Prof. Cheryl Suzack

Teaching Area:
Comparative Indigenous literatures, comparative Indigenous studies, Indigenous decolonization with a focus on gender issues and Indigenous women, law and literature studies

Research Interests:
Indigenous literatures, Indigenous feminisms, law and literature studies, feminist theory, Indigenous theory, postcolonial theory

Publications:
“The Transposition of Law and Literature in Delgamuukw and Monkey Beach.” South Atlantic Quarterly 110.2 (Spring 2011): 447-463.

Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture. Cheryl Suzack, Shari Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, and Jean Barman, co-editors and contributors (UBC Press, 2010).

“Indigenous Women and Transnational Feminist Struggle.” CR: The New Centennial Review 10.1 (2010): 179-193.

“Land Claims, Identity Claims: Mapping Indigenous Feminism in Literary Criticism and in Winona LaDuke’s Last Standing Woman.” Reasoning Together. Ed. Craig Womack. U of Oklahoma P, 2008. 169-92.

“Notes Towards Establishing a Property Interest in Aboriginal Culture.” Race & Racism in 21st Century Canada. Ed. Sean P. Hier and B. Singh Bolaria. Broadview, 2007. 217-34.

“Aboriginal Publishing in Canada.” History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l’edition au Canada. Volume 3. Ed. Carole Gerson and Jacques Michon. U of Toronto P, 2006. 293-297.

“Law Stories as Life Stories: Jeannette Lavell, Yvonne Bedard, and Half-breed.” Auto/Biography: Trace, Text, Telling. Ed. Marlene Kadar, Susanna Egan, Jeanne Perreault, and Linda Warley. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2005. 117-41.

Editor, In Search of April Raintree: Critical Edition, by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier, Portage and Main Press, 1999.

Awards, Affiliations, Personal Interests, etc.:
2012-2015 Principle Investigator, Insight Development Grant, Aboriginal Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, $61,277

Principle Investigator, Standard Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada, University of Victoria/University of Toronto, $70,832

2011 Canadian Women’s Studies Association (CWSA/ACEF) Outstanding Scholarship
Prize, Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture, (Cheryl
Suzack, Shari M. Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, Jean Barman, eds. and contributors,
Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010

Toronto Symphony Orchestra, European Football