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Dr. Tyson Stewart

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Associate Professor / Faculty of Arts and Science - Gender Equality and Social Justice, Religion and Cultures and Indigenous Studies - Indigenous Studies
Position
Full-time Faculty
Extension
4137
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About
Tyson Stewart is Anishinaabe of the Teme Augama Anishnabai with family from Temiskaming Shores and Temagami in Ontario. He teaches courses on Indigenous cultural expression, Indigenous-settler history, and the philosophy and politics of representation from the silent period to streaming video. His current research projects focus on media narratives about Indigenous identity fraud, Indigenous noir in film and television, and the cultural legacy of Paramount Pictures’ The Silent Enemy (1930), filmed in n’Daki Menan in the 1920s, which will also be the subject of his third novel in his planned “Temagami Trilogy.”
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Dr. Stewart’s first novel The Return of the Nish will be published in 2026 by Cormorant Books.

Education
BA (Hons), York University
MA, York University
PhD, Laurentian University
Research

Areas of Specialization

Critical theory; Film and media studies; Indigenous Studies; Interdisciplinary theory.

Research Interests

Biography and the archive; Communication technologies; Film noir; Image ethics; Indigenous literature; Indigenous screen cultures; Journalism; La nouvelle vague; Oral storytelling and relationality; Screenwriting; Television aesthetics and politics.

Publications

Book

Cinema Derrida: The Law of Inspection in the Age of Global Spectral Media.  New York, Peter Lang, 2020.

Articles, Chapters, and Reviews

“Deconstructing land acknowledgements: from oral to cinematic expression.” AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, vol. 21, no. 4, December 2025, pp. 786-790. https://doi.org/10.1177/11771801251359157.

“The Future is Noir: Alienation, Resentment, and Cyclicality in Indigenous Futurism on Film.” Wíčazo Ša Review, vol. 38, no. 1-2, 2023, pp. 142-158. https://doi.org/10.1353/wic.2023.a965100.

“Sugarcane: Personal Stories.” Docalogue, May/June 2025, https://docalogue.com/sugarcane/. Accessed 21 June 2025.

Stewart, Tyson, and Mary Laronde. “The Silent Enemy (1930) and n’Daki Menan: Reclaiming Mise-en-Scène as Authorial Expression.” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 47, Fall 2023, pp. 307-322. https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-0058 

“Reconciliation TV: The Case of First Contact.” Ab-Original: Journal of Indigenous Studies and First Nations and First Peoples’ Cultures, vol. 4, no. 1-2, 2020, pp. 183-188. https://doi.org/10.5325/aboriginal.4.1-2.0183. 

Review of Resurgence and Reconciliation: Indigenous-Settler Relations and Earth Teachings, edited by Michael Asch, John Borrows, and James Tully, University of Toronto Press, 2018. NAIS, vol. 8, no. 2, Fall 2021, pp. 204-206. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/804051. 

“Truth and reconciliation cinema: an ethico-political study of residential school imagery in contemporary Indigenous film.” AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous  Peoples, vol. 17, no. 2, June 2021, pp. 165-174, doi:10.1177/11771801211012450.

Review of Rewrite Man: The Life and Career of Screenwriter Warren Skaaren, by Alison Macor. Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, vol. 39, no. 4, December 2019, pp. 905-906, doi: 10.1080/01439685.2019.1643141.

“Images of Global Conflict and the Work of Mourning in the Humanities Classroom.”  Interdisciplinary Humanities, vol. 36, no. 1, Spring 2019, pp. 93-103.

“Face, Flesh, Film.” Review of The Face on Film, by Noa Steimatsky. Senses of Cinema, vol. 87, June 2018, www.sensesofcinema.com/2018/book-reviews/face-flesh-film-face-film-noa-steimatsky/. Accessed 4 July 2021.

“Before the Law of Spectrality: Derrida on the Prague Imprisonment.” Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, vol. 9, no. 1, May 2018, pp. 57-74, doi: 10.1386/ejpc.9.1.57_1.

“Screening Life/Death.” Review of Deathwatch: American Film, Technology, and the End of Life, by C. Scott Combs. Senses of Cinema, vol. 78, March 2016, www.sensesofcinema.com/2016/book-reviews/deathwatch/. Accessed 4 July 2021.

Review of Black Television Travels: African American Media Around the Globe, by Timothy Havens. Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, vol. 34, no. 3, September 2014, pp. 488-490, doi: 10.1080/01439685.2014.942967.

“The Romance of the Intellectual in Godard: A Love-Hate Relationship.” The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard, edited by Nicole Côté, Douglas Morrey, and Christina Stojanova, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014, pp. 169-82.

Review of Those Girls: Single Women in Sixties and Seventies Popular Culture, by Katherine J. Lehman. Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, vol. 33, no. 3, September 2013, pp. 512-515, doi: 10.1080/01439685.2013.806172.

Review of Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Canada, by Donica Belisle. Enterprise and Society, vol. 13, no. 2, June 2012, pp. 414-416, doi: 10.1093/es/khr064.