Emerging Scholars, Redux: Author â Shannon Claire Toll April 15, 2021 Shannon Toll is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Literatures and Cultures of North America at the University of Dayton. Her research interests include Native literary studies and theory, gender studies, performance studies, and film studies. Her work on contemporary Indigenous literature and performance has been featured in Transmotion (2019), American Indian Culture and Research Journal (2015). Her current book manuscript, Oklahomaâs Indian Princesses: Native Women Performing Back to Power, studies the impact of modernist Indigenous Oklahoman women who performed as âIndian Princessesâ in the early- to mid-twentieth century. Article Rhymes for Young Ghoulsâ