In her latest column for PMLA, editor Wai Chee Dimock highlights research and curricular initiatives in Indigenous Studies at UVA, from poetry written by Monacan women and men, the traditional custodians of the land, air, and water we use at UVA, to global programs in Maya K'iche', Asian Pacific Island language revitalization, and Native American food sovereignty. Click here to learn more about how faculty in Spanish and Latin American Studies are collaborating with researchers and students across UVA and throughout the world: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/pmla/article/refusing-extinction....
For more information on the Indigenous Studies PhD fellowship mentioned in the article, please click here: https://graduate.as.virginia.edu/indigenous-studies.
To learn more about land acknowledgements, why they matter, and how to make them meaningful, click here: https://eocr.virginia.edu/monacan.
Wai Chee Dimock, "Refusing Extinction," PMLA 136.3 (June 2021): 333-339. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1632/S0030812921000250.
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