Chadwick Allen, PhD

Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement

Professor, Department of English
Adjunct Professor, Department of American Indian Studies

Chadwick Allen, PhD, is a distinguished scholar and administrator at the University of Washington. He currently serves as the Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement, where he oversees the Office for Faculty Advancement (OFA). In this role, Professor Allen is dedicated to promoting the hiring, retention, and success of a diverse and inclusive faculty. He collaborates closely with the Office for Academic Personnel and Faculty (APF) and the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity (OMA&D) to implement the university-wide Diversity Blueprint and support the Faculty Code’s recognition of excellence in research, teaching, and service that promotes diversity and equity.

Professor Allen received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1987, his M.F.A. from Washington University in 1990, and his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1997.

His scholarship centers on contemporary American Indian and global Indigenous literatures, other expressive arts, and activism. He is the author of several influential books, including Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts (Duke UP, 2002), Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies (U of Minnesota P, 2012), and Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts (U of Minnesota P, 2022). Additionally, he is a co-editor, with Beth Piatote, of The Society of American Indians and Its Legacies, a special combined issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures and American Indian Quarterly (2013). Besides his primary focus on Indigenous self-representation, Professor Allen has a keen interest in US frontier literature and popular westerns, with extensive writings on the Lone Ranger and Tonto. In 2018, along with other stakeholders, Professor Allen helped launch the UW’s Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies (CAIIS).