My name is April McInnes, and I am a settler PhD student of Indigenous literary studies in the Department of English at Queenâs University on Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territory. I hold BAH, BEd, and MA degrees from ĂŰĚŇ´ŤĂ˝, 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.
Indigenous literatures; Indigenous femininities; Indigenous coming-of-age narratives; decolonization; Indigenous education; pedagogy studies; temporalities; Canadian literature; critical disability studies
Articles (Peer-reviewed)
[Forthcoming] McInnes, April. âFrom âBurdenâ to Gift: Disability in Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman by Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson.â Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.
McInnes, April. âMemories, Manifestation, and Finding a Way Forward: Developing Agency through Spiralling Time in Michelle Goodâs Five Little Indians.â Canadian Literature, no. 260, 2025, pp. 101â21, .
Conferences:
Moderator. âChallenging Archetypal Narratives and Paratext.â Queenâs Undergraduate Conference on Literature, Queenâs University. (1 February 2025)
âEnvironmental Terrorism: BP, Art, and Indigenous Resistance in Canada.â Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil, The University of Edinburgh, online. (24 January 2025)
âDisrupting the Dominant Discourse of Victorian Studies with Decolonial Temporality: Challenging Chronological Time and Deploying Ceremonial Time in Drew Hayden Taylorâs The Night Wanderer: A Graphic Novel.â Re-imagining and Re-engaging with the Victorians, Queenâs University, online. (18 April 2024)
Current Positions:
Writing Consultant, Student Academic Success Services, ĂŰĚŇ´ŤĂ˝ (September 2024 â present)
Research Assistant, "Anishinaabemowin Language Acquisition Project," supervised by Dr. Lindsay Morcom, Faculty of Education, ĂŰĚŇ´ŤĂ˝ (January 2024 â present)
