My name is April McInnes, and I am a settler PhD student of Indigenous literary studies in the Department of English at Queens 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; temporalities; Canadian literature; critical disability studies
Articles (Peer-reviewed)
[Forthcoming] Memories, Manifestation, and Finding a Way Forward: Developing Agency through Spiralling Time in Michelle Goods Five Little Indians. Canadian Literature.
Conferences:
Moderator. Challenging Archetypal Narratives and Paratext. Queens Undergraduate Conference on Literature, Queens University. (1 February 2025)
Environmental Terrorism: BP, Art, and Indigenous Resistance in Canada. Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil, The University of Edinburgh, online. (24 January 2025)
Disrupting the Dominant Discourse of Victorian Studies with Decolonial Temporality: Challenging Chronological Time and Deploying Ceremonial Time in Drew Hayden Taylors The Night Wanderer: A Graphic Novel. Re-imagining and Re-engaging with the Victorians, Queens University, online. (18 April 2024)
Current Positions:
Research Assistant, "Honouring the Word Warriors," supervised by Dr. Heather Macfarlane, Department of English Literature and Creative Writing, 腦瞳憫 (February 2025 present)
Communications Coordinator, Queen's Graduate Conference in Literature, 腦瞳憫 (October 2024 present)
Writing Consultant, Student Academic Success Services, 腦瞳憫 (September 2024 present)
Research Assistant, "Anishinaabemowin Language Acquisition Project," supervised by Dr. Lindsay Morcom, Faculty of Education, 腦瞳憫 (January 2024 present)
