PhD (Dalhousie), MA (Simon Fraser), BA (Simon Fraser)
Brenna Duperron works as a per-course/contract-faculty member at the University of King’s College, Dalhousie University and Mount Saint Vincent University. Duperron received her PhD in English Literature from Dalhousie University in 2024, and her SSHRC-funded doctoral dissertation, “Fear Not the Language of the World: Red Reading Literacy in The Book of Margery Kempe” (2023), bridges Indigenous and premodern scholarship, disrupting the borders of orality/literacy in medieval texts. She won the Van Courtland Elliot Prize for her piece in the English Language Notes special issues Medieval Pasts and Indigenous Futures, “Ghostly Consciousness in The Book of Margery Kempe,” (2020) which reads pre-contact texts through Indigenous methods and approaches as an act of decolonization. In a 2021 issue of Exemplaria, Duperron co-authored “Thinking Indigeneity: A Challenge to Medieval Studies” with Elizabeth Edwards, Inglis Professor at University of King’s College, providing both a state-of-the-field review of the interdisciplinary links between medieval studies and Indigenous studies and a ‘call-for-action’ imploring further consideration and commitment to decolonial practices
Articles
“Thinking Indigeneity: A Challenge to Medieval Studies.” Exemplaria, 33.1, 2021, 94-107, co-authored with Elizabeth Edwards.
“Ghostly Consciousness in The Book of Margery Kempe.” English Language Notes, Special Issue: Indigenous Futures & Medieval Pasts, 58.2, October 2020, 121-135.
Public-Facing Scholarship
“How the Middle Ages Are Being Revisited Through Indigenous Perspectives.” The Conversation, 27 May 2024
“Reconciling Medieval Studies: A Showcase of Dr. Tarren Andrews, Sarah-Nelle Jackson, and Sarah LaVoy-Brunette,” OpenThink, Dalhousie University, 5 March 2024
“’Such Lands Were Pre-Eminently Desirable:’ Reading the Colonial Language of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘On Fairy-Stories,’” 3 October 2023
“Understanding ‘Red Reading,’” 5 September 2023
“Off With His Head: Reading the Headless Colonization of the Green Knight (Part 1).” DalOpenThink, 6 March 2023
