor of theChickasaw Nationfrom 1888 to 1890 and 1890 to 1892.[2][3]They are a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation.[4][5]

Education, career, and service

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Byrd holds amaster's degreeandPh.D.(2002) in English literature from theUniversity of Iowa.Their dissertation wasColonialism's Cacophony: Natives and Arrivants at the Limits of Postcolonial Theory.[6]Before teaching at Cornell, they taught at theUniversity of Illinois,and before that they were an assistant professor of indigenous politics in the department ofpolitical scienceof theUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.[7]

They were formerly associated with the American Indian Studies Program at Illinois. In the wake of the Illinois administration'sfailure to hire Steven Salaitainto the program, whom they had championed as acting director of the program, they considered offers to move to three other universities. However, the University of Illinois persuaded them to stay and provided them an alternative position in the English and Gender and Women's Studies departments.[8][9]

They are the co-editor of the Critical Insurgencies series forNorthwestern University Press.[10] They were president of theAssociation for the Study of American Indian Literaturesfor 2011–2012.[11]In 2012, they were adopted as a Clan Sister (one of the central organizing members) of theNative American Literature Symposium,which they have stated has been an inspiring community for them since their first days as a graduate student.[12]Byrd has also served as an editorial board member for the journalCritical Ethnic Studies.[13]

Awards and recognition

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Byrd's 2011 bookThe Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialismwon the 2011 Best First Book of the Year award from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association,[14]and the 2012 Wordcraft Circle Award for Academic Work of the Year.[15]Earlier, Byrd won the 2008 Beatrice Medicine Award for Scholarship in American Indian Studies of theNative American Literature Symposiumfor their paper "Living my native life deadly: Red Lake,Ward Churchill,and the discourses of competing genocides "(American Indian Quarterly,2007).[16]

Selected works

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Books

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  • The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism(University of Minnesota Press,2011,ISBN978-0816676415).[17]

Journal articles

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2018
  • Predatory Value: Economies of Dispossession and Disturbed Relationalities[18]
  • “Variations under Domestication”: Indigeneity and the Subject of Dispossession[19]
2016
2015
  • "Do They Not Have Rational Souls?": Consolidation and Sovereignty in Digital New Worlds[20]
2014
  • Arriving on a Different Shore: US Empire at Its Horizons[21]
  • Follow the Typical Signs: Settler Sovereignty and its Discontents[22]
  • Introduction: Indigeneity's Difference: Methodology and the Structures of Sovereignty[23]
  • Byrd, Jodi A. (2014). "Tribal 2.0: Digital Natives, Political Players, and the Power of Stories".Studies in American Indian Literatures.26(2): 55–64.doi:10.5250/studamerindilite.26.2.0055.S2CID153462369.Project MUSE548054.
2009
  • ‘In the City of Blinding Lights’: Indigeneity, Cultural Studies and the Errants of Colonial Nostalgia[24]
2007
  • "Living My Native Life Deadly": Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the Discourses of Competing Genocides[25]

References

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  1. ^"John B. Byrd MD".Levander Funeral Homes.Retrieved3 January2019.
  2. ^Morgan, Phillip C. (2013).Riding Out the Storm: 19th Century Chickasaw Governors, Their Lives and Intellectual Legacy.Ada: Chickasaw Press.ISBN978-1-935684-10-7.Retrieved4 February2019.
  3. ^"William Byrd Elected as governor".Chickasaw.TV.Retrieved4 February2019.
  4. ^"Faculty profile Dept. of English".Jodi A. Byrd.
  5. ^Bullard, Laura (2018-12-21)."Who Gets to Decide Who I Am? On Native Identity, Tribal Enrollment, and Federal Recognition".Jezebel.Retrieved2019-01-04.According to Jodi Byrd, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation whose research focuses on Critical Indigenous studies and governance, base rolls 'transformed community identity into an individualistic self—traced through a paper trail.'
  6. ^"Recent Dissertations".American Indian Quarterly.26(4): 659–662. 2002.doi:10.1353/aiq.2004.0004.
  7. ^Farnell, Brenda(March 2007)."Native Women's Resurgence at UIUC".The Public i.
  8. ^Wirth, Julie (29 August 2016)."Post-Salaita: UI program's future unclear".The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana).
  9. ^Gardner, Lee (1 September 2016)."How the Salaita Incident Imperiled the Program That Tried to Hire Him".The Chronicle of Higher Education.
  10. ^"Critical Insurgencies".Northwestern University Press.Retrieved10 October2018.
  11. ^"Officers".Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures.Retrieved3 January2019.
  12. ^Howe, LeAnne(April 2017). "Four Things You Likely Didn't Know About NALS".Wasafiri.32(2): 54–56.doi:10.1080/02690055.2017.1293887.S2CID164433238.
  13. ^"Critical Ethnic Studies (Journal)".University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Retrieved2019-10-14.
  14. ^"Previous publication prize winners".Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.
  15. ^"Honors and Awards 2012".Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. Archived fromthe originalon 5 July 2013.Retrieved4 January2019.
  16. ^"Awards".Native American Literature Symposium.27 September 2016.Retrieved4 January2019.
  17. ^Reviews ofThe Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism:
  18. ^Byrd, Jodi A.; Goldstein, Alyosha; Melamed, Jodi; Reddy, Chandan (2018-06-01). "Predatory ValueEconomies of Dispossession and Disturbed Relationalities".Social Text.36(2 (135)): 1–18.doi:10.1215/01642472-4362325.ISSN0164-2472.S2CID149630637.
  19. ^Byrd, Jodi A. (2018-06-01). ""Variations under Domestication" Indigeneity and the Subject of Dispossession ".Social Text.36(2 (135)): 123–141.doi:10.1215/01642472-4362397.ISSN0164-2472.S2CID149460630.
  20. ^Byrd, Jodi A. (2016-10-01). "'Do they not have rational souls?': consolidation and sovereignty in digital new worlds ".Settler Colonial Studies.6(4): 423–437.doi:10.1080/2201473X.2015.1090635.ISSN2201-473X.S2CID146519111.
  21. ^Byrd, Jodi A. (2014-01-30). "Arriving on a Different Shore: US Empire at Its Horizons".College Literature.41(1): 174–181.doi:10.1353/lit.2014.0007.ISSN1542-4286.S2CID144827894.
  22. ^Byrd, Jodi A. (2014-04-03). "Follow the typical signs: settler sovereignty and its discontents".Settler Colonial Studies.4(2): 151–154.doi:10.1080/2201473X.2013.846388.ISSN2201-473X.S2CID144231984.
  23. ^Byrd, Jodi A. (2014-04-03). "Introduction".J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.2(1): 131–136.doi:10.1353/jnc.2014.0018.ISSN2166-7438.S2CID246279156.
  24. ^Byrd, Jodi A. (2009)."'In the City of Blinding Lights': Indigeneity, Cultural Studies and the Errants of Colonial Nostalgia ".Cultural Studies Review.15(2): 13–28–13–28.doi:10.5130/csr.v15i2.2035.ISSN1837-8692.
  25. ^Byrd, Jodi A. (2007-05-10). ""Living My Native Life Deadly": Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the Discourses of Competing Genocides ".The American Indian Quarterly.31(2): 310–332.doi:10.1353/aiq.2007.0018.ISSN1534-1828.S2CID161516062.
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