Dory Nason
| Dory Nason | |
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| Born | Nebraska, United States |
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| 🏅 Awards | Killam Teaching Prize |
Dory Nason is an Anishinaabe and Chicana professor and writer, as well as enrolled member of the Leech Lake Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. Nason's research and writings focus on Indigenous women's feminist literature and creative activism, and have been influential in the fields of Indigenous feminism, Indigenous activism, and gender justice and decolonisation.[1][2][3][4]
Education[edit]
Dorothy Ann Nason received an MA in English from Kansas State University, and a PhD in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
Career[edit]
Nason taught first in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently a Senior Instructor in the First Nations Studies Program and the Department of English at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, teaching Indigenous Literature and Criticism; Indigenous Theory and Research Methods; and Indigenous Feminisms.[5] She is also affiliated with the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice. In 2013, Nason received the Killam Teaching Prize for her work at the UBC. Nason recently co-edited the volume Tekahionwake: E. Pauline Johnson’s Writings on Native America (Broadview Press, 2016).[6] She is currently at work on her book manuscript, Red Feminist Voices: Native Women’s Activist Literature. She was also a featured co-contributor to the groundbreaking anthology, The Winter We Danced: Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement (ARP Books), which was released to great acclaim in March 2014.[7]
Publications[edit]
- Tekahionwake: E. Pauline Johnson’s Writing on Native America. Co-edited with Margery Fee. Broadview Press. January 2016.
- “Carceral Power and Indigenous Feminist Resurgence in D’Arcy McNickle’s The Surrounded and Janet Campbell Hale’s ‘Claire’.” American Indian Culture & Research Journal. Vol. 40, no. 1 (2016).
- “On Violence in the University and Trying to Live with a Loving Heart.” Hook and Eye. Online publication. April 17, 2015.
- “We Hold Our Hands Up: On Indigenous Women’s Love and Resistance” Eds. Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Leanne Simpson, et al. The Winter We Danced. Winnipeg: Arbiter Ring Press, 2014 (March).
- “Violence is Not a Given.” Indigenous Nationhood Movement Website. Eds. Leanne Simpson,Taiaike Alfred et al. December 6th 2013.[7]
References[edit]
- ↑ Coulthard, Glen Sean (2016). "Lessons from Idle No More: The Future of Indigenous Activism". In Braithwaite, Ann; Orr, Catherine M. Everyday Women's and Gender Studies: Introductory Concepts. Taylor & Francis. p. 414. ISBN 9781317285311. Retrieved 8 December 2018. Search this book on
- ↑ Gray, Christina (Summer 2013). "Dancing Around The Issue". Bitch Magazine: Feminist Response to Pop Culture (59): 20–22. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
- ↑ Lew, Janey (2017). "A Politics of Meeting". Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. 38 (1): 251. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
- ↑ "Decolonizing / Transnationalizing Feminism". Australian Catholic University Institute for Social Justice. 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
- ↑ "Dr. Dorothy Nason, Department of English Language and Literatures". The University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
- ↑ Canadian Indigenous Books for Schools, 2017-2018 (PDF). Association of Book Publishers of BC. 2017. p. 21. Retrieved 8 December 2018. Search this book on
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Dory Nason | First Nations and Indigenous Studies". fnis.arts.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
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