American Indian Literature, Oklahoma University Press, 1979.  Revised edition, 1991.

    Structural Semantics, translated with Daniele McDowell and Ronald Schleifer, University of Nebraska Press, 1983.

    The Lightning Within, University of Nebraska Press, 1991.

   Native American Perspectives on Literature and History, The University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

     ARTICLES:

     "Aztekisches Erzahlgut," Enzyklopadie des Marchens, Vol. 1, 1976.

      "Shakespeare's Use of Folktale in The Merchant of Venice," Fabula, (16:2), 1975.

      "The Dragon Killer, the Wild Man, and Hal," Fabula, (17:3), 1976.

     "Cain and Abel in N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn," Journal of the West, (17:2), 1978, reprinted  in The Chelsea House Library of      Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century American Literature,  vol. 5.

     "James Welch's Winter in the Blood as Comic Novel," American Indian Quarterly, (2:4), 1978.

     "The Poetry of James Welch," American Indian Culture and Research Journal, (3:1), 1979.

     Sadly the Poor Wretch Comes Reading," Oklahoma English Teaching and Research Journal, Winter 1982, reprinted Journal of Foreign         Languages, Fall, 1992.

    "Indians in Indian Fiction: The Shadow of the Trickster," American Indian Quarterly, (8:4), 1984.

    "Structuralism in Ardmore, an Educational Experiment," Oklahoma English Journal, Summer, 1984.

  "Genre and Structure: Towards an Actantial Analysis of Narrative Genres," with Ronald Schleifer, MLN, Vol. 102, Winter 1987.

   "Gerald Vizenor's Indian Gothic," MELUS, (17:1), Spring 1991-1992, pp. 75-85.

   "American Indian Literature in the Nineties:  The Emergence of the Middle Class Protagonist," World Literature Today, (66:2),  Spring 1992, pp.   264-269.

  "The Indian Historical Novel," Genre, 391‑406, Winter 1992. Reprinted in Native American Perspectives on Literature and History.            

   Introduction to Gerald Vizenor's Griever, The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology, Ishmael Reed et al, Norton, NY, 1992.

  "The Return of the Native: The Renaissance of Tribal Religions as Reflected in the Fiction of N. Scott Momaday." Religion and Literature,              135-145, Spring 1994

  N. Scott Momaday," Dictionary of Literary Biography," Detroit: Gale,159-170, 1994.

"Gerald Vizenor," in Dictionary of Native American Literature, Greenwood Press, Greenwood, CT, 1994, reprinted in Handbook of Native American Literature, Greenwood Press, 1996.

Leslie Marmon Silko,"  World Authors 1985‑1990, New York, H.W.Wilson, 1995, 821‑23.

  "Indian Identity and Indian Literature," European Review of Native American Studies. 11:1, 1997, 5-10.

  "N. Scott Momaday's 'Angle of Geese,'" Poetry for Students, Vol. 2, Detroit: Gale, 1998, 7-10

  "Identity and Genre in House Made of Dawn," Qwerty,  7 (Oct. 1997), 175-83.

 "Recent Trends in American Indian Fiction," Letterature D'America, Revista Trimestrale,      XVII-XVIII, nn. 71-72, 1997-98, 31-55.      

  "Indian Identity in the Nineties," Oklahoma City University Law Review, Vol 23, 1998, 189-209.

  "Ethnicity, Indian Identity, and Indian Literature," American Culture and Research Journal, Vol 23:1 (1999), 191-205.

  "The Rise and Fall of the Red Power Movement," European Review of Native American Studies, 13:1, 1999.

 "Gerald Vizenor," Dictionary of Literary Biography, Detroit: Gale, 2000, 324-334.

  "Introducing Trials into Law and Literature Classes," Oklahoma City University Law Review, 2001.

   BOOK CHAPTERS

     "La poetique des recits indiens," Dictionnaire des poetiques, edited by Yves Bonnefoy, Flammarion, 1985.

      "The Trickster Novel," in Narrative Chance:  Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literature, edited by Gerald Vizenor,           University of New Mexico Press, 1989.

    "Gerald Vizenor," and "N. Scott Momaday," Twentieth Century Western Writers,  Mansfield, London, 1991.

     "Vizenor: Post‑Modern Fiction," Critical Perspectives on Native American Fiction, Three Continents Press, Washington, 1992, and                  Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale Research, Detroit, 1998.

    "Winter in the Blood as Comic Novel," Critical Perpectives on Native American Fiction, Three Continents Press, Washington, 199

    "Magical Realism and Ethnicity: The Fantastic in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich," Native American Women in Literature and Culture, Edicoes      Universidade Fernando Pessoa, 1997, reprinted in Approaches to Louise Erdrich's Fiction, University of Alabama Press.

     "Angle of Geese," in Poetry for Students, Vol 2, Gale Press, 1998, 1-7.

      REVIEWS:

    James Welch, by Peter Wild, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, (8:2), Summer 1985.

    The People Called the Chippewa, by Gerald Vizenor, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 10:1, Spring 1987.

    Kiowa Voices, Vol. I & II, by Maurice Boyd, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 9:1, Spring 1986.

     That's What She Said, by Rayna Green,  World Literature Today, Fall 1985.

     I Tell You Now, by Brian Swann & Arnold Krupat, Contact II, Summer 1988.

     For Those Who Come After, by Arnold Krupat, Genre, Summer 1988.

   The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, by Sherman Alexie, World Literature Today, Fall 1990

    Momaday, Vizenor, Armstrong: Conversations on American Indian Writing, by Hartwig Isernhagen, American Indian Quarterly, Summer         and Fall 1999.

  Talking Leaves, ed. Craig Lesley, The Man to Send Rain Clouds, ed. Kenneth Rosen, Earth Song Sky Spirit, ed. Clifford Trafzer, World             Literature Today, Fall 1993.

  Momaday, Vizenor, Armstrong: Conversations on American Indian Writing, American Indian Quarterly, Summer and Fall, 1999.

    LECTURES:

    "The Use of Codes in Decoding Drama," O.U. Symposium on Contemporary Genre and the Yale School, Summer 1984.

    "The Use of Allusion in Ishmael Reed's The Last Days of Louisiana Red," MLA, December 1984.

    "The Use of Archetypes in Ethnic Literature," Ethnic Studies Department, UC Berkeley, April, 1985.

    "Critical Approaches to American Indian Literature," University of California Symposium on Native American Literature, September 1985.

    "The Ironedy of the Trickster," MLA, December 1986.

   "Laguna Myth as the Basis of Leslie Silko's Fiction," San Francisco State College, March 1987.

   "Theme and Form in James Welch's Fiction," Sacramento State College, March 1987.

    "Laguna Myth in Ceremony," Hayward State College, February 1988.

    "The Trickster Novel," University of California, Santa Cruz, February 1988.

    "The Trickster in House Made of Dawn," Cooper Union, April 1988.

    "Levi‑Strauss's Matrix & Indian Literature," Brown, April 1988.

    "The Postmodern Poetry of Welch and Momaday," U.C. Berkeley, November, 1988.

    "The Trickster Figure in Harold of Orange," MLA, December 1988.

    "Indian Literature, an Overview," Universidade do Porto and Universidade do Minho, Portugal, March 1989.

    "History and Traditions of Indian Literature," University of Genoa, University of Turin, and Charles University, Prague, March 1990.

   "American Indian Literature, an Overview," Oxford University, 1990.

  "Satanic Voices," at "Crossing the Disciplines," Norman, October, 1990.

  "Cultural Studies and America Ethnic Literatures," Chongqing University, December, 1990.

  "Recent Critical Trends in America," and "America Ethnic Literatures," Sichuan International Studies University, January, 1991.

  "Recent Critical Trends in America," and "American Indian Literature," L. Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary, March, 1991.

  "Trends in American Literary Criticism," Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, March, 1992.

  "American Indian Literature," University of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix, March 1993.        

  "Recent Trends in Literary Criticism," University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, March 1993.

  "The Mathematical Basis of Literature" and "American Indian Literature," Fundacite, San Cristobal, Venezuela, October, 1993.           

  "American Indian Literature and Recent Trends in Literary Theory," UMSA, La Paz, Bolivia, July, 1994.

    "Magical Realism and Ethnicity," The Fantastic in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich." American Indian Workshop of European American Studies              Association. Porto, Portugal, April, 1995.

   "The Nature of Indian Identity," University of Florence, November, 1995.  

  "American Exceptionalism and American Indian Identity," European Association for American Studies Biennial Conference, Warsaw, March 1996.   

  "Scott Momaday's Novels," American Studies Association Convention, Kansas City, November 1996   

  "Some Vexing Questions about Native American History and Identity," Curriculum and Pedagogy Institute, University of Edmonton, March 1998.

  "Indian Identity and Indian Literature," European Association of American Studies, Lisbon, April 1998.  

  "New World Studies," at American Literature Symposium on Native American Literature, Puerto Vallarta, November 1999.

  "Scott Momaday's Literary Geography," Western Literature Association, Norman, October 2000.

  "The Literary Geography of Louise Erdrich's Machimanito Saga. American Literature Association Symposium on Native American Literature,            Puerto Vallarta, December, 2000.        

  “Pueblos de America: Sur y Norte,” Centro Simon I. Patrino, Cochabamba, Bolivia, March, 2001.

  “Putting Literary Characters on Trial in Law and Literature Classes,”             Le Droit et La Litterature, Nice, France, June, 2001.

  “Chippewa Postmodernism in the Novels of Gerald Vizenor,” (Mis)understanding Postmodernism, Palacky University , Olomouc, Czech               Republic,  September, 2001.

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