Dallas Hunt is Cree and a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia, where he also holds an affiliation with the UBC Centre for Climate Justice. A writer, scholar, and advocate for Indigenous thought, Dallas’s work centers on Indigenous literatures, decolonial narratives, and the politics of settler colonialism. His research and teaching challenge colonial historiographies while amplifying the resilience and complexity of Indigenous voices across what is currently called North America.

He has had critical and creative work published in Theory & Event, the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Canadian Literature, Prairie Fire, and Arc Poetry. His teaching and research interests include Indigenous literatures, Indigenous theory & politics, Canadian literature, speculative fiction, settler colonial studies, and environmental justice. His children’s book, Awâsis and the World-Famous Bannock, was published through Highwater Press in 2018, and his first collection of poetry, CREELAND, was published in 2021. Dallas’ newest book, Teeth, was published in Spring of 2024.

Current research projects include:

• a study of urban Indigeneity in the ‘reconciliation era’
• a study on the histories of settler colonialism on the prairies
• a study on small, Indigenous publishing houses
• a study on settler replacement narratives and Indigenous futurities
• a study on/collection of the poetry of Anishinaabe writer Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

List of Select Publications

“Reconciliation as Endless Process: The Limits of Reconciliatory Politics and the Possibility of Indigenous Redress.” Theory & Event 28.1 (2025): 42-66. (Co-authored with Dr. Shaun Stevenson).

 “Every Bus Stop a Tomb: Decolonial Cartographical Readings against Literary,
Visual, and Virtual Colonial Claims to Space.” Decolonizing the Map Spec. issue of
Cartographica 55.3 (2020): 199-206.

“‘In Search of Our Better Selves’: Totem Transfer Narratives and Indigenous
Futurities.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 42.1 (2018): 71-90.

 “Nikîkîwân: Contesting settler-colonial archives through indigenous oral history.” Canadian Literature 230-1 (2016): 25-42.

Dallas Hunt teaches courses in the subject areas of Indigenous literature(s), De/anticolonial theory, Canadian literature, Critical theory, among others. Special topics include urban Indigeneity, contemporary Indigenous scholarship, affect, prairie literatures, and the environmental humanities.