Publications & Presentations
Peer-Reviewed Publications
“The Commodification of The Windigo, a Traditional Algonquian Monster, in The Television Series Supernatural.”
In Monstrosity and Global Crisis in Transnational Film, Media and Literature. Rawle, Stephen & Martin Hall (eds.) Cambridge Scholars Publishings, 2024, pp. 119-134.
“Ghost Lake by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler.”
Transmotion, Vol. 9, Iss. 1&2, pp. 362-364. 2024.
“Dreaming as a Superpower: The indigenous superheroine Echo (Träumen als Superkraft: Die indigene Superheldin Echo).”
iZ3W, Iss. 400. 2023.
“Alexie, Sherman,” “Leslie Marmon Silko: Ceremony,” “James Welch: Fool’s Crow,” “Treuer, David,” and “Zitkála-Šá.”
In Twentieth Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context, DeRoche, Linda (ed.) ABC-CLIO, 2021, pp. 20-22, 218-221, 395-397, 1189-1190, 1294-1296.
“Elisabeth Bouzonviller, Louise Erdrich : Métissage et écriture.”
RANAM: Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines, Vol. 52: "Borders and Spaces in the English-Speaking World," pp. 137-138. 2019.
“Innovators and Disruptors: 10 Indigenous Activists to Follow.”
Impakter, 21 Aug. 2019.
“‘Something Tells Me This Protest Is Far From Over:’ The Power Of Indigenous Visual Art In The #NoDAPL Protests.”
In ExRe(y): Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North American Literature and Visual Culture, Kimak, Isabella & Julia Nikiel (eds.) New Americanists in Poland, Peter Lang, 2019.
“Birth, Death, Healing: Cycles and Repetitions in Tomson Highway's Kiss of The Fur Queen.”
University of Bucharest Review, Vol. 7, Iss. 1: "Birth, Death, and Rebirth: Regeneration as Text," 2018.
“Insatiable Hunger for Indigenous Flesh, Cultures, and Lands: Colonialism as a Ravenous Monster in Monkey Beach and Kiss of the Fur Queen.”
Parlour: A Journal of Literary Criticism and Analysis, Iss. 3: "Haunting, Horrible Hunger: Food for Fright," Spring 2018.
“Sara Sue Hoklotubbe's Sadie Walela Mystery Series.”
Transmotion, Vol. 4, No. 2, Dec. 2018.
“Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North American Literature and Visual Culture.”
U.S. Studies Online, 04 Jul. 2018.
“The Artist and ‘Indian Buff’: Frederick Weygold, Artist and Ethnographer of American Indians.”
Transmotion, Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 2018.
“Our Fires Still Burn: The Native American Experience, dir. by Audrey Geyer.”
The Middle West Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 2018.
Upcoming Publications
“Do You Have a Little Native American in Your Story?”
In I'm Already Dead: Essays on The CW’s iZombie and Vertigo’s iZOMBIE, Szanter, Ashley and Jessica K. Richards (eds.) McFarland Publishing.
Selected Guest Lectures
"Echos, formes et reflets : Richesse et diversité des littératures francophones autochtones et amérindiennes."
Les Conférences de la Maison Française, University of Wisconsin-Madison French House, 12 Feb. 2024.
“'it was never going to be okay:' Reflections on translating decolonial poetry from one settler language to another.“
FRIT Research Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 22 Feb. 2023.
“Warriors Then and Now: Native American Women in American Politics.“
Running in 2020: Women Rising & the American Politics of Change, University of Freiburg, 30 Jun. 2020.
“Doing Research In and With First Nation Communities.“
Trends and Methodology of North American Research, University of Helsinki, 27 Mar. 2020.
“Cinema as a Strategy for Healing in Recent Short Films by Students at the IAIA.“
Indigenous Arts Circle: Moving Image, University of Helsinki, 25 Mar. 2020.
“Eighteenth-Century Views of Native Americans.“
Ideologies and Religions: Nature, Political Ideology, and Progress, University of Helsinki, 24 Mar. 2020.
“Windigos, Wingigog and Windikouk.“
Myth Reading Group, Centre for Myth Studies, University of Essex, 31 Oct. 2018.
Selected Conference Presentations
"The Only Color the Spirits Can See:" Red in Artistic Installations Memorializing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Colors and Cultures, Université de Haute-Alsace, 13-15 Apr. 2021.
Creating and Maintaining Support for Students’ Mental Health during Online Teaching.
52nd NeMLA Convention, Philadelphia, 11-14 Mar. 2021.
Better Alternatives On How To Be In The World: Healing in Métis Wonderworks.
Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American Literatures, University of Klagenfurt, 17-19 Sep. 2020.
Strategies for Healing in Métis Dystopia Shadows Cast by Stars and The Marrow Thieves.
Imagining Alternatives: Speculative Fiction and the Political, Universität Augsburg, 10-12 Sep. 2020.
“Remember, Resist, Redraw:" The Power of Indigenous Visual Art in Pipeline Protests.
Narratives of (Un)sustainability: Assessing U.S. Oil Culture, University of Lausanne, 27-28 Sep. 2019.
Reversing the Tropes in Drew Hayden Taylor’s Night Wanderer: Colonial Vampirism and Land as Redemption.
Popular Culture Association (PCA) National Conference, Washington D.C., 17-20 Apr. 2019.
“Myth vs. Evidence: Your Choice," or Intergenerational Trauma as Propaganda.
50th MLA Convention, Washington D.C., 21-24 Mar. 2019.
We Don’t Cross the Border, It’s the Border That Crosses Us.
Negotiating, Subverting, Reconfiguring Borders in the English-Speaking World, University of Strasbourg, 05-06 Oct. 2018.
"Something Tells Me This Protest is Far From Over:" The Power of Indigenous Visual Art in the #NoDAPL Protests.
Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, 10 May 2018.
Local, Global, and International Protests for Indigenous Rights and Protection of the Environment.
32nd European Association for American Studies (EAAS) Conference, King's College London, 07 Apr. 2018.
Birth, Death, Healing: Cycles and Repetitions in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen.
19th Annual International Conference of the English Department, University of Bucharest, 10 Jun. 2017.
The Algonquian Windigo As an Allegory of On-Going Colonial Violence in Recent Indigenous Gothic Fiction.
Transnational Monstrosity in Popular Culture, York St John University, 03 Jun. 2017.
Posters
Anti-Racist and Decolonial Pedagogies in the French Classroom.
Teaching and Learning Symposium: Fostering Belonging, Bridging Divides, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 18 May 2023.
Culturally Responsive Language Teaching for Indigenous Students in Canada.
International Day for Teaching and Learning, University of Freiburg, 09 Apr. 2018.