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Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar, and a member of the Kettle Stoney Point Nation. Her research interests include Anishinaabe ontology, studio visual arts, phenomenology, critical theory, indigenous imaging practices, mnidoo interrelationality, and epistemological sovereignty, focusing on the debilitating impact of settler colonial logics. Manning explores the fragile, undulating threads of Anishinaabe ontologies as found in everyday practices, seeking to understand how Anishinaabe knowledge systems resist canonical academic values and textual dependence. She is particularly interested in the subtle challenge posed by the taken-for-granted orality of thought systems and the customary knowledges implicitly conveyed through gesture, speech, and everyday activities. Utilizing methodologies such as storytelling, textual analysis, and community-engaged research, she aims to bring new ways of knowing into rigorous debates within contemporary discourses in continental philosophy and critical theory. Her research is encapsulated in the term 'Mnidoo-Worlding', which examines Anishinaabe philosophies and cultural practices related to imaging, dreams, and visions, particularly in the context of pathologization by settler cultures.
Queen's University • Kingston, ON, Canada
Teaching and researching in the Department of Philosophy.
Institute Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, McGill University • Montreal, QC, Canada
Lectured on topics related to gender, sexuality, and feminist studies.
Department of Visual Arts and First Nations Studies, Western University • London, ON, Canada
Taught courses integrating visual art with First Nations perspectives.
Department of Computing offers research-based, project-based, and course-based patterns.