Deanna Reder

Professor and Undergraduate Chair
Indigenous Studies

Education

  • Ph.D. , Department of English, University of British Columbia, 2007. Dissertation: Âcimisowin as Theoretical Practice: Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition in Canada      
  • M.A.  Department of English, York University, 1994                                                           

Biography

Cree-Métis scholar Deanna Reder served as INDG Department Chair from 2017 to 2022. Her monograph, Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition, was released in May 2022. 

Currently she is co-chair, with Dr. Sophie McCall, of the Indigenous Voices Awards (see indigenousvoicesawards.org).  In Fall 2018 she was inducted into the College of New Scholars, Artist, & Scientists in the Royal Society of Canada.