丁香园AV

Education

• PhD, English, 丁香园AV
• MA, English, Dalhousie University
• BA (Hons), English, Acadia University 

Biography

I defended my PhD in English at 丁香园AV in Spring 2020, and prior to that completed a Master of Arts (English) at Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS), and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours (English) at Acadia University (Wolfville, NS). My PhD dissertation is called . 

I have worked as a Research Assistant for the past 4 years with Deanna Reder's SSHRC-funded project, The People and the Text, building a digital database of Indigenous authors in Northern North America. My work in this role has included archival research, digitization, Drupal website development, and digital humanities skills training. I have also attended the annual Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria since 2013, taking courses on topics including "Cultural Codes and Protocols for Indigenous Digital Heritage Management," "Conceptualizing and Creating a Digital Edition," and "Digital Indigeneity" among others -- and in 2018, I co-taught the "Drupal for Digital Humanities Projects" course. In 2016-17, I assisted with the development of digital resources for the Virtual Museum of Canada's 鈥淪q鈥櫭﹚lets: A St贸:l艒-Coast Salish Community in the Fraser River Valley鈥� project. 

My research uses contemporary digital humanities methods to analyze collaboratively-authored twentieth- and twenty-first century Indigenous literatures in Canada, and is primarily focused on E. Pauline Johnson鈥檚 and Chief Joe and Mary Capilano鈥檚 Legends of Vancouver (1911) and Maria Campbell鈥檚 Halfbreed (1973).