Native American author to teach at Wayne State
Posted: Sunday, February 06, 2005
WAYNE, Neb. -- Nationally-known author Delphine Red Shirt has joined the Wayne State College Department of Language and Literature faculty for the spring 2005 semester, teaching creative writing courses, while Lisa Sandlin, associate professor, completes a visiting professorship at the University of Texas.
The author of two books, Turtle Lung Woman's Granddaughter, and Bead on an Anthill, Red Shirt's writing has been described as "eloquent " and "fascinating" by The Washington Post. In addition, her work, "Turtle Lung Woman's Granddaughter" received the 2002 "Best of the Best" award by the American Library Association and honorable mention for the women's section of the American Folklore Society's 2003 Elli Kngs-Maranda Prize.
Red Shirt' s work as a freelance writer and syndicated columnist has appeared in Indian Country Today, the Lakota Nation Journal of Rapid City, S.D. and the Hartford Courant newspaper in Hartford, Conn. She also serves as a series editor for The University of Nebraska Press, in the book series entitled "Race and Ethnicity in the American West."
A member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Red Shirt represents her tribe as a nongovernmental representative at the United Nations. She has also served the UN as the chairperson of the United Nations NGO Committee on the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People: 1995-96, and as the United Nations Representative for the Four Directions Council: International Indigenous Organization. Red Shirt has also been a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
Red Shirt grew up in Nebraska and attended public school, Pine Ridge reservation government schools and later the Red Cloud Indian School, a Catholic high school located in Pine Ridge. She attended Regis College in Denver with a major in accounting and a minor in history. She also holds a master of arts in liberal studies in creative writing from Wesleyan University.
Her third book, "Outside Looking In, Essays by Delphine Red Shirt," is in progress and will be published by the University of Nebraska Press. She maintains an extensive schedule of public speaking and appearances.She narrated a film for the Peabody Museum at Yale University.
Red Shirt has been interviewed for National Public Radio and other media. A previous adjunct professor of American studies and English at Yale, she served as an advisor to Native American Students. She also taught as an adjunct professor at Connecticut College.
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The author of two books, Turtle Lung Woman's Granddaughter, and Bead on an Anthill, Red Shirt's writing has been described as "eloquent " and "fascinating" by The Washington Post. In addition, her work, "Turtle Lung Woman's Granddaughter" received the 2002 "Best of the Best" award by the American Library Association and honorable mention for the women's section of the American Folklore Society's 2003 Elli Kngs-Maranda Prize.
Red Shirt' s work as a freelance writer and syndicated columnist has appeared in Indian Country Today, the Lakota Nation Journal of Rapid City, S.D. and the Hartford Courant newspaper in Hartford, Conn. She also serves as a series editor for The University of Nebraska Press, in the book series entitled "Race and Ethnicity in the American West."
A member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Red Shirt represents her tribe as a nongovernmental representative at the United Nations. She has also served the UN as the chairperson of the United Nations NGO Committee on the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People: 1995-96, and as the United Nations Representative for the Four Directions Council: International Indigenous Organization. Red Shirt has also been a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
Red Shirt grew up in Nebraska and attended public school, Pine Ridge reservation government schools and later the Red Cloud Indian School, a Catholic high school located in Pine Ridge. She attended Regis College in Denver with a major in accounting and a minor in history. She also holds a master of arts in liberal studies in creative writing from Wesleyan University.
Her third book, "Outside Looking In, Essays by Delphine Red Shirt," is in progress and will be published by the University of Nebraska Press. She maintains an extensive schedule of public speaking and appearances.She narrated a film for the Peabody Museum at Yale University.
Red Shirt has been interviewed for National Public Radio and other media. A previous adjunct professor of American studies and English at Yale, she served as an advisor to Native American Students. She also taught as an adjunct professor at Connecticut College.
e College System.
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