Vassar College Department of English

Faculty

Professor McGlennen was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Native American Studies at Vassar College from 2006-2008, earned her PhD in Native American Studies from University of California, Davis in 2005, her MFA in Creative Writing and English from Mills in 1998, and her B.A., English and Philosophy from University of San Diego in 1994.  Her research interests include Native American literature, contemporary poetry, Native American women and urban experiences, Native American critical theory and feminisms, and poetry writing.  Her poetry collection, Like Fried Fish and Flour Biscuits, is forthcoming from the Earthworks series, Salt Publishing.  Recent critical publications include ”Diane Glancy’s Creative/Critical Poetics” in Salt’s Companion to Diane Glancy; “Re-Waging the Battles: Native American Women’s Poetry and the Re-interpretation of War” in Birthed From Scorched Hearts: Women Respond to War; “Ignatia Broker’s Lived-Feminism: Toward a Native Women’s Theory” in Stories Through Theories / Theories Through Stories: Native American Storytelling and Critique.  Her poems have appeared in Sentence, Yellow Medicine Review, Studies in American Indian Literatures, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, To Topos Poetry International: Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry, Shenandoah: The Washington & Lee University Review, Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal, Santa Clara Review, and Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing.  Her critical manuscript, It is Evidence of Faith to Create: Spirituality and (R)evolution in Native American Women’s Poetry, is presently in review.  She is on the editorial board for Studies in American Indian Literatures.