Biography
Positions
Education
Languages spoken
- French
- Anishinaabemowin
Teaching Areas
Undergraduate Programs
- English Studies
- Indigenous Studies
Graduate Studies
- Environmental Science/Studies, MESc/MES
- History, MA
- Sociology, MA
- PhD in Education (Educational Sustainability)
Graduate Supervision
Accepting Students for Supervision
School year
- 2026/27
- 2027/28
- 2028/29
Guidelines or Expectations for Prospective Students
I am available to supervise graduate students who are interested in any of the following topics:
- 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.
Research
Research Interests
Indigenous film and literature
Current Research Projects / Labs
Grants & Funding
Current funding includes:
- SSHRC Insight Grant ($56,410). Title: "The World is Upside Down: Truth, Reconciliation, and Noir." 2026-2031.
- Award in Support of Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities (ARSCA) ($6,000) Title: “Playing Indian” in the Era of Truth and Reconciliation: Satirizing Pretendians in Indigenous News Media and Popular Culture." 2025-2030.
Open to Media Inquiries
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.