Malea Powell, Associate Professor of American Thought and Language, will visit Syracuse University on November 13, 2002, and will give the following lecture at 1:00 p.m. in 500 Hall of Languages (the Killian Room). Professor Powell's visit is sponsored by a Vision grant awarded to Professor Monika Wadman in the Department of English with co-sponsorship from the SU Writing Program.

Professor Powell's lecture will move between stories about the theoretical and historical sites of her current scholarly work and will offer a brief analysis of a specific site--the Women's National Indian Association and the writings of Susan LaFlesche Picotte. Finally, her talk will invite the audience to consider the ways in which the work of Native scholars should/could connect to the living community which enables and prompts our presence in the academy.

Powell is an Associate Professor of American Thought & Language and a member of the American Indian Studies Program faculty at Michigan State University where she teaches first-year writing, American Indian rhetorics and literatures, history of rhetoric, and critical theory (postcolonial and postmodern emphasis). Her research focuses on examining the rhetorics of survivance used by 19th century American Indian intellectuals. She has published essays in College Composition and Communication, Paradoxa, and several critical essay collections and has presented her work at the Modern Language Association Convention, the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the Mystic Lake Native American Literature Symposium, the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, and other scholarly gatherings. Powell is the editor of SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures. She is a founding member of the National Center for the Study of Great Lakes Native American Culture--an organization dedicated to the preservation of Great Lakes indigenous history, art, and culture--and a participant in the Myaamia Project for the preservation of Miami Language and Culture (located at Miami University). In her spare time she works on applique and brick stitch beadwork projects and hopes to someday focus on Woodland beadwork traditions in her scholarship.

For more on Professor Powell, see http://www.msu.edu/~atl/faculty_staff/powell.html