First Name
Michele
Last Name
Lacombe
Email
mlacombe@trentu.ca
Phone
705-748-1011 ext. 7845
Location
Enwayaang Building 309
Campus
Peterborough
Job Title
Associate Professor
Accreditation
B.A. (McGill), M.A., Ph.D. (York)
Home Department
Program Affiliation
Publications
“We were not the savages”: Mi’kmaq and Acadian encounters in Indigenous Writing,” at the NAAAS annual conference, Baton Rouge Louisiana, February 2016.
“Relationships between oral, written, and videographic narrative forms in the work of Leanne Simpson,” at the inaugural meeting of ILSA, Six Nations and Brantford, Ontario, October 2015.
“Relationships between print, digital and oral storytelling modes,” at the CINSA conference held at Concordia University, Montreal, June 14 2015.
“Technologies of Transportation and Metaphors of Movement in Contemporary Innu Literature,” at the “Contesting Canada’s Futures” ICCS conference, Trent University, May 1015; the ACQS Biennial Conference, Montreal, October 2014; and the “Indigeneity and French Canada Conference,” Centre for Quebec and French Canadian Studies, University of London, UK May 2014.
“Some thoughts on Acadianité and Indigeneity: Literary Representations of Self and Other in the Atlantic Region,” at the “Meeting Places” ICCS Conference, Mount Allison University, September 2013.
"Approaching Indigenous Literatures in the Twenty-first Century: How Shall We Teach These?" at the “Teaching Indigenous Literatures” workshop, Dept. of English and First Nations Studies, Simon Fraser University, February 2013.
“Relationships between oral, written, and videographic narrative forms in the work of Leanne Simpson,” at the inaugural meeting of ILSA, Six Nations and Brantford, Ontario, October 2015.
“Relationships between print, digital and oral storytelling modes,” at the CINSA conference held at Concordia University, Montreal, June 14 2015.
“Technologies of Transportation and Metaphors of Movement in Contemporary Innu Literature,” at the “Contesting Canada’s Futures” ICCS conference, Trent University, May 1015; the ACQS Biennial Conference, Montreal, October 2014; and the “Indigeneity and French Canada Conference,” Centre for Quebec and French Canadian Studies, University of London, UK May 2014.
“Some thoughts on Acadianité and Indigeneity: Literary Representations of Self and Other in the Atlantic Region,” at the “Meeting Places” ICCS Conference, Mount Allison University, September 2013.
"Approaching Indigenous Literatures in the Twenty-first Century: How Shall We Teach These?" at the “Teaching Indigenous Literatures” workshop, Dept. of English and First Nations Studies, Simon Fraser University, February 2013.
Areas of Research
Indigenous women’s voices include many kinds of storytelling, from oral and written versions of family and community history to autobiography, life-writing, poetry, theatre and performance, fiction, and essays. I am interested in understanding relationships to place and nation as articulated in the arts.
Media Database
Yes