Dr. Isabelle St Amand

Biography

Professor St-Amand's research focuses on Indigenous literary theories in Canada and collaborative research on Indigenous filmmaking across the Americas. Her work investigates the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous narratives, emphasizing the importance of community-based methodologies. She received her Ph.D. from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 2012, followed by a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship to further her research in the Department of Native Studies at the University of Manitoba. St-Amand has led SSHRC-funded projects such as 'Revisioning Americas Indigenous Cinema' and has organized international conferences discussing Indigenous cinema. Her academic work includes publishing with notable scholars in the fields of migrant literatures and Indigenous literatures, and co-editing journal issues focusing on environmental ethics in literature and film. Her book, "Stories of Oka: Land, Film, Literature," was published in 2018 by the University of Manitoba Press and addresses the complex narratives surrounding the Oka crisis. St-Amand is committed to experiential learning and actively engages in teaching courses exploring Indigenous cultural politics and settler colonialism, co-founding a graduate summer institute for Indigenous literatures and film at Université de Montréal.

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