{"id":287,"date":"2009-06-29T15:55:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T19:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?page_id=287"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:46:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:46:39","slug":"vellino-brenda","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/vellino-brenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Vellino, Brenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Poetry &amp; Theatre Studies (Indigenous, Canadian, Transnational)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Indigenous Multi-Media forms (theatre, graphic novels, stop motion animation, film)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Critical Human Rights Humanities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Environmental Humanities: Indigenous, Decolonial, Multi-Species Studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gender, Sexuality, Critical Race, Intersectional Theories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a cross-appointed faculty member in English and the Human Rights and Social Justice program in The Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies. I welcome enquiries regarding supervisions in Indigenous cultural studies, transitional justice and cultural studies, contemporary poetry studies, and contemporary theatre studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I teach several courses for the environmental &amp; climate humanities (EACH) minor in FASS, including Literary Ecological Fieldwork and the capstone seminar, EACH 4000.&nbsp; My research is informed by decolonial priorities and Indigenous led land, water, and multi-species responsibilities and considers Indigenous storywork in theatre, popular culture, grassroots projects, and mapping work.&nbsp;&nbsp; Currently, I am undertaking a collaborative story mapping project with geography colleague, Derek Smith, in partnership with members of the Algonquin Anishinaabe community of Kitigan Zibi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Awards:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>CURO Development Grant, 2022-2024<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>University Teaching Award, 2020<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CURO Development Grant, 2013-2015<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SSHRC 4A Grant, 2008-2009<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>SSHRC 4A Grant, 2006-2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Coordinator<\/strong>: Carleton Climate Commons Working Group, 2023-2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Professional Membership: <\/strong>Indigenous Literary Studies Association, Canadian Association of Theatre Research, American Comparative Literature Association<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cApprenticeship Pedagogy for Teaching Indigenous Popular and Multi-Media Genres.\u201d <em>Studies in American Indian Literature<\/em>, 32, nos. 1-2, 2022: pp. 163-82.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIntervening in Settler Colonial Genocide: Restoring M\u00e9tis Buffalo Kinship Memory in Amanda Strong\u2019s `Four Faces of the Moon.\u2019\u201d <em>Studies in American Indian Literature<\/em> 32: 3-4 (2020): 149-75.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c`Re-Creation Stories\u2019: Re-Presencing, Re-embodiment, and Repatriation Practices in Leanne Betasamosake Simpson\u2019s \u201cHow to Steal a Canoe.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Journal of Canadian Native Studies<\/em>. 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>Restaging Indigenous \u2013 Settler Relations: Intercultural Theatre as Redress Rehearsal in Marie Clement\u2019s and Rita Leistner\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Edward Curtis Project<\/em>.\u201d<em>Theatre Research in Canada<\/em>. 38.1 (Spring 2017): 92-111.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBeyond the Trauma Aesthetic: The Cultural Work of Human Rights Witness Poetries.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights<\/em>. Ed Sophia McClennan and Alexandra Schulteis Moore.&nbsp; New York: Routledge, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCultivating Translocal Citizen Witness:<strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>Contemporary Human Rights Poetry as `Remembrance\/Pedagogy.\u2019\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Options for Teaching: Human Rights and Literature<\/em>. Eds. Alexandra Schulteis Moore and Elizabeth Goldberg.&nbsp; New York: MLA: 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 With Sarah Waisvisz.<em>&nbsp;\u201c<\/em>The Steveston Noh Project as Redress Theatre from Below.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Canadian Literature<\/em>.&nbsp; Spring 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 With Sarah Waisvisz. \u201cYael Farber\u2019s <em>Molora<\/em>&nbsp;and Colleen Wagner\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Monument<\/em>&nbsp;as Post-Conflict Redress Theatre.\u201d&nbsp;<em>College Literature<\/em>. 40.3 Summer 2013: 113-37.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Papers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cConfluencies: from Rita Wong\u2019s Decolonial Watershed Poetics to Eco-Literary Fieldwork Pedagogy,\u201d ALECC, U of Saskatchewan, June 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRepatriating Buffalo Kinship and Michif Intergenerational Memory in Amanda Strong\u2019s Stop Motion Film, `Four Faces of the Moon.\u201d ILSA, UBC, Vancouver, BC, June 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGrassroots `&nbsp;&nbsp; Honouring Projects and Indigenous Women\u2019s `Right to Presence\u2019: Embodied Territorial Sovereignty in `The REDress Project.\u201d ILSA, First Nations University of Canada, Treaty 4 Territory, May 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIntimate Relations: Living Contextual Practices of \u201cIntergenerational Memory\u201d in Leanne Simpson\u2019s `How to Steal a Canoe\u2019.\u201d Indigenous Literary Studies Assoc., Sto: lo First Nation Territory, Chiliwack, B.C., June 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWitnessing Alongside Indigenous Memorial Spaces and Ceremonial Practices.\u201d CACLALS, U of Calgary, May 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIndigenous Women\u2019s Rights in an Era of Settler Apology.\u201d Human Rights Lit. Seminar, ACLA, Harvard, March 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Graduate Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2022 Transnational Theatre: Conflict, Crisis, Bordercrossings on the Contemporary Stage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021 Restorying Resurgence in Indigenous Popular and Multi-Media Genres<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Seminars<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>EACH 4000: Reorientations: Decolonial, Environmental, Multi-Species, Climate Change Humanities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>HUMR 4907:\u00a0 Special Topic in Human Rights: Indigenous Human Rights through a Cultural Lens<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Supervisions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Emma D\u2019amico, Ph.D. Dissertation Co-Supervisor, Environmental Humanities, In Progress.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hong Ngyuen, Ph.D. Dissertation Supervisor, Gender &amp; Sexuality in Virtual Novels, In Progress<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Steve McLeod. Ph.D. Dissertation Supervisor. Resurgence and Storywork Analyses of Representations of the Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relationship, 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sarah Waisvisz, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member. Dissident Diasporas: Genres of Maroon Witness in Anglophone and Caribbean Literature. 2014.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rob Winger, Ph.D. Dissertation Co-Supervisor.\u00a0 John Thompson, Phyliss Webb and the Roots of the Free Verse Ghazal in Canada. 2009.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sam Bean, MRP, Indigenous-Settler Relations, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chris Johnson, MRP, Canadian Poetry (Phyllis Webb), 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20493,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Brenda","cu_people_last_name":"Vellino","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[96,22],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-287","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-each","cu_people_type-professors"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor","cu_people_degree":"M.A. (Northeastern University); Ph.D. (Western)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"brenda_vellino@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24706,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/287\/revisions\/24706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}