Miriam Brown Spiers

Miriam Brown Spiers is an Associate Professor of English and American Studies, and she serves as the Director of the M.A. in American Studies program. Her research and teaching interests include Native American and Indigenous literatures, science fiction, comics, formal and generic experimentation, 20th and 21st century American literature, and Indigenous feminisms. Her monograph, Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction (Michigan State UP, 2021), examines the ways that American Indian novelists have adapted the generic tropes of science fiction as a means of resisting cultural assimilation and reasserting the value of Indigenous knowledges in the twenty-first century. Her work has been published in journals including Studies in American Indian Literatures, Studies in Comics, and Native South.

Email: mspiers1@kennesaw.edu

 
MAST Courses Taught:  

• AMST 6401: Literature and Culture of the Americas
• AMST 7310: Regional Studies: The Native South
• AMST 7330: Identities and Social Groups: Contemporary Indigenous Women Writers
• AMST 7410: Literature and Performance in American Culture: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Science Fiction
• AMST 7901: Capstone Literature Review and Proposal
• AMST 7902: Capstone Experience
   

Select Publications:  

• Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction (Michigan State University Press, 2021)  
   
• "Mona Susan Power in Conversation with Miriam Brown Spiers" in The Headlight Review (2023) 
   
• "'Imagining Otherwise,' Cherokee Futurism, and Riding the Trail of Tears: A Conversation with Blake Hausman." Co-author Kirstin Squint, in North Carolina Literary Review, Issue 32 (2023) 
   
• "Bringing the Native South into Focus," in IMPACT Arts + Culture Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Fall 2024)
  
  
• "'Touch your wound, dear': Eye Killers and the Vampire of Manifest Destiny" in Hell Bent for Leather: Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western, Vol. II (University of Nebraska Press, 2025)