Collaborator
Deanna Reder (Cree-Métis) is a Professor in the Departments of
Indigenous Studies and English at Simon Fraser University. Her research
is on the neglected Indigenous literary archive, initially funded by
SSHRC in a project called “The People and the Text: Indigenous Writing
in Northern North America up to 1992“. Her 2022 monograph, Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition:
Cree and Métis âcimisowin, is the recipient of the 2022 Gabrielle Roy
Prize for Canadian literary criticism (English section) awarded by the
Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL).
She is a founding member of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association (2013), the Indigenous Editors Association (2019), and a founding co-chair of the Indigenous Voices Awards from 2018-2023. In fall 2018, she was inducted into the College of New Scholars, Artist, & Scientists in
the Royal Society of Canada.