
Deanna Reder
Education
- Ph.D. , Department of English, University of British Columbia, 2007. Dissertation: cimisowin as Theoretical Practice: Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition in Canada
- M.A. Department of English, York University, 1994
Biography
Cree-M矇tis scholar Deanna Reder served as INDG Department Chair from 2017 to 2022. Her monograph, , was released in May 2022.
Currently she is co-chair, with Dr. Sophie McCall, of the Indigenous Voices Awards (see ). In Fall 2018 she was inducted into the College of New Scholars, Artist, & Scientists in the Royal Society of Canada.
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Books
Elements of Indigenous Style, 2nd Ed. By Gregory Younging, Lead Editor Warren Cariou with editorial team Deanna Reder, Jordan Abel, and Lorena Fontaine. Brush Education, 2025
Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and M矇tis 璽cimisowina. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2022. 182 pp.
- Recipient, 2025 Modern Languages Association (MLA) Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
- Recipient, 2024 Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Recipient, 2023 Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian literary criticism (English section)
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. 391 pp.
Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island. Eds. Sophie McCall, Deanna Reder, David Gaertner and Gabrielle Hill. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2017. 390 pp.
Learn, Teach, Challenge: Approaching Indigenous Literatures. Eds. Deanna Reder and Linda M. Morra. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2016. 500 pp.
Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations. Eds. Deanna Reder and Linda M. Morra. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2010. 335 pp.
Journals
Co-edited, with Michelle Coupal, as guest editors, a Special Double Issue on How We Teach Indigenous Literatures 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
First Peoples, Indigeneity and Teaching Indigenous Writing in Canada with Margery Fee. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum, edited by Ato Quayson and Ankhi Mukherjee. Cambridge University Press Syndicate, 2024. 60-79.
The People and the Text: An Inclusive Collection Collections Thinking: Ontologies, Agents, Communities, eds. with Margery Fee. Edited by Jason Camlot, Martha Langford, and Linda M. Morra. Routledge, 2023. 292-305.
Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology as Tools for Reconciliation in Investigations into Unmarked Graves at Indian Residential Schools with Katherine L. Nichols (first author), Eldon Yellowhorn, Deanna Reder, Emily Holland, Dongya Yang, John Albanese, Darian Kennedy, Elton Taylor, and Hugo F.V. Cardoso. Royally Wronged: The Royal Society of Canada and Indigenous Peoples. Eds. Constance Backhouse, Cynthia E. Milton, Margaret Kovach, and Adele Perry. McGill-Queens UP, 2021. 203-229.
Recuperating Indigenous Narratives: Making Legible the Documenting of Injustices The Other Side of 150, eds. Linda M. Morra and Sarah Henzi. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2021. 27-40.
I write this for all of you: Recovering the Unpublished RCMP Incident in Maria Campbells Halfbreed (1973) with Alix Shield. The Other Side of 150, eds. Linda M. Morra and Sarah Henzi. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2021. 41-51. Reprint.
F棗娶梗滄棗娶餃. Unsettling Spirit: A Journey into Decolonization by Denise M. Nadeau. McGill-Queens UP, 2020. xi-xiv.
Indigenous Autobiography in Canada: Recovering Intellectual Traditions. The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature. Ed. Cynthia Sugars. Oxford UP, 2016. 170-190.
Canadian Indian Literary Nationalism?: Critical Approaches in Canadian Indigenous ContextsA Collaborative Interlogue with Kristina Fagan, Daniel Heath Justice, Keavy Martin, Sam McKegney, Deanna Reder and Niigonwewedom (now Niigaanwewedom) Sinclair. Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora and Indigeneity in Canada. Eds. Christine Kim, Sophie McCall, and Melina Baum Singer. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012. 43-63. Reprint
"Sacred Stories in Comic Book Form: A Cree Reading of Darkness Calls." Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations. Eds. Deanna Reder and Linda M. Morra. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2010. 177-191.
Writing Autobiographically: A Neglected Indigenous Intellectual Tradition Across Borders/Across Cultures: Canadian Aboriginal and Native American Cultures. Eds. Emma LaRocque, Paul DePasquale and Renate Eigenbrod. Broadview P, 2009. 153-169.
Articles
A Call to Teach Indigenous Literatures co-authored with co-editor Michelle Coupal. Studies in American Indian Literature 34:1-2 (Spring-Summer 2022): ix-xxi
Using Indigenous-Informed Close-Reading to Unlearn: Teaching Indigenous Perspectives of History in Literature. Studies in American Indian Literature 34:1-2 (Spring-Summer 2022): 59-74, 245-250
Indigenous and Postcolonial Studies: Tensions and Interrelationships, Creative and Critical Interventions with Sophie McCall. Ariel: a Review of International English Studies 51.2-3 (April-July 2020): 1-25
Conversations at the Crossroads: Indigenous and Black Writers Talk 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
I write this for all of you: Recovering the Unpublished RCMP Incident in Maria Campbells Halfbreed (1973). with Alix Shield. Canadian Literature #237 (2019): 13-25, 184.
"Native American Autobiography: Connecting Separate Critical Conversations," Lifewriting Annual 4 (December 2015): 35-63
On Both Sides of the 49th Parallel: Indigenous Scholarship in Opposition to Postcolonial Critique, The Global South 9.1 (Spring 2015): 45-51
A Complex Web of Relations that Extends Beyond the Human, Journal of Chinese Philosophy 39:4 (December 2012): 507-517
Thinking Together: A Forum of Jo-Ann Episkenews Taking Back our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy and Healing. Co-Edited with Susan Gingell. Canadian Literature (2012): 91-127
Whats Not in the Room?: A Response to Julia Emberleys Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal. Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 23-24 (2010): 406-415
Canadian Indian Literary Nationalism?: Critical Approaches in Canadian Indigenous ContextsA Collaborative Interlogue 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
About the Indigenous Voices Awards 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. Critical Race Theory Today: A Roundtable Conversation Journal of Critical Race Inquiry 9:2 (2022)
Reder, Deanna, Sophie McCall, Sam McKegney, Sarah Henzi, and Warren Cariou. Introduction Special Section- Carrying the Fire: Celebrating Indigenous Voices of Canada, Alaska Quarterly Review 36: 3 & 4. (Winter & Spring 2020): 190-198
The New Turf of Indigenous Lit: on Tomson Highways From Oral to Written, https://bcbooklook.com/2018/03/30/the-new-turf-of-indigenous-lit/
Exploding the Canon: The Founding of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association, WRITE: the magazine for the Writers Union of Canada (Fall 2017): 24.
Awina Maga Kiya (Who is it that you really are)?: Cree and Metis Autobiographical Writing, Canadian Literature (2010): 131-134.
Book Reviews
Going Back to the Original: Restoring an Inuit Classic on Uumajursiutik unaatuinnamut / Hunter with Harpoon / Chasseur au harpoon by Markoosie Patsauq, edited & translated by Marc-Antoine Mahieu and Valerie Henitiuk: Advance Online Version. Northern Review 55 (2024).
Encyclopedia Entries
Co-authored with Jennifer G. Kelly, "Indigenous Fiction." The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century World Fiction.; Ed. John Clement Ball. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2012.
Courses
Spring 2025
Summer 2025
Future courses may be subject to change.