Please see below for Panel Description and Individual Paper Titles and Abstracts.

Vicki S. Hallett is an Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador (NL). Her research lives at the confluence of feminist postcolonial and decolonial studies, and focuses on the co-constitutive elements of life narrative, identity/subjectivity, and place. Her most recent publications include the monograph Mistress of the Blue Castle: The Writing Life of Phebe Florence Miller (ISER Books, 2018), and the article “Reading (for) Decolonization: Engaging with Life Writing in Labrador’s Them Days Magazine.” Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies. 18.5 (2018): 326-338.

Carol Lynne D’Arcangelis is an Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at Memorial University in St. John’s. Her research applies a feminist, anti-colonial and critical race/critical whiteness lens to examine the challenges and promises of Indigenous/non-Indigenous solidarity relations in Canada, with a focus on white settler subjectivity. Her current scholarship brings to bear decades of social justice work in Canada on the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women, as well as in the US and Central America with a variety of entities from grassroots groups to NGOs to the United Nations. Her publications include the article “Revelations of a white woman settler-activist: The fraught promise of solidarity” (2018) in Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 18(5), 339–353. In addition, her monograph with the provisional title Pursuing Proximity: Gendered Colonial Relations in the Solidarity Encounter, is currently under review with the University of British Columbia Press.

Joanne Harris is a Master of Philosophy in Humanities student at Memorial University in St. John’s. Her research focuses on the role that narrative and power have played in the erasure of Mi’kmaq people on the island of Ktaqamkuk. This work has come to encompass a myriad of subjects including memory, biopolitics, land, boundaries, stories, and law. She is particularly interested in restorative and transitional justice practices. As a Ktaqamkuk Mi’kmaw, her work is autoethnographic—that is, it has been through her own experience of silence and erasure that she has found collective presence in her people’s absence.

Vicki Hallett, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Gender Studies, Memorial University
vshallett@mun.ca

Carol Lynne D’Arcangelis, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Gender Studies, Memorial University
carollynneda@mun.ca

Joanne Harris, Graduate Student, M. Phil. in Humanities Program, Memorial University
jharris.nfld@gmail.com