Biography
I'm an Anishinaabe (Saulteaux) scholar of Indigenous literatures and I spend a lot of time thinking about what the repatriation of Indigenous land and life could look like if imagined beyond the parameters of capitalism or the Indian Act. I'm interested in how urban Indigenous peoples made "dispossessed" of traditional homelands challenge the limitations of colonial cartographies through subversive modes of "reading" urban land.
Research Interests
- Representations of urban Indigeneity
- Urban Indigenous land literacies
- The Indigenous body as home/land
- Fanon's "Literature of Combat"
Awards and Recognition
Fellowship in Black and Indigenous Studies (2023-2025)
SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral Award (2022-2025)
Indigenous Literary Studies Association Student Presentation Award - Most thought-provoking paper (2024)
Congress Graduate Merit Award (2023)
Queen's Doctoral Tri-Agency Recipient Recognition Award (2022-2023)
ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL) Graduate Research Fellowship (2020-2022)
Graduate Supervision
Areas of Study
Black Studies
Indigenous and Decolonial Studies
