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Dr. Julia Emberley is a professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies at Western University. She earned her PhD from York University in 1990, her MA from Queen's University in 1985, and her BA from the University of Western Ontario in 1982. As a member of the Royal Society of Canada, her research interests encompass Indigenous storytelling practices, testimonial discourses, cultural feminist postcolonial studies, and decolonial theory literatures. She currently holds a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant (2015-19) focused on Indigenous Literatures and Decolonization. Dr. Emberley's supervision of PhD graduate students includes projects related to Indigenous literature in Canada and Arab-American diasporic literatures. Her latest book is "Testimonial Uncanny: Indigenous Storytelling, Knowledge Reparative Practices" published by SUNY in 2014 (paperback in 2015). Additionally, she serves as an adjunct professor at the Center for Transition Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in the Department of Women’s Studies and Gender Research and the Comparative Literature Department.
Streams include Archaeology and Bioarchaeology, and Sociocultural Anthropology.