Research Interests:  Land-Based Indigenous Knowledge, plant-based teachings, and pollinator gardens

Education

M. Ed. World Indigenous Studies in Education, Queen's University

About

O’nahkwi:yo Kelly Maracle is a Mohawk woman and member of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte at Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. Kelly has held numerous roles in the field of Indigenous education over the past 20 years including K-12, adult education, post-secondary education, and administration. She is a mother of three children and sits with the Turtle clan. Kelly’s areas of focus are developing culturally responsive, Land-Based educational programming and Trauma Informed Practice. She completed her Masters of Education in the World Indigenous Studies in Education program at Queen’s University, with research in plant-based teachings, Land-Based Indigenous Knowledge and pollinator gardens. “I am always inspired by my late father, who firmly believed in the power of education.”

Teaching

Professor Maracle teaches the following courses:
INDG 395: Special Topics: Learning Together from The Land
INDG 401: In Community Capstone: Research & Relationships

Research Interests:  semiotics; intertextuality; information circulation and sovereignty; Indigenous linguistic and cultural reclamation; functional approaches to grammar and discourse

Education

Ph.D (joint) Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Chicago, 2020
M.A. Communication Studies, McGill University, 2012
B.A. Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, University of Chicago, 2009

About

Hannah McElgunn is a linguistic anthropologist whose writing and teaching explores the dynamic relationship between language and culture. Her primary research and ethical commitments are centered at Hopi, an Indigenous community, language, and way of life in Arizona. Working in reciprocity with friends and colleagues, she studies the historical and contemporary appropriation of Hopi language, knowledge, and other “intangible” materials, and the various ways they might be reclaimed in the present. Her work seeks to support information sovereignty and strengthen connections between Indigenous languages and communities, while also fostering methodological and theoretical ties between the disciplines of Linguistics and Anthropology. Before coming to Queen’s, Hannah was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.

Personal website:  www.hannahmcelgunn.com

Teaching

Dr. McElgunn teaches the following courses:
LLCU 395: Special Topics: Cultural Communications
LLCU 295: Special Topics: Multilingualism: Mixing, Purity, and Everything in Between 
LLCU 403: Stories that Matter: Connecting Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Research interests: language variation and change, sociolinguistics, socio-phonetics, dialectology, Canadian English.

Education

Ph. D. in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, York University (ABD)
M. A. in Linguistics, University of Toronto, 2008
B. A. in Linguistics, McGill University, 2003

About

Professor Baxter’s current research focuses on different regional and ethnic varieties of Canadian English, including English spoken in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, and Black English in Toronto; as well as parodies and stereotypes of Canadian English, particularly those portrayed on American television.

Professor Baxter has previously taught a variety of linguistics and sociolinguistics courses at York University and Glendon College, including Language in its Social Context, Bilingualism, Canadian English, Varieties of English, The Structure of English, and Modern English.

Teaching

LING 202: Canadian English
LING 320: Phonology

Research interests: The intersection between culture, religion, politics and national identity in Mexico during the 20th century, focusing on the evolution of political and social imaginaries, modernity and secularism.

Education

Ph. D. Student, Queen’s University, 2020-2024
M. A. in Religious Studies, Queen’s University, 2020
M.B.A. Texas Tech University, 2004
B. A. in Philosophy, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico, 2001

About

Francisco Zepeda is a Ph.D. student in Cultural Studies and a teaching assistant in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Queen’s University. He is also a research fellow at the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative (NACDI) and was a research assistant at SILS 27. Currently, he researches the evolution of political and social imaginaries, both religious and secular, in Mexico during the 20th century. On the one hand, he uses archive work and discourse analysis to explore the diary of debates of key legislative processes that led to promulgation or amendments of Mexican constitutions and shaped the political and economic systems. On the other hand, he investigates alternative social imaginaries, such as those of the Cristeros and the Zapatista Movement, which exemplify some voices traditionally excluded by the political elites that have contested the hegemonic narrative.

Teaching

SPAN 111: Beginning Spanish I (Winter 2022)
Teaching assistant for SPAN 111 Beginning Spanish I (Fall 2021)

Queen’s National Scholar
Joint-Appointed with French Studies

Research interests: Comparative Indigenous literary criticism; francophone Indigenous literatures and migrant literatures, Indigenous filmmaking and collaborative research methodologies, theories of events and Indigenous-settler relationships  

Education

Ph. D. in Literary Studies, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
M. A. in Humanities, Concordia University
B. A. in Translation, Concordia University

About

Professor St-Amand is a settler scholar whose research focuses on Indigenous literary theories in Québec and Canada, collaborative research and Indigenous filmmaking in the Americas, and theories of events and Indigenous-settler relationships. Her research has been supported by scholarships, fellowships, internal and external funding, as well as by various academic and community collaborations.

Dr. St-Amand received her PhD in 2012 from the Université du Québec à Montréal, and was awarded a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship to pursue her research at the Department of Native Studies at University of Manitoba. In 2014 and 2015, she led a SSHRC-funded project to organize and reflect on “Revisioning the Americas through Indigenous Cinema”, the 5^th of an ongoing series of international trilingual conferences held in Montreal and Kahnawake as part of the First People’s Film Festival.  In that line of work, she is currently investigating the oral dimension of knowledges on Indigenous literatures and filmmaking by looking at various Indigenous-led events that gather scholars, writers, filmmakers, and community members.

Professor St-Amand has published with leading scholars in migrant literatures and Indigenous literatures. She recently co-edited a special journal issue examining environmental ethics and activism in Indigenous literature and film. Her book Stories of Oka: Land, Film and Literature https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/stories-of-oka was published at University of Manitoba Press in the Spring 2018. It analyzes this political crisis during the standoff, in documentary films and in literary narratives, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, in Canada and Québec. The review of the book was published in the Eastern Door Journal in Kahnawake: https://www.easterndoor.com/2018/05/29/new-book-explores-bias-and-accounts-of-1990/

Professor St-Amand’s teaching philosophy is grounded in her experience of community-based research. She strives to foster experiential learning and co-founded in 2013 at Université de Montréal a CÉRIUM’s graduate summer institute on Indigenous literatures and film, for which she was co-responsible in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. 

Teaching

Professor St-Amand is teaching the following course(s):

LLCU 270: Contemporary Events and Indigenous Cultural Politics 
LLCU 295: Special Topics: Contemporary Events and Indigenous Cultural Politics
LLCU 302: Unsettling: Indigenous Peoples & Canadian Settler Colonialism
LLCU 370: Indigenous Women and Power