University of Calgary

Rain Prud'homme-Cranford

  • Associate Professor

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Bio

Rain Prud'homme-Cranford (Dr. PC, previously Goméz Ph.D.): Reads too much, drinks too much black tea, and watches too much SF/Fantasy/Speculative Fiction. Dr. PC specializes in Louisiana Creole cultural formation; Fat/Body/Aesthetic Studies; Environmental Humanities; Global Indigenous and Afro-Indigenous Cultural Studies; Gender, Sexuality, & Queerness; Cultural Rhetorics/Literatures; TEK/STEM within rhetoric, writing, and culture; and U.S. Southern literature and cultures often centering her Gulf coastal and Louisiana Creole homescapes. Dr. PC teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in Indigenous and Afro-Indigenous studies; Gender/Sexuality/2SQ studies; Environmental humanities; IBPOC Multimodal Rhetorics; IBPOC Art as Activism; Creative Writing; and Global Indigenous studies. Her classes are community discussion-driven and highly multimodal: “We read a lot. We talk a lot. We watch and listen to a lot. We laugh a lot and even cry. We witness and tell stories to be better relatives and we think through the tensive spaces to imagine better futures.” Rain is also the Executive Editor, Publisher, and "Book Doula" of That Painted Horse Press, a borderless non-profit p.o.d. publishing house

Rain is grateful to live and work on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot (Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai) Nations, the T'suu Tina, the Stoney Nakoda, and Métis Nation of Alberta (Districts 5 & 6) peoples. 

Research & Teaching Interests

Indigenous Studies 

Louisiana Creole Studies

Post-Contact Indigeneity & Community (Louisiana Creole/Mestizo/Métis/Latinx/Freedmen)

African American/Canadian and African diaspora

Fatness, disAbility, & Wellness Studies

American Literature & Multimodal Culture

BIPOC Literatures, Rhetorics, & Cultures

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) & Literary Theory

Ecocriticism and Sustainability

Two-Spirit, Queer, Gender, and Sexuality

BIPOC Futurisms and Popular Culture

Cultural Rhetorics

Creative Writing (Poetry, Short Story, Essay, & Creative Non-fiction)

Selected Publications

Books:

Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Afro-Indigeneity and Community.Eds. Rain Prud’homme-Cranford, Andrew Jolivétte, Darryl Barthé, (winter 2021, University of Washington Press)

Indians, Oil, & Water: Indigenous Ecologies and Literary Resistance, Eds: Kimberly G. Wieser and Rain Prud’homme-Cranford (winter TPHP 2021)

Miscegenation Round Dance: Poèmes Historiques, Rain Prud’homme (Spring 2021, Mongrel Empire Press)

Smoked Mullet Cornbread Crawdad Memory: Collected Poems & Recipes, Rain C. Goméz (Mongrel Empire Press, 2012)

Peer-Reviewed Articles/ Book Chapters:

Prud’homme-Cranford, Rain. "Post-Contact Peoplehood: Re-Defining Louisiana Creole Indigeniety." Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Post-Contact Afro-Indigeneity and Community. Eds. Rain Prud’homme-Cranford, Andrew Jolivétte, Darryl Barthé (2021, University of Washington Press)

Prud’homme-Cranford, Rain et al. "Ayou Komnsé: Louisiana Creole Land, Community, & Recognition." Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Post-Contact Afro-Indigeneity and Community. Eds. Rain Prud’homme-Cranford, Andrew Jolivétte, Darryl Barthé, (2021, University of Washington Press)

Prud’homme-Cranford, Rain. "No Body Sings the Blues like a FAT Body." Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Post-Contact Afro-Indigeneity and Community. Eds. Rain Prud’homme-Cranford, Andrew Jolivétte, Darryl Barthé (2021, University of Washington Press)

Prud’homme-Cranford, Rain et al. "Nouzot Kréyol: Louisiana Creole Peoplehood or All Our Relations Resisting Settler Violence andIndigenous Erasure." Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Tracing Post-Contact Afro-Indigeneity and Community. Eds. Rain Prud’homme-Cranford, Andrew Jolivétte, Darryl Barthé (2021, University of Washington Press)

Prud’homme-Cranford, Rain. “Summoning Swamp Songs: Decolonizing Creole-Indigenous Textual Tributaries.” Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies. Eds. Eric Gary Anderson, Taylor Hagood, Kirstin Squint, and Anthony Wilson. LSUP, 2020. 91-115.

Prud’homme-Cranford, Rain. “From Bayou to Academe: A Story of Alliance Making.” The Mississippi Quarterly: New Voices in Southern Studies Special Issue. Fall. (2015), 2017. 

Goméz, Rain Prud’homme C. "Crossin’ the Log: Death, Regionality, and Race in Jeremy Love’s Bayou." Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture. Eds. Eric Gary Anderson, Daniel Turner, and Taylor Hagood. Louisiana State Un Press. 2015. 211-223.  

Cranford Goméz, Rain P. “Hachotakni Zydeco’s Round’a Loop Current: Indigenous, African, & Caribbean Mestizaje in Louisiana Literatures.” The Southern Literary Journal: Gulf Coast Special Issue. XLVI, no. 2, Spring. 2014. 88-107.

Goméz, Rain C. “Sassafras Stories Digging for Roots: Louisiana Indigeneities in Literary Expressions.” Louisiana Folklife Journal.  Winter. 2012/13.

Cranford-Goméz, L. Rain. “Brackish Bayou Blood: Weaving Mixedblood Indian Creole Identity Outside the Written Record.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 32, no. 2, 2008. 93-108.

Lesson Plan Articles/ Text Curriculum (Peer edited):

Cranford Gomez, Dr. Rain Prud'homme. "Unfree Men: Slavery among Southeast Indian Nations." Native Daughters Oklahoma: Text Book and Lesson Plans. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2016.  

----"Red, Black, and White All Over: African/Native Relations in Indian Country: Oklahoma and Beyond." Native Daughters Oklahoma: Text Book and Lesson Plans. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2016.

----"Who Are the Freedmen?: Identity, Citizenship, and Racism." Native Daughters Oklahoma: Text Book and Lesson Plans. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2016.

Technical Writing:

Prud’homme-Cranford, Rain PhD. “Affidavit: Choctaw Matrilocal Society and Importance of Hair Culturally.” District Court of Cleveland County: State of Oklahoma. No. FD-2013-921; 2016.

Editor and Publisher Creative Works:

Editor. Tales of Mountain and Sea, by Dania Idriss. That Painted Horse Press, Harrah, OK OK/Calgary AB. 2021 

Editor. An Inquest Every Sunday, by Edythe Hobson. That Painted Horse Press, Harrah, OK OK/Calgary AB. 2021 

Editor. Exile Heart, by Kim Shuck. That Painted Horse Press, Harrah, OK/Calgary AB. 2021. 

Editor. mother of chaos: queen of the nines, by Kelly Clayton. That Painted Horse Press, Harrah, OK OK/Calgary AB. 2020  

Editor. Texas to get Horses, by Kimberly G Weiser. That Painted Horse Press, Harrah, OK/Calgary AB. 2019.

Editor. Toledo Rez & Other Stories, by Thomas Parrie. That Painted Horse Press, Harrah, OK/Calgary AB. 2019.

Editor. The Stains of Burden and Dumb Luck, by Carolyn M Dunn. Mongrel Empire Press, Norman, OK. 2017. 

Editor. A Thousand Horses Out to Sea, by Erika Wurth. Mongrel Empire Press, Norman, OK. 2017.

Journal Articles/Chapters:

Prud’homme-Cranford, Rain. "The Couleur of Roses: Méstizaje Historia de Tejas". Texas... to get Horses. That Painted Horse Press. Harrah, OK, 2019.

Books in Progress:

Critical:

Gumbo Stories: Rhetorics and Quantum Relation-Making in the Creole South (monograph) 

“Nobody Loves a FAT Girl”: Obesity, Obsession, Exile, and the Largeness of Literary Resistance (monograph) 

Gather at the River: Spiritual Ecologies in Red/Black Literatures (monograph)

Red/Black Social Justice Beyond #s: Rhetorical Agency from the Jeremiad to R&B (edited collection)

“Keep on Singing for the Good Times:“ Tracing Transcontinental Literary Tributaries & Métissage/Méstizaje Persistence (monograph).

 Creative:

Epidermal Journal: The Body Poems

“I oughta know about lonely girls:” Essays on Body, Fat, Love, & Place

OKC Diaries: Short Stories

 

 

Degrees

  • PhD - English; Specializations: Native American Studies and Critical Mixed Race
    University of Oklahoma, 2014
  • MA - American Studies; Specializations American Indian Studies and American Indian Rhetorics
    Michigan State University, 2005
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