Annalyssa Gypsy Murphy, associate professor of history at North Shore Community College, Danvers, Mass., will present "Dissent Along the Borders of the Fourth World: Native American Writings as Social Protest," on Friday, March 26, at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Union Mandan room. The presentation is part of the NDSU Department of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies Colloquium.

By creating a paradigm for understanding Indigenous people as Fourth World and situating American Indian literature within that framework as being social protest writing, Murphy's dissertation joins the growing body of Indigenous literary analysis that seeks to further “intellectual sovereignty.” In her presentation, Murphy will discuss her dissertation and explore the meanings of survivance and communitism as forms of literary activism and how they are manifested in Indigenous literature and shape a tradition of literary resistance.

Her dissertation focuses on literature by Indigenous women as that offers a gendered view of Fourth World colonization illuminating both colonial occupation and distinctive forms of Indigenous cultural resistance. Indigenous interpretive frameworks, such as her Fourth World model also open possibilities for re-framing knowledge and experience in other disciplines, as well.

Murphy earned a doctorate from Clark University in Massachusetts, bachelor's and master's degrees from Hamline University and an associate's degree from Century College. She is an interdisciplinary scholar and has been a visiting professor of ethnic studies, political science, women's studies and sociology at several colleges and universities.

For more information, contact Dennis Cooley at 1-7038 or dennis.cooley@ndsu.edu .