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Margaret Noodin
Margaret A. Noodin (née O’Donnell) is an American poet and Anishinaabemowin language teacher. She is an Ojibwemowin instructor for the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and resides near the reservation along the shores of Lake Superior in northeastern Minnesota. She also serves on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she teaches Ojibwemowin, creative writing, and Irish literature.
She is the author of Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature, as well as two poetry collections written in Anishinaabemowin and English: Weweni and What the Chickadee Knows.
Born Margaret A. O'Donell in 1965, she grew up in Chaska, Minnesota. She has self-identified as having Ojibwe descent from her paternal great-great-grandfather; however, she could never identify what tribal nation she believed he descended from. She also identifies as being of Irish, French, and English descent.
She completed her higher education at the University of Minnesota, earning a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education in 1987. She subsequently obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 1990, followed by a Ph.D. in Literature and Linguistics in 2001.
Her doctoral research, Native American Literature in Tribal Context: Anishinaabe Aadisokaanag, examined Indigenous literary traditions within cultural and linguistic frameworks.
Noodin has held a range of academic and administrative positions across several institutions. She joined the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee as a faculty member in 2013 and was promoted to professor in 2019. From 2020 to 2023, she served as Associate Dean of Humanities in the College of Letters and Science, overseeing academic programs, faculty affairs, and institutional initiatives across multiple departments. She also directed the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education from 2014 to 2022, where she led program development, research initiatives, and community partnerships focused on Indigenous education.
Noodin has held additional academic affiliations, including adjunct and research appointments at institutions such as the University of Manitoba, the University of Western Ontario, and the University of Michigan. Earlier in her career, she served as director of the Comprehensive Studies Program at the University of Michigan (2009–2013), where she managed large-scale academic support programs.
In 2023, she began working with the Gichi-Onigaming (Lake Superior Band of Chippewa), developing and teaching Ojibwe language and cultural curriculum for primary-level students.
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Margaret Noodin
Margaret A. Noodin (née O’Donnell) is an American poet and Anishinaabemowin language teacher. She is an Ojibwemowin instructor for the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and resides near the reservation along the shores of Lake Superior in northeastern Minnesota. She also serves on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she teaches Ojibwemowin, creative writing, and Irish literature.
She is the author of Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature, as well as two poetry collections written in Anishinaabemowin and English: Weweni and What the Chickadee Knows.
Born Margaret A. O'Donell in 1965, she grew up in Chaska, Minnesota. She has self-identified as having Ojibwe descent from her paternal great-great-grandfather; however, she could never identify what tribal nation she believed he descended from. She also identifies as being of Irish, French, and English descent.
She completed her higher education at the University of Minnesota, earning a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education in 1987. She subsequently obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 1990, followed by a Ph.D. in Literature and Linguistics in 2001.
Her doctoral research, Native American Literature in Tribal Context: Anishinaabe Aadisokaanag, examined Indigenous literary traditions within cultural and linguistic frameworks.
Noodin has held a range of academic and administrative positions across several institutions. She joined the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee as a faculty member in 2013 and was promoted to professor in 2019. From 2020 to 2023, she served as Associate Dean of Humanities in the College of Letters and Science, overseeing academic programs, faculty affairs, and institutional initiatives across multiple departments. She also directed the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education from 2014 to 2022, where she led program development, research initiatives, and community partnerships focused on Indigenous education.
Noodin has held additional academic affiliations, including adjunct and research appointments at institutions such as the University of Manitoba, the University of Western Ontario, and the University of Michigan. Earlier in her career, she served as director of the Comprehensive Studies Program at the University of Michigan (2009–2013), where she managed large-scale academic support programs.
In 2023, she began working with the Gichi-Onigaming (Lake Superior Band of Chippewa), developing and teaching Ojibwe language and cultural curriculum for primary-level students.