Tina Munroe
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Biography
I am a 4th year PhD candidate and scholar of Indigenous literatures. I am Anishinaabe (Saulteaux) and my family became 鈥渘on-status鈥 in their denial of the Indian Act a few generations ago. My mother moved to the city of Thunder Bay as a teen from an area in east central Saskatchewan known as 鈥淕reenbush,鈥 where our family had made life in the shrinking spaces between town and reserve until they no longer could. I am first generation urban and my work considers how language and story influence belonging in the city among those who otherwise lack intimacy with the homelands of their caregivers.
Research Interests
- Representations of urban Indigeneity
- "Urban traplines" as a mode of Indigenous land literacy
- The Indigenous body as home/land
- Fanon's "Literature of Combat"
Awards and Recognition
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2025-26)
- James W.S. Jamieson Award (2025-26)
- Fellowship in Black and Indigenous Studies (2023-2025)
- SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral Award (2022-2025)
- Indigenous Literary Studies Association Student Presentation Award - Most thought-provoking paper (2024)
- Congress Graduate Merit Award (2023)
- Queen's Doctoral Tri-Agency Recipient Recognition Award (2022-2023)
- ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL) Graduate Research Fellowship (2020-2022)
Graduate Supervision
Sam McKegney