
Deanna Reder
Education
- Ph.D. , Department of English, University of British Columbia, 2007. Dissertation: 脗cimisowin as Theoretical Practice: Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition in Canada
- M.A. Department of English, York University, 1994
Biography
Cree-M茅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茅tis 芒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 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, 2024. 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.
鈥淔orensic Anthropology and Archaeology as Tools for Reconciliation in Investigations into Unmarked Graves at Indian Residential Schools鈥 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.
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. The Other Side of 150, eds. Linda M. Morra and Sarah Henzi. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2021. 41-51. Reprint.
鈥淔辞谤别飞辞谤诲鈥. Unsettling Spirit: A Journey into Decolonization by Denise M. Nadeau. McGill-Queens UP, 2020. xi-xiv.
鈥淚ndigenous Autobiography in Canada: Recovering Intellectual Traditions.鈥 The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature. Ed. Cynthia Sugars. Oxford UP, 2016. 170-190.
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 (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.
鈥淲riting Autobiographically: A Neglected Indigenous Intellectual Tradition鈥 Across Borders/Across Cultures: Canadian Aboriginal and Native American Cultures. Eds. Emma LaRocque, Paul DePasquale and Renate Eigenbrod. Broadview P, 2009. 153-169.
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 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 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 https://bcbooklook.com/2018/03/30/the-new-turf-of-indigenous-lit/
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.
Book Reviews
鈥淕oing Back to the Original: Restoring an Inuit Classic鈥 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
Summer 2025
This instructor is currently not teaching any courses.