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Shared Experiences of Serving on Committees for Indigenous Grad Students as Non-Indigenous Faculty
Featured Panelists
David Chariandy
Professor, Department of English
David Chariandy is a writer/critic specializing in Black, Caribbean, and English Canadian literatures. He has published widely in academic books and periodicals, and co-edited three special issues of journals, most recently Transition Magazine 124: Writing Black Canadas (2017). His award-winning novels are Soucouyant (2007) and Brother (2017); and his latest work is an epistolary memoir entitled I’ve Been Meaning To Tell You: A Letter To My Daughter (2018). David’s books have been published internationally and translated into twelve languages. In 2019, he received Yale University’s Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction.
Kirsten McAllister
Professor, School of Communication
Sophie McCall
Professor, Department of English
Sophie McCall is a settler scholar in the English department at Simon Fraser University. Her main areas of research and teaching are Indigenous literary studies in Canada from the 20th and 21st centuries. She has published widely on topics such as textualizing oral history, collaboration, the struggle for Indigenous rights, decolonization, resurgence, and reconciliation. She is honoured to have worked closely with her colleague, Dr. Deanna Reder (Cree-Métis) on several book projects, as well as co-supervising or serving as a committee member for Indigenous graduate students working on their PhD dissertations.
Travis Salway
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences
Moderator
Dorothy Christian
Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies
Dorothy Cucw-la7 Christian is a visual storyteller, scholar, writer and editor who is from Splatsin, one of the 17 communities of the Secwepemc Nation. She also honours her Syilx ancestry. She is the eldest of 10, has one daughter and over 65 nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews and as of Oct 2021 two great, great nieces. She serves as the Associate Director, Indigenous Policy & Pedagogy in the Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies at SFU. Dorothy Cucwla-7 also sits on the Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Advisory at SFU.