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Author Biography

Willow White is an assistant professor of English Literature and Indigenous Studies at the University of Alberta, Augustana Campus. She is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta with ancestral ties to the historic Red River settlement through the Inkster, Sutherland, Anderson, and Cook families. White is the author of Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London (Delaware 2024) and co-editor of A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (Broadview 2023). Her work has appeared in Women’s Writing and Eighteenth Century Studies.

Abstract

Bringing together my identities as an Indigenous woman (Métis Nation of Alberta) and as a scholar specializing in eighteenth-century women writers has involved the continual unlearning of colonial research practices. The following essay reflects on my efforts to work with/in archives in a decolonizing way. I will share some of the practices that I have adopted, not to provide a checklist, but to join the ongoing conversation of many eighteenth-century studies scholars who share a decolonizing desire.

Keywords

archives, ancestors, Indigenous, women, eighteenth century

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