ENGL 662
Studies in Canadian Literature
Fall 2025 · Indigenous Fears: Roots of Indigenous Horror
Topics
- Indigenous horror
- Decolonization
- Orality
- Law, gender and affect
- Psychoanalytic approaches
Readings
- Possible reading: Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach and “Queen of the North”
- Possible reading: Gerald Vizenor, Bearheart
- Possible reading: Drew Hayden Taylor, The Night Wanderer: A Native Gothic Novel
- Possible reading: Jessica Johns, Bad Cree
- Possible reading: Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
- Possible reading: Stephen Graham Jones, Mapping the Interior
- Possible reading: Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
- Possible reading: Billy-Ray Belcourt, “The Conspiracy of NDN Joy”
- Possible reading: Eve Tuck & C. Ree, “A Glossary of Haunting”
- Possible reading: Kali Simmons, “The Savage Screen: Horror, Indigeneity, and Settler Cartographies of Being”
- Possible reading: Naomi Simone Borwein (ed), Global Indigenous Horror
- Possible reading: Wendy Roy (ed), ReVisions: Speculating in Literature and Film in Canada
- Possible reading: Eden Robinson, The Sasquatch at Home: Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling
- Possible reading: Cherie Dimaline, An Anthology of Monsters: How Story Saves us from Our Anxiety
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Official course page ↗Fall 2025
- Departmental seminar description with reading information when supplied; not a full syllabus. Historical Fall 2025. Both primary and secondary lists are tentative.