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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 Erdrich鈥檚 The Painted Drum", Studies in American Indian Literature, 2020.

Dean, J., 鈥溾楨xil鈥檇 murmurings鈥: 鈥楾he American Hemans鈥 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.鈥, Layman Poupard Publishing, 2015.

Dean, J., Review essay on Christopher Hager, Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing; Barbara Hochman, Uncle Tom鈥檚 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., 鈥淩eading Lessons: Sentimental Literacy and Assimilation in Stiya: A Carlisle Indian Girl at Home and Wynema: A Child of the Forest.鈥, 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., 鈥淩oundtable on Teaching 鈥榃ork鈥 as an Interdisciplinary First-Year College Seminar", Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 2010.

Dean, J., 鈥淭he Violence of Collection: Indian Killer鈥檚 Archives.鈥, Studies in American Indian Literature , 2008.

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

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

Dean, J., 鈥淪earching for the New Western Literary Criticism鈥 , Modern Fiction Studies, 2000.

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

Dean, J., 鈥淲omen on the Masthead.鈥 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., 鈥淐ombating 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., 鈥淓XIL鈥橠 MURMURINGS鈥: "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 Erdrich鈥檚 The Painted Drum", Studies in American Indian Literature, 2020.

Dean, J., 鈥溾楨xil鈥檇 murmurings鈥: 鈥楾he American Hemans鈥 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.鈥, Layman Poupard Publishing, 2015.

Dean, J., Review essay on Christopher Hager, Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing; Barbara Hochman, Uncle Tom鈥檚 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., 鈥淩eading Lessons: Sentimental Literacy and Assimilation in Stiya: A Carlisle Indian Girl at Home and Wynema: A Child of the Forest.鈥, 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., 鈥淩oundtable on Teaching 鈥榃ork鈥 as an Interdisciplinary First-Year College Seminar", Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 2010.

Dean, J., 鈥淭he Violence of Collection: Indian Killer鈥檚 Archives.鈥, Studies in American Indian Literature , 2008.

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

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

Dean, J., 鈥淪earching for the New Western Literary Criticism鈥 , Modern Fiction Studies, 2000.

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

Dean, J., 鈥淲omen on the Masthead.鈥 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., 鈥淐ombating 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., 鈥淓XIL鈥橠 MURMURINGS鈥: "The American Hemans" and the Politics of Displacement, University of Massachusetts Press, 2018.

Awards and Honors

糖心传媒 Summer Stipend Award, 2024

糖心传媒 Faculty Merit Award, 2023

糖心传媒 Distinguished Faculty Award, 2022

糖心传媒 Faculty Merit Award, 2018

糖心传媒 Summer Stipend, 2018

糖心传媒 Faculty Innovation Grant, 2017

糖心传媒 Faculty Merit Award, 2014

糖心传媒 Faculty Merit Award, 2012

糖心传媒 Summer Stipend, 2012

Tomaquag Board Member of the Year, 2010

糖心传媒 Learn & Serve Grant, 2009

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, 2008

糖心传媒 Faculty Merit Award, 2007

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

糖心传媒 Faculty Merit Award, 2005

Bryant Women's Herstory Month Faculty Award, 2004

糖心传媒 Faculty Merit Award, 2003

糖心传媒 Summer Stipend, 2002

Kathleen Gregory Klein Award Nominee, 1999

University of South Dakota Research Enhancement Award, 1999

Bancroft Dissertation Award Nominee, 1996

糖心传媒 Summer Stipend Award, 2024

糖心传媒 Faculty Merit Award, 2023

糖心传媒 Distinguished Faculty Award, 2022

糖心传媒 Faculty Merit Award, 2018

糖心传媒 Summer Stipend, 2018

糖心传媒 Faculty Innovation Grant, 2017

糖心传媒 Faculty Merit Award, 2014

糖心传媒 Faculty Merit Award, 2012

糖心传媒 Summer Stipend, 2012

Tomaquag Board Member of the Year, 2010

糖心传媒 Learn & Serve Grant, 2009

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, 2008

糖心传媒 Faculty Merit Award, 2007

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

糖心传媒 Faculty Merit Award, 2005

Bryant Women's Herstory Month Faculty Award, 2004

糖心传媒 Faculty Merit Award, 2003

糖心传媒 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