Keynote speakers for the 2010 conference will be announced soon.

Dr. Shari Huhndorf is an Associate Professor of English and former Director of the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Oregon. She teaches courses on Native American literature and film as well as comparative ethnic studies and is the author of Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination. For more information, please read Dr. Huhndorf’s homepage, or this article published in ADN.

Dr. Richard Miller is the chair of English at Rutgers University and the Executive Director of the Plangere Writing Center. He is the author of As if Learning Mattered: Reforming Higher Education (Cornell University Press, 1998) and Writing at the End of the World (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005).

Dr. Paul D. Hammond is the Director of Digital Initiatives at the Rutgers University English Department and is interested in developing participatory, collaborative curricula for new media research and teaching across the humanities disciplines, which includes designing next generation teaching and learning spaces. For more information, please watch the following YouTube videos which display Dr. Hammond and Dr. Miller’s innovative work:  

Writers House.
Worlds End, Worlds Begin: The Future of the Humanities Pt. 1
Worlds End, Worlds Begin: The Future of the Humanities Pt. 2