Shirley Brozzo

Shirley Brozzo is an Anishnaabe from the Keweenaw Bay Tribe of Chippewa Indians.  She believes that having been born in Ironwood, Mich., then moving to Marquette in 1989 makes her a real Yooper!  In 1992 she earned a bachelor's degree in business administration and in 1994 a master's in English, both at NMU.  She actively participated with the advisory board as a student representative before being hired as an adjunct instructor for the Center for Native American Studies in 1995.  In addition to teaching the Native American Experience class, she also created a class, Storytelling by Native American Women.  She is also the coordinator for the Gateway Academic Program, a retention program for NMU's Multicultural Education and Resource Center.  You can find her stories and poems published in more than 25 sources.  She has three adult children: Jamie, Brandi and Steven.  Her hobbies include working puzzles, reading and crocheting.

Food for Thought: A Postcolonial Study of Food Imagery in Louise Erdrich's Antelope Wife
By Shirley Brozzo
Featured in the Missouri Humanities Council Missouri Passages

Contact Shirley:
E-mail: sbrozzo@nmu.edu
Phone: 906-227-1557
Office: 3001 C.B. Hedgcock

Fall  2009 syllabi:

NAS 204 Native American Experience