Dean Rader
Professor
Dean Rader has published widely in the fields of poetry,
literary studies, American Indian studies, and visual/popular
culture. His newest book
Engaged
Resistance: American Indian Art, Literature, and Film From Alcatraz
to the NMAI (University of Texas Press, 2011) won the
Beatrice Medicine Award for Excellence in American Indian
Scholarship. His recent collection of poems,
Works &
Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, was a
finalist for the Bush Memorial First Book Prize, and won the
Writer's League of Texas Book Award. He recently curated
the blog
99
Poems for the 99 Percent, and his work appears in the 2012
Best American Poetry. He is the recipient of
USF's Distinguished Research Award for 2011, and he is
funnier than his photo might suggest.
Administrative Appointments
Chair, English Department
Publications
Peruse
Dean's series of columns on the 10 Greatest Poets
Browse
Dean's columns for The San Francisco Chronicle
