Doris Wolf

Title: Associate Professor
Phone: 204.789.1473
Office: 2A44
Email: d.wolf@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

Doris Wolf holds a co-appointment in the Department of English and the Faculty of Education-Access Programs. Her research focuses on North American memoirs of German childhoods in WWII and Indigenous Canadian graphic narratives and picture books. She is currently a key member of Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Ῑthiniwak, a multi-year collaborative project which supports the grassroots cultural resurgence of the Asiniskaw Ῑthiniwak (Rocky Cree people) of central northern Canada and is funded by a large SSHRC Partnership Grant. As the academic lead for the curriculum team on the project, Dr. Wolf develops resources for middle years educators to support the use of Six Seasons picture books and apps in classrooms.

Teaching Areas:
Young people’s texts and cultures; Indigenous children’s literature and graphic narratives; Canadian literature; life writing.

Publications:

Select Recent Publications

Articles:

with Margaret Dumas and Mavis Reimer. “Emotion and the Work of Decolonization: The Case of Pīsim Finds Her Miskanaw.” Emotion in Texts for Children and Young Adults: Moving Stories, eds Ed. Karen Coats and Gretchen Papazian. John Benjamins, Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition Series, 2023. 217-234.

“Changing Minds and Hearts: Felt Theory and the Carceral Child in Indigenous Canadian Residential School Picture Books.” In Affect, Emotion and Children’s Literature: Representation and Socialisation in Texts for Children and Young Adults. Eds. Kristine Moruzi, Michelle Smith, and Elizabeth Bullen. New York: Routledge, 2018. 146-158.

“Challenging Stereotypes by Restorying History in Canadian Indigenous-Authored Picture Books and Graphic Narratives for Middle Years Classrooms.” Finding New Voice and Vision in Literacy Learning. Ed. Karen Magro. Ulm: International Centre for Innovation in Education, 2016. 154-62.

“Restorying and Unsettling Canadian Indigenous-Settler Histories: Intercultural Exchange in David Alexander Robertson’s The Life of Helen Betty Osborne and Sugar Falls.” In Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives. Eds. Candida Rifkind and Linda Warley. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016. 207-34.

“Confronting the Legacy of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools: Cree Cultural Memory and the Warrior Spirit in David Alexander Robertson and Scott B. Henderson’s 7 Generations Graphic Novel Series.” In Canadian Literature and Cultural Memory. Eds. Cynthia Sugars and Eleanor Ty. Toronto, ON: Oxford University Press, 2014. 337-53.

“The Suffering of the Perpetrators: The Ethics of Traumatic German Historicity in Karen Bass’s Young Adult World War II Novels.” International Research in Children’s Literature 7.1 (2014): 64-77.

Curriculum Resources:

with Connie Wyatt Anderson, Margaret Dumas, and Renee Gillis. Teacher’s Guide for Amō’s Sapotawan. Portage & Main Press, 2023. 114 pages, single spaced. Also available at https://sixseasonsproject.ca/resources/for-educators.

with Connie Wyatt Anderson, Margaret Dumas, and Renee Gillis. Teacher’s Guide for Pīsim Finds Her Miskanaw. Portage & Main Press,  2020. 126 pages, single spaced. Also available at https://sixseasonsproject.ca/resources/for-educators.