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Janet Dean

Janet Dean writes and teaches about American literature, Native American literature, and literature of social and political protest. She is the author of Unconventional Politics: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and U.S. Indian Policy (2016), as well as essays, chapters, and reviews in a number of journals and collections.

Degrees Awarded

Ph D, Columbia University

M Phil, Columbia University

MA, Columbia University

BA, Colby College

Ph D, Columbia University

M Phil, Columbia University

MA, Columbia University

BA, Colby College

Selected Publications

Dean, J., Unconventional Politics: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Protesting United States Indian Policy, University of Massachusetts Press, 2016.

Dean, J., "Getting on with Things: Ojibwe Ontology and Relationality in Louise Erdrichs The Painted Drum", Studies in American Indian Literature, 2020.

Dean, J., Exild murmurings: The American Hemans and the Politics of Displacement", University of Massachusetts Press, 2018.

Dean, J., Review of Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi, A Call for Reform: The Southern California Indian Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson , ALH On-Line Review/American Literary History, 2017.

Dean, J., "Reading Lessons: Sentimental Literacy and Assimilation in Stiya: A Carlisle Indian Girl at Home and Wynema: A Child of the Forest., Layman Poupard Publishing, 2015.

Dean, J., Review essay on Christopher Hager, Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing; Barbara Hochman, Uncle Toms Cabin and the Reading Revolution; Michael Millner, Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere; Gillian Silverman, Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America, American Literature, 2014.

Dean, J., Review of Kimberly A. Williams, Imagining Russia: Making Feminist Sense of American Nationalism in U.S.-Russian Relations, Russian Journal of Communication, 2013.

Dean, J., Review of Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush, eds., Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays. , Western American Literature, 2012.

Dean, J., Reading Lessons: Sentimental Literacy and Assimilation in Stiya: A Carlisle Indian Girl at Home and Wynema: A Child of the Forest., ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 2011.

Dean, J., Review of Victoria I. Zhuravleva and Ivan I. Kurilla, eds., Russia and the United States: Mutual Representations in Textbooks, Russian Journal of Communication , 2011.

Coughlin, M.,Hasseler, T.,Dalessio, W.,Martinetti, A.,Rex, N.,Janice, O.,Walden, E.,Dean, J., Roundtable on Teaching Work as an Interdisciplinary First-Year College Seminar", Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 2010.

Dean, J., The Violence of Collection: Indian Killers Archives., Studies in American Indian Literature , 2008.

Dean, J., Persephone Goes West", Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.

Dean, J., "Nameless Outrages: Narrative Authority, Rape Rhetoric, and the Dakota Conflict of 1862", American Literature, 2005.

Dean, J., Stopping Traffic: Spectacles of Romance and Race in The Last of the Mohicans", University of Mississippi Press, 2003.

Dean, J., Gender Calamities in a Dime Western", Greenwood Press, 2002.

Dean, J., Searching for the New Western Literary Criticism , Modern Fiction Studies, 2000.

Dean, J., The Marriage Plot and National Myth in The Pioneers., Arizona Quarterly, 1997.

Dean, J., Women on the Masthead. Review of Sharon M. Harris, ed., Blue Pencils & Hidden Hands. H-Net Reviews, Humanities and Social Sciences Net On-Line,, H-Net Reviews, Humanities and Social Sciences Net On-Line, 2006.

Dean, J., Combating the Culture of Plagiarism", Bryant Faculty Network, 2002.

Dean, J., "Noble Savage", Encyclopedia Entry, 2001.

Dean, J., Review of Indigenuity: Native Craftwork and the Art of American Literature, Material Culture, 2023.

Dean, J., Review of Gretchen Cassel Eick, They Met at Wounded Knee: The Eastmans' Story, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, 2021.

Dean, J., Review essay on Amanda J. Zink, Fictions of Western American Domesticity: Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850-1950; James J. Donahue, Failed Frontiersmen: White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance (Univ. of Virginia Press, 2015), and Kevin Brtiz, Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City: Re-creating the Frontier West, American Literature, 2020.

Dean, J., EXILD MURMURINGS: "The American Hemans" and the Politics of Displacement, University of Massachusetts Press, 2018.

Dean, J., Unconventional Politics: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Protesting United States Indian Policy, University of Massachusetts Press, 2016.

Dean, J., "Getting on with Things: Ojibwe Ontology and Relationality in Louise Erdrichs The Painted Drum", Studies in American Indian Literature, 2020.

Dean, J., Exild murmurings: The American Hemans and the Politics of Displacement", University of Massachusetts Press, 2018.

Dean, J., Review of Valerie Sherer Mathes and Phil Brigandi, A Call for Reform: The Southern California Indian Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson , ALH On-Line Review/American Literary History, 2017.

Dean, J., "Reading Lessons: Sentimental Literacy and Assimilation in Stiya: A Carlisle Indian Girl at Home and Wynema: A Child of the Forest., Layman Poupard Publishing, 2015.

Dean, J., Review essay on Christopher Hager, Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing; Barbara Hochman, Uncle Toms Cabin and the Reading Revolution; Michael Millner, Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere; Gillian Silverman, Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America, American Literature, 2014.

Dean, J., Review of Kimberly A. Williams, Imagining Russia: Making Feminist Sense of American Nationalism in U.S.-Russian Relations, Russian Journal of Communication, 2013.

Dean, J., Review of Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush, eds., Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays. , Western American Literature, 2012.

Dean, J., Reading Lessons: Sentimental Literacy and Assimilation in Stiya: A Carlisle Indian Girl at Home and Wynema: A Child of the Forest., ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 2011.

Dean, J., Review of Victoria I. Zhuravleva and Ivan I. Kurilla, eds., Russia and the United States: Mutual Representations in Textbooks, Russian Journal of Communication , 2011.

Coughlin, M.,Hasseler, T.,Dalessio, W.,Martinetti, A.,Rex, N.,Janice, O.,Walden, E.,Dean, J., Roundtable on Teaching Work as an Interdisciplinary First-Year College Seminar", Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 2010.

Dean, J., The Violence of Collection: Indian Killers Archives., Studies in American Indian Literature , 2008.

Dean, J., Persephone Goes West", Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.

Dean, J., "Nameless Outrages: Narrative Authority, Rape Rhetoric, and the Dakota Conflict of 1862", American Literature, 2005.

Dean, J., Stopping Traffic: Spectacles of Romance and Race in The Last of the Mohicans", University of Mississippi Press, 2003.

Dean, J., Gender Calamities in a Dime Western", Greenwood Press, 2002.

Dean, J., Searching for the New Western Literary Criticism , Modern Fiction Studies, 2000.

Dean, J., The Marriage Plot and National Myth in The Pioneers., Arizona Quarterly, 1997.

Dean, J., Women on the Masthead. Review of Sharon M. Harris, ed., Blue Pencils & Hidden Hands. H-Net Reviews, Humanities and Social Sciences Net On-Line,, H-Net Reviews, Humanities and Social Sciences Net On-Line, 2006.

Dean, J., Combating the Culture of Plagiarism", Bryant Faculty Network, 2002.

Dean, J., "Noble Savage", Encyclopedia Entry, 2001.

Dean, J., Review of Indigenuity: Native Craftwork and the Art of American Literature, Material Culture, 2023.

Dean, J., Review of Gretchen Cassel Eick, They Met at Wounded Knee: The Eastmans' Story, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, 2021.

Dean, J., Review essay on Amanda J. Zink, Fictions of Western American Domesticity: Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850-1950; James J. Donahue, Failed Frontiersmen: White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance (Univ. of Virginia Press, 2015), and Kevin Brtiz, Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City: Re-creating the Frontier West, American Literature, 2020.

Dean, J., EXILD MURMURINGS: "The American Hemans" and the Politics of Displacement, University of Massachusetts Press, 2018.

Awards and Honors

91勛圖 Summer Stipend Award, 2024

91勛圖 Faculty Merit Award, 2023

91勛圖 Distinguished Faculty Award, 2022

91勛圖 Faculty Merit Award, 2018

91勛圖 Summer Stipend, 2018

91勛圖 Faculty Innovation Grant, 2017

91勛圖 Faculty Merit Award, 2014

91勛圖 Faculty Merit Award, 2012

91勛圖 Summer Stipend, 2012

Tomaquag Board Member of the Year, 2010

91勛圖 Learn & Serve Grant, 2009

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, 2008

91勛圖 Faculty Merit Award, 2007

Don D. Walker Essay Prize in Western American Literature, 2006

91勛圖 Faculty Merit Award, 2005

Bryant Women's Herstory Month Faculty Award, 2004

91勛圖 Faculty Merit Award, 2003

91勛圖 Summer Stipend, 2002

Kathleen Gregory Klein Award Nominee, 1999

University of South Dakota Research Enhancement Award, 1999

Bancroft Dissertation Award Nominee, 1996

91勛圖 Summer Stipend Award, 2024

91勛圖 Faculty Merit Award, 2023

91勛圖 Distinguished Faculty Award, 2022

91勛圖 Faculty Merit Award, 2018

91勛圖 Summer Stipend, 2018

91勛圖 Faculty Innovation Grant, 2017

91勛圖 Faculty Merit Award, 2014

91勛圖 Faculty Merit Award, 2012

91勛圖 Summer Stipend, 2012

Tomaquag Board Member of the Year, 2010

91勛圖 Learn & Serve Grant, 2009

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, 2008

91勛圖 Faculty Merit Award, 2007

Don D. Walker Essay Prize in Western American Literature, 2006

91勛圖 Faculty Merit Award, 2005

Bryant Women's Herstory Month Faculty Award, 2004

91勛圖 Faculty Merit Award, 2003

91勛圖 Summer Stipend, 2002

Kathleen Gregory Klein Award Nominee, 1999

University of South Dakota Research Enhancement Award, 1999

Bancroft Dissertation Award Nominee, 1996

Teaching Interests
U.S. Protest Literature and Culture, Native American Studies, American Studies, American Literary Contexts, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
U.S. Protest Literature and Culture, Native American Studies, American Studies, American Literary Contexts, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Research Interests
The Frontier in American Culture, 18th- and 19th-Century American Literature, Gender Studies, Native American Studies, American Studies, Material Culture Studies
The Frontier in American Culture, 18th- and 19th-Century American Literature, Gender Studies, Native American Studies, American Studies, Material Culture Studies
Professional Memberships

American Studies Association

Modern Literature Association

New England American Studies Association

Women's Studies Association

Association for the Study of American Indian Literature

Society for the Study of American Women Writers

Research Society for American Periodicals

Humanities Education Research Association

Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists

American Studies Association

Modern Literature Association

New England American Studies Association

Women's Studies Association

Association for the Study of American Indian Literature

Society for the Study of American Women Writers

Research Society for American Periodicals

Humanities Education Research Association

Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists