David Treuer

  • Professor of English, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Office: (213) 821-0477

Expertise Summary

Expert on Native American culture, Indian gaming, and reservation life

Expertise

  • modern Native American reservation life
  • Indian gaming
  • popular representations of Native Americans (film, sports mascots)
  • Native American literature
  • native language revitalization

Additional Information

  • Author: Rez Life (2012); The Translation of Dr. Apelles (2006), winner of 2006 Washington Post Critics Choice Award for Fiction; The Hiawatha (2000); and Little (1996)
  • Recipient: Pushcart Prize; 1996 Minnesota Book Award; and fellowships from National Endowment for the Humanities, Bush Foundation and Guggenheim Foundation