Eric Cheyfitz
Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters
Graduate Faculty Member
- Degrees
- Johns Hopkins
Ph.D. Comparative Literature - Johns Hopkins
M.A. Creative Writing - Johns Hopkins
M.A. Comparative Literature
Bio
Eric Cheyfitz is the Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell University, where he teaches American literatures, American Indian literatures and federal Indian law. In addition to three books and numerous published articles in these fields, Cheyfitz has appeared in the public sphere of newspapers, radio, documentary film, and legal proceedings involving issues of both Native rights and academic freedom. His latest book is The (Post)Colonial Construction of Indian Country: U.S. American Indian Literatures and Federal Indian Law, which appears as Part I of The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States since 1945 (2006), which he also edited. He is the director of the American Indian Program at Cornell.
Research and Teaching Interests
- American Literatures
- American Indian Literatures
- Federal Indian Law
- The Corporate University and Academic Freedom
Current Projects
- What Is A Just Society? Native American Literatures and the Limits of Capitalism’s Imagination
- The End of Academia: The Corporate University, Academic Freedom, and American Exceptionalism.