Welcome to Dr. Kimberly Wieser-Weryackwe

The English Department welcomes Dr. Kimberly Wieser-Weryackwe from the University of Oklahoma--Dr. Wieser-Weryackwe will be the spring 2024 Watson Distinguished Visiting Scholar. 

Dr. Wieser-Weryackwe will be teaching a graduate seminar on American Indian, Indigenous, and Cultural Rhetorics, will be leading some reading groups, and will be giving a public lecture on Friday, February 2, 2024 (4 pm in HUM 101), titled, "Negotiating ‘A Dark and Bloody Ground': Cherokee Rhetorics and the Land That Became Kentucky.”

Dr. Wieser-Weryackwe is Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma as well as affiliated Native Studies and Environmental Studies faculty. Her book Back to the Blanket: Recovered Rhetorics and Literacies in American Indian Studies was published by OU Press in 2017 and is part of the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas Initiative, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Dr. Wieser-Weryackwe is one of the co-authors of Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective, named one of the most important books in the field in the first decade of the 21st century by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Dr. Wieser-Weryackwe has co-edited four publications on anti-racism in rhetoric and writing studies in the academy with Drs. Ersula Ore and Christina Cedillo–-special issues of Composition Studies and Present Tense along with symposia in College Composition and Communication and in Rhetoric Review. Wieser-Weryackwe and Cedillo recently edited another special issue with Dr. Rachel Jackson of College Composition and Communication and have another special issue planned, this one of Constellations, with Dr. Ana Milena Ribero. Dr. Wieser-Weryackwe serves as one of the co-chairs for American Indian Caucus for NCTE/CCCC and as a Managing Editor at Constellations: A Cultural Rhetorics Publishing Space.