Dr. Susan Bernardin (she, her) is Director of the School of Language, Culture, and Society in the College of Liberal Arts at Oregon State University. Before coming to Oregon State in 2017, she was department chair of Women and Gender Studies at State University, College at Oneonta (SUNY) and a member of the English Department. Her proudest achievement there was building a WGS major over nearly a decade of campus coalition-building, curricular development, and hiring. The School of Language, Culture, and Society is a hub of programs including Anthropology, College Student Services Administration, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, Ethnic Studies, World Languages and Cultures, and Indigenous Studies. School programs share core commitments to advancing equity, justice, and social transformation in research, teaching, and community engagement. Those commitments also form the bedrock of her 25 year-career in higher education dedicated to making meaningful curricular, co-curricular, programmatic, and institutional change. They also underline her scholarship in two seemingly incongruent fields: Indigenous literary studies and Gender & the American West. She has published widely on foundational and contemporary Native authors (Gertrude Bonnin; Christine Quintasket; Gerald Vizenor; Louis Owens; Eric Gansworth), as well as on Indigenous mixed-media, visual arts, and comics, especially the work of Arigon Starr, creator of Super Indian. Dissertation research on the field matron system connected her to histories and communities in NW California that inform the other strand of her scholarship. A co-author of Trading Gazes: Euro-American Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880-1940, she also facilitated a new edition of the regional NW California classic, In the Land of the Grasshopper Song in collaboration with Terry Supahan and André Cramblit. A former president of the Western Literature Association, she is a two-time recipient of its Walker Award for best published essay in the field of Western American Studies and recipient of the Beatrice Medicine Award, given by the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures. As a settler scholar, she reckons with the ongoing legacies of gendered colonialism in the American West in her recently published edited collection, Gender and the American West, part of Routledge’s Gender Companion Series. In 35 essays, a community of scholars offers the first intersectional consideration of the “American West” from the perspectives of, among others, Indigenous and queer Indigenous Studies, queer Latinx Studies, African American Studies, Asian American Studies, and feminist studies. Organized by four core concepts—Genealogies, Bodies, Movements, Lands—Gender and the American West invites readers to think relationally across fields, theoretical orientations, and situated knowledges.