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Dallas Hunt is Cree and a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta. He serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures within the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia, where he also holds an affiliation with the UBC Centre for Climate Justice.
His scholarly work focuses on Indigenous literatures, decolonial narratives, and the politics of settler colonialism. His research interests include:
- Urban Indigeneity in the 'reconciliation era'
- Historical analyses of settler colonialism on the prairies
- Small Indigenous publishing houses
- Settler replacement narratives and Indigenous futurities
- The poetry of Anishinaabe writer Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
Hunt's critical work has been published in prominent journals including Theory & Event, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, and Canadian Literature. His creative publications include the children's book Awâsis and the World-Famous Bannock (2018), the poetry collection CREELAND (2021), and Teeth (2024).
Hunt's academic contributions demonstrate a consistent focus on challenging colonial historiographies while amplifying Indigenous voices across North America. His work bridges creative and critical approaches to Indigenous literary traditions and decolonial thought.
Hunt teaches courses in Indigenous literature(s), De/anticolonial theory, Canadian literature, and Critical theory, with special topics including urban Indigeneity, contemporary Indigenous scholarship, affect, prairie literatures, and the environmental humanities.
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