Education
- MA (York University)
- PhD (UBC)
Biography
Deanna Reder (Cree-M茅tis) is a Professor in the Departments of Indigenous Studies and English at 丁香园AV. Her research is on the neglected Indigenous literary archive, initially funded by SSHRC in a project called "The People and the Text: Indigenous Writing in Northern North America up to 1992" (see www.thepeopleandthetext.ca). Her 2022 monograph, Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and M茅tis 芒cimisowin, is the recipient of the 2022 Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian literary criticism (English section) awarded by the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL).
She is a founding member of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association (2013), the Indigenous Editors Association (2019), and a founding co-chair of the Indigenous Voices Awards from 2018-2023. In fall 2018, she was inducted into the College of New Scholars, Artist, & Scientists in the Royal Society of Canada.
*She is currently on sabbatical and returns to the classroom in Fall 2024.
Selected Publications
Books
Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and M茅tis 芒cimisowina. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2022.
Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poems by Vera Manuel. Eds. Michelle Coupal, Deanna Reder, Joanne Arnott, and Emalene Manuel. U of Manitoba P, 2019.
Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island. Eds. Sophie McCall, Deanna Reder, David Gaertner and Gabrielle Hill. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2017.
Learn, Teach, Challenge: Approaching Indigenous Literatures. Eds. Deanna Reder and Linda M. Morra. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2016.
Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations. Eds. Deanna Reder and Linda M. Morra. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2010.
Journals
Co-edited, with Michelle Coupal, as guest editors, a Special Double Issue on 鈥淗ow We Teach Indigenous Literatures鈥� in Studies in American Indian Literature 34 (1-2): Spring-Summer 2022.
Co-edited, with Sophie McCall, the fiftieth anniversary special issue: Indigenous and Postcolonial Studies. Ariel: a Review of International English Studies 51 (2-3): June 2020
Book Chapters
鈥淔irst Peoples, Indigeneity and Teaching Indigenous Writing in Canada鈥� with Margery Fee. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum, edited by Ato Quayson and Ankhi Mukherjee. Cambridge University Press Syndicate, 2023, 60-79.
鈥淭he People and the Text: An Inclusive Collection鈥� Collections Thinking: Ontologies, Agents, Communities, eds. with Margery Fee. Edited by Jason Camlot, Martha Langford, and Linda M. Morra. Routledge, 2023. 292-305.
鈥淩ecuperating Indigenous Narratives: Making Legible the Documenting of Injustices鈥� The Other Side of 150, eds. Linda M. Morra and Sarah Henzi. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2021. 27-40.
鈥淚ndigenous Autobiography in Canada: Recovering Intellectual Traditions.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature. Ed. Cynthia Sugars. Oxford UP, 2016. 170-190.
Articles
鈥淎 Call to Teach Indigenous Literatures鈥� co-authored with co-editor Michelle Coupal. Studies in American Indian Literature 34:1-2 (Spring-Summer 2022): ix-xxi
鈥淯sing Indigenous-Informed Close-Reading to Unlearn: Teaching Indigenous Perspectives of History in Literature.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Studies in American Indian Literature 34:1-2 (Spring-Summer 2022): 59-74, 245-250
鈥淚ndigenous and Postcolonial Studies: Tensions and Interrelationships, Creative and Critical Interventions鈥� with Sophie McCall. Ariel: a Review of International English Studies 51.2-3 (April-July 2020): 1-25
鈥淐onversations at the Crossroads: Indigenous and Black Writers Talk鈥� Edited by Sophie McCall, with David Chariandy, Karrmen Crey, Aisha Sasha John, Cecily Nicholson, Samantha Nock, Juliane Okot Bitek, Madeleine Reddon, Ariel: a Review of International English Studies 51.2-3 (April-July 2020): 57-82
鈥溾�業 write this for all of you鈥�: Recovering the Unpublished RCMP 鈥業ncident鈥� in Maria Campbell鈥檚 Halfbreed ( 1973).鈥� with Alix Shield. Canadian Literature #237 (2019): 13-25, 184.
"Native American Autobiography: Connecting Separate Critical Conversations," Lifewriting Annual 4 (December 2015): 35-63
鈥淥n Both Sides of the 49th Parallel: Indigenous Scholarship in Opposition to Postcolonial Critique,鈥� The Global South 9.1 (Spring 2015): 45-51
鈥淎 Complex Web of Relations that Extends Beyond the Human,鈥� Journal of Chinese Philosophy 39:4 (December 2012): 507-517
鈥淭hinking Together: A Forum of Jo-Ann Episkenew鈥檚 Taking Back our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy and Healing.鈥� Co-Edited with Susan Gingell.Canadian Literature (2012): 91-127
鈥淲hat鈥檚 Not in the Room?: A Response to Julia Emberley鈥檚 Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 23-24 (2010): 406-415
鈥淐anadian Indian Literary Nationalism?: Critical Approaches in Canadian Indigenous Contexts鈥擜 Collaborative Interlogue鈥� with Kristina Fagan, Daniel Heath Justice, Keavy Martin, Sam McKegney, Deanna Reder and Niigonwewedom Sinclair. Canadian Journal of Native Studies 29.1/2 (2009): 19-44
Editor-Reviewed Publications
Books
Nest, Michael with Deanna Reder and Eric Bell. Cold Case North: The Search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett. U of Regina P, 2020.
Introduction
鈥淎bout the Indigenous Voices Awards鈥� with Sophie McCall in Carving Space: The Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology, edited by Jordan Abel, Carleigh Baker, and Madeleine Reddon. McClelland & Stewart, 2023, v-ix.
Invited Publications
Articles in Journals
Okot-Bitek, Juliane and Kesha Febrier, Vidya Shah, Sue Shon, Deanna Reder, Jules Gill-Peterson. 鈥淐ritical Race Theory Today: A Roundtable Conversation鈥�Journal of Critical Race Inquiry 9:2 (2022)
Reder, Deanna, Sophie McCall, Sam McKegney, Sarah Henzi, and Warren Cariou. 鈥淚ntroduction鈥� Special Section- Carrying the Fire: Celebrating Indigenous Voices of Canada, Alaska Quarterly Review 36: 3 & 4. (Winter & Spring 2020): 190-198
鈥淭he New Turf of Indigenous Lit: on Tomson Highway鈥檚 From Oral to Written,鈥�
鈥淓xploding the Canon: The Founding of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association,鈥� WRITE: the magazine for the Writers鈥� Union of Canada (Fall 2017): 24.
鈥溾�楢wina Maga Kiya鈥� (Who is it that you really are)?: Cree and Metis Autobiographical Writing,鈥� Canadian Literature (2010): 131-134.
Courses
Fall 2024
Spring 2025
Future courses may be subject to change.