Dr. Miranda J. Brady
CIRCLE Co-Director; Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication
Dr. Brady’s work takes a critical/cultural approach and explores the construction of Indigenous identity in the media and cultural institutions like museums.
Her recent research has examined Indigenous interventions in historical omissions and the popular media through cultural institutions. Her co-authored book with John Medicine Horse Kelly titled Indigenous Interventions: Studies in History, Media, Image, and Discourse is currently under contract with UBC Press. It looks to sites like museum exhibits on residential schools, the imagineNative Film and Media Arts Festival, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to discuss the creative play of Indigenous people and their assertion of alternative ontologies into typical image and discursive flows.
In 2012, Dr. Brady was awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for her research exploring media technologies in tribal and national museum exhibits. She has authored and co-authored a number of scholarly journal articles and book chapters on Indigenous identity including those listed below.
In addition to her research, Dr. Brady teaches courses which discuss indigenous identity including the undergraduate courses “Race and Media” and “Communication and Identity” and the graduate seminar “Communication, Discourse, and Representation.” Her advisees have included Gabrielle Stanton (MRP, 2014, “Distinctly Northern: Nunavut and the Northwest Territories’ worldviews reflected through educational resources”) and Derek Antoine (Doctoral Candidate in progress, working thesis title: “Decolonizing Violence: Contemporary case studies exploring violence and communication.”)
Journal Articles
Monani, Salma & Brady, Miranda J. (2013). ImagineNATIVE 2012: The Indigenous Film Festival as Ecocinematic Space. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 13(4); 1-26.
Brady, Miranda J. (2013). The Flexible Heterotopia: Indian Residential Schools and the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 19(4): 408-420.
Brady, Miranda J. (2013). Media Practices and Painful Pasts: The Public Testimonial in Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Media International Australia, 149: 128-138.
Brady, Miranda J. & Antoine, D. (2012). Decolonize Wall Street! Situating Indigenous Critiques of the Occupy Wall Street Movement. American Communication Journal, 14(3): 1-10.
Brady, Miranda J. & Monani, Salma. (2012). Wind Power! Marketing Renewable Energy on Tribal Lands and the Struggle for Just Sustainability. Local Environment,12(2): 147-166.
Brady, Miranda J. (2011). Subjectivity through Self-Education: Media and the Multicultural Citizen at the National Museum of the American Indian. Television and New Media, 12(5): 441-459.
Brady, Miranda J. (2011). Mediating Indigenous Voice in the Museum: Narratives of Place, Land, and Environment in New Exhibition Practice. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 5(2): 202-220.
Brady, Miranda J. (2008). Governmentality and the National Museum of the American Indian: Understanding the Indigenous Museum in a Settler Society. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 14(6): 763-773.
Chapters in Edited Books
Brady, Miranda J. (2013). Canadian (Re)Presentation: Media, First Peoples, and Liveness in the Museum. In A. N. Valdivia (Gen. Ed.) & S. R. Mazzarella (Ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies, V. 3: Content and Representation. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, pgs. 484-504.
Brady, Miranda J. (2012). Stories of Great Indians by Elmo Scott Watson: Syndication, Standardization, and the Noble Savage in Feature Writing. In M.G. Carstarphen & J. Sanchez (Eds.), American Indians and the Mass Media. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pgs. 18-32.
Brady, Miranda J. (2009). A Dialogic Response to the Problematized Past: The National Museum of the American Indian. In S. Sleeper-Smith (Ed.), Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, pgs. 133-155.