Dr. Colleen Eils Associate Professor Director of the Stokes Fellows Program, Director of the Mounger Writing Center English and World Languages colleen.eils [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications Dr. Eils earned her Ph.D. in English with a portfolio in Mexican American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Politics of Privacy, published by the Ohio State University Press (2020), and her current book project explores science and human consciousness in contemporary American novels. Dr. Eils’s scholarly work on race, Indigeneity, and technology in 21st century American literature has appeared in MELUS, SAIL, & AIQ, among other scholarly outlets. Ph.D. - University of Texas at AustinM.A. - University of Texas at AustinB.A. - Clemson University Research Interests Race and ethnicity, indigeneity, science and literature, technology and the human, American literature and literary criticism, contemporary literature, privacy and surveillance, writing studies, writing pedagogy Selected Publications Eils, Colleen. The Politics of Privacy in Contemporary Native, Latinx, and Asian American Metafictions. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2020. Zuccarelli, Joseph, Nicholas Cunningham, Colleen Eils, Andrew Lee, and Kevin Cummiskey. Praxis: A Writing Center Journal 19, no. 3 (2022). Eils, Colleen. "Fanny Ellison." Ralph Ellison in Context. Ed. Paul Devlin. Literature in Context Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.Eils, Colleen. "Deborah Miranda, Natalie Diaz, Tommy Pico, and Metaphors of Representation." Studies in American Indian Literatures 33, no. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 2021).Hoppe, Jason and Colleen Eils. "Integrating Teaching, Assessment, and Administration in the Signature Work of the West Point Writing Program." Teaching and Learning the West Point Way. Eds. Morten G. Ender, Raymond A. Kimball, Rachel M. Sondheimer, and Jakob C. Bruhl. New York: Routledge, 2021.Eils, Colleen. "Narrative Privacy: Evading Ethnographic Surveillance in Fiction by Sherman Alexie, Rigoberto González, and Nam Le." Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States 42, no. 2 (Summer 2017).Eils, Colleen. "'You’re Always More Famous When You Are Banished': Gerald Vizenor on Citizenship, War, and Continental Liberty," with Emily Lederman and Andrew Uzendoski. American Indian Quarterly 39, no. 2 (Spring 2015).Eils, Colleen. "The Politics of Make-Believe: Dissimulation and Reciprocity in David Treuer’s The Translation of Dr. Apelles." Studies in American Indian Literatures 26, no. 4 (Winter 2014).