Editing Gerald Vizenor (section)

==Academic career==
Beginning teaching full-time at [[Lake Forest College]], Illinois, Vizenor was appointed to set up and run the [[Native American Studies]] program at [[Bemidji State University]]. Later he became professor of American Indian Studies at the [[University of Minnesota]] in [[Minneapolis]] (1978–1985).<ref>[http://cla.umn.edu/amerind/ University of Minnesota Department of American Indian Studies Homepage<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He later satirized the academic world in some of his fiction. For example, in "The Chair of Tears", in ''Earthdivers''.<ref name="comp 2005">{{cite book |last=Blaeser |first=Kimberly M. |editor1-last=Joy Porter |editor2-last=Kenneth M. Roemer |title=Cambridge Companion To Native American Literature 2005 |date=2005 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=New York |pages=257–270 |quote-page= 263 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/CambridgeCompanionToNativeAmericanLiterature2005/page/n273/mode/2up |language=English |chapter=Gerald Vizenor: Postindian liberation |quote=...{{nbsp}}the 1981 ''Earthdivers: Tribal Narratives on Mixed Descent'', a collection of twenty-one narratives which includes a section entitled 'Earthdivers in Higher Education'. The opening story of the book, 'The Chair of Tears', offers a pointed satire of academic politics and an equally damning send up of the posturing and politics involved in Indian blood-quantum debates.}}</ref> During this time he also served as a visiting professor at [[Tianjin University]], China.

Vizenor worked and taught for four years at the [[University of California]], Santa Cruz, where he was also [[Provost (education)|Provost]] of [[Kresge College]]. He had an endowed chair for one year at the [[University of Oklahoma]]. Vizenor next was appointed as a professor at the [[University of California]], Berkeley. He is professor of [[American Studies]] at the [[University of New Mexico]].

Vizenor was influenced by the French post-modernist intellectuals, particularly [[Jacques Derrida]] and [[Jean Baudrillard]].