Faculty Publications
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Peoples, and the Birth of the Nation (2018)
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Shadow Nations: Tribal Sovereignty and the Limits of Legal Pluralism (Oxford University Press 2013).
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The Politics of Digital Repatriation and its Relationship to Indigenous Data Sovereignty, in Digital Humanities, London: UCL Press, 2023.
Recalibrating the Museum: The Physical/Digital Repatriation of Te Hau Ki Turnaga, University of California, 2018
Wai262 and GeoAI: Expanding Mātauranga Māori Sovereignty in the Digital Age (forthcoming)
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Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernisms in the Twin Cities, Duke University Press, 2024.
Essays and Reviews
"Sanctuary and the Colonial Politics of Protection," in Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment, eds. Sarah Ensor and Scotti Parish (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022): 189-203.
"Still Thinking," PMLA, Volume 136, Issue 1, January 2021, pp. 132-138.
"Climate at the Threshold," Antipode Online, 2018.
"Toxic Recognition: Coloniality and Ecocritical Attention," in Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field, eds. Angela Hume and Gillian Osborne (Iowa City: Iowa University Press, 2018): 145-168.
"Reading Vulnerably: Indigeneity and the Scale of Harm," in Anthropocene Reading, eds. Jesse Oak Taylor and Tobias Menely, (Univesrity Park: Penn State Press, 2017): 184-208.
Review of Whereas, 4Columns, 2017.
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Branson, Shuli, E Ornelas, and Kai Rajala. "No Blank Slates: Radical Trans Utopias and the Settler Colonial Imaginary." Everything Must Go, edited by Jemma DeCristo, Ren-yo Hwang, Christopher Joseph Lee, and Eric Stanley, special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, pp. 66–79.
Fuller, Laurie, Jenna N. Hanchey, and E Ornelas. "Existence as Resistance: A Report on WisCon 46 (2023)." Utopian Studies, vol. 34, no. 3, 2023, pp. 618–625.
Ornelas, E. "Pedagogies of Refusal: Opportunities and Obstacles to Anarcha-Feminism in Contemporary US Academia." Burning the Ballot: Feminism Meets Anarchy, edited by Tammy Kovich and Adam Lewis, special issue of Coils of the Serpent: Journal for the Study of Contemporary Power, vol. 11, 2023, pp. 36–66.
Ornelas, E. "Telling 'Our Stories': Black & Indigenous Abolitionists (De)Narrativizing the Carceral State." Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies, edited by Scott Branson, Raven Hudson, and Bry Reed, PM Press, 2023, pp. 20–35.
Ornelas, E. "Sherman Slipstream: (Dis)Associating Settler Time." Trans-Indigenous Science Fictions: Imagining Beyond Settler Colonialism, special issue of Science Fiction Research Association Review, vol. 51, no. 3, 2021, pp. 94–107.
Ornelas, E. "(Not) Forgotten: Settler Colonial Memory and Agamben's Camp in Indigenous Minnesota." International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 2021, pp. 1–16.
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BOOKS
The Weird South: Ecologies of Unknowing in Postplantation Literature (Mercer University Lamar Lecture Series no. 61, University of Georgia Press, 2025)
The Indian in American Southern Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause (University of Georgia Press, 2012)
Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 (University of Georgia Press, 2008).
EDITED VOLUMES & JOURNAL ISSUES:
The Cambridge Companion to Native American Poetry (Cambridge University Press, in preparation)
The Cambridge Companion to the Native American Novel (Cambridge University Press, in preparation)
Norton Critical Edition of William Faulkner's Light in August (Norton, 2023)
"Indigeneity and the Anthropocene," Theories & Methodologies Forum in PMLA (January 2021)
The Cambridge History of Native American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
I Am Where I Come From: Native American College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories, eds. Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, and Melanie Benson Taylor (Cornell University Press, 2016)