Jodi Byrd

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University of Nebraska–Lincoln {{Small|(BA)}}
University of Iowa {{Small|(MA, PhD)}}

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| thesis_title = Colonialism's Cacophony: Natives and Arrivants at the Limits of Postcolonial Theory

| thesis_year = 2002

| doctoral_advisor = Mary Lou Emery

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Jodi Ann Byrd is an American Indigenous academic. They are an associate professor of Literatures in English at Cornell University, where they also hold an affiliation with the American Studies Program. Their research applies critical theory to Indigenous studies and governance, science and technology studies, game studies, indigenous feminism and indigenous sexualities. They also possess research interests in American Indian Studies, Post-Colonial Studies, Digital Media, Theory & Criticism.

Personal

Byrd is the child of physician John Byron Byrd (1944–2008){{cite web|url=http://www.levanderfh.com/obituary/1282589|title=John B. Byrd MD|publisher=Levander Funeral Homes|access-date=3 January 2019}} and a great-grandniece of William L. Byrd, who served as governor of the Chickasaw Nation from 1888 to 1890 and 1890 to 1892.{{cite book|url=https://chickasawpress.com/Books/Riding-Out-the-Storm-19th-Century-Chickasaw-Gover.aspx|title=Riding Out the Storm: 19th Century Chickasaw Governors, Their Lives and Intellectual Legacy|last1=Morgan|first1=Phillip C.|date=2013|publisher=Chickasaw Press|isbn=978-1-935684-10-7|location=Ada|access-date=4 February 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.chickasaw.tv/events/william-byrd-elected-as-governor|title=William Byrd Elected as governor|website=Chickasaw.TV|access-date=4 February 2019}} They are a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation.{{cite web |title=Faculty profile Dept. of English |url=https://www.english.illinois.edu/people/jabyrd |website=Jodi A. Byrd}}{{cite web|url=https://jezebel.com/who-gets-to-decide-who-i-am-on-native-identity-tribal-1830732597|title=Who Gets to Decide Who I Am? On Native Identity, Tribal Enrollment, and Federal Recognition|last=Bullard|first=Laura|date=2018-12-21|website=Jezebel|access-date=2019-01-04|quote=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.'}}

Education, career, and service

Byrd holds a master's degree and Ph.D. (2002) in English literature from the University of Iowa. Their dissertation was Colonialism's Cacophony: Natives and Arrivants at the Limits of Postcolonial Theory.{{cite journal|doi=10.1353/aiq.2004.0004|issue=4|journal=American Indian Quarterly|pages=659–662|title=Recent Dissertations|volume=26|year=2002}} Before teaching at Cornell, they taught at the University of Illinois, and before that they were an assistant professor of indigenous politics in the department of political science of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.{{cite web|url=http://publici.ucimc.org/2007/03/native-women%E2%80%99s-resurgence-at-uiuc/|date=March 2007|first=Brenda|last=Farnell|author-link=Brenda Farnell|title=Native Women's Resurgence at UIUC|work=The Public i}}

They were formerly associated with the American Indian Studies Program at Illinois. In the wake of the Illinois administration's failure to hire Steven Salaita into 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.{{cite news|url=http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2016-08-29/post-salaita-ui-programs-future-unclear.html|title=Post-Salaita: UI program's future unclear|first=Julie|last=Wirth| date=29 August 2016|newspaper=The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana)}}{{cite news|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Salaita-Incident/237657|title=How the Salaita Incident Imperiled the Program That Tried to Hire Him|first=Lee|last=Gardner|newspaper=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=1 September 2016}}

They are the co-editor of the Critical Insurgencies series for Northwestern University Press.{{cite web |title=Critical Insurgencies |url=http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/critical-insurgencies |website=Northwestern University Press |access-date=10 October 2018}}

They were president of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures for 2011–2012.{{cite web|url=http://people.uwm.edu/asail/about/officers/|publisher= Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures|title=Officers|access-date=3 January 2019}} In 2012, they were adopted as a Clan Sister (one of the central organizing members) of the Native American Literature Symposium, which they have stated has been an inspiring community for them since their first days as a graduate student.{{cite journal|last=Howe|first=LeAnne|author-link=LeAnne Howe|date=April 2017|doi=10.1080/02690055.2017.1293887|issue=2|journal=Wasafiri|pages=54–56|title=Four Things You Likely Didn't Know About NALS|volume=32|s2cid=164433238}} Byrd has also served as an editorial board member for the journal Critical Ethnic Studies.{{Cite web|url=https://experts.illinois.edu/en/activities/critical-ethnic-studies-journal|title=Critical Ethnic Studies (Journal)|website=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|language=en|access-date=2019-10-14}}

Awards and recognition

Byrd's 2011 book The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism won the 2011 Best First Book of the Year award from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association,{{cite web|url=https://www.naisa.org/membership/awards/prizewinners/|title=Previous publication prize winners|website=Native American and Indigenous Studies Association}} and the 2012 Wordcraft Circle Award for Academic Work of the Year.{{cite web|url=http://www.wordcraftcircle.org/honors-and-awards/|title=Honors and Awards 2012|publisher=Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130705183627/http://www.wordcraftcircle.org/honors-and-awards/|archive-date=5 July 2013|access-date=4 January 2019|url-status=dead}} Earlier, Byrd won the 2008 Beatrice Medicine Award for Scholarship in American Indian Studies of the Native American Literature Symposium for their paper "Living my native life deadly: Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the discourses of competing genocides" (American Indian Quarterly, 2007).{{cite web|url=https://nativelit.com/awards/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181229232000/https://nativelit.com/awards/|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 29, 2018|title=Awards|date=27 September 2016|publisher=Native American Literature Symposium|access-date=4 January 2019}}

Selected works

= Books =

The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism (University of Minnesota Press, 2011, {{ISBN|978-0816676415}}).Reviews of The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism:
{{cite journal|last=Najita|first=Susan|date=January 2011|title=none|journal=Amerasia Journal|publisher=UCLA American Indian Studies Center|volume=37|issue=3|pages=165–168|doi=10.17953/amer.37.3.3065542km2w11q84|s2cid=146649394}}
{{cite journal|last=Fawaz|first=Ramzi|author-link=Ramzi Fawaz|date=Winter 2012|title=Settling Scores: Claiming Ground for Native and Indigenous Critique in the Americas|journal=Anthropological Quarterly|volume=85|issue=1|pages=257–272|doi=10.1353/anq.2012.0000|jstor=41427095|s2cid=144844887}}
{{cite journal|last=Rifkin|first=Mark|date=Winter 2012|title=none|journal=Studies in American Indian Literatures|volume=24|issue=4|pages=138–142|doi=10.5250/studamerindilite.24.4.0099|jstor=10.5250/studamerindilite.24.4.0099}}
{{citation|last=Blyth|first=Molly|title=Review|url=https://www.postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/view/1665/1492|journal=Postcolonial Text|volume=8|issue=1|year=2013}}
{{cite journal|last=King|first=Lisa|date=Winter–Spring 2013|title=none|journal=American Indian Quarterly|volume=37|issue=1–2|pages=275–278|doi=10.5250/amerindiquar.37.1-2.0258|jstor=10.5250/amerindiquar.37.1-2.0258}}
{{cite journal|last=Smith|first=Lindsey Claire|date=February 2013|title=none|journal=The American Historical Review|volume=118|issue=1|page=149|doi=10.1093/ahr/118.1.149|jstor=23425468}}
{{cite journal|last=Vigil|first=Kiara M.|date=Spring 2013|title=none|journal=Western Historical Quarterly|volume=44|issue=1|page=78|doi=10.2307/westhistquar.44.1.0078}}
{{cite journal |last1=Couture-Grondin |first1=Élise |title=Rivalité et solidarité dans la résistance |journal=Canadian Journal of Women and the Law |date=2014 |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=160–165 |id={{Project MUSE|543912}} }}
{{cite journal|last=Coulombe|first=Joseph|year=2014|title=none|journal=Western American Literature|volume=49|issue=1|pages=113–120|doi=10.1353/wal.2014.0010|s2cid=161296270}}
{{cite journal|last=Kelderman|first=F.|date=January 2014|title=none|journal=American Literature|volume=86|issue=3|pages=611–614|doi=10.1215/00029831-2717425}}
{{cite journal|last=Barker|first=Adam J.|date=May 2014|title=none|journal=Settler Colonial Studies|volume=5|issue=2|pages=186–189|doi=10.1080/2201473x.2014.920191|s2cid=161687006}}
{{cite journal|last=Suzack|first=Cheryl|date=Summer 2015|title=none|journal=Signs|volume=40|issue=4|pages=987–996|doi=10.1086/680331|jstor=10.1086/680331}}
{{cite journal|last=Krian|first=Lena|date=January 2016|title=none|journal=Kritikon Litterarum|volume=43|issue=3–4|doi=10.1515/kl-2016-0054|s2cid=164354984}}

= Journal articles =

"Living My Native Life Deadly": Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the Discourses of Competing Genocides{{Cite journal|last=Byrd|first=Jodi A.|date=2007-05-10|title="Living My Native Life Deadly": Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the Discourses of Competing Genocides|journal=The American Indian Quarterly|language=en|volume=31|issue=2|pages=310–332|doi=10.1353/aiq.2007.0018|s2cid=161516062|issn=1534-1828}}

References

External links

[https://twitter.com/arsavium @arsavium (Jodi Byrd)] on Twitter
{{cite web|url=http://nagualli.blogspot.com/2014/08/jodi-byrd-interviewed-by-natasha-varner.html|title=Jodi Byrd Interviewed by Natasha Varner, "Critiquing Colonial Discourse and Imagining Indigenous Futures"|work=Nagualli|date=August 15, 2014}}

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