Billy J. Stratton

Billy J. Stratton teaches contemporary American/Native American literature, critical theory, and film studies and is the author of two books, the latest an edited companion on works by Stephen Graham Jones. He has published numerous scholarly articles on contemporary fiction and poetics focused on the works of writers such as Stephen Graham Jones, Gerald Vizenor, Cormac McCarthy, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Laura Tohe, and James Welch. These have been published in venues such as Oxford University Press, Wiley, and Routledge, as well as Arizona Quarterly, Transmotion, Weber, Rhizomes, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Journal of American Culture, and Red Ink. He has also published cultural criticism, commentary, and short fiction on the intersection of film, popular culture, American society, and history in Time, Salon, The Hill, Hollywood Progressive, Cream City Review, and Big Muddy, among others.