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Sam McKegney

Professor, Department Head (On sabbitcal)

englhead@queensu.ca

1-613-533-6000 ext. 74388

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Bio 

My name is Sam McKegney, and I鈥檓 a settler scholar of Indigenous literatures. My teaching and research seek to register the ways in which Indigenous literary artists: (1) interrogate ongoing settler colonialism; (2) imagine modes of sociality that exceed the confines of the settler state; and (3) provoke extra-textual responses from Indigenous, settler, and diasporic readers that might contribute to decolonization. I鈥檓 fascinated and troubled by the study of masculinity and sport鈥攑articularly hockey鈥攊n settler colonial contexts.

I am the author of two monographs concerned with Indigenous literary art and the editor of a collection of interviews on the subject of Indigenous masculinities. I am a founding member and Past President of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association and the principal investigator for the Indigenous Hockey Research Network.

Research Interests 

Indigenous literatures; Indigenous masculinities; hockey culture and Canadian nationalism; Indigenous governance and its pursuit through art; carceral composition; literary activism; Canadian literature.