Indian? Fiction? Indian fiction? : communicating culture between reservation and non-reservation realities in contemporary Indian literature

Judit Szathmári

Judit Szathmári, Assistant Professor at the Department of American Studies at Károly Eszterházy College in Eger, received her doctorate in literature at Debrecen University. As a Fulbright visiting researcher she did research at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and the Anthropology Department of the Milwaukee Public Museum. Her doctoral thesis was a case study of the establishment of the Milwaukee Indian Community School. Her research interests include American Indian literature and culture, multiculturalism and postethnicity, and Indian policy. She is working on a larger project on 20th century Indian policy. Currently she teaches courses on 19th- and 20th-century American literature, ethnic studies, and American Indian cultures and literatures. Email: szathmarijudit@gmail.com