Shannon Lujan

Shannon Lujan is the Program Manager for Graduate Academic Initiatives, Graduate Education at Arizona State University (ASU). She is also a doctoral candidate in the Department of English where she studies contemporary American multi-ethnic literatures. Shannon was the ASU 2015-16 Connected Academics Fellow, a 2014-15 research assistant with a Carnegie Humanities Investment Fund Grant, and a research assistant Fellow for the Institute for Humanities Research Fellows Program, 2013-14. Shannon’s dissertation, “Walking, Memory, and Place: Digitally Documenting Literary Spaces Through Stories and Maps, a Contemporary Guide to People and Places in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead” focuses on cultural specific narratives and geographical spaces in Silko’s body of work. The highlight of the project will be an interactive digital archive exploring movement, place, and narrative in Silko’s Almanac of the Dead (1991). Shannon holds a BS in English Literature (minor in History) and a MA with an emphasis in migration from Eastern New Mexico University.