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I follow the teaching philosophy that we are led to knowledge not given it. It is our responsibility to engage in the process of coming to knowledge with intentionality and constant reflection because each phase of our lives and each experience we find ourselves in will shape knowledge differently and with nuance.\u00a0 Liberal arts education provides us with different approaches to interpreting and engaging with knowledge.\u00a0I focus on leading learners to knowledge and nurturing their ideas and voices so they can realize effective solutions to complex problems.<\/p>\n
My philosophy on leadership is that the best leadership comes from collaboration. Many of our most effective leaders don\u2019t necessarily see themselves as leaders\u2014they see themselves doing what needs to be done or standing up because they must. They are problem solvers often by necessity. They are good leaders because they truly listen to what others say, they recognize the gap or problem, work to find solutions that benefit others, and they facilitate change by recognizing they are part of a group.<\/p>\n
Elise Marubbio received her B.F.A in photography from the Cleveland Institute of Art. She worked as a photographer in Cleveland before moving to Tucson to study American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. She then combined her M.A. in Native American Literature with her passion for art by pursuing a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies with a focus on the issues of race in film and media, with particular attention to the representation of Native Americans in American popular culture and Hollywood cinema.<\/p>\n
As a settler-nation scholar of Indigenous and cultural studies with a focus on Indigenous issues, she came to Augsburg College (now University) in 2003 because it was one of the few liberal arts colleges in the country with an American Indian, First Nations, and Indigenous Studies department.\u00a0\u00a0 According to Marubbio, two key things make Augsburg a great place to come for American Indian, First Nations, and Indigenous Studies: The program\u2019s dynamic combination of interdisciplinary study and involvement with the community; and Augsburg\u2019s location in the city. \u00a0Her courses embrace this. \u00a0Her students have opportunities to interact with local Native American writers, filmmakers, artists, community action groups and organizations. \u00a0They take part in day trips to various communities, galleries, and historical sites.\u00a0 She also leads global travel seminars focused on Indigenous issues to Latin America, including Guatemala, Mexico, and Bolivia.<\/p>\n
Although it is a small university, Augsburg remains a vital site for Indigenous film studies, offering a number of Indigenous film courses and hosting a Native American film series.\u00a0 Dr. Marubbio started the Augsburg Native American Film Series in 2003 as an extension of her work in American Indian Studies and her love of the arts. \u00a0She visualizes the series as a project committed to affecting the world through artistic collaboration and powered by a belief in the film to inform, affect, and stimulate vastly different groups of people. \u00a0The festival\u2019s goals include the following:<\/p>\n
1. To offer a regional venue for Native American\/First Nation filmmakers to present their films and to engage other communities in dialogue about the films, the process of working as a Native American filmmaker, and the politics of ethnic-identified film making.<\/p>\n
2. To build a collaborative relationship with the local Native American community that honors the rich tradition of Native American film in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n
3. Provide an interactive environment within which students and community participants critically engage with the tough issues raised by many Native\/First Nation filmmakers about America\u2019s history, our contemporary culture, and social justice.<\/p>\n
4. To provide reservation communities with access to films by and about Native\/First Nation and Indigenous peoples.<\/p>\n
Dr. Marubbio’s areas of research in Indigenous film grew out of her explorations into how particular mainstream media images reflect the social, political, and moral attitudes towards Native Americans, interracial relationships, and the national identity of the cultural moment in which they are reproduced.\u00a0 As a group, media images of Native Americans and specifically Native women illustrate an ongoing ambivalence toward race and the colonial history of the United States.\u00a0 Thus, one branch of Dr. Marubbio’s work spans the decades from the 1910s through the present, tracing these particular themes through filmic components such as stereotypes, editing, scene sequencing, narrative point-of-view, etc.\u00a0 This research fuels her growing interest in the aesthetics of race and the interconnections of race and power with issues of art, representation, and nationalism.\u00a0 It is also the subject of a number of her published essays and her book Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film (2006, University Press of Kentucky), which won the Peter C. Rollins Annual Book Award in 2006 and the American Library Association Award in 2007.<\/p>\n
Another branch of Dr. Marubbio’s work expands from the first to focus on Indigenous film and Native women filmmakers; in particular, she is intrigued by the choices made by independent Indigenous filmmakers, the stories they tell, the style that they use to document Indigenous issues, and the approach to cinematic sovereignty that their work as a group suggests.\u00a0 She is currently exploring the ways in which Indigenous media sovereignty move across cinematic approaches and global audiences from tribal\/community to pan-tribal, pan-Indian, and pan-cultural arenas.<\/p>\n
This has led to a third area of research and publishing on de-colonialist pedagogical and collaborative work practices designed for promoting cross-cultural teaching and research that centers Indigenous media, methodology, and theory as equal to and complimentary with western models.\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Marubbio’s co-edited project with Dr. Eric L. Buffalohead, Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory. (University Press of Kentucky, 2012), her current edited project with Dr. Tom Holm and Dr. Steve Pavlik, Native Apparitions: Critical Perspectives on Hollywood’s Indians (University of Arizona Press, 2017), two guest editions for Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities on Indigenous film and filmmakers, and her essays and interviews included in these projects engage this agenda.<\/p>\n
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