This talk will introduce the key interventions of Mallory Whiteduck’s dissertation, “The Rez: Aesthetics of the Everyday in Native American Literature and Visual Culture.” Mallory examines the contours and complexities of “the Indigenous everyday,” a term coined by Beth H. Piatote and Philip J. Deloria, in Native American fiction, memoir and television. Through chapters that provide literary and visual analysis, she argues that understanding the rez, equally in terms of its humor and horror, is a critical component of Indigenous literary studies and Native American studies broadly.
Mallory Whiteduck is Algonquin from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg and a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan in the Department of American Culture. She is currently a dissertation fellow with the Ford Foundation. Her dissertation research focuses on representations of rez life in literature and visual culture. She has a Master’s degree in Canadian Studies from Carleton University. Before beginning her doctorate, Mallory worked at the Native Women’s Association of Canada and at Carleton. This fall she will join Vassar College as an associate professor of Indigenous Political Thought in the Department of Political Science.
Please contact soc-anthro@carleton.ca for the Zoom link.
This lecture is part of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology Colloquium Series.