Kirby Brown

Kirby Brown is an Associate Professor of Native American Literatures in the Department of English at the University of Oregon and an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. His recently published book, Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 1907-1970 (University of Oklahoma Press), examines how four Cherokee writers variously remembered, imagined, and enacted Cherokee nationhood in the period between Oklahoma statehood in 1907 and tribal reorganization in the early 1970s.