She was professor of religious studies at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
[3] Talamantez received her PhD in ethnopoetics and comparative literature from the University of California, San Diego.
[7] Talamantez conducted anthropological field studies in Mexico and the Southwestern United States.
[8] Talamantez served as president of the Indigenous Studies Group at the American Academy of Religion.
[9] She co-edited the first issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy to focus on American Indian women.