Melanie TaylorMelanie Benson Taylor is Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. She is Executive Editor of Native South. She is author of The Indian in American Southern Literature, Reconstructing the Native South: Aerican Indian Literature and the Lost Cause, and Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1919-2002. Her edited volumes include The Cambridge Companion to the Native American Novel, The Cambridge History of Native American Literature, and, with Andrew Garrod and Robert Kilkenny, I Am Where I Come From: Native American College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories. Read More Read Less