Sean Kicummah Teuton

Sean Kicummah Teuton is Associate Professor of English and Indigenous Studies at the University of Arkansas. He received his BA from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 1990 and his PhD from Cornell University in 2002. He has taught Indigenous literature at every level, from graduate seminars to introductory lectures with over 300 students. He has published in multiple anthologies and journals including American Indian Quarterly, American Literary History, and Wicazo Sa. He is the author of Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel (Duke 2008) and co-author of Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective (Oklahoma 2008). Recent publications include essays on New World travel, intellectual risk, and teaching Indigenous literature in the predominantly white classroom. Teuton's new book project, Cities of Refuge: Indigenous Cosmopolitan Writers and the International Imaginary, was awarded fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the School of Advanced Research, and the Stanford Humanities Center. Teuton is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.