| Professor Velie is the
author of Shakespeare's Repentance Plays: The Search for an
Adequate Form (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973) and Four
American Indian Literary Masters, a study of James Welch, Scott
Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, and Leslie Silko (University of Oklahoma
Press, 1982). He has edited Appleseeds and Beercans, an ecology
reader (Goodyear, 1974); Blood and Knavery, a collection of
Elizabethan ballads and pamphlets about crime (Fairleigh Dickinson
University Press, 1973); The Lightning Within, an anthology of
American Indian fiction (University of Nebraska Press, 1991); American
Indian Literature, an anthology of traditional and contemporary
Indian literature (University of Oklahoma Press, 1979, 1991), and Native
American Perspectives on Literature and History (University of
Oklahoma Press, 1994). His current project is an American Indian
studies book, with chapters on Indian history, geography, law, art, and
economic development. Professor Velie teaches courses on Shakespeare,
the Bible, and American Indian literature. He has lectured in Prague,
Chungking, Istanbul, Florence, Warsaw, La Paz, and Oxford. Dr. Velie is
currently serving as the English Department's Director of Undergraduate
Programs. |