Gabriele M. Schwab is Chancellor's Professor of Comparative Literature in the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, where she is also associate faculty in the Department of Anthropology, associate faculty in Women's Studies, and core faculty in the Program in Theory and Culture. In this presentation, Schwab explores representations of what Ward Churchill calls the "radioactive colonization“ of indigenous lands by the extractive economy that developed during the Cold War, predominately on reservations in the United States. Drawing on Martin Cruz Smith's Stallion Gate, a novel about the first nuclear tests in New Mexico, as well as on Joseph Masco's ethnography Nuclear Borderlands, the talk examines the impact of an emergent nuclear politics on individual protagonists and their collective struggles for survival. This work foregrounds a cultural climate of secrecy and deception as well as the emergence of "nuclear subjectivities" that are marked by transgenerational nuclear trauma and psychic toxicity which parallels the radioactive poisoning of bodies and land. Schwab's books include Haunted Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma (2010), The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language (1996), Subjects Without Selves (1994), Entgrenzungen und Entgrenzungsmythen (1987), and Samuel Becketts Endspiel mit der Subjektivitat (1981). She is the editor of Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis (2007) and co-editor, with Bill Maurer, of Accelerating Possession: Global Futures of Property and Personhood (2006). Her wide ranging essays encompass numerous topics including critical theory, literary theory, cultural studies, psychoanalysis and trauma theory, 19th and 20th century literatures in English (including Native American and African American), as well as 19th and 20th century literatures in French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.