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Cheyfitz, Eric T.
Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters
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- Professor, English (ENGL), College of Arts and Sciences
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- David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (ACSF) Faculty Fellow
Publications
individual publications
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academic article
- Balancing the Earth: Native American Philosophies and the Environmental Crisis . Arizona Quarterly. 65:139-162. 2009
- The Corporate University, Academic Freedom, and American Exceptionalism. South Atlantic Quarterly. 108:701-722. 2009
- Framing Ward Churchill: The Political Construction of Research Misconduct. Works and Days: Academic Freedom and Intellectual Activism in the Post-9/11 University. 26 & 27:231-252. 2008
- 'What is an Indian?' Identity Politics in United States Federal Indian Law and American Indian Literatures. Ariel. 35:59-80. 2004
- A Common Emerson: Ralph Waldo in An Ethnohistorical Context. Nineteenth-Century Prose. 30:1-32. 2003
- A Common Emerson: Ralph Waldo in An Ethnohistorical Context. Nineteenth-Century Prose. 30:250-281. 2003
- The Colonial Double Bind: Sovereignty and Civil Rights in Indian Country. Journal of Constitutional Law. 5:223-240. 2003
- The Colonial Double Bind: Sovereignty and Civil Rights in Indian Country. Journal of Constitutional Law . 5:223-240. 2003
- The (Post) Colonial Predicament of Native American Studies. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. 4:405-427. 2002
- Theory and Practice: the Case of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute. Journal of Gender, Social Policy, and the Law. 10:619-632. 2002
- Theory and Practice: the Case of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute. Journal of Gender, Social Policy, and the Law. 10:619-632. 2002
- The (Post) Colonial Predicament of Native American Studies. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies . 4:405-427. 2001
- Doctrines of Discovery: The Foundation of Colonialism in Federal Indian Law. Common-Place. 2. 2001
- The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute: A Brief History. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies . 2:248-275. 2001
- The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute: A Brief History. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. 2:248-275. 2000
- What Work Is There for Us to Do?: American Literary Studies or Americas Cultural Studies?. American Literature. 67:843-853. 1995
- The Irresistibleness of Great Literature: Reconstructing Hawthorne's Politics. American Literary History. 6:539-558. 1994
- The Irresistibleness of Great Literature: Reconstructing Hawthorne's Politics. American Literary History. 6:539-558. 1994
- Matthiessen's American Renaissance: Circumscribing the Revolution. American Quarterly. 41:341-361. 1989
- Matthiessen's American Renaissance: Circumscribing the Revolution. American Quarterly. 41:341-361. 1989
- Tarzan of the Apes: American Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century. American Literary History. 1:339-360. 1989
- Tarzan of the Apes: US Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century. American Literary History. 1:339-360. 1989
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archived news feature
- Colonialism and Energy Policy in Indian Country. Indian Country Today. 24. 2005
- Federal Indian Law and the Supreme Court: Lara Revisited. Indian Country Today. 24. 2004
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article
- The case of the Cherokee freedmen: Identity politics in Indian country. Indian Country Today. 26. 2007
- The historical irony of H.R. 2824. Indian Country Today. 27. 2007
- What is an Indian?: Identity Politics in United States Federal Indian Law and American Indian Literatures. Ariel. 36:1-2. 2006
- Why not a chapter for the Navajos living on the Hopi partitioned lands?. Indian Country Today. 25. 2006
- Colonialism and energy policy in Indian country. Indian Country Today. 24. 2005
- Federal Indian law and the Supreme Court: Lara revisited. Indian Country Today. 24. 2004
- The America we know. Indian Country Today. 23. 2004
- ‘Reservation Iraq’ will be costly to the U.S.. Indian Country Today. 23. 2003
- Doctrines of Discovery: The Foundation of Colonialism in Federal Indian Law 2001
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book
- Expanded Edition of "The Poetics of Imperialism : Translation and Colonization from 'The Tempest' to 'Tarzan'". Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1997
- The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from "The Tempest" to "Tarzan” 1997
- The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from "The Tempest" to "Tarzan". New York: Oxford University Press. 1991
- The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from "The Tempest" to "Tarzan” 1991
- The Trans-Parent: Sexual Politics in the Language of Emerson 1981
- The Trans-Parent: Sexual Politics in the Language of Emerson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1981
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booksection
- The (Post) Colonial Construction of Indian Country: U. S. American Indian Literatures and Federal Indian Law 2006
- The End of Academia 2002
- Redistribution and the Transformation of American Studies 1996
- Savage Law: The Plot Against American Indians in Johnson and Graham's Lessee v. M'Intosh and The Pioneers 1993
- Foreword 1987
- Literally White, Figuratively Red: The Frontier of Translation in The Pioneers 1985
- A Hazard of New Fortunes: The Romance of Self-Realization 1982
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chapter
- Native American Identity, Legal Background. Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society. 2008
- Navajo-Hopi Relations. Encyclopedia of United States American Indian Policy, Relations, and Law. 2008
- Sovereignty (Native American). Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society. 2008
- The (Post) Colonial Construction of Indian Country: American Indian Literatures and Federal Indian Law. The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literature of the United States Since 1945. 2006
- The End of Academia. New Americanists. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press. 510-535. 2002
- Savage Law: The Plot Against American Indians in Johnson and Graham's Lessee v. M'Intosh and The Pioneers. New Americanists. Durham: Duke University Press. 109-128. 1993
- Foreword to Maurice Gonnaud's "An Uneasy Solitude: Individual and Society in the Work of Ralph Waldo Emerson". An Uneasy Solitude: Individual and Society in the Work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. vii-xviii. 1987
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review
- Dana Nelson’s National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men. 221-222. 2000
- Anthony Pagden’s European Encounters with the New World :From Renaissance to Romaticism. 541-544. 1994
- Howard Horwitz’s By the Law of Nature: Form and Value in Nineteenth-Century America and Russell B. Goodman’s American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition. 172-174. 1994
- Fred G. See's Desire and the Sign: Nineteenth-Century American Fiction. 264-268. 1988
- Terminal 1988
- "The Continent" and "Silent Movie" 1987
- Plain Song 1987
- "Who Should It Be, Me?" and "Homecoming" 1979
- "A Song from the Distance," "Hollows," "Song of the Man Afraid to Move to the Living" 1977
- "Bluebeard" 1977
- Bones & Ash 1977
- "Island Notebook" 1974
- "The Otter's Song to Us" 1972
- "The Assassins-Cycle" 1971
- For Commander Bucher and A Company, 196th Light Brigade 1971
- "The Sparrow" and "The Sparrow II" 1967
- "Passing Through" and "Before the Revolution" 1966
selected publications listing
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- Ed. The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literature of the United States Since 1945. Columbia University Press. Spring, 2006.
- "The (Post) Colonial Construction of Indian Country: American Indian Literatures and Federal Indian Law". In The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literature of the United States Since 1945 Spring 2006
- The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from "The Tempest" to "Tarzan". New York: Oxford
University Press, 1991. Selected as one of the outstanding academic books of 1991 by Choice. - Expanded edition of The Poetics of Imperialism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.
- The Trans-Parent: Sexual Politics in the Language of Emerson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981.
- "'What is an Indian?' Identity Politics in United States Federal Indian Law and American Indian Literatures." Ariel 36. 1-2 (Spring 2006)
- "Colonialsim and energy policy in Indian country." Co-authored with Marie Gladue. Indian Country Today, Vol. 24, No. 35 (Feb. 9, 2005), A3.
- "Federal Indian law and the Supreme Court: Lara revisited." Indian Country Today, Vol. 24, No. 27 (Dec. 15, 2004), A3.
- "The America We Know." Indian Country Today. Vol. 23, No. 52 (Nov. 5, 2003), A3.
- "A Common Emerson: Ralph Waldo in An Ethnohistorical Context." Nineteenth-Century Prose.Vol 30: 1/2(Spring/Fall 2003): 1-32.
- "The Colonial Double Bind: Sovereignty and Civil Rights in Indian Country." Journal of Constitutional Law Vol.5:2(January 2003), 223-240.
- "The (Post) Colonial Predicament of Native American Studies." Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 4(2002): 405-427.
- "The End of Academia." The Futures of American Studies. Eds. Donald Pease and Robyn Wiegman. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002: 510-35.
- "Theory and Practice: the Case of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute.” Journal of Gender, Social Policy, and the Law 10(2002): 619-632.
- "Doctrines of Discovery: The Foundation of Colonialism in Federal Indian Law." Common-Place www.common-place.org 2.1(2001).
- "The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute: A Brief History." Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 2(2000): 248-275.
- "The Irresistibleness of Great Literature: Reconstructing Hawthorne's Politics." American Literary History 6(1994): 539-558. This essay was translated in the Italian journal Acoma 6(1996): 4-17 as "L'irresistibilita della grande letteratura. Ricostruzioni della politica di Hawthorne."
- "Savage Law: The Plot Against American Indians in Johnson and Graham's Lessee v. M'Intosh and The Pioneers." The Cultures of United States Imperialism. Eds. Donald Pease and Amy Kaplan. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993: 109-128.
- "Tarzan of the Apes: American Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century. " American Literary History 1(1989): 339-360.
- "Matthiessen's American Renaissance: Circumscribing the Revolution." American Quarterly 41(1989): 341-361.
- Foreword to Maurice Gonnaud's An Uneasy Solitude: Individual and Society in the Work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987: vii-xviii.
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Teaching
teaching activities
- AIS-4670: Contemporary U.S. American Indian Poetry - Spring 2013
- AIS-6670: The Construction of Indian Country in Law and Literature - Spring 2013
- AMST-4670: Contemporary U.S. American Indian Poetry - Spring 2013
- AMST-6670: The Construction of Indian Country in Law and Literature - Spring 2013
- ENGL-4670: Contemporary U.S. American Indian Poetry - Spring 2013
- ENGL-4930: Honors Essay Tutorial I - Spring 2013
- ENGL-4940: Honors Essay Tutorial II - Spring 2013
- ENGL-4950: Independent Study - Spring 2013
- ENGL-6670: The Construction of Indian Country in Law and Literature - Spring 2013
- ENGL-7940: Directed Study - Spring 2013
- ENGL-7950: Group Study - Spring 2013
- AMST-3612: Colonial American Literatures - Fall 2012
- ENGL-3612: Colonial American Literatures - Fall 2012
- ENGL-4930: Honors Essay Tutorial I - Fall 2012
- ENGL-4940: Honors Essay Tutorial II - Fall 2012
- ENGL-4950: Independent Study - Fall 2012
- ENGL-7940: Directed Study - Fall 2012
- ENGL-7950: Group Study - Fall 2012
- ENGL-4930: Honors Essay Tutorial I - Spring 2012
- ENGL-4940: Honors Essay Tutorial II - Spring 2012
- ENGL-4950: Independent Study - Spring 2012
- ENGL-7940: Directed Study - Spring 2012
- ENGL-7950: Group Study - Spring 2012
- ENGL-4930: Honors Essay Tutorial I - Fall 2011
- ENGL-4940: Honors Essay Tutorial II - Fall 2011
- ENGL-4950: Independent Study - Fall 2011
- ENGL-7940: Directed Study - Fall 2011
- ENGL-7950: Group Study - Fall 2011
Service
service to the profession
- University Council Committee on Open Expression, University of Pennsylvania Member 2000 - 2003
- The Women’s Studies Program, Graduate Group in Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania Affiliated Faculty 1995 - 2003
- Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility, University of Pennsylvania Committee Member 1994 - 2003
- Urban Studies Program, Graduate Steering Committee, Graduate Group in Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania Committee Member 1994 - 2003
- African-American Studies Program, Graduate Group in Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania Affiliated Faculty 1993 - 2003
- Three tenure/promotion and two renewal committees, University of Pennsylvania Chairperson 1993 - 2003
- Advisory Board for the Center of Black Literature and Culture, Graduate Group in Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania Board Member 1995 - 2002
- Graduate Admissions Committee, University of Pennsylvania Member - 2001
- Senior search in American Literature, University of Pennsylvania Chairperson - 2001
- Graduate Group in Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania Member 1995 - 2000
- University Council Committee on Pluralism, University of Pennsylvania Committee Member 1997 - 1999
- Coordinating Committee for the Ford Foundation Project Reshaping Afro-American Studies: Transnationalism and a New Cultural Studies for the Americas Committee Member 1995 - 1998
- Graduate Executive Committee, University of Pennsylvania Member 1994 - 1996
- UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Job Placement Officer 1994 - 1996
- Undergraduate Executive Committee, University of Pennsylvania Member 1993 - 1995
- Penn/Edison project, University of Pennsylvania Member 1993 - 1994
- Commission on the Status of Women, University of Pennsylvania Member 1992 - 1993
- Dean's Advisory Council, University of Pennsylvania Member 1992 - 1993
- Dedman College Rank and Tenure Committee Committee Member - 1992
- The American Studies Program, Georgetown University Chairperson 1988 - 1990
- The American Studies Faculty, Georgetown University Member 1982 - 1990
- Graduate Faculty, Georgetown University Member 1979 - 1990
- Women's Studies Advisory Board, Georgetown University Member 1979 - 1990
- Honors English Program, Georgetown University Chairperson 1982 - 1984
Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, The Johns Hopkins University 1979
- M.A. in Comparative Literature, The Johns Hopkins University 1977
- M.A. in Creative Writing, The Johns Hopkins University 1974
awards and honors
- Penn Center for Community Partnerships Course Development Program, 2001
- Society for the Humanities, 1999
- University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation Grant, 1999
- W.K. Kellog Project to Link Intellectual Resources and Community Needs, 1998
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1995
- Newberry Library (National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship), 1993
- Choice award for one of the year's outstanding scholarly books (The Poetics of Imperialism), 1991
- Newberry Library (National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship), 1984
- Poet-in-Residence, Maryland, 1973
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college
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