Michelle Coupal

Associate Professor; Canada Research Chair in Truth, Reconciliation, and Indigenous Literatures
PhD (Western University); MA (University of Waterloo); BEd (Western University); BA (University of Waterloo)

Office: AH 361
E-mail: Michelle.Coupal@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5068

Current classes
Winter 2023: ENGL 310AC; ENGL 310AH

Research interests

  • Indigenous Literatures of Turtle Island
  • Residential School Literatures
  • Teaching Indigenous Literatures, Truth and Reconciliation Studies
  • Indigenous Film
  • Canadian Literature

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Academic Books/Edited Collections:

  1. Coupal, Michelle and Deanna Reder, editors. How We Teach Indigenous Literatures. A special issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures (SAIL), vol. 34, nos. 1&2, Spring-Summer 2022. (Double issue). https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/48498

 

  1. Coupal, Michelle, Allison Hargreaves, and Svetlana Seibel, editors. Indigenous Literary Arts of Truth and Redress. A special issue of Studies in Canadian Literature (SCL), vol. 46, no. 2, Spring 2022. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/scl

 

  1. Coupal, Michelle, Aubrey Hanson and Sarah Henzi, editors. Sovereign Histories, Gathering Bones, Embodying Land. An ILSA special issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures (SAIL), vol. 32, nos. 3&4, Fall-Winter 2020. (Double Issue). *Published April 2021 https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/44252

 

  1. Coupal, Michelle, Deanna Reder, Joanne Arnott, and Emalene Manuel, editors. Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry by Vera Manuel, Foreword by Emalene Manuel, First Voices First Texts, General Ed. Warren Cariou, University of Manitoba Press, 2019.

Peer-Reviewed Articles/Book Chapters:

  1. Coupal, Michelle. “‘Hard to share, hard to hear’: Teaching Residential School Literature in Canada.” How We Teach Indigenous Literatures, guest edited by Michelle Coupal and Deanna Reder, a special issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures (SAIL), vol. 34, nos. 1&2, Spring-Summer 2022, pp. 1-15. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/48498

 

  1. Coupal, Michelle and Deanna Reder, “A Call to Teach Indigenous Literatures.” How We Teach Indigenous Literatures, guest edited by Michelle Coupal and Deanna Reder, a special issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures (SAIL), vol. 34, nos. 1&2, Spring-Summer 2022, pp. ix-xxi. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/48498

 

  1. Coupal, Michelle and Sam McKegney. “Called to Relationship and Reckoning through Story: Reflections on Reading, Teaching, and Writing about Residential School Literature. (A Conversation between Michelle Coupal and Sam McKegney).” Studies in Canadian Literature, vol 46, no.2, Spring 2022, pp. 25-46. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/scl

 

  1. Coupal, Michelle, Allison Hargreaves and Svetlana Seibel, “Literary Creative Practices as Sites of Redress.” Indigenous Literary Arts of Truth and Redress. A special issue of Studies in Canadian Literature (SCL), vol. 46, no. 2, Spring 2022, pp.5-20. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/scl

 

  1. Coupal, Michelle. “Les pensionnats indiens dans la littérature et la pédagogie de la réconciliation.” L’enseignement des Traités à l’ère de la Réconciliation dans l’Ouest Canadien, edited Lace Brogden, Andrea Sterzuk, and James Daschuk, Presses de l'Université Laval, 2021, pp. 15-39.

 

  1. Coupal, Michelle, Aubrey Hanson and Sarah Henzi. “Sovereign Histories, Gathering Bones, Embodying Land: Visiting with Contributors.” An ILSA special issue of Studies in American Indian Literatures (SAIL), vol. 32, nos. 3&4, Fall-Winter 2020. pp. vii-xv. (Double Issue).) *Published April 2021 https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/44252

 

  1. Coupal, Michelle. “Reconciliation Rainbows and the Promise of Education: Teaching Truth and Reconciliation in Neocolonial Canada.” Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education in Canada, edited by Sheila Cote-Meek and Taima Moeke-Pickering, Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2020, pp. 211-227.

 

  1. Coupal, Michelle. “Irreconcilable Spaces: The Canlit Survey Course in the Indigenous Sharing and Learning Centre Round Room.” Surveying CanLit: A Presentation-Interview Panel on Course Syllabi, Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, January 2020. https://canlit.ca/resources/special-projects/surveying-canlit-a-presentation-interview-panel-on-course-syllabi/

 

  1. Coupal, Michelle. “Narrative Acts of Truth and Reconciliation: Teaching the Healing Plays of Vera Manuel.” Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry by Vera Manuel, edited by Michelle Coupal, Deanna Reder, Joanne Arnott, and Emalene Manuel, First Voices First Texts, General Ed. Warren Cariou, University of Manitoba Press, 2019, pp. 323-43.

 

  1. Coupal, Michelle. “Teaching Indigenous Literature as Testimony: Porcupines and China Dolls and the Testimonial Imaginary.” Learn, Teach, Challenge: Approaches to Indigenous Literatures, edited by Deanna Reder and Linda M. Morra, Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2016, pp. 477-86.