Bethany Schneider

Department/Subdepartment
Education
Ph.D., Cornell University.
M.A., Cornell University.
B.A., Oberlin College.
Areas of Focus
Nineteenth-Century American literatures and cultures; American Indian literatures and cultures
Biography
Bethany Schneider specializes in nineteenth-century American literatures with teaching and research interests in American Indian studies, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, slavery, childhood and concepts of citizenship and belonging. Her published and forthcoming essays include: “The Consummate Hermaphrodite,†“Thus, Always: Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln;†“’Not for Citation: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft’s Strategies of Synchronic Presence;†“Oklahobo: Following Craig Womack’s Native American Queer Studies;†and “Boudinot’s Change: Boudinot, Emerson and Ross on Cherokee Removal.â€
Writing as Bee Ridgway, she is the author of The River of No Return, published in 2013. For more about Bee Ridgway and The River of No Return:
Courses Taught:
204: Literature of American Expansion
254: Subjects and Citizens
268: Native Soil
270: American Girl
309: Native American Literature
330: Writing Indians
359: Dead Presidents