Indigenous Storytelling Research Presentation by Dr. Kristina Bidwell
Posted on 2020-01-23 in Events
Jan 27, 2020
Monday, January 27
2:30 - 4:00 pm
Arts 102
All are welcome.
Dr. Kristina Bidwell will present her research program as candidate for the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Storytelling.
Dr. Bidwell is a faculty member in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan and was Associate Dean of Aboriginal Affairs in the College of Arts and Science from 2011-2018. She is a Labrador Inuk scholar and an enrolled member of NunatuKavut, the southern Inuit community of Labrador. Her research focuses on the roles that Indigenous literatures and storytelling play in Indigenous communities, and more recently on the ways that stories act relationally between communities.
She is the co-editor of Call Me Hank: A Sto:lo Man’s Reflections on Logging, Living and Growing Old and Orality and Literacy: Reflections Across Disciplines, and she was part of the Inaugural Council of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association.