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Pat Onion

Title

Professor of English, Emerita

Information

Address

5277 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8853

Education

Ph.D. Harvard University

Areas of Expertise

  • American Indian literature, especially American Indian drama

  • Works by Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, and William S. Yellow Robe Jr

Personal Information

Pat Onion, who has been teaching American Indian literature at Colby for about a decade, has written on contemporary authors Sherman Alexie and Louise Erdrich and designed a program on American Indian Literature for the Maine Humanities Council. Spending much of her fall 2003 sabbatical on the Blackfeet Reservation inspired the redesigning of the program “Crossing Over.”