Faculty Member, English
Associate Professor of English
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
About
Eric Gary Anderson's areas of interest include American Indian literatures, U.S. and global Southern Studies, American fiction from the beginnings to the 21st century, multiethnic American literatures, and teaching all of the above and more. He is the author of American Indian Literature and the Southwest: Contexts and Dispositions (U of Texas P, 1999) as well as chapters in a variety of books including Faulkner and the Ecology of the South, Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry, and South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture. His article "Black Atlanta: An Eco-Social Approach to Atlanta Child Murder Narratives" appears in PMLA (the Cities issue, January 2007). Other recent and forthcoming work includes "Indian Agency: Life of Black Hawk and the Countercolonial Provocations of Early Native American Writing" (in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance), "South to a Red Place: Contemporary American Indian Literature and the Problem of Native/Southern Studies" (in Mississippi Quarterly), and "Demon Theory for Beginners, or, The Intertextual Badlands of Stephen Graham Jones" (in a book dedicated to broadening the Indigenous literary canon). Currently he is working on his next book, On Native Southern Ground. Born and raised in Middlesex Borough, New Jersey, he took his Ph.D. from Rutgers (The State University of New Jersey) in 1994 and has taught at Rutgers, Oklahoma State University, and, beginning in 2004, George Mason. At Mason, he coordinates the 200-level General Education literature curriculum, serves as contact person for the new American Literature undergraduate concentration, and directs the new interdisciplinary minor in Native American and Indigenous Studies.
Contact Information
http://mason.gmu.edu/~eandersd/
Department of English (MS 3E4)
George Mason University
4400 University Blvd.
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
