
Deanna Reder
Depts. of Indigenous Studies and English
Simon Fraser University
Cree-Métis literary scholar Deanna Reder is a founding member of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association (ILSA). The Values in the ILSA governing code, co-written in 2013, underlines much of the work that the research project – The People and the Text (TPatT) – sets to accomplish. (See https://static1.squarespace.com/static/546f7858e4b0b6680429efda/t/66cc84ce7e57e218c5100a79/1724679374540/ILSA+Governing+Code+-+revised+2023.docx.pdf)
In 2023 Reder’s monograph, Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and Métis âcimisowina, won the Gabrielle Roy Prize from the ACQL and in 2024 the MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages and the Canada Prize.