Considering the centrality, endurance, creativity, and variety of Native Stories in North America as well as their ongoing role in resistance, resilience, and healing.
A talk by Hertha Sweet Wong
Sunday April 26 at 1:30 pm
Fireside Room
Hertha D. Sweet Wong, UC Berkeley Professor Emerita in the Department of English and UUCB Member is author of Sending My Heart Back Across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography as well as numerous articles on Native American literature, autobiography, and environmental non-fiction, editor of Louise Erdrich’s “Love Medicine”: A Casebook and co-editor of Reckonings: Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women, and Family of Earth and Sky: Indigenous Tales of Nature from around the World. Her most recent book is Picturing Identity: Contemporary American Autobiography in Image and Text. Over the course of her career, she has served two terms as Chair of the Department of Art Practice, one term as Assistant Chair of the Department of English, and several years as Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities.
