Dr. Billy J. Stratton is an associate professor in the Department of English where he teaches contemporary Native American and American literature, poetics, film studies, and writing. His critical, creative, and editorial work focuses on contemporary American literature and culture and Native literary studies. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous books and journals including Oxford University Press, Arizona Quarterly, The Journal of American Culture, Wicazo-Sa Review, Studies in American Indian Literature, Rhizomes, Salon, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Hill, and TIME.
Stratton's first book, 'Buried in Shades of Night' (2013), addresses Native American experience within the context of the Indian captivity narrative genre, King Philip's War, and colonial American history. His latest projects include a critical assessment of the “fictions” of Stephen Graham Jones, which is now available from the University of New Mexico Press (2016), as well as a work of fiction set in Appalachian coal country--an excerpt from which, "The Sound of Coal" was published in Big Muddy (18:1, 2018), with another previously published in Cream City Review.
He has been instrumental in efforts to create dialogue at DU around the issue of the Sand Creek Massacre, and has edited and published several works on that theme. Additionally, he serves at DU as Special Advisor on Native American Partnerships and Programs.
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https://portfolio.du.edu/BillyJStratton
Experience
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–presentAssociate professor of English, University of Denver
Education
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2008University of Arizona, PhD American Indian Studies, English Minor
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2002Miami University, BA English and Philosophy
Publications
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2019Captivity Narratives, Oxford University Press
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2019Transnational Narratives of Conflict and Empire, the Literary Art of Survivance in the Fiction of Gerald Vizenor, Transmotion
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2018In the Habitations of Specters: On Stephen Graham Jones' Mapping the Interior, Los Angeles Review of Books
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2018Eastern Kentucky in Four Figures, Wraparound South
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2016"The Sand Creek Massacre Took Place More Than 150 Years Ago. It Still Matters", TIME
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2016"Remembering U.S. Soldiers Who Refused to Kill Native Americans at Sand Creek" , US News & World Report
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2016A Critical Companion to the Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones, University of New Mexico Press
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2015“‘Carried in the Arms of Standing Waves:’ The Transmotional Aesthetics of Nora Marks Dauenhauer” , Transmotion
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2015Chapter: “‘You have liberty to return to your own country:’ Tecumseh, Myth and the Mediation of Native Sovereignty” , Mediating Indianness
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2015Chapter: “Reading Through Peoplehood: Towards a Culturally Responsive Approach to Native American Literature and Oral Tradition” , Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Indigenous Studies: Native North America in (Trans)motion
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2015“Evocations of Survivance: Native Storiers in Word and Image in Remembrance of Sand Creek” , Common-place: The Journal of Early American Life
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2014Our Thanksgiving Responsibility: Native Americans, Honest History and the Simple Power of Remembrance" , Salon
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2014“Everything depends on reaching the coast:” Inscriptions of Placelessness in John Hillcoat’s adaptation of The Road” , Arizona Quarterly
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2013“‘A Reservation Hero is a Hero Forever:’ Basketball, Irony, and Humor in the Novels of James Welch, Sherman Alexie, and Stephen Graham Jones” , Native Games: Indigenous Peoples and Sports in the Post-Colonial World
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2013Buried in Shades of Night: Contested Voices, Indian Captivity, and the Legacy of King Philip's War, University of Arizona Press
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2012“Deterritorialization, Pure War, and the Consequences of Indian Captivity in Transnational Colonial Discourse” , Rhizomes
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2011“‘el brujo es un coyote:’ Taxonomies of Trauma in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian” , Arizona Quarterly
Professional Memberships
- Modern Language Association
- Western Literature Association
Honours
Fulbright Scholars Program Alumni
- Denver
- Website
- @BillyJStratton
- Article Feed
- billy.stratton@du.edu
- ORCID
- Joined
