Daniel Morley Johnson
Jonathan Lerman, Untitled (2006), charcoal on paper
I am a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta. My thesis in progress examines Indigenous resistance to physical and rhetorical displacement in the Edmonton area. I have taught at Maskwachees Cultural College and in the Faculty of Native Studies, the Department of English and Film Studies, and the Comparative Literature program at the University of Alberta. For the 2011-2012 academic year, I am a full-time sessional instructor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the U of A.
In 2008-09, I assisted in coordinating the Humanities 101 program through the university’s Community Service-Learning program in partnership with The Learning Centre at Boyle St. Community Services in downtown Edmonton. I have worked and volunteered at The Learning Centre, facilitating writing, literacy, art, political education, and civic engagement activities. I am currently a member of the advisory board for the Humanities 101 program.
In 2011-2012, with Prof. Christine Stewart (Dept. of English and Film Studies), I am facilitating a project, “Creative Writing Towards Literacy,” funded by a Killam Cornerstone Grant.
For my PhD studies, I was a recipient of the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2007-2010). I am a graduate of the University of Toronto (B.A. Hons. with Distinction, Aboriginal Studies & History) and McGill University (M.A., History).
I am a settler canadian, the third generation of my family born and raised in Wendake (Midland, ON), the original territory of the Wendat Confederacy. I now live in the heart of the Treaty 6 region (Edmonton, AB).
I curate Indigenist, a blog about academic Indigenous Studies.
Contact me by e-mail at dmjohnson [at] ualberta.ca.
