GERALD VIZENOR
Distinguished Professor of American Studies

GERALD VIZENOR, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, is Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of more than twenty books on native histories, critical studies, literature, and poetry including The People Named the Chippewa, and Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance.
He received the American Book Award for his novel Griever: An American Monkey King in China. His most recent books are Fugitive Poses: Native American Scenes of Absence and Presence, Wordarrows: Native States of Literary Sovereignty; two novels, Chancers, and Hiroshima Bugi, a narrative poem, Bear Island: The War at Sugar Point, and Almost Ashore, selected poems.

Professor Vizenor received an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, from Macalester College, and a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association. Other honors include the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley; Literary Laureate, Honorary Literary Award from the San Francisco Public Library; and the Lifetime Literary Achievement Award, Native Writer's Circle of the Americas. He is series editor of American Indian Literature and Critical Studies at the University of Oklahoma Press, and, with Diane Glancy, series editor of Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives at the University of Nebraska Press.

Professor Vizenor teaches a course on The Atomic Bomb: Los Alamos to Hiroshima, and a graduate seminar Human Rights and Genocide.

Publications

Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence.
Manifest Manners: Narratives of Postindian Survivance.
Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57.

Courses

AMST 320/520, The Atomic Bomb: Los Alamos to Hiroshima
AMST (graduate seminar) Human Rights and Genocide