The UBC Department of English Language & Literatures is pleased to invite you to a book celebration and lecture by UBC alumna Dr. Deanna Reder (Cree-Métis), Full Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies and the Department of English at Simon Fraser University.
Dr. Reder will discuss her monograph, Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and Métis âcimisowina (Wilfred Laurier UP), which developed out of her doctoral work while she was a student in the Department of English at UBC. Her talk will focus on the ways in which autobiography as methodology, Indigenous-informed cultural analysis, and imaginative creative engagement can be combined to understand and bring scholarly attention to neglected Indigenous texts.
This lecture can be attended online via Zoom. Please be sure to register using the link below.
Talk Abstract
Professor Deanna Reder (Cree-Métis) will discuss her monograph, Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and Métis âcimisowina, which developed out of her doctoral work while she was a student in the Department of English at UBC. Her talk will focus on the ways in which autobiography as methodology, Indigenous-informed cultural analysis, and imaginative creative engagement can be combined to understand and bring scholarly attention to neglected Indigenous texts.
About the Speaker
Deanna Reder (Cree-Métis) is Full Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies and the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. She is one of the founding members of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association (2013), the Indigenous Editors Association (2019), and she has been a co-Chair of the Indigenous Voices Awards since its inception in 2017 (see Indigenousvoicesawards.org). Professor Reder is the research lead for “The People and the Text: Indigenous Writing in Lands Claimed by Canada” (see www.thepeopleandthetext.ca). Her monograph, Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and Métis âcimisowina won the 2023 Gabrielle Roy Prize from the Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL), the 2024 MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures and Languages, and the 2024 Canada Prize.
