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- Drew Lopenzina
- Assistant Professor
- English
- 5000 Batten Arts and Letters
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-3991
- alopenzi@odu.edu
- Drew Lopenzina is professor of Early American and Native American literature at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. His
work has appeared in the journals American Literature, American Quarterly, American Indian Quarterly and others. His recently
released book Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period (SUNY Press 2012) offers a rethinking of
indigenous engagements with literacy in America’s colonial milieu, detailing the manner in which Native peoples drew from
their own narrative and literary traditions as they forged interactions with western forms of literacy. He is currently working
on a biography of the nineteenth-century Pequot activist and minister William Apess.
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Research Interests
- Appropriations of Literacy amongst indigenous communities in colonial America. Early Native writers. Dynamics of contact in
colonial period.
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Books
- Lopenzina, A. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.