Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Jo-ann Archibald (Stó:lō) is the Associate Dean for Indigenous Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the Acting Director of the Native Indian Teacher Education Program. She has recently released Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body and Spirit through UBC Press. Sonny Assu (Laich-kwil-tach) received his BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2002 and his certificate in Multimedia Studies from UBC in 2004. He has held solo exhibits at Equinox and the Belkin Satellite Gallery, and group exhibits at several galleries. Warren Cariou (Métis) is the Canada Research Chair in Narrative, Community and Indigenous Cultures at the University of Manitoba, where he also directs the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture. He has published fiction, non-fiction, and criticism dealing mainly with Métis culture. Jill Carter (Anishinaabekwe) is completing her dissertation, Repairing the Web: Spiderwoman’s Grandchildren Staging the New Human Being, at the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama (University of Toronto). She has published in Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme: Indigenous Women in Canada (26:3,4) and Stanislavsky and Directing: Theory, Practice and Influence (Legas, 2008). Kristina Fagan (Labrador Métis), an Associate Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan, specializes in Aboriginal writing and storytelling in Canada. She has published articles on methodology in the study of Aboriginal literature and on the depiction of Aboriginal people in settler-Canadian literature. Her current research is on autobiography and storytelling 321 Contributors among her people, the Labrador Métis. She is also increasingly interested in oral traditions and the ways in which the study of such traditions challenge our usual methods of literary analysis. Margery Fee is a Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She has been specializing in post-colonial studies, particularly in the comparison of indigenous literatures in Australia, New Zealand-Aotearoa, and Canada, since the early 1990s. Recently she has been writing about racializing narratives associated with the “‘aboriginal’ thrifty gene.” She is the editor of Canadian Literature. Daniel Morley Johnson is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta, where he has taught courses in the Faculty of Native Studies. He has also taught at Maskwachees Cultural College in Hobbema, Alberta. His dissertation is a Cree literary history. Johnson is a graduate of the Aboriginal Studies program at the University of Toronto. Lenore Keeshig-Tobias (Anishinabe), a member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation, is a fiction and children’s literature writer, storyteller, essayist, and playwright. Her publications include Emma and the Trees (1995) and Bird Talk (1991). She was a founding member of the Committee to Reestablish the Trickster (CRET). Jennifer Kelly teaches in the International Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Calgary. Her interests include Indigenous Literatures and Interpretive/Pedagogical Practices, Indigenous Film, and Research Ethics. She is a co-ordinator (with Delia Cross Child, Ramona Big Head, and Georgette Fox) of “‘You May Laugh’: Surviving, Remembering, and Transforming Residential School Experience,” with members of the Kainai Nation, Southern Alberta. Chris Kientz (Cherokee) traces his Native ancestry back to the Eastern Cherokee nation of Tennessee and the Dawes Rolls. He has worked as an independent producer and animator, developing multimedia projects for commercial clients in both Canada and the United States for over ten years. He has scripted, produced, and directed award-winning video, animation, interactive media, and website projects for numerous clients. Growing up among the Navajo, Zuni, and Hopi people of New Mexico gave Chris a great respect for North American Aboriginal art and culture. Raven Tales (both a company and an animated series) represents the culmination of this interest. Christine Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. Her teaching and research focus on Asian North American literature and theory, contemporary Canadian literature, and dias322 contributors poric writing. She has recently published articles in the journals Open Letter and Studies in Canadian Literature, as well as the collection Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008). She is currently working on a book-length project entitled From Multiculturalism to Globalization: The Cultural Politics of Asian Canadian Writing, and is co-editing a collection of essays entitled Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora and Indigeneity in Canada. Thomas King (Cherokee) is a professor of Native Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Guelph...