Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. is Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at the University of Montana and former Assistant Dean of Yale College and Director of the Native American Cultural Center at Yale University. He is a former Assistant Professor and Co-Chair of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Connecticut. His most recent work includes the chapters “Navajo Joe,” and “The Savage Innocents,” in Seeing Red—Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins: American Indians and Film. He is also the author of “Sherman Shoots Alexie,” in Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art. Both collections are available from Michigan State University Press.

His current book length project is Spaghetti and Sauerkraut with a Side of Frybread.  Professor Van Alst is also at work on a selected volume of the works of Stephen Graham Jones.