JOY PORTER is Senior Lecturer and Associate Dean for the College of Arts & Humanities at Swansea University, Wales, U.K. She writes mainly on Native American Indian themes and on issues to do with American discourse, identity and the environment. She gained her M.A. and PhD from the University of Nottingham, U.K. in 1990 and 1993 respectively. Before coming to Swansea in 2004 she was a Senior Lecturer in American History at Anglia Ruskin Cambridge. She has also held Visiting Professorships at the University of Paris-Diderot and at The Clinton Institute, Dublin. The research underpinning her monograph Native American Freemasonry: Associationalism and Performance in America was funded by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (U.K.). Other aspects of her work have benefited from a number of awards (British Academy, AHRC, British Association of Canadian Studies, Association of Canadian Studies in the U.S. Award, Canadian Government Research Award). She is currently a member of the Arts & Humanities Research Council Peer Review College, U.K. (History, Thought & Culture) and an AHRC Research Fellow, writing a new Native Studies book, The American Indian Poet of the First World War: Frank 'Toronto' Prewett, 1892-1962.