Lisa Brooks

Lisa Brooks (Abenaki) is Assistant Professor of History and Literature and of Folklore and Mythology. She received her Ph.D. in English, with a minor in American Indian Studies, from Cornell University, where she was honored with the Guilford Dissertation Prize for Highest Excellence in English Prose. She has published essays in The Boundaries Between Us: Natives and Newcomers Along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest and Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective (forthcoming from University of Oklahoma Press), and wrote the “Afterword” for American Indian Literary Nationalism (University of New Mexico Press). At Harvard, she teaches courses in Native American literature, with an emphasis on historical, political, and geographic contexts. Her book The Common Pot: Indigenous Writing and the Reconstruction of Native Space in the Northeast focuses on the role of writing as a tool of social reconstruction and land reclamation in the Native northeast, and is forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press. In addition to her academic work, she also serves on the Advisory Board of Gedakina, a non-profit organization focused on indigenous cultural revitalization, educational outreach, and community wellness in northern New England.

Contact information:
- Lisa Brooks, Committee on Degrees in History & Literature
- Committee on Degrees in Folklore & Mythology