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Research Interests / Recherches

Deborah Madsen completed her undergraduate and Master's degrees in English at the AV短视频 of Adelaide in South Australia; she was awarded a prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship to undertake doctoral studies at the AV短视频 of Sussex in England. Before becoming Professor of American Literature and Culture at Geneva, she was Reader in English and Director of American Studies at the AV短视频 of Leicester, then Professor of English at London South Bank AV短视频. She has held visiting appointments at the Universities of Adelaide, Bern, Fribourg, and Cambridge.

Her research focuses on issues of settler-colonialism, Indigeneity, and nationalism, exemplified by her work on American Exceptionalism and the white supremacist ideology of Manifest Destiny. She is an Associate Editor of the journal Contemporary Women鈥檚 Writing (Oxford AV短视频 Press), immediate past President of the Swiss Association for North American Studies (SANAS), and has served on the Editorial Board of the Encyclopedia of American Studies (published by Johns Hopkins AV短视频 Press for the American Studies Association), as well as the Editorial Advisory Committee of PMLA.

Her current research project, 鈥淒igital Narratology: Decolonizing Strategies in Indigenous Virtual Media,鈥� engages close textual analyses of Native North American interactive digital media in the context of critical Indigenous studies.

Supervision

Proposals from prospective PhD students are invited in the following areas: comparative Indigenous and settler-colonial studies; eco-feminism; narratological approaches to digital media.

Publications

Selection of Books and Monographs / S茅lection de livres et monographies

(ed.) The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature (New York & London: Routledge, 2015).

(ed.) The Poetry and Poetics of Gerald Vizenor (Albuquerque: AV短视频 of New Mexico Press, 2012).

(ed.) Louise Erdrich. Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction (London: Continuum, 2011).

(ed. with Mario Klarer) The Visual Culture of Modernism. SPELL 26. Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature. (T眉bingen: Gunter Narr, 2011).

(ed. with A. Robert Lee) Gerald Vizenor: Texts and Contexts. (Albuquerque: AV短视频 of New Mexico Press, 2010).

(ed.) Native Authenticity: Transatlantic Approaches to Native American Literatures (Albany: SUNY Press, 2010).

(ed. with Andrea Riemenschnitter) Diasporic Histories: Cultural Archives of Chinese Transnationalism (Hong Kong: Hong Kong AV短视频 Press, 2009).

Understanding Gerald Vizenor (Columbia: AV短视频 of South Carolina Press, 2009).

(ed. with Michael Hanrahan) Teaching, Technology and Textuality: Approaches to New Media (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

(ed.) Asian American Writers Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 312 (Detroit: Gale Group, 2005).

Feminist Theory and Literary Practice (London: Pluto Press, 2000);听Chinese edition, ed. Jin Li (Beijing Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2006).

American Exceptionalism (Edinburgh & London: Edinburgh AV短视频 Press; Jackson, MS: AV短视频 of Mississippi Press, 1998).

Allegory in America: From Puritanism to Postmodernism (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1996).

Rereading Allegory: A Narrative Approach to Genre (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994).

The Postmodernist Allegories of Thomas Pynchon (London & Leicester: Leicester AV短视频 Press; New York: St Martin鈥檚 Press, 1991). Excerpts reprinted in Harold Bloom (ed.), Thomas Pynchon (New York: Chelsea House, 2003).

Selected Articles and Chapters / S茅lection d'articles et de chapitres

鈥淎mbiguity.鈥� In Thomas Pynchon in Context. Ed. Inger H. Dalsgaard. Cambridge: Cambridge AV短视频 Press, 2019. 298-306.

鈥淚ndigenizing the Internet.鈥� In The Cambridge History of Native American Literature. Ed. Melanie B. Taylor. New York: Cambridge AV短视频 Press, 2020. 481-500.

鈥淭he Exceptional Power of the Dead in Heid Erdrich's National Monuments.鈥� In Enduring Critical Poses: 听听听听听听听听听听 The Legacy and Life of Anishinaabe Literature and Letters. Ed. Gordon Henry Jr., Margaret Noodin, & David Stirrup. Albany: State AV短视频 of New York Press, 2021. 149-75.

鈥�'Communitism' in Aktion: Indigene Gemeinschaft, dekolonialer Aktivismus und Videospiel-Narrativ in Kisima Ingitchuna (Never Alone)鈥� [鈥�'Communitism' in Action: Indigenous Community, Decolonizing Activism, and Video Game Narrative in Kisima Ingitchuna (Never Alone)鈥漖 trans. Andreas Fliedner. Subjektivit盲t und Fremdheit in demokratischen Gemeinschaften: Beitr盲ge am Schnittpunkt von Literatur und Politischer Philosophie [Subjectivity and Foreignness in Democratic Communities: Contributions on the Interface between Literature and Political Philosophy], ed. Michael Festl & Philipp Schweighauser. 听(Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2018), pp. 257-83.

鈥淭he Mechanics of Survivance in Indigenously-Determined Video-Games: Invaders and Never Alone.鈥� Transmotion: A Journal of Indigenous Studies, 3.2 (2017), pp. 79-110.

鈥淟eslie Marmon Silko.鈥� In Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Ed. Jackson Bryer. New York: Oxford AV短视频 Press, 27 June 2018. DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199827251-0174.听

鈥淪ilko, Freud, and the Voicing of Disavowed Histories,鈥� Leslie Marmon Silko, ed. David Moore. Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction (London: Bloomsbury, 2016), pp. 133-52.

鈥淒iscontinuous Narrative, Ojibwe Sovereignty, and the Wiindigoo Logic of Settler Colonialism: Louise Erdrich's Marn Wolde.鈥� Studies in American Indian Literatures, 28.3 (Fall 2016), pp. 23-51.

鈥淭he Sovereignty of Transmotion in a State of Exception: Lessons from the Internment of 'Praying Indians' on Deer Island, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1675-1676.鈥� Transmotion: A Journal of Indigenous Studies, 1. 1 (2015), pp. 23-47. https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/article/view/113/570

鈥淥ver Her Dead Body: Talking About Violence Against Women in Recent Chicana Writing,鈥� in The Intimate and the Extimate: Violence and Gender in the Globalized World, ed. Sanja Bahun-Radunovic and V.G. Julie Rajan, 2nd听ed. (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2015), pp. 255-69.

鈥淭he Contexts of Native. American. Literature.鈥� The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature, ed. Deborah L. Madsen (New York & London: Routledge, 2015), pp.1-12.

鈥淗uman Exceptionalism: Vizenor's Autogrammatological Critique of Ecologocentrism,鈥� in Ecology and Life Writing, ed. Alfred Hornung & Zhao Baisheng (Heidelberg: Winter, 2013), pp. 123-142.

鈥淭he Rhetoric of Double Allegiance: Imagined Communities in North American Diasporic Chinese Literatures,鈥� Ranan: recherches anglaises et nord am茅ricaines, special issue: Imagined Communities, Recuperated Homelands: Rethinking American and Canadian Minority and Exilic Writing, ed. Monica Manolescu & Charlotte Sturgess, 46 (2013), pp. 29-44.

鈥淎lterity,鈥� in The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon, ed. Inger Dalsgaard, Luc Herman & Brian McHale (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge AV短视频 Press, 2012), pp. 146-155.

鈥淲itch-Hunting: American Exceptionalism and Global Terrorism,鈥� in American Exceptionalisms: From Winthrop to Winfrey, ed. Sylvia Soderlind & James Taylor Carson (Albany: SUNY Press, 2011), pp. 15-29.

鈥淭he Making of (Native) Americans: Suturing and Citizenship in the Scene of Education,鈥� Parallax, special issue: Contours of Learning: On Spivak, 17. 3 (2011), pp. 32-45.

鈥淥ut of the Melting Pot, Into the Nationalist Fires: Native American Literary Studies in Europe,鈥� American Indian Quarterly, 35. 3 (Summer 2011), pp. 353-371.

鈥淨ueering Cultural China: Performing Nation Through the Feminine Body,鈥� Textual Practice, 25. 4 (August 2011), pp. 671-87.

鈥淟ouise Erdrich: The Aesthetics of Mino Bimaadiziwin,鈥� in Louise Erdrich, ed. Deborah L. Madsen (London: Continuum, 2011), pp. 1-14.

鈥淔rom Colony to Republic: Building the American Nation,鈥� in Reading the Nation in English Literature, ed. Elizabeth Sauer & Julia Wright (London & New York: Routledge, 2010), pp. 175-85.

鈥淲riting in the Fourth Person: A Lacanian Reading of Vizenor鈥檚 Pronouns,鈥� in Gerald Vizenor: Texts and Contexts, ed. Deborah L. Madsen & A. Robert Lee (Albuquerque: AV短视频 of New Mexico Press, 2010), pp.130-151.

鈥淎merican Allegory,鈥� in The Cambridge Companion to Allegory, ed. Rita Copeland and Peter Struck (Cambridge: Cambridge AV短视频 Press, 2010), pp. 229-40.

鈥淭he West and Manifest Destiny,鈥� in Blackwell Companion to American Studies, ed. John Carlos Rowe (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010), pp. 369-86.

鈥淭eaching Trauma: (Neo-)Slave Narratives and Cultural (Re-)Memory,鈥� in Teaching African American Women's Writing, ed. Gina Wisker (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 60-74.

鈥淭ravels in the Body: Technologies of Waste in Chinese Diaspora,鈥� in China听 Abroad: Travel, Spaces, Subjects, ed. Elaine Yee Lin Ho & Julia Kuehn听 (Hong Kong: Hong Kong AV短视频 Press, 2009).

鈥淥n Subjectivity and Survivance:听 Rereading Trauma Through The Heirs of Columbus and The Crown of Columbus," in Survivance: Narratives听 of Native Presence,听 ed. Gerald Vizenor (Lincoln: AV短视频 of Nebraska Press, 2008), pp. 67-81.

鈥淭homas Pynchon and the Tradition of American Quest Romance," in Thomas Schaub (ed.), Approaches to Teaching Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Other Works (New York: MLA, 2008), pp. 25-30.

鈥淣o Place Like Home: The Ambivalent Rhetoric of Hospitality in the Work of Simone Lazaroo, Arlene Chai, and Hsu-Ming Teo,鈥� Journal of Intercultural Studies 27. 1-2 (Feb-May, 2006), pp. 117-32.

鈥淭ranscendence through Violence: Women and the Martial Arts Motif in Recent American Fiction and Film,鈥� Essays and Studies, ed. David Seed (Cambridge: Brewer, 2005), pp. 163-80. Italian translation by Federica Giardini, 鈥淭rascendenza e violenza. Donne e arti marziali nei film americani,鈥� DWF: Donna woman femme, 82. 2 (2009), pp.18-24.

鈥淗awthorne鈥檚 Puritans: From Fact to Fiction,鈥� Journal of American Studies, 33. 3 (1999), pp. 509-517.

鈥淔amily Legacies: Identifying the Traces of William Pynchon in Gravity鈥檚 Rainbow,鈥� Pynchon Notes, 42-43 (Spring-Fall, 1998), pp. 29-48.

鈥淯sing Hypercard to Teach Contemporary Critical and Cultural Theory,鈥� in Randy Bass & Jeff Finlay (eds.), So What Can I Do With It: A Practical Guide for Using Technology in Teaching American Culture (American Studies Association, Crossroads Project).

鈥�(Dis)figuration: The Body as Icon in the Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston,鈥� The Yearbook of English Studies, vol.24 (1994), pp.237-50.

鈥淭he Sword or the Scroll: The Power of Rhetoric in Colonial New England,鈥� American Studies, vol.33 no.1 (Spring 1992), pp.45-61. Winner of the 1993 Stone-Suderman Prize awarded by the Mid-America American Studies Association.

鈥溾�楢 for Abolition鈥�: Hawthorne鈥檚 Bond-servant and the Shadow of Slavery,鈥� Journal of American Studies, vol.25 no.2 (August 1991), pp.255-59.

鈥淭he Romance of the New World,鈥� Journal of American Studies, vol.24 no.1 (April 1990), pp.99-108.

鈥淗awthorne鈥檚 Post-Platonic Paradise: The Inversion of Allegory in 鈥楻appaccini鈥檚 Daughter,鈥� 鈥� The Journal of Narrative Technique, vol.18 no.2 (Spring 1988), pp.153-169.

鈥淭he Paradox of the Transcendental Trope: Intertextuality or the Allegory of Giles Goat-Boy,鈥� Southern Review: Literary and Interdisciplinary Essays, vol.20 no.3 (November 1987), pp.240-257.

Forthcoming / A para卯tre

with Bryn Skibo. 鈥淚ndigeneity.鈥� In The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction. Ed. Stephen Burn, Lesley Larkin & Patrick O'Donnell. New York & Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. In press.

鈥淎merican Allegory.鈥� In The Oxford Handbook of Allegory. Ed. David Parry. Oxford: Oxford AV短视频 Press.

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