Where the Far North Meets the Southwest

Dr. Alex Hunt, Director of the Center for the Study of the American West and West Texas A&M’s Vincent/Haley Professor of Western Studies, will give a guest lecture on Western American studies, climate work, and the fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko. Silko is a writer of Laguna Pueblo, Mexican, and white descent who has published several novels and books of poetry and was awarded a MacArthur “genius” grant. She lived in Ketchikan and spent time in Bethel. Hunt will focus on Alaska's prominence in her work.