Pat Onion
Title
Professor of English, Emerita
Information
Address
5277 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8853
Education
Ph.D. Harvard University
Areas of Expertise
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American Indian literature, especially American Indian drama
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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.”