-
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
- University of Ottawa Press
- Chapter
- Additional Information
LIST OFCONTRIBUTORS MARLENE ATLEO, PhD (?eh ?eh naa tuu kw iss or "a person that can say the same thing in a lot of different ways") is a member of the Ahousaht First Nation of British Columbia. For the first half of her life she worked in the salmon fishing industry and now she is a professor of adult and higher education at the University of Manitoba specializing in diversity Aboriginal education, storywork, and phenomenological orienteering. Marlene Atleo has worked at "home" in social; health, wellness, and consumer education through adult programming promoting an "across the kitchen table" style of interaction. She is a grandmother of six, and lives with Umeek, her husband of forty years, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. FALKO BREDE earned his PhD in the Department of Political Science at the University of Augsburg, Germany, in 2006. His main research interests are in the areas of health policy-making, comparative public policy, and the relationship between science and politics. He is currently working as personal assistant for a member of the German Parliament and teaches political science at the University of Augsburg. In his doctoral thesis, he analyzed the influence of advisory commissions on health policy-making in Canada and 396 Germany. His thesis, Gesundheitspolitik und Politikberatung, was published in 2006 (Deutscher Universitats-Verlag). MANSELL GRIFFIN is a Nisga'a citizen from Gitwinksihlkw, British Columbia, Canada. He completed his Bachelor ofArts in First Nations Studies in 2000 and iscurrently completing hisMA inEnvironment and Management. Mansell Griffin is a member of the Wolf Phatry of the Nisga'a Nation and bears a hereditary title in his family's house. He currently works as the Lands Manager for the Nisga'a Lisims Government in NewAiyansh, British Columbia. NANCVGRIMM studied atthe UniversityofPotsdam, Germany, and atthe State University of New York at Potsdam, New York. Currently, she is a research assistant at the Department of English and American Studies of FriedrichSchiller -University Jena, Germany. Her doctoral thesis in progress is titled "Beyond the Imaginary Indian': Eine interkulturelle Studie zur Entstehung und Omniprasenz stereotyper Indianerbilder' in der euro-amerikanischen Imagination und deren Dekonstruktion durch ausgewahlte indigene Texte Nordamerikas."Her research interests andfieldsofpublication focus onNorth American ethnic literatures and cultures. Other research interests and fields of publication—which always take into consideration their implementation in the EFLclassroom—range from film and intertextual/-medial studies to the domain ofE-Learning and the Internet. EVA GRUBER studied English and Biology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Constance, Germany,and at the University of Guelph, Canada. She completed her PhD exams in February 2006 and is currently assistant professor of American Literature at the University of Constance. She has published on Thomas King's short fiction, on translating Native Canadian Literature into German, and on Native American adaptations of the road movie genre. Her research interests include Native North American literature, "race" and the novel of passing, and life writing/intersections of autobiography and fiction. Reimagining Nativeness: Humor in Contemporary Native North American Literature, her PhD thesis, is scheduled for publication in 2008 (Camden House, New York). 397 [54.157.61.194] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 05:41 GMT) ROBERT HARDING moved to British Columbia from Quebec in 1997to help a local university college and the St6:lo First Nation develop a socialwork program based on Aboriginal principles. He received his PhD from Simon.Fraser University with a dissertation on media discourse about Aboriginal selfgovernance issues. Hislatest publications include "Historical Representations of Aboriginal People in the Canadian News Media" in Discourse and Society, and "The Media, Aboriginal People and Common Sense" in the Canadian Journal of Native Studies. Robert Harding also teaches socialpolicy community development, and Aboriginal socialwork at the School of SocialWork and Human Services at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford,British Columbia. KATARZYNA JUCHNOWICZ graduated from Nicholas Copernicus University in Torufi, Poland in the field of English Philology. In 2001she was awarded second prize for the best MAthesis written in Canadian Studies in Poland by the Polish Association for Canadian Studies. At present she is a doctoral student with Professor Hartmut Lutz at the University of Greifswald, Germany. The working title of her dissertation is "Presences of Oral Traditions in Contemporary Anishnabe Writing." KERSTIN KNOPF holds an MA in American, Canadian, Hispanic, and Scandinavian Studies from the University of Greifswald in Germany.Shealso studied in LosAngeles (us), Gothenburg (Sweden), and Regina and Ottawa (Canada). Twice, she spent six months at the First Nations University of Canada in order to do research for...