Randy Lundy

Randy Lundy is an Assistant Professor in the Teaching Stream within the Department of English at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC). He is of Cree, Irish, and Norwegian descent and a member of the Barren Lands First Nation, Brochet, MB, with roots in Thompson, Manitoba, and Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan. His academic profile integrates Indigenous heritage with literary scholarship, having lived over twenty years in Treaty 4 territory (Regina, Saskatchewan) before joining UTSC. Lundy actively contributes to the field as Series Editor for Oskana Poetry & Poetics at the University of Regina Press.

Lundy's research centers on Indigenous literatures and creative writing, emphasizing poetic explorations of cultural identity, place, and memory. His teaching directly engages these themes through courses on Indigenous Literatures and creative writing, drawing from his upbringing near the confluence of the Fir, Etamomi, and Red Deer rivers in Saskatchewan's parkland region. This geographical and cultural grounding shapes his scholarly perspective on Native American and Indigenous Studies within Canadian literary contexts.

Lundy's publications—from Under the Night Sun (1999) to the forthcoming Something for the Dark (2025)—demonstrate sustained engagement with Indigenous poetics and Canadian landscapes. His work has been anthologized in foundational texts like An Anthology of Indigenous Literatures in English (Oxford UP) and Native Poetry in Canada (Broadview), highlighting thematic consistency in examining personal-cultural identity, environmental interconnectedness, and political dimensions of Indigenous experience through poetic form.