Elizabeth Archuleta

University of Utah

Elizabeth Archuleta is a Professor in the Division of Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah, where she also serves as an affiliate faculty member at the America West Center. Her research and teaching focus on Indigenous literature, gender studies, and social justice, with a particular emphasis on Indigenous speculative fiction, American Indian women’s experiences, and the intersections of race, gender, and environmental justice. Dr. Archuleta earned her doctorate in English from Pennsylvania State University. Prior to her appointment at the University of Utah, she was an Assistant Professor in Gender Studies at Arizona State University and in the Department of English Language & Literatures at the University of New Mexico, where she was also affiliated with Native American Studies and Women Studies. Her teaching and scholarship have been recognized with numerous grants, fellowships, and awards including two Ford Foundation fellowships, teaching grants, and a Transformative Teaching Award from the University of Utah’s School for Cultural & Social Transformation. She has published book chapters on Leslie Marmon Silko, Sherman Alexie, Simon J. Ortiz, and the National Museum of the American Indian. Other publications appear in The Kenyon Review, Wíčazo Sa Review, New Mexico Historical Review, Studies in American Indian Literature, American Indian Quarterly, and UCLA School of Law Indigenous Peoples’ Journal of Law, Culture & Resistance.