Robert Dale Parker is the Frank Hodgins Professor of American Literature at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has published two books on Faulkner and a book on Elizabeth Bishop as well as The Invention of Native American Literature, The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Changing Is Not Vanishing: A Collection of American Indian Poetry to 1930, and, from Oxford University Press, How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies.