Lydia M. Heberling

Lydia M. Heberling serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of English at California Polytechnic State University, specializing in Indigenous Studies with emphasis on American Indian and Pacific Indigenous Literatures, Narrative Aesthetics, Material Cultures, and Critical Surf Studies.

She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington in 2021, focusing on aesthetic and formal innovations in twentieth and twenty-first century California Native literatures. Her current research examines colonialism, catastrophic waters, and surfing in Indigenous creative non-fiction works.

Recent publications analyze Deborah Miranda's 'Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir' through lenses of survival narratives, colonial trauma, and cultural reimagination, demonstrating interdisciplinary connections between literary criticism, environmental humanities, and Indigenous epistemologies.

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