Earth Perfect?: Nature, Utopia, and the Garden.

Billy J. Stratton earned a PhD in American Indian Studies from the University of Arizona, with a specialization in Native American literature and critical theory. He serves as an Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of English at the University of Denver, where he teaches courses on 20th and 21st century American and Native American literature and Indigenous studies. His broader research interests include transatlantic studies, postcolonial theory, the literature of trauma, ecocritism, and the literature of the American West. His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in Wíčazo Ša Review, Weber: The Contemporary West, Arizona Quarterly, and Rhizomes. His manuscript, Buried In Shades of Night: Contested Voices, Indian Captivity and the Legacy of King Philip’s War is forthcoming in the Fall of 2013 from the University of Arizona Press. In addition, Dr. Stratton was recently awarded a Fulbright Senior Lecturer assignment in the American Studies program at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg Germany.