Linc Kesler

Biography

Faculty in University of British Columbia Faculty in University of British Columbia

Research Interest

I went to Yale University during the tumultuous Vietnam and civil rights era and later to grad school at the University of Toronto, where I specialized in semiotics and early modern English literature. Following a year working in the People’s Republic of China, my wife and I moved to Oregon where I taught at Oregon State University for nineteen years. While there, while teaching early modern literatures and linguistics, I helped to establish and maintain the Oregon Indian Coalition on Post-Secondary Education, worked with American Indian and other minority student groups, and coordinated the establishment of an Indian Education Office (later replicated in three other minority offices) and the state’s only Ethnic Studies department. I also developed curriculum in the English department on American Indian and other ethnic minority literatures and established an oral history project in collaboration with elders from the Klamath tribes in southern Oregon (now available on Indigenous Foundations).