Professor Bernardin joined the English Department in 2001 after having taught for several years at University of Minnesota and University of California campuses. She received her B.A. from Princeton University and her Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Cruz. A specialist in American Indian and American literatures, Dr. Bernardin has published articles and book essays on foundational and contemporary Native writers, including Gertrude Bonnin, Mourning Dove, and Louis Owens. She is also a co-author of Trading Gazes: Euro-American Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880-1940 (Rutgers University Press, 2003), an interdisciplinary study of white women who found personal and professional fulfillment working in embattled Native communities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She is currently working on a new edition of In the Land of the Grasshopper Song, in collaboration with Karuk tribal members and non-Native scholars in northwestern California. She is a two-time recipient of Western Literature Association’s Don D. Walker Award for best published essay in Western American Literary Studies. She teaches courses in comparative indigenous literatures, American literatures (including Mark Twain), and Post-colonial literatures of the Americas. |
