Billy J. Stratton
- Professor of English and Literary Arts, University of Denver
Dr. Billy J. Stratton is a professor in the Department of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver where he teaches contemporary Native American and American literature, poetics, film studies, and writing. His critical, creative, and editorial work focuses on contemporary American literature and culture and Native/Indigenous literary studies. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous books and journals including Oxford University Press, Arizona Quarterly, The Journal of American Culture, Wicazo-Sa Review, Studies in American Indian Literature, Rhizomes, Salon, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Hill, and TIME.
Stratton's first book, 'Buried in Shades of Night' (2013), addresses Indigenous experiences within the context of the Indian captivity narrative genre, King Philip's War, and colonial American history. His latest projects include studies of the work of Stephen Graham Jones and Indigenous horror, while his edited critical collection on Jones is available from the University of New Mexico Press (2016). He's also written numerous articles on contemporary film and literature, with a focus on horror, sci-fi, and AI as well as creative work set in Appalachian coal country--including the story, "The Sound of Coal" published in Big Muddy, "Mending the Centaur" with Cream City Review, and "The Rooted Place," River and South Review.
He has been instrumental in efforts to create greater understanding at DU around the issue of the Sand Creek Massacre, and has edited and published numerous works in consultation with Cheyenne and Arapaho representatives on this theme. As a function of such work he also serves as the Cheyenne and Arapaho Sand Creek descendant's chosen liaison at the University of Denver.
Experience- 2024–present Professor, University of Denver 2016–2024 Associate professor, University of Denver
- 2008 University of Arizona, PhD American Indian Studies, English Minor 2002 Miami University, BA English and Philosophy
- 2019 Captivity Narratives, Oxford University Press 2019 Transnational Narratives of Conflict and Empire, the Literary Art of Survivance in the Fiction of Gerald Vizenor, Transmotion 2018 In the Habitations of Specters: On Stephen Graham Jones' Mapping the Interior, Los Angeles Review of Books 2018 Eastern Kentucky in Four Figures, Wraparound South 2016 "The Sand Creek Massacre Took Place More Than 150 Years Ago. It Still Matters", TIME 2016 "Remembering U.S. Soldiers Who Refused to Kill Native Americans at Sand Creek", US News & World Report 2016 A Critical Companion to the Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones, University of New Mexico Press 2015 “'Carried in the Arms of Standing Waves:' The Transmotional Aesthetics of Nora Marks Dauenhauer”, Transmotion 2015 Chapter:“'You have liberty to return to your own country:' Tecumseh, Myth and the Mediation of Native Sovereignty”, Mediating Indianness 2015 Chapter:“Reading Through Peoplehood: Towards a Culturally Responsive Approach to Native American Literature and Oral Tradition”, Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Indigenous Studies: Native North America in (Trans)motion 2015 “Evocations of Survivance: Native Storiers in Word and Image in Remembrance of Sand Creek”, Common-place: The Journal of Early American Life 2014 Our Thanksgiving Responsibility: Native Americans, Honest History and the Simple Power of Remembrance", Salon 2014 “Everything depends on reaching the coast:” Inscriptions of Placelessness in John Hillcoat's adaptation of The Road”, Arizona Quarterly 2013 “'A Reservation Hero is a Hero Forever:' Basketball, Irony, and Humor in the Novels of James Welch, Sherman Alexie, and Stephen Graham Jones”, Native Games: Indigenous Peoples and Sports in the Post-Colonial World 2013 Buried in Shades of Night: Contested Voices, Indian Captivity, and the Legacy of King Philip's War, University of Arizona Press 2012 “Deterritorialization, Pure War, and the Consequences of Indian Captivity in Transnational Colonial Discourse”, Rhizomes 2011 “'el brujo es un coyote:' Taxonomies of Trauma in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian”, Arizona Quarterly
- Modern Language Association Western Literature Association
Fulbright Scholars Program Alumni
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