Michael Schrimper is a Ph.D. candidate听specializing in Native American, American, and American ethnic literatures of the 20th听century. He has taught and is equipped to teach Native American, African American, Asian American, American, and Latinx authors, as well as composition courses. He has years of experience leading workshops of both academic critical and creative writing. Schrimper holds a B.A. in English from Indiana University Bloomington and an M.F.A. in fiction from Emerson College, Boston, where he later served on the Writing, Literature & Publishing faculty and was a reader for听Ploughshares. His scholarly articles appear or are forthcoming in听Modernism/modernity;听Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory;听Journal of Modern Literature;听and elsewhere. His creative writing appears in听Chicago Quarterly Review,听Joyland, Willow Springs,听minnesota review, and others. Schrimper is a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar and a Pushcart Prize nominee.
Michael identities as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. He and his partner, an immigrant from China, have two children.
His dissertation 鈥淓xceeding Enclosure: National Parks and Indigenous Modernities鈥� argues that听Native Americans from a number of tribes harnessed the dark modernist discourses鈥攑rimitivism and ethnography鈥攚orking to artifactize them in the national parks (1864-1929) and made these discourses useful for their own ends. In Yosemite and Glacier,听the Mono Lake Paiute, Sierra Miwok, and Blackfeet both disturbed and capitalized on the parks鈥� dialectic between the timeless and the temporal, gathering in settler technologies, aesthetics, and epistemologies and so exceeding and deploying for tribal gain the parks鈥� ethnographic and primitivist depictions of Indianness.听
Recent and Forthcoming Publications:
- "Exceeding Enclosure: National Parks and Indigenous Modernities." Forthcoming,听Modernism/modernity.
- 鈥淭horeau鈥檚 Antislavery Poetry.鈥澨�Modern Language Studies (MLS), vol. 51, nos. 1 & 2, winter 2022, pp. 34-57.
- 鈥淨ueer Narrative Ecology in Margaret Fuller鈥檚 鈥楾he Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain鈥� and Virginia Woolf鈥檚 鈥楰ew Gardens.鈥欌�澨�Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory, vol. 77, no. 3, fall 2021, pp. 101-20.
Courses Taught at CU:
- ENGL 2717 Questions of Authenticity in Native American Literature (Fall 2024)
- ENGL 1270 Introduction to American Literature by Women. Rural Women's Voices (Fall 2024)
- ENGL 3830 Topics in Advanced听Writing and Research: Writing Intensive, What is America in American Ethnic Literatures (Spring 2023)
- ENGL 1800 American Ethnic Literatures: Perspectives of America. Works by Korean American, Cambodian American, Native American, and Indian American Novelists and Short Story Writers. (Spring 2023)
- ENGL 1420 From Wordsworth to Tommy Pico: Land and/in Verse (2 Sections, Fall 2022)
- ENGL 1800: Two Worlds in Native American Literatures (2 sections, Spring 2022)
- ENGL 1800: Land and Community in Native American Literatures (2 sections, Fall 2021)
- ENGL 3060: Literature of Plague and Pestilence, 1899-Present (1 section, Spring 2021)
- ENGL 1230: Literature of Race and the Environment (1 section, Fall 2020)听 听听