Shannon Claire Toll

Shannon Toll is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Literatures and Cultures of North America at the University of Dayton. Her research interests include Native literary studies and theory, gender studies, performance studies, and film studies. Her work on contemporary Indigenous literature and performance has been featured in Transmotion (2019), Studies in American Indian Literatures (2018), and American Indian Culture and Research Journal (2015). Her current book manuscript, Oklahoma’s Indian Princesses: Native Women Performing Back to Power, studies the impact of modernist Indigenous Oklahoman women who performed as “Indian Princesses” in the early- to mid-twentieth century.


Works by Shannon Claire Toll