Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative

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Mark Cladis

Brooke Russell Astor Professor of Humanities, Chair of the Department of Religious Studies
Mark_Cladis@brown.edu
Shirley Miller House, Room 104
Research Profile

Biography

Mark Cladis's research and teaching pertains to religion, environmental justice, and Indigenous ecologies. His NAIS related courses include "Indigenous Ecologies" and “Religion Gone Wild" (which has a 4-week section focused on North American and Australian Indigenous spiritual/cultural perspectives on the nexus between the human and the more-than-human).

Publications

“The Black Ecofeminist Storytelling of Zora Neale Hurston,” Resistance: A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities (forthcoming)

“The World In Ruins: Wordsworth, Du Bois, and Silko,” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (forthcoming)

“Leslie Silko: Nuclear Landscapes, Environmental Catastrophe, and the Power of Indigenous Storytelling,” Ecokritike 1 (2024): 35-58

“Dancing on a Flaming World: Du Bois’ Religiously Inflected Poetry and Creative Fiction,” Journal of the Academy of Religion 91 (2023): 408–429 https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfad078)

Teaching

Indigenous Ecologies, (RELS 0090) FA

Religion Gone Wild, (RELS 0260) SP