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About Brianna R. Burke

Brianna R. Burke is an Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities and American Indian Studies in the English Department at Iowa State University. Currently she is working on two books, one called Becoming Beast: The Humanimal in Climate Justice Literatures, which explores the morphing ideology of what it means to be (considered) Animal in a world of decreasing resources, and the other on race and American Indian Studies titled Indian Summer: Growing Up White in American Indian Cultures. She publishes on environmental and social justice, as well as on the pedagogy of both.

Positions

Present Assistant Professor, Iowa State University Department of English
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Faculty Member, Iowa State University American Indian Studies Program
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Curriculum Vitae




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Courses

  • Engl 355: Literature and the Environment: Writing the Handbook for a New Planet
  • Engl 335: Studies in Film: Our Uncertain Planetary Future: Films of the Apocalypse and the Changing “Human” Condition.
  • Engl 534: American Literature 1865 to the Present: The American Canon and Banned Books.
  • Engl 389: Postcolonial Literature: Fighting for a Voice
  • Engl 536: Postcolonial Literatures: From “the Margins” to “the Center”.
  • Engl 240: Introduction to American Indian Literature: The Transformative Power of a Good Story.
  • Engl 538: Fiction: Fictions About and By Native Americans.
  • Engl 445: Literature Crossing Boundaries: Transnational Environmental Justice: Living in the Era of Globalization.
  • Engl 534: American Literature 1865 to the Present: 20th Century American Multicultural Ecologies
  • Engl 250H: Honors Composition: Revolution, Active Citizenship, Making Change.

Contact Information

235 Ross
527 Farm House Ln
Ames, IA 50011-1201
515-294-2180

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Peer-Reviewed Articles (6)

Book Chapters (2)

Dissertation (1)