Talks

INVITED TALKS & GUEST LECTURES

2024 “Teaching in the Canadian Classroom.” Invited panelist. Graduate Teaching and Learning Program – level 1, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Alberta, August 23, 2024 (virtual).

2023 “Teaching in the Canadian Classroom.” Invited panelist. Graduate Teaching and Learning Program – level 1, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Alberta, August 29, 2023 (virtual).

2022 “Indigenous Peoples and Multiculturalism: Indigenous Internationalism & Indigenous-settler relations.” Guest lecture for “LAX062B05: Canada’s Cultural Mosaic”, Department of European Languages and Cultures, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 20 May 2022. (virtual)

PODCASTS & RADIO

2022 “Wakker in de Holst van de Nacht ABC: Merel belt met Malou uit Canada.” (Awake in the Dead of Night ABC: Merel on the phone with Malou in Canada.” De nacht van… BNNVARA, NPO Radio 1, 5 July 2022. (starting at 2h33)

2022 “Holst van de Nacht: Merel belt met Malou uit Canada.” (In the dead of night: Merel on the phone with Malou in Canada) De nacht van… BNNVARA, NPO Radio 1, 18 January 2022.

2021 “Les littératures autochtones à la croisée des langues.” Balado académique: Lire en relation, Salon du Livre des Premières Nations, 20 November 2021.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2025 “Re-visiting my Dissertation: On Author Interviews as Community-Engaged Research in Indigenous Literary Studies.” Revisiting, Indigenous Literary Studies Association, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, June 2-4, 2025, George Brown College, Toronto.

2025 “Poems-as-language-lessons: Indigenous Women’s Translingual Poems as Language Revitalization.” Décoloniser la comparaison : lectures transautochtones des littératures contemporaines du Canada et du reste des Amériques, May 22, 2025, Université du Québec à Montréal.

2024 “’lécher la surface de l’eau avec la langue que je ne parle pas’ : Indigenous Language Revitalization as Climate Justice.” Presented at “Attuning to Climate: Listening, Walking, Acting,” University of Alberta and City of Edmonton, October 18, 2024.  

2023 With Eline Kuenen, “Dreams, Water, and Belonging in Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau’s Ourse bleue and Ayesha Harruna Attah’s The Deep Blue Between.” Presented at “Placing Native American and Ghanaian literatures in conversation,” July 17, 2023 (virtual).

2023 “Les littératures autochtones au Québec : un avenir multilingue et relationnel.” Presented at ‘30 Ans d’études littéraires autochtones au québec? État des lieux et visions d’avenir,’ May 11, 2023, Université Laval and Maison de la Littérature, Québec.

2023 “Videopoetry on/of the land,” Presented at “Crossings and Crossroads,” the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, April 21, 2023, Butler University, Indianapolis.

2022 “Poems-as-language-lessons: translingualism in Naomi McIlwraith’s kiyâm.” Presented at “Code-Switching in Arts,” LangueFlow conference, 29 September 2022 (virtual).

2022 “Des écologies littéraires féministes au Canada: Observations du côté francophone.” Roundtable “Feminist Literary Ecologies in Canada/ Des écologies féministes au Canada,” Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures, 27 May 2022 (virtual).

2021 “Crossing languages, transcending boundaries: eroticism as connecting factor in Indigenous poetry in French and in English”. Presented at “The Sovereign Erotic”, 42nd American Indian Workshop, 16 July 2021, Department of British and American Studies, European University Cyprus, Nicosia/Cyprus. (virtual)

2021 “Video Poetry on/of the Land: Heid Edrich’s “Pre-Occupied” and Natasha Kanapé Fontaine’s “Nous nous soulèverons”. Presented at “Nuna pigitjangittavut, nunattinut pigijauvugut / La terre ne nous appartient pas. Nous appartenons à la terre. / The land does not belong to us. We belong to the land.”, A Virtual Gathering of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association, 7 June 2021, University of Alberta, Edmonton. (virtual)

2021 “Correspondence for (Re)Conciliation : Let’s Talk About Settler Colonialism and Racism”. Paper presented at the graduate student conference “Maintaining Bridges: Sustaining Connections in a Time of Crisis”, March 4, 2021, University of Alberta, Edmonton. (virtual)

2020 “Surviving and Challenging the Colonized Scene of Translation: Innu-aimun in Natasha Kanapé Fontaine’s Poetry”. Graduate student conference “(En)Forced (Mis)Connections 2020: tracing spaces of violence, struggle & solidarity”, 13 February 2020, University of Alberta, Edmonton.

2015 “Viv(r)e la terre : la poésie autochtone féminine contemporaine comme art de l’environnement”. International conference “Passé, présent et avenir de l’écocritique québécoise et franco-canadienne”, 9 October 2015, McGill University, Montreal.