Melanie Braith

Title: Instructor
Phone: 204-786-9351
Office: 3C25
Email: m.braith@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

Dr. Melanie Braith the Senior Research Associate of the Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak Partnership Project, and the Research Coordinator for the Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures at the University of Winnipeg. She holds a PhD in English literatures from the University of Manitoba where her research focused on Indigenous storytelling and its contemporary manifestations and reinventions. She is from Germany and currently conducts research on Canadian children’s literature with a focus on immigration stories in order to think through Indigenous-newcomer relations.

Teaching Areas:

Indigenous Literatures

Children’s Literature in Canada

Immigration Literature in Canada

Publications:

(forthcoming)                                  

Braith, Melanie, Grace Braniff, Angela Laverdure, and Benjamin Roloff. “Rethinking Authenticity, Legitimacy, and Agency in the Context of the Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Īthiniwak Project.” Papers: Explorations in Children’s Literature forthcoming 2023.

Fall 2022                                             

“Braiding Stories, Braiding Kinship: How Cree Storytelling Restores Relationships in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen.” Canadian Literature 248 (2022): 11-29.

Spring 2021:                                      

““So the names were pulled / From the depths”: Gregory Scofield’s Poetics of Witnessing” Rising Up Conference Proceedings Publication, edited by Laura Forsythe and Jennifer Markides, DIO Press.

(Fall/Winter 2020)                         

““We Are Here Now”: The Generative Refusal of Fictional Residential School Diaries” Studies in American Indian Literatures Special Issue: “Sovereign Histories, Gathering Bones, Embodying Land.”

Spring 2019:                                

“Residential School Photography: From Photographic Propaganda to Empowering Pictures” Research Journeys in/to Multiple Ways of Knowing, edited by Laura Forsythe and Jennifer Markides, DIO Press, 2019. 165-174.

Spring 2019:                                 

“’Bih’kee-yan’: Richard Wagamese’s Keeper’n Me and the Imaginative Renewal of Relationships” Vienna Working Papers in Canadian Studies, Online Journal of The Center for Canadian Studies, University of Vienna. 85-103.