Melanie Benson Taylor

Melanie Benson Taylor is Professor of Native American studies at Dartmouth College, where she teaches courses in American, US southern, and Indigenous literature and film. She is the author of Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 (2008), Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause (2012), and a new monograph called The Indian in American Southern Literature (2020). She is Executive Editor of Native...See more

Melanie Benson Taylor is Professor of Native American studies at Dartmouth College, where she teaches courses in American, US southern, and Indigenous literature and film. She is the author of Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 (2008), Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause (2012), and a new monograph called The Indian in American Southern Literature (2020). She is Executive Editor of Native South, and serves on the advisory boards of south: a scholarly journal, The Faulkner Journal, and the Digital Yoknapatawpha project. See less