University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Elizabeth Archuleta (Yaqui/Chicana) received a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, and she has worked as an assistant professor of English at the University of New Mexico since 2002 where she specializes in contemporary American Indian literatures and serves as the pre-law advisor.  In 2004 she received an Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, and she currently mentors two Native American students who are McNair Scholars.  She has current and forthcoming articles and reference entries in Wicazo Sa Review, American Indian Quarterly, UCLA Indigenous Peoples’ Journal of Law, Culture & Resistance, American History Through Literature, 1870-1920, Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth-Century American Nature Poets, Encyclopedia of Native American Literature.