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April McInnes

Biography

My name is April McInnes, and I am a settler PhD student of Indigenous literary studies in the Department of English at Queen’s University on Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territory. I hold BAH, BEd, and MA degrees from Queen's, and I am a certified teacher with the Ontario College of Teachers. My research investigates decolonial approaches to Indigenous literatures and their implications and applications in secondary-level classrooms in the public education system.

Research Interests

Indigenous literatures; Indigenous femininities; Indigenous coming-of-age narratives; decolonization; Indigenous education; pedagogy studies; temporalities; Canadian literature; critical disability studies

Selected Publications

Articles (Peer-reviewed)

[Accepted] â€śMemories, Manifestation, and Finding a Way Forward: Developing Agency through Spiraling Time in Michelle Good’s Five Little Indians.” Canadian Literature.

Awards and Recognition
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2024-2025)
Queen's University Dean's Award for Social Justice (2024-2025)
Duncan and Urlla Carmichael Fellowship (2023-2024)
Margaret Craig Education Award (2022-2023)
Queen's University Dean’s Award of Excellence (2022)
Graduate Supervision
Additional Information

Conferences:

Moderator. “Challenging Archetypal Narratives and Paratext.” Queen’s Undergraduate Conference on Literature, Queen’s University. (1 February 2025)

“Environmental Terrorism: BP, Art, and Indigenous Resistance in Canada.” Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil, The University of Edinburgh, online. (24 January 2025)

“Disrupting the Dominant Discourse of Victorian Studies with Decolonial Temporality: Challenging Chronological Time and Deploying Ceremonial Time in Drew Hayden Taylor’s The Night Wanderer: A Graphic Novel.” Re-imagining and Re-engaging with the Victorians, Queen’s University, online. (18 April 2024)

Current Positions:

Communications Coordinator, Queen's Graduate Conference in Literature, 91şÚÁĎÍř (October 2024 â€“ present)

Writing Consultant, Student Academic Success Services, 91şÚÁĎÍř (September 2024 â€“ present)

Research Assistant (Anishinaabemowin Language Acquisition Project), supervised by Dr. Lindsay Morcom, Faculty of Education, 91şÚÁĎÍř (January 2024 â€“ present)

Graduate Blog Writer, Student Academic Success Services, 91şÚÁĎÍř (September 2023 â€“ present)

Department of English Literature and Creative Writing, Queen's University

Watson Hall
49 Bader Lane
Kingston ON K7L 3N6
Canada

Telephone (613) 533-2153

Undergraduate

Graduate

91şÚÁĎÍř is situated on traditional Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe territory.