Dr. Margaret Noodin
Wisconsin, United States
Member Since: 05/04/2014
Margaret Noodin received an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Linguistics
from the University of Minnesota. She is currently a Professor at
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she also serves as the Director of
the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education. She is the author
of Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in
Anishinaabe Language and Literature and Weweni,
a collection of bilingual poems in Ojibwe and English. Her poems have been
anthologized in Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas, Poetry
Magazine, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Water Stone Review, and Yellow
Medicine Review. With her daughters, Shannon and Fionna, she is a member of
Miskwaasining Nagamojig (the Swamp Singers) a women’s hand drum group. To see
and hear current projects visit www.ojibwe.net
where she and other students and speakers of Ojibwe have created a space for
language to be shared by academics and the native community. Website: www.ojibwe.net
Twitter Username: @OjibweNet
Publications
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Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature
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Michigan State University Press (March 1, 2013)
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Weweni: Poems in Anishinaabemowin and English
,
Wayne State University Press (January 1, 2015)
Degrees
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Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from University of Minnesota (May 1990)
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Doctoral Degree in English - Linguistics from University of Minnesota (September 2001)
Genres of Interest
Creative nonfiction, Children's literature , Poetry
