Alan R. Velie

Alan Velie is David Ross Boyd Professor of English. He began his career as a Shakespeare professor, but soon shifted his focus to American Indian Literature. His 1969 course in Indian literature was the first in the country to focus on Indian literature from the standpoint of literary analysis, and the first to examine contemporary Indian fiction and poetry. Prof. Velie has written three books and edited eight others. He has published over forty articles, and lectured on Indian literature and other topics in universities in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. His current project is editing a series of volumes on the American Indian Renaissance. The first volume, on Indian literature, is completed, and a volume on the visual arts is in the works. In addition to courses in Indian literature, Prof. Velie teaches Shakespeare, the capstone course on poetry, and the Bible as literature.

Contact:
Office: Cate 2, Room 330
Email: alanvelie@ou.edu

Research and Teaching Interests:
Shakespeare; American Indian literature; poetry and poetics; the Bible as literature

Bookshelf:
Shakespeare’s Repentance Plays: The Search for an Adequate Form (Fairleigh Dickinson, 1972)
American Indian Literature: An Anthology (editor) (Oklahoma, 1979)
Four American Indian Masters: N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Gerald Vizenor (Oklahoma, 1982)
Native American Perspectives on Literature and History (editor) (Oklahoma, 1994)
The Native American Renaissance: Literary Imagination and Achievement (co-edited with Robert A. Lee) (Oklahoma, 2013)