Kimberly Wieser

Dr. Kimberly (Roppolo) Wieser-Weryackwe is a Professor of English, as well as an affiliated faculty member with Native American Studies and Environmental Studies at the University of Oklahoma.

Dr. Wieser-Weryackwe is one of the co-authors of Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective, named one of the most important books in her field in the first decade of the 21st century by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. Her book Back to the Blanket: Recovered Rhetorics and Literacies in American Indian Studies—winner of the NWCA First Books Award for Prose 2004—was published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2017. Her poetry collection Texas . . . to Get Horses was published by That Painted Horse Press in 2019.  Her most recent book, American Indian Literature: An Ecyclopedia for Students, was published by Bloomsbury in July of 2025.

With research partner Dr. Heather Hill (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma citizen and Associate Professor and Composition Coordinator at Northwest Missouri State University), Dr. Wieser-Weryackwe is currently editing Indigenous Counterstories: Storytelling as Knowledge-making for expected publication with the University of Oklahoma Press.  Wieser-Weryackwe is also working with Drs. Lisa King (Associate Professor and Composition Director at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville) and Cindy Tekobee (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma citizen and Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago) to write American Indian and Indigenous Rhetorics, which is under contract with Routledge and expected to be published in 2027.

She has written and published individual poems, academic articles, and chapters in academic collections, short stories, book reviews, and reference entries. She is a playwright, screenwriter, and actress, with two of her most recent roles being on AMC’s The Son and in the independent film Thistle Creek.

American Indian rhetorics and literatures

American Indian Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students.  Bloomsbury: 2025

Texas . . . to Get Horses (That Painted Horse Press, 2019)

Back to the Blanket: Recovered Rhetorics and Literacies in American Indian Studies (University of Oklahoma Press, 2017)

Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008)

“Healing the ‘Man of Monstrous Dreams’: Indian Masculinities in Ceremony.” Leslie Marmon Silko: Ceremony, Almanac of the Dead, Gardens of the Dunes. Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction Series. Ed. David Moore. (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2016)

“‘Who is Cherokee?’: Federal Recognition, Culture, and Rhetorical Sovereignty.”Southeastern Indian Literature. Ed. Marcia Haag. (University of Nebraska Press, 2016)