Alicia Carroll

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Associate Professor , Comparative Literature
School of Humanities
Associated Faculty, Global and International Studies
School of Social Sciences
Joint appointed faculty, English
School of Humanities
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 2014, English
University of California, Irvine
243 Humanities Instructional Building
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
19th-century American literature; Native American and Indigenous literature and cultural studies; gender and sexuality studies; queer theory; feminist theory; autobiography
Appointments
University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, Davis
Department of English
2014-2016
Publications
Indiscipline: Reading Collaboratively Written Native American Autobiography. University of North Carolina Press. 2024.
"Two-Spirit Writers and Queer Native American Literature." _The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature._ Ed. Benjamin Kahan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. pp. 581-598.
“Queer Indigenous Feminism: Unsettling ‘Gender’ as a Decolonizing Methodology.” _The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West._ Ed. Susan Bernardin. New York: Routledge, 2022. pp. 349-359.
“‘Twins Twisted into One’: Recovering a Sovereign Erotic in _Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian_.” _American Quarterly_ Vol. 73, No. 1, 2021. pp. 101-122.
Review of _Authorized Agents: Publication and Diplomacy in the Era of Indian Removal_ by Frank Kelderman. _Transmotion_ Vol. 6, No. 2, 2020, 165-169.
Professional Societies
American Studies Association
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures
Last updated
05/22/2025