My name is April McInnes, and I am a settler PhD student of Indigenous literary studies in the Department of English at Queen鈥檚 University on Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territory. I hold BAH, BEd, and MA degrees from Queen's, and I am a certified teacher with the Ontario College of Teachers. My research investigates decolonial approaches to Indigenous literatures and their implications and applications in secondary-level classrooms in the public education system.
Indigenous literatures; Indigenous femininities; Indigenous coming-of-age narratives; decolonization; Indigenous education; pedagogy studies; Canadian literature; critical disability studies
Articles (Peer-reviewed)
[Accepted] 鈥淢emories, Manifestation, and Finding a Way Forward: Developing Agency through Spiraling Time in Michelle Good鈥檚 Five Little Indians.鈥 Canadian Literature.
Conferences:
[Forthcoming] Moderator. 鈥淐hallenging Archetypal Narratives and Paratext.鈥 Queen鈥檚 Undergraduate Conference in Literature, Queen鈥檚 University. (1 February 2025)
鈥淓nvironmental Terrorism: BP, Art, and Indigenous Resistance in Canada.鈥 Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil, The University of Edinburgh, online. (24 January 2025)
鈥淒isrupting the Dominant Discourse of Victorian Studies with Decolonial Temporality: Challenging Chronological Time and Deploying Ceremonial Time in Drew Hayden Taylor鈥檚 The Night Wanderer: A Graphic Novel.鈥 Re-imagining and Re-engaging with the Victorians, Queen鈥檚 University, online. (18 April 2024)
Current Positions:
Communications Coordinator, Queen's Graduate Conference in Literature, 果酱视频 (October 2024 鈥 present)
Writing Consultant, Student Academic Success Services, 果酱视频 (September 2024 鈥 present)
Research Assistant (Anishinaabemowin Language Acquisition Project), supervised by Dr. Lindsay Morcom, Faculty of Education, 果酱视频 (January 2024 鈥 present)
Graduate Blog Writer, Student Academic Success Services, 果酱视频 (September 2023 鈥 present)
