Assistant Professor
![Akerman_Photo_2023a Erin Akerman](https://brocku.ca/humanities/english-language-and-literature/wp-content/uploads/sites/137/Akerman_Photo_2023a-560x526.jpg?x82746)
PhD, University of Western Ontario
Office: GLA 147
eakerman@brocku.ca
Teaching Areas: Indigenous, Canadian, and Nineteenth-Century Literatures
I am a citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario from the Georgian Bay Métis Community. Though I study both early and contemporary Indigenous literatures of Turtle Island, my work is often located at the intersection of Indigenous, Canadian, and nineteenth-century British literary studies. I would be happy to supervise students with research interests in these areas. My own research is especially attentive to Indigenous literary expressions of relationship on and with the land, Indigenous feminisms, and the archival recovery of nineteenth-century Indigenous writers.
“At the Crossroads of Sympathy and Prophecy: Anna Jameson, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, and the Drummond Island Métis.” Canadian Literature, vol. 250, 2023, pp. 56-78.
Fall 2023
ENGL 2P64: Early Canadian Literature
ENGL 4V77: Early Indigenous Women’s Writing
Winter 2024
ENGL 1P91: Decolonizing Literature