Dr. Colleen Eils Associate Professor Director - Stokes Fellows Program Director - Mounger Writing Center English and World Languages colleen.eils [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications Dr. Eils earned her Ph.D. in English with a portfolio in Mexican American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Politics of Privacy, published by the Ohio State University Press (2020), and her current book project explores science and human consciousness in contemporary American novels. Dr. Eils’s scholarly work has appeared in MELUS, SAIL, & AIQ and other scholarly outlets. Ph.D. - University of Texas at AustinM.A. - University of Texas at AustinB.A. - Clemson University Research Interests Science and Literature; Technology and the human; American literature and literary criticism; Contemporary literature; Privacy and surveillance; Writing studies; Writing pedagogy Selected Publications Zuccarelli, Joseph, Nicholas Cunningham, Colleen Eils, Andrew Lee, and Kevin Cummiskey. Praxis: A Writing Center Journal 19, no. 3 (2022). Eils, Colleen. "Fanny Ellison." Ralph Ellison in Context. Ed. Paul Devlin. Literature in Context Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.Eils, Colleen. "Deborah Miranda, Natalie Diaz, Tommy Pico, and Metaphors of Representation." Studies in American Indian Literatures 33, no. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 2021).Hoppe, Jason and Colleen Eils. "Integrating Teaching, Assessment, and Administration in the Signature Work of the West Point Writing Program." Teaching and Learning the West Point Way. Eds. Morten G. Ender, Raymond A. Kimball, Rachel M. Sondheimer, and Jakob C. Bruhl. New York: Routledge, 2021.Eils, Colleen. "'You’re Always More Famous When You Are Banished': Gerald Vizenor on Citizenship, War, and Continental Liberty," with Emily Lederman and Andrew Uzendoski. American Indian Quarterly 39, no. 2 (Spring 2015).Eils, Colleen. "The Politics of Make-Believe: Dissimulation and Reciprocity in David Treuer’s The Translation of Dr. Apelles." Studies in American Indian Literatures 26, no. 4 (Winter 2014).