Professor Dr. Erin Akerman

Biography

Erin Akerman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Brock University. She specializes in Indigenous and Canadian literatures, as well as nineteenth-century British literary studies. Akerman is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario and a member of the Georgian Bay Métis Community. Her research interests focus on the intersection of Indigenous, Canadian, and nineteenth-century literary studies, with particular attention to Indigenous literary expressions and their relationship to land. She is also interested in Indigenous feminisms and the archival recovery of nineteenth-century Indigenous writers. Akerman's notable publication includes the article 'At Crossroads Sympathy Prophecy: Anna Jameson, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles Canada, Drummond Island Métis' in Canadian Literature.

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