Biography

Cristina Stanciu is a Professor of English and the director of the Humanities Research Center at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she launched the “On Native Ground" initiative, among others. She is the author of The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Culture, 1879-1924 (Yale University Press, 2024), the editor of the volume Our Democracy and the American Indian and Other Writings by Laura Cornelius Kellogg (Syracuse UP, 2015) and several journal special issues, including a special issue on "Indigenous Periodicals" for American Periodicals (2023, with Jill Doerfler and Oliver Scheiding). With Gary Totten, she has edited the volume Race in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom (U of Illinois P, 2024) and with Jill Doerfler and Oliver Scheiding, she has edited the volume Indigenous Media Ecologies (under review, U Nebraska P). She serves on the editorial boards of major journals such as the PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association) and NAIS (Native American and Indigenous Studies). She holds the 2023-24 Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Justice and Reconciliation at King's College, Western University in London, Ontario. Her current book project, Indigenous Education and the Literature of Residential Schools in the U.S. and Canada, is under contract with the University of Nebraska Press. Stanciu was recently elected to the advisory board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes.

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Dr. Stanciu's faculty page (VCU Department of English)