Dr. P. Jane Hafen
Professor Emerita of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Dr. P. Jane Hafen (Taos Pueblo) is a Professor Emerita of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is a Frances C. Allen Fellow, D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, The Newberry Library. She received the William H. Morris Teaching Award for the College of Liberal Arts, UNLV, and the UNLV Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award. She edited Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems and The Sun Dance Opera by Zitkala-Ša , co-edited The Great Plains Reader, is author of Reading Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine , and articles and book chapters about American Indian Literatures. She edited two collections of essays, Critical Insights: Louise Erdrich , andEssays on American Indian and Mormon History (co-edited with Brenden Rensink). Her critical edition “Help Indians Help Themselves”: The Later Writings of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša), was published in January 2020.