Beth Piatote

Beth Piatote is an Associate Professor in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, with affiliations in the Department of Linguistics and the American Studies program.

Her research focuses on Native American/Aboriginal literature, federal Indian law in the United States and Canada, and the interplay between gender, citizenship, and legal frameworks. She also specializes in Nez Perce language and literature, contributing to indigenous language continuity efforts.

Piatote earned her PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. She is currently working on a second scholarly monograph, *A Sense of Autonomy: Native American Literature and the Legal Imaginary*, and a volume of short fiction, *Beading Lesson and Other Stories*.

She received the prestigious MLA Book Prize for her first monograph, *Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature* (Yale, 2013).

Piatote collaborates with the Department of Linguistics to develop an online Nez Perce dictionary and text corpus, reflecting her commitment to language revitalization. Her scholarly essays and short fiction have appeared in journals such as *American Quarterly*, *American Literary History*, *Kenyon Review*, and *SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures*.