Bethany Schneider

Bethany Schneider (Ph.D. Cornell) specializes in nineteenth-century American literature and culture, and American Indian literature and culture, with teaching and research interests in race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, slavery, and concepts of citizenship and belonging.   She has published articles exploring Native and non-Native understandings of landed belonging and sovereignty. Her book project, From Place to Populace: State Proliferation and Indian Removal in U.S. Literatures, 1800-1840 , explores the intellectual crises surrounding Removal in Native nations and the United States. She traces how Removal was justified and systematically enacted through insisting upon land as repeatable rather than singular, fungible rather than immobile.   This in turn redounded upon Indian and U.S. understandings of the raced and nationalized body, and upon concepts of the body politic.