Michelle H. Raheja
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Michelle H. Raheja, Assistant Professor of English, College
of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Office: Humanities and Social Sciences 2006
Phone: (909) 787-5301 x11799
michelle.raheja@ucr.edu
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Degrees
Ph.D. English 2002 University of Chicago
M.A. English 1994 University of Chicago
B.A. English 1993 University of Chicago
Awards
Resident Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society (Fall 2002)
Research Areas
Native American Studies
Biography
Michelle Raheja (Seneca), works in Native American literature,
with a special interest in autobiography and film. Her book
project, entitled "Screening Identity: Beads, Buckskins,
and Redface in Autobiography and Film" explores the history
of filmic representations of Native Americans through the
personal narratives and visual aesthetics of indigenous actors
and entertainers. Other current projects include an essay
on contemporary First Nations film and an essay on Native
American representations in silent film. Professor Raheja's
training and teaching cover all periods and genres of American
literature up to the present, with a special emphasis on early
colonial literature, autobiography, multi-ethnic literature,
and film and visual culture.
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