{"id":4919,"date":"2018-11-05T09:57:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T14:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iis\/?post_type=cu-people&#038;p=4919"},"modified":"2024-09-16T09:57:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T13:57:05","slug":"brenda-vellino","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/iis\/people\/brenda-vellino\/","title":{"rendered":"Brenda Vellino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Research Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Indigenous \u2013 Settler Relations<\/li>\n<li>Contemporary Indigenous Literatures and Cultures<\/li>\n<li>Twentieth Century\/Contemporary Poetry Studies (US, Canadian, Indigenous, Transnational)<\/li>\n<li>Twentieth Century\/Contemporary Theatre Studies (Canadian, Indigenous, Transnational)<\/li>\n<li>Human Rights Humanities; Environmental Humanities<\/li>\n<li>Gender, Sexuality, Critical Race, Decolonial Studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Current Research Projects:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indigenous Story Mapping and Territorial Rights and Responsibilities; Indigenous Counter-Genocidal and Resurgence Practices in Literary and Cultural Forms; Indigneous Women\u2019s Honouring Projects for MMIWG2S; Contemporary Theatre and Grassroots Transitional Justice; Ecological Justice and Climate Change; Ecology and Literary Fieldwork<\/p>\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 am also a member of CIRICLE, the Centre for Indigenous Research, Culture, Language, and Education. I welcome enquiries regarding supervisions in the human rights humanities, Indigenous cultural studies, transitional justice and cultural studies, contemporary poetry studies, and contemporary theatre studies.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the first twenty years of my research and teaching career has focused on contemporary Canadian, US, Indigenous, and transnational poetry with publications on writers ranging from the modernist H.D. to Audre Lorde to Canadians Dorothy Livesay, Lillian Allen, Daphne Marlatt, and Dionne Brand. In the past seven years, my research and teaching interests have broadened to include contemporary theatre studies, particularly focused on transnational, Canadian, and Indigenous theatre. I consider both poetry and theatre to be a means of performative intervention into important conversations around social identities, human rights, citizenship, and ecological concerns. These priorities inform both my research and teaching.<\/p>\n<p>Compelled by interests in feminist, critical race, and postcolonial\/decolonial theory, I have been especially engaged in the emerging field of literature and human rights, publishing in several key volumes that have helped define the field: Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies (2015) and The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights (2016).<\/p>\n<p>After attending \u201cIdle No More\u201d teach-ins here on unceded Algonquin territory led by \u201cNiigaan: In Conversation\u201d in 2013 and being propelled by the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission\u2019s 94 Calls to Action, my most recent work engages with the pressing issues of addressing the injustices wrought by 150 years of settler colonialism and attending to Indigenous claims to land and territory- based, embodied sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Awards:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carleton University Teaching Award, 2020<\/li>\n<li>CURO Development Grant, 2013-2015<\/li>\n<li>SSHRC 4A Grant, 2008-2009<\/li>\n<li>SSHRC 4A Grant, 2006-2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Professional Membership:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indigenous Literary Studies Association, American Comparative Literature Association<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent and Forthcoming Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cStaging Marie Clements\u2019s Counter-Genocidal Theatre Intervention Alongside the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls\u2019 Final Report.\u201d Global Indigenous Literatures and Human Rights. Forthcoming: Amherst College Press, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEstuarian Poetics: Aqueous Eco-Buddhist Subjectivity in Daphne Marlatt\u2019s Open Forms.\u201d Selected Essays on Daphne Marlatt. Ed. Jason Wiens. Forthcoming: 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTerritorial Relations Apprenticeship: Teaching Indigenous Popular Literary and Multi-Media Genres on unceded Algonquin Territory.\u201d Studies in American Indian Literature: Forthcoming, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntervening in Settler Colonial Genocide: Restoring M\u00e9tis Buffalo Kinship Memory in Amanda Strong\u2019s \u2018Four Faces of the Moon.\u2019&#8221; Studies in American Indian Literature 32: 3-4 (2020): 149-75.<\/p>\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 Journal of Canadian Native Studies. 38.1 (2018): 129-52<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRestaging Indigenous \u2013 Settler Relations: Intercultural Theatre as Redress Rehearsal in Marie Clement\u2019 and Rita Leistners The Edward Curtis Project.\u201dTheatre Research in Canada. 38.1 (Spring 2017): 92-111.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeyond the Trauma Aesthetic: The Cultural Work of Human Rights Witness Poetries.\u201d Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights. Ed Sophia McClennan and Alexandra Schulteis Moore. New York: Routledge, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCultivating Translocal Citizen Witness: Contemporary Human Rights Poetry as `Remembrance\/Pedagogy.\u2019\u201d Options for Teaching: Human Rights and Literature. Eds. Alexandra Schulteis Moore and Elizabeth Goldberg. New York: MLA: 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 With Sarah Waisvisz. \u201cThe Steveston Noh Project as Redress Theatre from Below.\u201d Canadian Literature. Spring 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014.With Sarah Waisvisz. \u201cYael Farber\u2019s Molora and Colleen Wagner\u2019s Monument as Post-Conflict Redress Theatre.\u201d College Literature. 40.3 Summer 2013: 113-37.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018History\u2019s Pulse Measured with Another Hand\u2019: Precarity Archives and Translocal Citizen Witness in Dionne Brand\u2019s Inventory.\u201d University of Toronto Quarterly. 82.2 Spring 2013: 242-260.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent Papers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepatriating Buffalo Kinship and Michif Intergenerational Memory in Amanda Strong\u2019s Stop Motion Film, `Four Faces of the Moon.\u2019\u201d ISLA, UBC, Vancouver, BC, June 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrassroots \u201cHonouring Projects\u201d and Indigenous Women\u2019s `Right to Presence\u2019: Embodied and Territorial Sovereignty in `The REDress Project.\u2019\u201d ILSA, First Nations University of Canada, Treaty 4 Territory, Regina, Saskatchewan, May 2018.<\/p>\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<p>\u201cWitnessing Alongside Indigenous Memorial Spaces and Ceremonial Practices.\u201d CACLALS, U of Calgary, May 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndigenous Women\u2019s Rights in an Era of Settler Apology.\u201d Human Rights Lit. Seminar, ACLA, Harvard, March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014with Steve McLeod. \u201cUnsettled Solidarities\u201d: Settler Learning Through a Practice of Place-Based Relationships\u201d CALA, U of Calgary, May 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiterary Unveiling? Pashtun Women in Eliza Griswold\u2019s Humanitarian Feminist Bildungsroman I Am The Beggar of This World.\u201d Human Rights Lit. Seminar. ACLA Conference, Seattle, March 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndigenous \u2013 Settler Theater Collaboration as Redress Rehearsal.\u201d Canadian Association of Theatre Research, University of Ottawa, June 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graduate Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2019 Transnational Theatre<\/p>\n<p>2015 The Modernist and Contemporary Long Poem 2013 The Contemporary Canadian Long Poem<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HUMR 4907: Special Topic in Human Rights: Indigenous Human Rights through a Cultural Lens<\/p>\n<p>ENGL 4961A: Indigenous Literatures II: Indigenous Restorying and Resurgence: Popular Genres and Performance Cultures<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supervisions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hong Nguyen-Sears. Ph.D. Dissertation Co-Supervisor. Queer Games Studies. Ongoing.<\/li>\n<li>Steve McLeod. Ph.D. Dissertation Supervisor. Resurgence and Storywork-Inspired Analyses of Representations of the Indigenous-non-Indigenous Relationship. 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Waisvisz, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member. Dissident Diasporas: Genres of Maroon Witness in Anglophone and Caribbean Literature. 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Rob Winger, Ph.D. Dissertation Co-Supervisor. John Thompson, Phyliss Webb and the Roots of the Free Verse Ghazal in Canada. 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Chris Johnson, MRP, Canadian Poetry (Phyllis Webb), 2014<\/li>\n<li>Danica Meridith, MRP, Canadian Fiction (Michael Redhill), 2013<\/li>\n<li>Patricia Corrigan, MRP, Diasporic Long Poem (Dionne Brand), 2011<\/li>\n<li>James Hanh, MRP, Canadian Long Poem (Stephen Scobie), 2011<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"people-type":[73],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - 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